sonate e canzoni
... he wrote for them. While his sacred concerted music was more influential in the long run, it is the instrumental music he wrote for these players which probably reached the highest artistic level and has the greatest power to touch modern audiences. This is an astonishing achievement in a period i ...
... he wrote for them. While his sacred concerted music was more influential in the long run, it is the instrumental music he wrote for these players which probably reached the highest artistic level and has the greatest power to touch modern audiences. This is an astonishing achievement in a period i ...
Aaron Copland: Essay On An American Legend
... known director and drama critic) (Pollack). He also spent much of this time traveling to England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Italy, where he of course examined many scores, and met many composers. He also began to delve heavily into the works of Stravinsky, Milhaud, Faure, and Mahler (the latter ...
... known director and drama critic) (Pollack). He also spent much of this time traveling to England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Italy, where he of course examined many scores, and met many composers. He also began to delve heavily into the works of Stravinsky, Milhaud, Faure, and Mahler (the latter ...
Sir ANDRÁS SCHIFF, piano - The Friends of Chamber Music
... same time, it is the apogee of structural purity and classical elegance in Mozart’s keyboard music. Sonata in C Minor, D. 958 Musicians often observe that Mozart is too easy for Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) children and too difficult for adults. This sonata is an In March 1827, the Austrian pian ...
... same time, it is the apogee of structural purity and classical elegance in Mozart’s keyboard music. Sonata in C Minor, D. 958 Musicians often observe that Mozart is too easy for Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) children and too difficult for adults. This sonata is an In March 1827, the Austrian pian ...
Lecture 2 Origins of Jazz: Ragtime
... • After 1871, the Joplin family moved to Texarkana, Texas and Scott's mother cleaned homes so Scott could have a place to practice his music. • Showing musical ability at an early age, the young Joplin received free piano lessons from a German music teacher, Julius Weiss, who gave him a well rounded ...
... • After 1871, the Joplin family moved to Texarkana, Texas and Scott's mother cleaned homes so Scott could have a place to practice his music. • Showing musical ability at an early age, the young Joplin received free piano lessons from a German music teacher, Julius Weiss, who gave him a well rounded ...
Prokofiev-Peter - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
... In January of 1900, eight-year-old Sergei Prokofiev traveled to Moscow for the first time. While in the great city, Prokofiev saw his first ballet, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, as well operas by Charles Gounod (Faust) and Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor). Upon returning to the country and his home ...
... In January of 1900, eight-year-old Sergei Prokofiev traveled to Moscow for the first time. While in the great city, Prokofiev saw his first ballet, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, as well operas by Charles Gounod (Faust) and Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor). Upon returning to the country and his home ...
LMM - Artaria String Quartet 2015
... one school of music. At a time when the German traditions of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms were giving way to the Second Viennese School led by Arnold Schoenberg, Bartók stood alone. While his early music was fed by the Romantic traditions of Brahms and Wagner, it is his own unique ...
... one school of music. At a time when the German traditions of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms were giving way to the Second Viennese School led by Arnold Schoenberg, Bartók stood alone. While his early music was fed by the Romantic traditions of Brahms and Wagner, it is his own unique ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
... Employed by two dukes. Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August Hired as organist and member of the orchestra, and encouraged Johann Sebastian to exploit his unique talents for the organ. There were lots of tensions, intrigues, and even open hostilities between the courts of the two dukes over Bach. Added nor ...
... Employed by two dukes. Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August Hired as organist and member of the orchestra, and encouraged Johann Sebastian to exploit his unique talents for the organ. There were lots of tensions, intrigues, and even open hostilities between the courts of the two dukes over Bach. Added nor ...
The Orlando Consort
... early-music world, when the performers are well-known, listeners seem to thrill to the prospect of terra incognita. I wondered for instance how many of the fans that packed into Emmanuel Church had heard more than one or two works on the Orlando Consort’s program. But it appeared not to matter, espe ...
... early-music world, when the performers are well-known, listeners seem to thrill to the prospect of terra incognita. I wondered for instance how many of the fans that packed into Emmanuel Church had heard more than one or two works on the Orlando Consort’s program. But it appeared not to matter, espe ...
ANGELA HEWITT: BACH ODYSSEY I
... manner in playing, and at the same time to acquire a strong foretaste of composition. Prepared by Joh. Seb. Bach Capellmeister to His Serene Highness the Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen Anno Christi 1723 The title ‘Invention’ was most likely adopted from fourviolin pieces written bv Bonporti which Bach cop ...
... manner in playing, and at the same time to acquire a strong foretaste of composition. Prepared by Joh. Seb. Bach Capellmeister to His Serene Highness the Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen Anno Christi 1723 The title ‘Invention’ was most likely adopted from fourviolin pieces written bv Bonporti which Bach cop ...
Composer Profiles - Andrew Lesser Music
... origins in the Romantic Period, Felix MendelssohnBartholdy was born into a wealthy Jewish family who gave him every opportunity to study art, music, writing, drawing, and numerous academic subjects. His musical ability materialized early on, and his parents sought out the best piano, composition, an ...
... origins in the Romantic Period, Felix MendelssohnBartholdy was born into a wealthy Jewish family who gave him every opportunity to study art, music, writing, drawing, and numerous academic subjects. His musical ability materialized early on, and his parents sought out the best piano, composition, an ...
Ars Polemica: Monteverdi`s Orfeo as artistic creed
... Galilei vs. Monteverdi: the debate that didn’t happen 16 years before Artusi, another musician and theorist issued his own scathing denunciation of the polyphonic madrigal. Vincenzo Galilei (late 1520s-1591) did not reject harmonic innovations – on the contrary, his unpublished counterpoint treatise ...
... Galilei vs. Monteverdi: the debate that didn’t happen 16 years before Artusi, another musician and theorist issued his own scathing denunciation of the polyphonic madrigal. Vincenzo Galilei (late 1520s-1591) did not reject harmonic innovations – on the contrary, his unpublished counterpoint treatise ...
Kenji Haba
... have approached them for collaboration. Impulse will make its debut at prestigious Carnegie Hall in January 2014. In addition, Kenji Haba has shared the stage with other eminent artists such as Oren Fad ...
... have approached them for collaboration. Impulse will make its debut at prestigious Carnegie Hall in January 2014. In addition, Kenji Haba has shared the stage with other eminent artists such as Oren Fad ...
I was guided by no system whatever in Le Sacre du
... and Webern’s, which is analytic — how much more theoretical it seems then Le Sacre. And these composers belong to and were supported by a great tradition. Very little immediate tradition lies behind Le Sacre du Printemps, however, and no theory. I had only my ear to help me; I heard and I wrote what ...
... and Webern’s, which is analytic — how much more theoretical it seems then Le Sacre. And these composers belong to and were supported by a great tradition. Very little immediate tradition lies behind Le Sacre du Printemps, however, and no theory. I had only my ear to help me; I heard and I wrote what ...
Louis Andriessen: The Musical Egalitarian Allison Smith Music
... and samenwerking, or collaboration. Andriessen first began teaching at the Conservatory in 1973, drawing in many American students, among whom were prominent American composers David Lang and Julia Wolfe.6 Andriessen still holds this teaching position today. A large part of what shaped Andriessen’s ...
... and samenwerking, or collaboration. Andriessen first began teaching at the Conservatory in 1973, drawing in many American students, among whom were prominent American composers David Lang and Julia Wolfe.6 Andriessen still holds this teaching position today. A large part of what shaped Andriessen’s ...
Melody and Musical Texture What This Book Is About
... The melody of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" is known all over Europe as well, in England with the text of "God save our gracious Queen" (or King), and in Austria and Germany with "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz." In America we find it much easier to sing than "The Star-Spangled Banner." A short look at the no ...
... The melody of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" is known all over Europe as well, in England with the text of "God save our gracious Queen" (or King), and in Austria and Germany with "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz." In America we find it much easier to sing than "The Star-Spangled Banner." A short look at the no ...
I Traditional African Music
... Ancient Nubian Written Music The Late Palaeolithic Age in Lower Nubia produced the Qada Culture, which thrived ca. 15,000–10,500 B.C. The Qada inhabited numerous sites in an area sprawling from the Second Cataract northward to Toshka. The earliest extant evidence of human remains in the entire Nile ...
... Ancient Nubian Written Music The Late Palaeolithic Age in Lower Nubia produced the Qada Culture, which thrived ca. 15,000–10,500 B.C. The Qada inhabited numerous sites in an area sprawling from the Second Cataract northward to Toshka. The earliest extant evidence of human remains in the entire Nile ...
Senior Honors Recital - ARMINDA @ Whitman College
... tech major at Keio University, Yoshimatsu largely taught himself composition by studying the scores of Sibelius as a teenager, and participated in several jazz and rock groups; later, he did receive music instruction from Teizo Matsumura, a Japanese composer of Western musical genres around the mid ...
... tech major at Keio University, Yoshimatsu largely taught himself composition by studying the scores of Sibelius as a teenager, and participated in several jazz and rock groups; later, he did receive music instruction from Teizo Matsumura, a Japanese composer of Western musical genres around the mid ...
Programme Notes - Sage Gateshead
... Bach. He was also for a time tutor to Bach’s elder brother, Johann Christoph. Pachelbel was deputy organist at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna from 167376 and held other such posts in Eisenach, Erfurt and Stuttgart. His church music, much of it written for the Lutheran ritual, is at long last winni ...
... Bach. He was also for a time tutor to Bach’s elder brother, Johann Christoph. Pachelbel was deputy organist at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna from 167376 and held other such posts in Eisenach, Erfurt and Stuttgart. His church music, much of it written for the Lutheran ritual, is at long last winni ...
File - Katherine Caughlin
... listening to it. But, although the sections are easily segmented, the transitions between sections are flawlessly connective and feel effortless. The Music itself Mozart does very many interesting things to make this specific movement extremely beautiful. Mozart’s understanding of melody, and the w ...
... listening to it. But, although the sections are easily segmented, the transitions between sections are flawlessly connective and feel effortless. The Music itself Mozart does very many interesting things to make this specific movement extremely beautiful. Mozart’s understanding of melody, and the w ...
revisiting theories of invented tradition
... to The Ecological Indian and popular reception of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook amongst Hawaiian scholars do more than suggest that the writing of Indigenous history is contested ground; they also point to the important functional role traditions play for Aboriginal cultures and societies. 5 For ma ...
... to The Ecological Indian and popular reception of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook amongst Hawaiian scholars do more than suggest that the writing of Indigenous history is contested ground; they also point to the important functional role traditions play for Aboriginal cultures and societies. 5 For ma ...
Emily Dickinson as Both Poetess and Songstress: Poems of Emily
... The prominence in her poetry of sound and music, both as content and as acoustic texture, merits far more attention. Her poems often rely on auditory images ... She writes repeatedly about the effects of sound on the hearer. And her poems and letters indicate not only that she had a keen auditory se ...
... The prominence in her poetry of sound and music, both as content and as acoustic texture, merits far more attention. Her poems often rely on auditory images ... She writes repeatedly about the effects of sound on the hearer. And her poems and letters indicate not only that she had a keen auditory se ...
CLAVIER-ÜBUNG II In 1735, Johann Sebastian Bach entrusted the
... as well as in four pieces of the Overture, he indicates changes of keyboard by forte or piano, a method that would become the common practice of his sons. But the element which unites the two pieces above all is the idea that governs their composition and defines their style of writing. Both are arc ...
... as well as in four pieces of the Overture, he indicates changes of keyboard by forte or piano, a method that would become the common practice of his sons. But the element which unites the two pieces above all is the idea that governs their composition and defines their style of writing. Both are arc ...
Student 1
... While Farr keeps some of these traditional aspects in the karanga in Te Papa, he also changes some of them. The most obvious of which is the context in which the karanga sings. It is a welcoming, but not in the traditional sense – it is a welcome to the building and the history which it will contain ...
... While Farr keeps some of these traditional aspects in the karanga in Te Papa, he also changes some of them. The most obvious of which is the context in which the karanga sings. It is a welcoming, but not in the traditional sense – it is a welcome to the building and the history which it will contain ...
Johann Sebastian Bach*s Biography
... • Religious controversy arose in the town between the Lutherans and the Pietists. The Pietists were very strict and did not approve of art and music. • This controversy caused Bach to look for different employment. • 1708 the Duke of Weimer offered him a post among his court chamber musicians. • Alt ...
... • Religious controversy arose in the town between the Lutherans and the Pietists. The Pietists were very strict and did not approve of art and music. • This controversy caused Bach to look for different employment. • 1708 the Duke of Weimer offered him a post among his court chamber musicians. • Alt ...
Part 1 Part 2 - FORUM WALLIS
... spectromorphology by using single material. The sounds in Regression are entirely derived from the “Udu.” This African clay instrument had its origins as a water and food container with ceremonial functions, and so still serves to evoke the primordial texture. In composing this work, I was searching ...
... spectromorphology by using single material. The sounds in Regression are entirely derived from the “Udu.” This African clay instrument had its origins as a water and food container with ceremonial functions, and so still serves to evoke the primordial texture. In composing this work, I was searching ...