Florilegium Chamber Choir
... Wolf’s songs are introspective, personal, and fleeting, “Death is a cool night” by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) and “I am lost to this world” by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), move from a starting point of introspection outward toward something more universal and more eternal – toward something more like ...
... Wolf’s songs are introspective, personal, and fleeting, “Death is a cool night” by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) and “I am lost to this world” by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), move from a starting point of introspection outward toward something more universal and more eternal – toward something more like ...
Biography - St Urban
... highlighting the talents of Temple University student composers alongside 20th-century masterworks and works from the classical canon, repeating the programs at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in the quartet’s home base of New York City. From the outset, Momenta treated all music equally, d ...
... highlighting the talents of Temple University student composers alongside 20th-century masterworks and works from the classical canon, repeating the programs at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in the quartet’s home base of New York City. From the outset, Momenta treated all music equally, d ...
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG RICHARD
... dissolving verbal concept into feeling, to communicate the innermost secrets of the artist’s vision– especially when it is raised through the medium of a dramatic performance to that clarity of expression hitherto reserved to painting alone.” His views–and their realization in the complex music dram ...
... dissolving verbal concept into feeling, to communicate the innermost secrets of the artist’s vision– especially when it is raised through the medium of a dramatic performance to that clarity of expression hitherto reserved to painting alone.” His views–and their realization in the complex music dram ...
Divergent Paths: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and the 20th century
... Arnold Schoenberg (German) and Igor Stravinsky (Russian) shared similar paths. Both immigrated to the United States during World War II. Both began their American lives in Massachusetts and ultimately settled in Los Angeles. However, the two composers represent radically divergent compositional jour ...
... Arnold Schoenberg (German) and Igor Stravinsky (Russian) shared similar paths. Both immigrated to the United States during World War II. Both began their American lives in Massachusetts and ultimately settled in Los Angeles. However, the two composers represent radically divergent compositional jour ...
- City Research Online
... (particularly) on the folk music traditions of eastern Europe is surprisingly scant. There is, naturally, more material available on the musical traditions of a particular country in its indigenous language, but such work often remains untranslated. Even Bartók’s and Kodály’s extensive collections a ...
... (particularly) on the folk music traditions of eastern Europe is surprisingly scant. There is, naturally, more material available on the musical traditions of a particular country in its indigenous language, but such work often remains untranslated. Even Bartók’s and Kodály’s extensive collections a ...
GCC - Day 17 present..
... • His Violin Concerto #1 in G minor employs many of the same techniques as Mendelssohn’s, including eliminating the long orchestral introduction and linking of the three movements • Note the opening of the soloist’s material is almost improvisational • Listen for how the solo part is technically dem ...
... • His Violin Concerto #1 in G minor employs many of the same techniques as Mendelssohn’s, including eliminating the long orchestral introduction and linking of the three movements • Note the opening of the soloist’s material is almost improvisational • Listen for how the solo part is technically dem ...
PROGRAM NOTES
... is like a pre-echo to the third movement of La Mer which likewise offers the haunting chant of Sirens, the mythical divas of the sea. With regard to the style of Nocturnes, a brief digression is in order. Music historians like to chronicle all the influences which combine into the creative DNA of a ...
... is like a pre-echo to the third movement of La Mer which likewise offers the haunting chant of Sirens, the mythical divas of the sea. With regard to the style of Nocturnes, a brief digression is in order. Music historians like to chronicle all the influences which combine into the creative DNA of a ...
Richard Tognetti
... that the homesick young Antipodean ‘discovered his true identity, becoming the first composer to make a music distinctively Australian’. Indeed, Sculthorpe established the connection between music and his native country as one of his artistic goals. Many of his works were given Aboriginal titles or ...
... that the homesick young Antipodean ‘discovered his true identity, becoming the first composer to make a music distinctively Australian’. Indeed, Sculthorpe established the connection between music and his native country as one of his artistic goals. Many of his works were given Aboriginal titles or ...
A Brief History of Opera By Deanna R. Hoying
... exception of one, all Verdi's operas deal with serious subject matter from Shakespeare's OTHELLO to Victor Hugo's RIGOLETTO. Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and early Verdi all composed in the BEL CANTO style which was characterized by long, fluid, melodic lines throughout the opera. This marriage betwe ...
... exception of one, all Verdi's operas deal with serious subject matter from Shakespeare's OTHELLO to Victor Hugo's RIGOLETTO. Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and early Verdi all composed in the BEL CANTO style which was characterized by long, fluid, melodic lines throughout the opera. This marriage betwe ...
In English - David W Solomons` Music Site
... Additionally I wanted to provide study sight-reading for the dedicatee and decided on mixed 5 and 6 beat meter and all the possibilities for stressed beats that that entails. In terms of influence the choice of 5-beat meter may give a clue as pointing toward the Dave Brubeck classic “Take Five” …and ...
... Additionally I wanted to provide study sight-reading for the dedicatee and decided on mixed 5 and 6 beat meter and all the possibilities for stressed beats that that entails. In terms of influence the choice of 5-beat meter may give a clue as pointing toward the Dave Brubeck classic “Take Five” …and ...
Requiem Johannes Ockeghem: Missa pro defunctis Bent Sørensen
... The concept of adding music to the setting of the Mass is not new. Troping has been a practice since the Medieval period. Creating “companion” pieces that meld well together started with the f ...
... The concept of adding music to the setting of the Mass is not new. Troping has been a practice since the Medieval period. Creating “companion” pieces that meld well together started with the f ...
The Story of Classical Music
... The first composer to actually write an opera was an Italian called Jacopo Peri. It was called Dafne, but it’s been lost, so we don’t know what it sounds like today. The prize for writing the first important opera usually goes to another Italian. His name was Claudio Monteverdi and his opera was ca ...
... The first composer to actually write an opera was an Italian called Jacopo Peri. It was called Dafne, but it’s been lost, so we don’t know what it sounds like today. The prize for writing the first important opera usually goes to another Italian. His name was Claudio Monteverdi and his opera was ca ...
"Electric Counterpoint" Powerpoint
... They were both completely fascinated with drones and repetition, so tended to use these as the basis for their compositions. Young took this to extremes, basing entire pieces on a very long, extended notes played very loudly and adding harmonics to it. He would often revisit pieces, constantly rewor ...
... They were both completely fascinated with drones and repetition, so tended to use these as the basis for their compositions. Young took this to extremes, basing entire pieces on a very long, extended notes played very loudly and adding harmonics to it. He would often revisit pieces, constantly rewor ...
Concert d`aujourd`hui! Works by Domenico Scarlatti (1683
... who included the young composers work in his repertoire. Alfredo Casella also ensured that Castelnuovo's works would be included in the repertoires of the Societa Nazionale di Musica (later the Corporazione delle Nuove Musiche), granting him exposure throughout Europe as one of Italy's up-and-coming ...
... who included the young composers work in his repertoire. Alfredo Casella also ensured that Castelnuovo's works would be included in the repertoires of the Societa Nazionale di Musica (later the Corporazione delle Nuove Musiche), granting him exposure throughout Europe as one of Italy's up-and-coming ...
Parsons, Robert - St. Martin`s Chamber Choir
... involved with the choirboy plays at the Chapel before that date. It is believed he wrote several songs for those plays. Parson’s surviving compositional output includes many sacred vocal works, secular vocal works and a number of instrumental works. He made a substantial contribution to the earl ...
... involved with the choirboy plays at the Chapel before that date. It is believed he wrote several songs for those plays. Parson’s surviving compositional output includes many sacred vocal works, secular vocal works and a number of instrumental works. He made a substantial contribution to the earl ...
Haydn Homework - Stanborough Music
... It was only in these last twelve symphonies that and were used regularly, with making an appearance in five of the last set of six symphonies. Symphony No 104 is scored for: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in , two trumpets in D, and strings. The première was extremely succe ...
... It was only in these last twelve symphonies that and were used regularly, with making an appearance in five of the last set of six symphonies. Symphony No 104 is scored for: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in , two trumpets in D, and strings. The première was extremely succe ...
Pristine sounds and heart-breaking synthesizers
... his more commercially focused record label PulsarGroove Recordings & Publishing. Beyond that, he has been working with figureheads from the big-screen and with music industry professionals locally, usually as a Sound Recordist, Mix Engineer and Photographer. Having established his entertainment and ...
... his more commercially focused record label PulsarGroove Recordings & Publishing. Beyond that, he has been working with figureheads from the big-screen and with music industry professionals locally, usually as a Sound Recordist, Mix Engineer and Photographer. Having established his entertainment and ...
Female Voices on the Stage: Case Studies from the 18th to the 21st
... music. The female voice is a topic which has been often explored by gender studies: either in studies on male and female voices in operas that can be linked to role models and gender stereotypes or in studies dealing with the notion of the voice as an aesthetical concept. Whereas the classical reper ...
... music. The female voice is a topic which has been often explored by gender studies: either in studies on male and female voices in operas that can be linked to role models and gender stereotypes or in studies dealing with the notion of the voice as an aesthetical concept. Whereas the classical reper ...
full text - Kurt Weill Foundation
... presented in London by Balanchine's Les Ballets 1933, with Tilly Losch as soloist, and was also given by the Danish Ballet in 193 5, with choreography by Harald Lander. Since then the work has not been performed, for reasons connected with copyright, but there is now a prospect of several revivals. ...
... presented in London by Balanchine's Les Ballets 1933, with Tilly Losch as soloist, and was also given by the Danish Ballet in 193 5, with choreography by Harald Lander. Since then the work has not been performed, for reasons connected with copyright, but there is now a prospect of several revivals. ...
ChantiCleer - University Musical Society
... today, Francisco Guerrero was second in importance only to Victoria during the Spanish Renaissance. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Guerrero received his musical training in Spain, rather than Rome, studying with his older brother Pedro and, more importantly, Cristóbal de Morales. He taught himse ...
... today, Francisco Guerrero was second in importance only to Victoria during the Spanish Renaissance. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Guerrero received his musical training in Spain, rather than Rome, studying with his older brother Pedro and, more importantly, Cristóbal de Morales. He taught himse ...
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... The Enlightenment Inspires Composers The new Enlightenment ideals led composers and musicians to develop new forms of music. There was a transition in music, as well as art, from the baroque style to rococo. An elegant style of music known as “classical” followed. Ballets and opera were performed a ...
... The Enlightenment Inspires Composers The new Enlightenment ideals led composers and musicians to develop new forms of music. There was a transition in music, as well as art, from the baroque style to rococo. An elegant style of music known as “classical” followed. Ballets and opera were performed a ...
Creating Music from Chaos
... the pitch dictated by the corresponding point was multiplied by z divided by the sum of the coordinates, and the second and third overtones were dictated by x and y, respectively. This was a natural fit, as z is most of the time much larger than x and y, just as the first overtone is usually louder ...
... the pitch dictated by the corresponding point was multiplied by z divided by the sum of the coordinates, and the second and third overtones were dictated by x and y, respectively. This was a natural fit, as z is most of the time much larger than x and y, just as the first overtone is usually louder ...
Baghdad born composer, singer, and oud player, Laith Alattar is a
... Laith Alattar, Baghdad born composer, singer, and oud player, Laith Alattar is a graduate of the composition program at the University of Michigan School of Music. He studied piano, voice, classical and film music with composers Michael Daugherty, William Aikman, Jennifer Furr, and Kristie Kuster, a ...
... Laith Alattar, Baghdad born composer, singer, and oud player, Laith Alattar is a graduate of the composition program at the University of Michigan School of Music. He studied piano, voice, classical and film music with composers Michael Daugherty, William Aikman, Jennifer Furr, and Kristie Kuster, a ...
