Quicksilver - Early Music Now
... ways of regarding our world. Among the cultural revolutions was one in music. Composers consciously began to create a nuove musiche or stile moderno of dramatic oppositions and vivid emotions, in striking contrast to the smooth tapestry of Renaissance polyphony. Tonight’s concert is an examination o ...
... ways of regarding our world. Among the cultural revolutions was one in music. Composers consciously began to create a nuove musiche or stile moderno of dramatic oppositions and vivid emotions, in striking contrast to the smooth tapestry of Renaissance polyphony. Tonight’s concert is an examination o ...
NEW PHIL 2014-15 4/26 PROGRAM NOTES by Steven Ledbetter
... Saint-Saëns actually wrote five symphonies--two juvenile works that have not been published, though both have been recorded, and two more from early in his professional career. So the Third is really his only mature symphony and has remained one of his most popular largescale works. Saint-Saëns him ...
... Saint-Saëns actually wrote five symphonies--two juvenile works that have not been published, though both have been recorded, and two more from early in his professional career. So the Third is really his only mature symphony and has remained one of his most popular largescale works. Saint-Saëns him ...
Composer Profiles - Andrew Lesser Music
... difficult harmonic lines and intricate musical textures pervade pieces such as the Symposium for Orchestra (1975), the premiere of which was conducted by Pierre Boulez. Her music evolved into a more accessible vein specifically after the death of her husband, violinist Joseph Zwilich, in 1979. Zwili ...
... difficult harmonic lines and intricate musical textures pervade pieces such as the Symposium for Orchestra (1975), the premiere of which was conducted by Pierre Boulez. Her music evolved into a more accessible vein specifically after the death of her husband, violinist Joseph Zwilich, in 1979. Zwili ...
the gyspsy influence in classical music
... THE GYSPSY INFLUENCE IN CLASSICAL MUSIC JAVIER PÉREZ SENZ1 There are many gypsy musical expressions that come from Europe, including styles such as jazz or hip-hop. However, the world of classical music has a historical debt to the gypsy people. Romani culture has inspired great composers for almost ...
... THE GYSPSY INFLUENCE IN CLASSICAL MUSIC JAVIER PÉREZ SENZ1 There are many gypsy musical expressions that come from Europe, including styles such as jazz or hip-hop. However, the world of classical music has a historical debt to the gypsy people. Romani culture has inspired great composers for almost ...
FRANCE Defeated England in the Hundred Years` War The duchy of
... Musicians worked for the ruler, not the Church, they could be called upon for secular entertainment as well as sacred functions. ...
... Musicians worked for the ruler, not the Church, they could be called upon for secular entertainment as well as sacred functions. ...
Panel abstract
... key figure in the formation of a cosmopolitan imaginary prevalent among the musical circles of the country. This imaginary is characterized by a disdain for any overt allusion to musical material coming from popular and/or folk music traditions. While early in his career Lavista used graphic notatio ...
... key figure in the formation of a cosmopolitan imaginary prevalent among the musical circles of the country. This imaginary is characterized by a disdain for any overt allusion to musical material coming from popular and/or folk music traditions. While early in his career Lavista used graphic notatio ...
maurice steger recorder revolutionary
... bassoon; in short there is no instrument, however great it may be, that can daunt them”. The recorder had been popular in Venice as a solo instrument since the Renaissance, but there was relatively little music composed specifically for it and players often adapted pieces intended for violin. There ...
... bassoon; in short there is no instrument, however great it may be, that can daunt them”. The recorder had been popular in Venice as a solo instrument since the Renaissance, but there was relatively little music composed specifically for it and players often adapted pieces intended for violin. There ...
MUSIC LITERACY FACT SHEET
... Haydn was also a good businessman. Music publishing made him and his music famous all over Europe. After he retired from working for the Esterhazy family, Haydn made two very successful trips to England, where audiences at concerts of his music treated him like a superstar. Franz Joseph Haydn was kn ...
... Haydn was also a good businessman. Music publishing made him and his music famous all over Europe. After he retired from working for the Esterhazy family, Haydn made two very successful trips to England, where audiences at concerts of his music treated him like a superstar. Franz Joseph Haydn was kn ...
cairo contemporary music days 2015 april 27th
... Afterwards an original cheering from a previous football match is played, saying: "when I stop cheering, I would definitely be dead". This piece reflects the panic, fear, escape, chaos and agony which broke out when hundreds of thugs brutally attacked peaceful football fans. Bassam Halaka is a compo ...
... Afterwards an original cheering from a previous football match is played, saying: "when I stop cheering, I would definitely be dead". This piece reflects the panic, fear, escape, chaos and agony which broke out when hundreds of thugs brutally attacked peaceful football fans. Bassam Halaka is a compo ...
Vol 3 - Whitwell - Essays on the Origins of Western Music
... together with their usual vivacite, then a third style would result that could not fail to please the whole world. I will not repeat the comments I made at that time, but will say only that this discourse first brought to my mind the thought that a felicitous melange of Italian and French taste woul ...
... together with their usual vivacite, then a third style would result that could not fail to please the whole world. I will not repeat the comments I made at that time, but will say only that this discourse first brought to my mind the thought that a felicitous melange of Italian and French taste woul ...
e2-draft - WordPress.com
... in some way, come to some understanding of its meaning? And finally, what will the computer do with this knowledge (Dobrian, 2)? The answer in its entirety is well beyond the scope of this essay; in fact, it is an ever expanding answer, one that continues to innovate the way musicians use computers ...
... in some way, come to some understanding of its meaning? And finally, what will the computer do with this knowledge (Dobrian, 2)? The answer in its entirety is well beyond the scope of this essay; in fact, it is an ever expanding answer, one that continues to innovate the way musicians use computers ...
Rediscovered Treasures I
... of music history. Many of the works that will be heard on tonight’s concert once embellished religious services in Mexico City, Puebla, Durango and Zaragoza, and are being performed for the first time in over two hundred years. Hispanic church music in the eighteenth century shows a strong affinity ...
... of music history. Many of the works that will be heard on tonight’s concert once embellished religious services in Mexico City, Puebla, Durango and Zaragoza, and are being performed for the first time in over two hundred years. Hispanic church music in the eighteenth century shows a strong affinity ...
Benjamin A. Ehrlich, organ Senior Recital September 21, 2008 2
... inaugurations. Lefébure-Wely was a concert organist, improviser, and composer, while serving as organist at St. Roch (succeeding his father at age 15), La Madeleine, and St. Sulpice. His musical output, considered to be in poor taste by some French organists, has been compared to the sounds of a Par ...
... inaugurations. Lefébure-Wely was a concert organist, improviser, and composer, while serving as organist at St. Roch (succeeding his father at age 15), La Madeleine, and St. Sulpice. His musical output, considered to be in poor taste by some French organists, has been compared to the sounds of a Par ...
Presentation - HRSBSTAFF Home Page
... Vivaldi also had some success with stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna hoping for preferment. The Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and the composer died a pauper, without a steady source of income. ...
... Vivaldi also had some success with stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna hoping for preferment. The Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and the composer died a pauper, without a steady source of income. ...
Example Paraphrase/ synonym ...when it comes to that music which
... Imitative counterpoint was abandoned since it was looked upon as a 'learned' or artificial device. Instead, part of the effect of that counterpoint became incorporated into the single melodic line. An obvious harmonic scheme brings about a general reduction in harmonic activity. The use of the basso ...
... Imitative counterpoint was abandoned since it was looked upon as a 'learned' or artificial device. Instead, part of the effect of that counterpoint became incorporated into the single melodic line. An obvious harmonic scheme brings about a general reduction in harmonic activity. The use of the basso ...
Elements of Music
... Theme and variations are also used in many types of music as well as ground basses. The theme is the original idea (which can be borrowed from another composer) and then the variations of that theme then follow. Write down below what ways the theme could be changed to make it a variation. I can thin ...
... Theme and variations are also used in many types of music as well as ground basses. The theme is the original idea (which can be borrowed from another composer) and then the variations of that theme then follow. Write down below what ways the theme could be changed to make it a variation. I can thin ...
Romanticism 1820-1900
... - Expressive tone color (importance of specific instruments). Larger orchestra ~100 musicians. - Exploited and played with the sounds of instruments, register, dynamics, tempo, etc. p, pp, pppp, f, ff, ffff ...
... - Expressive tone color (importance of specific instruments). Larger orchestra ~100 musicians. - Exploited and played with the sounds of instruments, register, dynamics, tempo, etc. p, pp, pppp, f, ff, ffff ...
Music Chart - Midnight Swan
... the number of themes; changes keys (plays w/ relationships) one piano, four strings; about falsehood ...
... the number of themes; changes keys (plays w/ relationships) one piano, four strings; about falsehood ...
Program and Notes Andre Bohren, Piano
... quickly became a well-known keyboardist, and by age 15 he held the position of organist and composer for the royal chapel in Naples. He spent much of his life teaching and composing in Portugal and Spain, where he died at the age of 71. He wrote 555 sonatas, most of which are one movement works in ...
... quickly became a well-known keyboardist, and by age 15 he held the position of organist and composer for the royal chapel in Naples. He spent much of his life teaching and composing in Portugal and Spain, where he died at the age of 71. He wrote 555 sonatas, most of which are one movement works in ...
Elgar`s Enigma - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
... The “Enigma” Variations are based on a theme, the origin of which Sir Elgar never revealed to the listeners, hence its “enigma.” There are 14 variations, each a musical portrait of someone that Sir Elgar knew well. Elgar writes, “It may be understood that these personages comment or reflect on the o ...
... The “Enigma” Variations are based on a theme, the origin of which Sir Elgar never revealed to the listeners, hence its “enigma.” There are 14 variations, each a musical portrait of someone that Sir Elgar knew well. Elgar writes, “It may be understood that these personages comment or reflect on the o ...
Benjamin Broening`s music couples his interest in the expressive
... Benjamin Broening’s music couples his interest in the expressive power of sound with a sense of line derived from his background as a singer. A composer of orchestral, choral, chamber and electroacoustic music his music has been music has been performed in Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South K ...
... Benjamin Broening’s music couples his interest in the expressive power of sound with a sense of line derived from his background as a singer. A composer of orchestral, choral, chamber and electroacoustic music his music has been music has been performed in Japan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South K ...
Chapter 25
... the composer to write an opera on the national myth of Hiawatha in order to show native-born composers how it is done, and much of the explicitly American materials from this unfinished opera made it into the “New World” Symphony. The Americanness of this work is exhibited in Indian-inspired melodie ...
... the composer to write an opera on the national myth of Hiawatha in order to show native-born composers how it is done, and much of the explicitly American materials from this unfinished opera made it into the “New World” Symphony. The Americanness of this work is exhibited in Indian-inspired melodie ...
A Film Composer`s Toolkit: Researching Personal Collections of
... he carefully stored the polished versions of his orchestrated scores as the only product worth documenting. Egisto Macchi as Handyman Egisto Macchi (Grosseto, 1928 – Montpellier, 1992) is one of the leading composers of Italian avant-garde music, mostly known for his vital role in the creation of in ...
... he carefully stored the polished versions of his orchestrated scores as the only product worth documenting. Egisto Macchi as Handyman Egisto Macchi (Grosseto, 1928 – Montpellier, 1992) is one of the leading composers of Italian avant-garde music, mostly known for his vital role in the creation of in ...
and read the CD booklet (pdf format)
... Sylvius Leopold Weiss was arguably the finest performer and composer of the lute in the late Baroque. More individual pieces survive in manuscript form of Weiss than for any other lute composer, and ...
... Sylvius Leopold Weiss was arguably the finest performer and composer of the lute in the late Baroque. More individual pieces survive in manuscript form of Weiss than for any other lute composer, and ...
Music Cram Kit
... Composers create s eventh ch o rds by adding a seventh above the root to any triad. The do m inan t s event h c hord contains scale degrees 5, 7, 2, and 4. It contains a tritone and pulls strongly to the tonic. ...
... Composers create s eventh ch o rds by adding a seventh above the root to any triad. The do m inan t s event h c hord contains scale degrees 5, 7, 2, and 4. It contains a tritone and pulls strongly to the tonic. ...