african heritage symphonic series • vol i
... the sentiments of later arrivals, mitigated an important role for music in much American life. In time, however, as attitudes and conditions changed, there arose an anxiety that America would never have its own identifiable music; that anything of quality would have to be imported from Europe — Germ ...
... the sentiments of later arrivals, mitigated an important role for music in much American life. In time, however, as attitudes and conditions changed, there arose an anxiety that America would never have its own identifiable music; that anything of quality would have to be imported from Europe — Germ ...
Polorum regina
... works ranging from Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, through Baroque opera, to recent pieces by Peter Maxwell Davies and David Bedford. As well as being a frequent visitor to Dartington, she is a professor of singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Michael Fields was born in Ha ...
... works ranging from Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum, through Baroque opera, to recent pieces by Peter Maxwell Davies and David Bedford. As well as being a frequent visitor to Dartington, she is a professor of singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. Michael Fields was born in Ha ...
Musical and Historical Explorations
... • The origin of the negro spiritual is widely debated among scholars today. • The debate is whether or not spirituals actually came from the slaves or if they originated elsewhere. • These spirituals were created by a group of people ( Slave or otherwise) living in a hostile environment. • Slaves we ...
... • The origin of the negro spiritual is widely debated among scholars today. • The debate is whether or not spirituals actually came from the slaves or if they originated elsewhere. • These spirituals were created by a group of people ( Slave or otherwise) living in a hostile environment. • Slaves we ...
Program booklet
... Capriccio (written in 1941) is the last piece of stage music by Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949). Like the Last Four Songs, so is the Capriccio the composer's musical will, very special and characteristic, for, in this Op. 85. Strauss explores one of most ancient dilemmas: mind or emotion, music or wo ...
... Capriccio (written in 1941) is the last piece of stage music by Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949). Like the Last Four Songs, so is the Capriccio the composer's musical will, very special and characteristic, for, in this Op. 85. Strauss explores one of most ancient dilemmas: mind or emotion, music or wo ...
What composer are you? - Minnesota Public Radio
... ISTJs are well-organized traditionalists such as Johannes Brahms—who wrote music that harked back to the great composers of the Romantic and Classical eras, at a time when music was beginning a vast upheaval. For Brahms, composition was a careful ritual, and he was very deliberate about releasing on ...
... ISTJs are well-organized traditionalists such as Johannes Brahms—who wrote music that harked back to the great composers of the Romantic and Classical eras, at a time when music was beginning a vast upheaval. For Brahms, composition was a careful ritual, and he was very deliberate about releasing on ...
Expressionism and Impressionism in the 20th Century
... triadic extensions and large use of dissonant tones harkened to the harmonic vocabulary of Debussy as well. Claude Debussy was responsible for giving French music a distinct identity in the 20th century after years of stagnant musical development. As Robert Morgan well puts it, “In France, where th ...
... triadic extensions and large use of dissonant tones harkened to the harmonic vocabulary of Debussy as well. Claude Debussy was responsible for giving French music a distinct identity in the 20th century after years of stagnant musical development. As Robert Morgan well puts it, “In France, where th ...
J.S. Bach, Baroque Music and Moving the Passionate Soul
... harsh-sound passages” to serve the text most effectively.4 This controversial statement echoes the one Monteverdi made more than a century earlier, granting it a scientific grounding in its reference to and interpretation of Descartes work. Musicologist Claude Palisca has said that, “it is an underl ...
... harsh-sound passages” to serve the text most effectively.4 This controversial statement echoes the one Monteverdi made more than a century earlier, granting it a scientific grounding in its reference to and interpretation of Descartes work. Musicologist Claude Palisca has said that, “it is an underl ...
Bio-E 2014 - WordPress.com
... Biography American composer Joshua FINEBERG began his musical studies at the age of five; they have included - in addition to composition - violin, guitar, piano, harpsichord and conducting. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Moshe Cotel where he won first ...
... Biography American composer Joshua FINEBERG began his musical studies at the age of five; they have included - in addition to composition - violin, guitar, piano, harpsichord and conducting. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Moshe Cotel where he won first ...
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 • Antonín Dvořák (1841
... to a friend, Dvořák commented, "I am convinced that England offers me a new and certainly happier future, and one which I hope may benefit our entire Czech art. The English are a fine people, enthusiastic about music, and it is well known that they remain loyal to those whose art they have enjoyed. ...
... to a friend, Dvořák commented, "I am convinced that England offers me a new and certainly happier future, and one which I hope may benefit our entire Czech art. The English are a fine people, enthusiastic about music, and it is well known that they remain loyal to those whose art they have enjoyed. ...
Click here to - David Cutler
... DAVID CUTLER is a multi-dimensional composer who listens voraciously to a colossal range of musical styles. His enormously eclectic output reflects this large musical world, with a vocabulary that ranges from beautiful, lyrical, tonal realms to unusual sounds, dissonant clashes, and bizarre juxtapos ...
... DAVID CUTLER is a multi-dimensional composer who listens voraciously to a colossal range of musical styles. His enormously eclectic output reflects this large musical world, with a vocabulary that ranges from beautiful, lyrical, tonal realms to unusual sounds, dissonant clashes, and bizarre juxtapos ...
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... The troubadour and trouvere legacy can be seen all around. The popularity of secular music can trace its lineage back to the timeless practice of professional musicians traveling the country spreading poetry and romantic ideas through the universal art of music. The troubadours and trouveres were p ...
... The troubadour and trouvere legacy can be seen all around. The popularity of secular music can trace its lineage back to the timeless practice of professional musicians traveling the country spreading poetry and romantic ideas through the universal art of music. The troubadours and trouveres were p ...
MUSIC IN THE WATKINSON LIBRARY by Margaret F. Sax
... American people from the beginning of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th. It included many varieties of classical, religious and popular music, making it valuable to musicians and social historians alike. In the early years of the library, collecting music was not a priority, though there we ...
... American people from the beginning of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th. It included many varieties of classical, religious and popular music, making it valuable to musicians and social historians alike. In the early years of the library, collecting music was not a priority, though there we ...
Sonata in A-flat major, Hoboken XVI:46 (1767-1768)
... 1898; the Fauves held their first exhibit in Paris in 1905. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, to which the Cubist movement is often traced, dates from 1907; Kandinsky painted his first abstract canvas three years later. And in 1909, Arnold Schoenberg thrust music into this new world by abandoning ...
... 1898; the Fauves held their first exhibit in Paris in 1905. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, to which the Cubist movement is often traced, dates from 1907; Kandinsky painted his first abstract canvas three years later. And in 1909, Arnold Schoenberg thrust music into this new world by abandoning ...
Concordia Conservatory Presents Schmutzinberry Discovers America
... Schmutzinberry, Egbert the Scaredy Cat, and Marsha the Martian. Mr. Vamos has also written music for theatrical productions, setting his own compositions to masterpieces from many periods, and composed several solo and chamber compositions over the past few years including a collaborative compositio ...
... Schmutzinberry, Egbert the Scaredy Cat, and Marsha the Martian. Mr. Vamos has also written music for theatrical productions, setting his own compositions to masterpieces from many periods, and composed several solo and chamber compositions over the past few years including a collaborative compositio ...
Special Special tthank hanks tos to Siebe Siebe Henstra and Wilbert
... citizens were realizing their potential. In this time of progress, the name Bach was one that commanded respect as it does nowadays. However, when near the end of the century people spoke of “the old Bach,” they usually referred to the youngest of the three composers on the programme today, Carl Phi ...
... citizens were realizing their potential. In this time of progress, the name Bach was one that commanded respect as it does nowadays. However, when near the end of the century people spoke of “the old Bach,” they usually referred to the youngest of the three composers on the programme today, Carl Phi ...
2 Models of musical and linguistic structure
... the compositional art of numbers—the mathematical figured bass. (Pythagoras. Liebniz.) Language is a musical idea-instrument. The poet, the rhetorician, and the philosopher play and compose grammatically. A fugue is completely logical and scientific—it can also be treated poetically. The figured bas ...
... the compositional art of numbers—the mathematical figured bass. (Pythagoras. Liebniz.) Language is a musical idea-instrument. The poet, the rhetorician, and the philosopher play and compose grammatically. A fugue is completely logical and scientific—it can also be treated poetically. The figured bas ...
Biography (microsoft word)
... classical to metal, creating a unique style of hybrid music hailed by critics and audiences alike. In addition to performing his own works, he has been commissioned by renowned musicians and received top accolades for his composing. The Grammy® award-winning recording Guitar Heroes includes Hirschel ...
... classical to metal, creating a unique style of hybrid music hailed by critics and audiences alike. In addition to performing his own works, he has been commissioned by renowned musicians and received top accolades for his composing. The Grammy® award-winning recording Guitar Heroes includes Hirschel ...
Lecture Italian Composers
... In London he intensifies his relationship with Freemasonry until founding in 1813 the London Philharmonic Society, along with another musician and Italian Freemason, Muzio Clementi. Even in this case it was treated as a Company for promoting Music, equipped with an orc ...
... In London he intensifies his relationship with Freemasonry until founding in 1813 the London Philharmonic Society, along with another musician and Italian Freemason, Muzio Clementi. Even in this case it was treated as a Company for promoting Music, equipped with an orc ...
Programme Notes Puccini`s Messa di Gloria Giacomo Puccini was
... the family tradition as an organist, but a turning point in his life came when he saw a performance of Verdi’s Aida. He knew then that he should write music for the theatre. He studied at the Milan Conservatory under Ponchielli and others and from the age of 26 he was recognised as an important oper ...
... the family tradition as an organist, but a turning point in his life came when he saw a performance of Verdi’s Aida. He knew then that he should write music for the theatre. He studied at the Milan Conservatory under Ponchielli and others and from the age of 26 he was recognised as an important oper ...
the clarinet - Richard Nunemaker
... important contemporary repertoire from the 1960s, mixed in with more recent experimental compositions, including one noticeable gem by Jody Rockmaker with the title track Magical Place of My Dreams, as well as a “new” old favorite, New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich. Richard Nunemaker has been cla ...
... important contemporary repertoire from the 1960s, mixed in with more recent experimental compositions, including one noticeable gem by Jody Rockmaker with the title track Magical Place of My Dreams, as well as a “new” old favorite, New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich. Richard Nunemaker has been cla ...