Program Notes
... music, written in 1881, when the composer was 16 years old. By then, he had already published his string quartet, piano sonata and an orchestral marsh. As a son of a court opera hornist, widely known for his performing skills, Strauss composed his first works under the influence of his father’s musi ...
... music, written in 1881, when the composer was 16 years old. By then, he had already published his string quartet, piano sonata and an orchestral marsh. As a son of a court opera hornist, widely known for his performing skills, Strauss composed his first works under the influence of his father’s musi ...
Scholars` Concert
... most popular songs in the world, although often sung to words different from those of Scott’s poem, or performed in instrumental versions with no words at all. The song cycle proved to be one of Schubert's most financially successful works, the Austrian composer being paid by his publisher 20 pounds ...
... most popular songs in the world, although often sung to words different from those of Scott’s poem, or performed in instrumental versions with no words at all. The song cycle proved to be one of Schubert's most financially successful works, the Austrian composer being paid by his publisher 20 pounds ...
Oiseaux Exotiques - Learning Resources
... Listen to the following bird calls played by BCMG musicians or perform them yourself to the children. Alternatively, choose your own three bird calls from the piece. Ask the children to copy the bird calls using tuned percussion or their own instrument. It is not important for them to use exactly th ...
... Listen to the following bird calls played by BCMG musicians or perform them yourself to the children. Alternatively, choose your own three bird calls from the piece. Ask the children to copy the bird calls using tuned percussion or their own instrument. It is not important for them to use exactly th ...
GCSE Music Revision Guide
... Section A (worth 68 marks) students answer questions on excerpts of music that are played; in Section B (worth 28 marks) students answer questions relating to two of the study pieces listed above (Haydn, which is compulsory, as well as The Beatles or Santana or Copland) Performing music (30%). Fo ...
... Section A (worth 68 marks) students answer questions on excerpts of music that are played; in Section B (worth 28 marks) students answer questions relating to two of the study pieces listed above (Haydn, which is compulsory, as well as The Beatles or Santana or Copland) Performing music (30%). Fo ...
„Kyrie paschale” in Polish Organ Tablatures
... edited by Dariusz Smolarek. The present article has been inspired by those two books, but it is not intended as either a review or a polemical text; instead, the author’s aim is to take a closer look at several issues that appeared in those works. It stems from the conviction that the composer Damia ...
... edited by Dariusz Smolarek. The present article has been inspired by those two books, but it is not intended as either a review or a polemical text; instead, the author’s aim is to take a closer look at several issues that appeared in those works. It stems from the conviction that the composer Damia ...
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 – 1826) Overture to Der Freischutz
... Vaughan Williams was, in fact, one of the most prolific and wide-ranging of 20th-century composers. His output includes nine symphonies, five operas, five ballets, more than two dozen choral works, chamber music, concertos, songs, and ten film scores. This body of work is all the more impressive for ...
... Vaughan Williams was, in fact, one of the most prolific and wide-ranging of 20th-century composers. His output includes nine symphonies, five operas, five ballets, more than two dozen choral works, chamber music, concertos, songs, and ten film scores. This body of work is all the more impressive for ...
Historically informed performance in music criticism
... professional and amateur world and thus experiencing a closer relationship with a like-minded audience and producing historically integrated – rather than sensational – programmes. He might well have added that many involved in the movement during the seminal decades of the s and s were, in fa ...
... professional and amateur world and thus experiencing a closer relationship with a like-minded audience and producing historically integrated – rather than sensational – programmes. He might well have added that many involved in the movement during the seminal decades of the s and s were, in fa ...
Composer of the Month - Practical Pages
... 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957 was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. The core of Sibelius's oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies. Sibelius's best-known compositions include Finlandia, Valse Tr ...
... 8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957 was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. The core of Sibelius's oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies. Sibelius's best-known compositions include Finlandia, Valse Tr ...
week eleven - theperfectutor.org
... Fredrich Wieck, was a piano teacher, and he saw to it that she studied music, performed and composed – all at an early age. Clara toured all over Europe, wowing audiences with her playing, and her compositions. When Clara fell in love with Robert Schumann, who was studying with her father, Friedrich ...
... Fredrich Wieck, was a piano teacher, and he saw to it that she studied music, performed and composed – all at an early age. Clara toured all over Europe, wowing audiences with her playing, and her compositions. When Clara fell in love with Robert Schumann, who was studying with her father, Friedrich ...
Ockeghem and Josquin
... i. Shirmer states that Ockeghem’s Masses are what “reveals the full extent of his genius” i. Most are cantus firmus Masses ii. A popular melody that many composers of the time used was L’Homme arme iii. Used both sacred and secular cantus firmi iv. Ockeghem’s Requiem is the earliest extant setting o ...
... i. Shirmer states that Ockeghem’s Masses are what “reveals the full extent of his genius” i. Most are cantus firmus Masses ii. A popular melody that many composers of the time used was L’Homme arme iii. Used both sacred and secular cantus firmi iv. Ockeghem’s Requiem is the earliest extant setting o ...
Western Music Romantic Period (1820 - 1900) - e
... This period represented a turning point in musical history. One of the key features of Romantic Music is its strong association with other art forms, particularly literature or painting. Music of the Romantic period contrasts with the classical period in mood and form. Romantic period composers were ...
... This period represented a turning point in musical history. One of the key features of Romantic Music is its strong association with other art forms, particularly literature or painting. Music of the Romantic period contrasts with the classical period in mood and form. Romantic period composers were ...
Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
... also performed in a concert of excerpts (parts of larger orchestra works) of Richard Wagner’s music, conducted by Wagner himself. These experiences immersed Dvořák in the way orchestral music is scored (how the parts are assigned to each instrument) and how it sounds, and they directly influenced hi ...
... also performed in a concert of excerpts (parts of larger orchestra works) of Richard Wagner’s music, conducted by Wagner himself. These experiences immersed Dvořák in the way orchestral music is scored (how the parts are assigned to each instrument) and how it sounds, and they directly influenced hi ...
Jakobsen Conference Submission
... the game world be convincing. In order to create a believable suspension of reality, game graphics, narrative, and sound must be united in presenting a coherent artistic ideal. The designers of Final Fantasy IX were fully aware of the importance of creating a believable game world, and they undertoo ...
... the game world be convincing. In order to create a believable suspension of reality, game graphics, narrative, and sound must be united in presenting a coherent artistic ideal. The designers of Final Fantasy IX were fully aware of the importance of creating a believable game world, and they undertoo ...
1 To relate any of the composers to American and world history
... Strings” as the second movement of his First String Quartet, Op. 11 in 1936. Two years later, at the request of the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, Barber rewrote the work for string orchestra. The premiere of this version was broadcast from New York on November 5, 1938 to millions of listener ...
... Strings” as the second movement of his First String Quartet, Op. 11 in 1936. Two years later, at the request of the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, Barber rewrote the work for string orchestra. The premiere of this version was broadcast from New York on November 5, 1938 to millions of listener ...
PDF - The Bourbaki Ensemble
... One of the most individual and interesting figures in Russian music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is that of Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915). Born in Moscow, Scriabin made a great name for himself as a pianist (it was said that at the age of six he could hear a musical composi ...
... One of the most individual and interesting figures in Russian music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is that of Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915). Born in Moscow, Scriabin made a great name for himself as a pianist (it was said that at the age of six he could hear a musical composi ...
CATS - Raleigh Concert Band
... composed. She gave her blessing for the songs to be adapted into a musical stage play. Rehearsals for the musical began in early 1981 at the New London Theatre. Due to the Eliot estate asserting that they write no script and only use the original poems as the text, the musical had no identified plot ...
... composed. She gave her blessing for the songs to be adapted into a musical stage play. Rehearsals for the musical began in early 1981 at the New London Theatre. Due to the Eliot estate asserting that they write no script and only use the original poems as the text, the musical had no identified plot ...
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
... creating new approaches to harmony, melody and, especially, rhythm. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as the progressive Arnold Schoenberg and the conservative Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed na ...
... creating new approaches to harmony, melody and, especially, rhythm. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as the progressive Arnold Schoenberg and the conservative Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed na ...
Iannis Xenakis is one of the most important composers of the 20th
... Iannis Xenakis is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. His particular musical language, as described in his landmark text Formalized Music, is based on applications of probability theory and probability distributions. However, the methods used in specific pieces have not often be ...
... Iannis Xenakis is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. His particular musical language, as described in his landmark text Formalized Music, is based on applications of probability theory and probability distributions. However, the methods used in specific pieces have not often be ...
Carolina Wind Symphony Spring 2014 Program Notes
... paths in search of truth and authenticity. I believe that music has the power to take us to a place that words alone cannot. And so my own feelings about “Amazing Grace” reside in the setting itself. The harmony, texture, orchestration, and form are inseparable, intertwined so as to be perceived as ...
... paths in search of truth and authenticity. I believe that music has the power to take us to a place that words alone cannot. And so my own feelings about “Amazing Grace” reside in the setting itself. The harmony, texture, orchestration, and form are inseparable, intertwined so as to be perceived as ...
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... Finally, David’s arrangement isn’t even a true chaconne, which demands a variable melodic line over a repeating ground bass. David’s version is characterized by frequent key changes, although always accompanied by the ground in its new key. Whatever its pedigree, however, the technical challenges of ...
... Finally, David’s arrangement isn’t even a true chaconne, which demands a variable melodic line over a repeating ground bass. David’s version is characterized by frequent key changes, although always accompanied by the ground in its new key. Whatever its pedigree, however, the technical challenges of ...
Atonality, 12-Tone Music and the Third Reich Erik Levi
... his opera Das Liisterschule (Frankfurt, 1926)which retains a conventional approach to tonality. However, Klenau's next major work - the opera Michael Kohlhaas (Stuttgart, 1933), which followed a creative pause of some seven years made some direct use of 12-tone technique. The much-heralded premikre ...
... his opera Das Liisterschule (Frankfurt, 1926)which retains a conventional approach to tonality. However, Klenau's next major work - the opera Michael Kohlhaas (Stuttgart, 1933), which followed a creative pause of some seven years made some direct use of 12-tone technique. The much-heralded premikre ...
Revision Notes
... In the listening paper you will listen to various styles of music and be required to describe them using the correct musical terminology Most questions are either multiple choice or require one word answers, some questions will require you to write in full sentences in detail – these are often worth ...
... In the listening paper you will listen to various styles of music and be required to describe them using the correct musical terminology Most questions are either multiple choice or require one word answers, some questions will require you to write in full sentences in detail – these are often worth ...
halle, the city of music - Wilhelm-Friedemann-Bach
... Halle has a rich musical history, traces of which are still partially visible today. Minnesingers and wandering musicians visited Giebichenstein Castle back in the Middle Ages. The Moritzburg and later the Neue Residenz court under Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg reached its heyday during the Rena ...
... Halle has a rich musical history, traces of which are still partially visible today. Minnesingers and wandering musicians visited Giebichenstein Castle back in the Middle Ages. The Moritzburg and later the Neue Residenz court under Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg reached its heyday during the Rena ...
untouchable performance and technology
... synthesizer, sound modules nor sound files. Because easily-understanding the relationship between performance and sound is the most important point in this composition, all sensor parameters are simply mapped to parameters of sounds (pitch, timbre, etc). ...
... synthesizer, sound modules nor sound files. Because easily-understanding the relationship between performance and sound is the most important point in this composition, all sensor parameters are simply mapped to parameters of sounds (pitch, timbre, etc). ...
Lost and Found: Six Centuries of the Harpsichord
... time than even the fastest guitar picker. That’s been true since at least 1397, the date of the earliest document that mentions a harpsichord. The oldest known image of this instrument is carved into a north German altarpiece dating from 1425. By contrast, the very earliest instruments that might be ...
... time than even the fastest guitar picker. That’s been true since at least 1397, the date of the earliest document that mentions a harpsichord. The oldest known image of this instrument is carved into a north German altarpiece dating from 1425. By contrast, the very earliest instruments that might be ...