Artur Schnabel and the Ideology of Interpretation
... of the individual as well as of a cultural decline from a mythic past. The performer who ignored the highest ideals demanded by the texts of these classical works was condemned as a kind of sinner who had succumbed to the temptations of shortcuts, superficiality, and mere entertainment. It is not su ...
... of the individual as well as of a cultural decline from a mythic past. The performer who ignored the highest ideals demanded by the texts of these classical works was condemned as a kind of sinner who had succumbed to the temptations of shortcuts, superficiality, and mere entertainment. It is not su ...
File - MIchael Bruschi
... Venice manuscripts, has been the property of Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana since 1835.4 However, it is very difficult to find an original autograph score in Scarlatti’s own handwriting for any of these sonatas.5 Conventional taxonomy groups most of Scarlatti’s adjacent sonatas into pairs, but this D ...
... Venice manuscripts, has been the property of Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana since 1835.4 However, it is very difficult to find an original autograph score in Scarlatti’s own handwriting for any of these sonatas.5 Conventional taxonomy groups most of Scarlatti’s adjacent sonatas into pairs, but this D ...
Chang_ku_0099D_14289_DATA_1 - KU ScholarWorks
... the Stuttgart-based publishing house Carus-Verlag. The senior director of Carus-Verlag, Gunter Graulich, later suggested the project of editing the complete organ works of Louis Vierne. As a result, Laukvik and David Sanger (1947-2010), who was a professor and president of the Royal Academy of Music ...
... the Stuttgart-based publishing house Carus-Verlag. The senior director of Carus-Verlag, Gunter Graulich, later suggested the project of editing the complete organ works of Louis Vierne. As a result, Laukvik and David Sanger (1947-2010), who was a professor and president of the Royal Academy of Music ...
Bach`s Music and Newtonian Science
... time. Each voice distinguishes itself clearly from the others [...] They now flee, now follow one another without one's noticing the slightest irregularity in their efforts [...].11 The Hexachordum naturale, based on C: C major (only two other chords in the diatonic scale have the same structure: F ...
... time. Each voice distinguishes itself clearly from the others [...] They now flee, now follow one another without one's noticing the slightest irregularity in their efforts [...].11 The Hexachordum naturale, based on C: C major (only two other chords in the diatonic scale have the same structure: F ...
The Six-Stringed Bowl Lyre Krar of Ethiopia and its Function as a
... In many East African music traditions, instrumental melodies are usually not abstracted from vocal melodies, regardless whether they accompany songs or not. For instance, among the Baganda of Uganda the close link of instrumental and vocal music and other forms of speech considers nearly all types o ...
... In many East African music traditions, instrumental melodies are usually not abstracted from vocal melodies, regardless whether they accompany songs or not. For instance, among the Baganda of Uganda the close link of instrumental and vocal music and other forms of speech considers nearly all types o ...
Composer Profiles - Andrew Lesser Music
... after a long courtship and legal battle. Clara was a virtuoso pianist and composer in her own right, ...
... after a long courtship and legal battle. Clara was a virtuoso pianist and composer in her own right, ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
... Mozart was very influenced by famous composers, such as Johannes Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel. ...
... Mozart was very influenced by famous composers, such as Johannes Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel. ...
HISTORIOGRAPHY. Music historiography is the writing of music
... and the significance of music in earlier cultures, and recognized that progress had limitations and was not inevitable. Hawkins took a progressive stance in his critique of William Temple, who saw in Greek music (and poetry and visual arts) an absolute standard of beauty that could never be surpasse ...
... and the significance of music in earlier cultures, and recognized that progress had limitations and was not inevitable. Hawkins took a progressive stance in his critique of William Temple, who saw in Greek music (and poetry and visual arts) an absolute standard of beauty that could never be surpasse ...
PROGRAM NOTES Edgard Varèse Ionisation
... Varèse began Amériques not long after settling in New York City. "For the first time," he later recalled, "with my physical ears I heard a sound that kept recurring in my dreams as a boy--a high whistling Csharp. It came to me as I worked in my Westside apartment, where I could hear all the river so ...
... Varèse began Amériques not long after settling in New York City. "For the first time," he later recalled, "with my physical ears I heard a sound that kept recurring in my dreams as a boy--a high whistling Csharp. It came to me as I worked in my Westside apartment, where I could hear all the river so ...
Jason Yust, Boston University Hypermeter, Form, and Closure in
... The use of codas is closely related to these attitudes towards closure and continuity. The term “coda” misleadingly implies functional exteriority, however, a notion prominently criticized by Joseph Kerman, Charles Rosen, and Robert Hopkins, but nonetheless perpetuated in the concepts of “framing” o ...
... The use of codas is closely related to these attitudes towards closure and continuity. The term “coda” misleadingly implies functional exteriority, however, a notion prominently criticized by Joseph Kerman, Charles Rosen, and Robert Hopkins, but nonetheless perpetuated in the concepts of “framing” o ...
`Music, Such as Charmeth Sleep`: Benjamin Britten`s A Midsummer
... that even the most familiar lines, once heard conjoined to their music, are thereafter remembered inseparably from it.” 1 And this, I think, is the key to the success of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: despite that familiarity, despite Shakespeare’s verbal magic, it is impossible to reread the ...
... that even the most familiar lines, once heard conjoined to their music, are thereafter remembered inseparably from it.” 1 And this, I think, is the key to the success of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: despite that familiarity, despite Shakespeare’s verbal magic, it is impossible to reread the ...
TRADITION AND INDIVIDUAL STYLE IN THE MOTETS OF J.S. BACH
... middle section is an affirmation of Christ as "the Way, the Truth and the Life" and is set in homophonic style with the addition of exuberant polyphony. In the third and final section the text speaks of the death and ascent to Heaven of the soul. The reassurance of the Lutheran faith is mirrored in ...
... middle section is an affirmation of Christ as "the Way, the Truth and the Life" and is set in homophonic style with the addition of exuberant polyphony. In the third and final section the text speaks of the death and ascent to Heaven of the soul. The reassurance of the Lutheran faith is mirrored in ...
Muzio Clementi/Franz Schubert`s piano music/Schubert`s
... Schubert’s orchestral and chamber music transformed Classical style’s ...
... Schubert’s orchestral and chamber music transformed Classical style’s ...
Mahler – Last of the Romantics
... once replied, "I am a musician, that covers everything." His broad, philosophical attitude toward religion made him sympathetic at the same time to the purely doctrinal fervor of Klopstock, the romantic mysticism of Goethe, the negative, and quite un-Christian, poetic passion of Nietsche, and the pa ...
... once replied, "I am a musician, that covers everything." His broad, philosophical attitude toward religion made him sympathetic at the same time to the purely doctrinal fervor of Klopstock, the romantic mysticism of Goethe, the negative, and quite un-Christian, poetic passion of Nietsche, and the pa ...
Beauty Springeth Out of Naught - British Postgraduate Musicology
... These texts clearly have a lot of similarity in terms of themes and uses of language and in many ways are typical of Bridges’ poetry and his preoccupation with philosophical immanence. Alongside this it is helpful to consider the Victorian preoccupation with beauty in the writings of William Morris ...
... These texts clearly have a lot of similarity in terms of themes and uses of language and in many ways are typical of Bridges’ poetry and his preoccupation with philosophical immanence. Alongside this it is helpful to consider the Victorian preoccupation with beauty in the writings of William Morris ...
Capturing Sound - Georgetown University
... gamelan teachers changing the patterns and structures of certain pieces to match what they had heard on cassettes by prominent ensembles.17 It has also been reported that when new gamelans are made nowadays they are often tuned to match a frequently recorded gamelan.18 Thus, whereas the advent of t ...
... gamelan teachers changing the patterns and structures of certain pieces to match what they had heard on cassettes by prominent ensembles.17 It has also been reported that when new gamelans are made nowadays they are often tuned to match a frequently recorded gamelan.18 Thus, whereas the advent of t ...
Haydn`s employment contract from the archives of the
... in Chapter 45. The rationale for this treatment was that those who provided a service, namely servants, should be treated as such. The fact that a composer’s service involved creating and performing a work of art was of no consequence to the aristocracy of the period. Only with the nineteenth centur ...
... in Chapter 45. The rationale for this treatment was that those who provided a service, namely servants, should be treated as such. The fact that a composer’s service involved creating and performing a work of art was of no consequence to the aristocracy of the period. Only with the nineteenth centur ...
xenakis
... late-1900’s), Xenakis was a strong advocate of incorporating mathematical, architectural, and perhaps most significantly, technological ideas into contemporary compositions. He was one of the very first electro-acoustic composers, and also the first in France to use synthesized sound within a piece ...
... late-1900’s), Xenakis was a strong advocate of incorporating mathematical, architectural, and perhaps most significantly, technological ideas into contemporary compositions. He was one of the very first electro-acoustic composers, and also the first in France to use synthesized sound within a piece ...
May 5 Program Notes: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
... cornerstone of the violin repertory. In his early years, the composer had an ambivalent relationship with the so-called “Mighty Five”—a group of composers (including Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov) intent on creating an authentically Russian national musical style. Tchaikovsky ended up May 5, 2016 ...
... cornerstone of the violin repertory. In his early years, the composer had an ambivalent relationship with the so-called “Mighty Five”—a group of composers (including Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov) intent on creating an authentically Russian national musical style. Tchaikovsky ended up May 5, 2016 ...
Klein ISD-Advanced Academics - Spring, TX
... are sounded by the performer’s buzzing lips, which make the column of air vibrate. Woodwind instruments are also aerophones in which the column of air is moved by breath alone—as in the case of flutes and related instruments—or by one or two vibrating reeds (called single or double reeds) usually ma ...
... are sounded by the performer’s buzzing lips, which make the column of air vibrate. Woodwind instruments are also aerophones in which the column of air is moved by breath alone—as in the case of flutes and related instruments—or by one or two vibrating reeds (called single or double reeds) usually ma ...
English Notes
... their possession. It is thus probable that the Duetto was written during a period subsequent to that of the compositions for two doublebasses. Concerning its performance, the biographer Gaspare Nello Vetro cites a performance given in Paris in March 1856 by Bottesini with his father, Pietro, a talen ...
... their possession. It is thus probable that the Duetto was written during a period subsequent to that of the compositions for two doublebasses. Concerning its performance, the biographer Gaspare Nello Vetro cites a performance given in Paris in March 1856 by Bottesini with his father, Pietro, a talen ...
William Denis Browne archive document
... surviving instances of the composer transcribing 16th and 17th century lute works from tablature into staff notation in the Cambridge University Library (MS Add.5998) which are dated circa 1908. It may be that these were for this production, or perhaps just an academic exercise; they were certainly ...
... surviving instances of the composer transcribing 16th and 17th century lute works from tablature into staff notation in the Cambridge University Library (MS Add.5998) which are dated circa 1908. It may be that these were for this production, or perhaps just an academic exercise; they were certainly ...
the complete Program Notes
... wine into old bottles”; he infused the standard forms with all of the Romantic devices of his craft. Even more so than Beethoven, whom Brahms both revered and feared, his formal treatments stretch the limits of Classical practice while simultaneously remaining generally faithful to the original mode ...
... wine into old bottles”; he infused the standard forms with all of the Romantic devices of his craft. Even more so than Beethoven, whom Brahms both revered and feared, his formal treatments stretch the limits of Classical practice while simultaneously remaining generally faithful to the original mode ...
GLOSSARY OF IMPORTANT COMPOSERS Compiled by and
... Selected important works: Magnus Liber – possibly a pupil of Léonin, he probably revised this work and added his own compositions. Interesting information: Little is known about him, but he probably worked at Notre Dame around the same time as Léonin. Halle Name: Adam de la Halle Dates: c.1237-1288 ...
... Selected important works: Magnus Liber – possibly a pupil of Léonin, he probably revised this work and added his own compositions. Interesting information: Little is known about him, but he probably worked at Notre Dame around the same time as Léonin. Halle Name: Adam de la Halle Dates: c.1237-1288 ...