Lecture 4
... These are the melodies that are most recognizable. They are easy to remember and easy to sing along with when listening. The best example is popular music played on the radio. Why are they so easy to remember or sing along with? The melody is repeated over and over many times throughout the ...
... These are the melodies that are most recognizable. They are easy to remember and easy to sing along with when listening. The best example is popular music played on the radio. Why are they so easy to remember or sing along with? The melody is repeated over and over many times throughout the ...
Haydn`s Symphony No. 104, Movement IV
... For composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), writing and playing around with music is what he enjoyed most. Whether “painting a picture” with his music or writing a musical joke, Haydn had fun finding new ways to create music. Haydn especially liked to write symphonies—he enjoyed it so much that he ...
... For composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), writing and playing around with music is what he enjoyed most. Whether “painting a picture” with his music or writing a musical joke, Haydn had fun finding new ways to create music. Haydn especially liked to write symphonies—he enjoyed it so much that he ...
sarah smokay`s and seth pendergast`s powerpoint
... Franz Joseph Haydn: London Years • 12 symphonies for London • Between 1788-1792 • More brilliant and daring than his first symphonies • The British: “Greatest composer in the world!” ...
... Franz Joseph Haydn: London Years • 12 symphonies for London • Between 1788-1792 • More brilliant and daring than his first symphonies • The British: “Greatest composer in the world!” ...
program notes - ClarinetMike
... Don Ellis was a jazz trumpeter, drummer, bandleader, touring performer, recording artist, composer, and arranger. Ellis played with a variety of prestigious big bands and jazz groups, including those of Charlie Barnet, Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, and Stan Kenton. He also led big ...
... Don Ellis was a jazz trumpeter, drummer, bandleader, touring performer, recording artist, composer, and arranger. Ellis played with a variety of prestigious big bands and jazz groups, including those of Charlie Barnet, Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, and Stan Kenton. He also led big ...
Octet for Winds, Op. 103 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770
... no one knew for certain his actual cause of death, some of the medicine that he had taken contained so much lead that there was common belief that he died of lead-poisoning. This Octet was believed to have been written between 1792 - 1793 when he was in Bonn and was dedicated to the highly skilled c ...
... no one knew for certain his actual cause of death, some of the medicine that he had taken contained so much lead that there was common belief that he died of lead-poisoning. This Octet was believed to have been written between 1792 - 1793 when he was in Bonn and was dedicated to the highly skilled c ...
Humanities Music Project 1940`s AlMusallam
... a conductor of his own and other American music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, in his later years he was often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers" and is best known to the public for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessi ...
... a conductor of his own and other American music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, in his later years he was often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers" and is best known to the public for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessi ...
Help with analysing in listening tests
... Regular or irregular rhythms? Does rhythm play an important part in the melody/accompaniment? Does the composer make use of ostinato? Is there syncopation or other sorts of rhythmic interest? Any use of polyrhythm or cross rhythms? Texture What use is made of homophonic, polyphonic, mono ...
... Regular or irregular rhythms? Does rhythm play an important part in the melody/accompaniment? Does the composer make use of ostinato? Is there syncopation or other sorts of rhythmic interest? Any use of polyrhythm or cross rhythms? Texture What use is made of homophonic, polyphonic, mono ...
Johann Sebastian Bach and the Fortepiano
... express nuances on the keyboard, by playing loud or soft. The clavichord, on the other hand, another very popular instrument instrument, functioned by striking the strings, thus making different expressive nuances possible. Unfortunately, this instrument had a small range, and an extremely discreet ...
... express nuances on the keyboard, by playing loud or soft. The clavichord, on the other hand, another very popular instrument instrument, functioned by striking the strings, thus making different expressive nuances possible. Unfortunately, this instrument had a small range, and an extremely discreet ...
2-page “Intro to our Instruments”
... expression to his original percussion-based music. While in his teens, Gregory Kozak’s desire to create his own orchestra of invented instruments took root. He was inspired by some of the most innovative composers of the 20th Century including Edgard Varèse, John Cage, Harry Partch and the Baschet B ...
... expression to his original percussion-based music. While in his teens, Gregory Kozak’s desire to create his own orchestra of invented instruments took root. He was inspired by some of the most innovative composers of the 20th Century including Edgard Varèse, John Cage, Harry Partch and the Baschet B ...
NEXTET Tim Hoft, piano Virko Baley, music director and conductor
... Soviet musical avant-garde (especially E. Denisov, A. Schnittke, and A. Pärt) and the Second Viennese School, as well as by O. Messiaen and G. Ligeti, he developed his personal post-serial style based on a combination of quasi-serial procedures and special attention to the attractiveness of sound ma ...
... Soviet musical avant-garde (especially E. Denisov, A. Schnittke, and A. Pärt) and the Second Viennese School, as well as by O. Messiaen and G. Ligeti, he developed his personal post-serial style based on a combination of quasi-serial procedures and special attention to the attractiveness of sound ma ...
GOTTSCHALK AND HIS PERIOD
... SOME masters take their fame with them when descending to Avernus; with others, as in Tausig's case, their memory becomes legendary and they are canonized long after death; others again, Hummel, Dussek, Onslow, Moscheles, Thalberg, and Kalkbrenner, are consigned to somewhat undeserved oblivion; and ...
... SOME masters take their fame with them when descending to Avernus; with others, as in Tausig's case, their memory becomes legendary and they are canonized long after death; others again, Hummel, Dussek, Onslow, Moscheles, Thalberg, and Kalkbrenner, are consigned to somewhat undeserved oblivion; and ...
romantic period
... exoticism (Japanese music and culture), both popular at the end of the nineteenth century. •The libretto for Madame Butterfly reflects end-of-the century European-American interest in geisha culture. ...
... exoticism (Japanese music and culture), both popular at the end of the nineteenth century. •The libretto for Madame Butterfly reflects end-of-the century European-American interest in geisha culture. ...
norman finlay - Belfast Royal Academy
... and Head of the Music Department since 1981. During his time at the Academy he made an immeasurable contribution to the musical life of the School, establishing many traditions in the Music Department that we now take for granted. Educated at Belfast High School, he gained a place at the Royal Co ...
... and Head of the Music Department since 1981. During his time at the Academy he made an immeasurable contribution to the musical life of the School, establishing many traditions in the Music Department that we now take for granted. Educated at Belfast High School, he gained a place at the Royal Co ...
INTRODUCTION ~ A s what seems to have been their homeland
... concerned, they are often its fruit, provided it has been tested on the stage in Broadway, then delivered to the Hollywood industry. All things considered, an adaptation with a view to get a juicy success. Musicals really are motley because of the arts they gather, but they do not forget the mass au ...
... concerned, they are often its fruit, provided it has been tested on the stage in Broadway, then delivered to the Hollywood industry. All things considered, an adaptation with a view to get a juicy success. Musicals really are motley because of the arts they gather, but they do not forget the mass au ...
NEXTET Virko Baley, music director and conductor
... Hodzyatsky [Godziatsky], Vitaliy (born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1936) received his earliest musical education at home. While attending middle school, Hodzyatsky took private lessons in piano and theory (1954). In 1956 he entered the Kiev Conservatory and in 1961 graduated from the composition class of B. ...
... Hodzyatsky [Godziatsky], Vitaliy (born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1936) received his earliest musical education at home. While attending middle school, Hodzyatsky took private lessons in piano and theory (1954). In 1956 he entered the Kiev Conservatory and in 1961 graduated from the composition class of B. ...
- Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
... musical duo their first Academy Award nomination. The play is performed in venues around the world and, as recently as 2003, was revived on Broadway. It is one of the longest running off-Broadway musical of all time. ...
... musical duo their first Academy Award nomination. The play is performed in venues around the world and, as recently as 2003, was revived on Broadway. It is one of the longest running off-Broadway musical of all time. ...
Master Concerts program - Fundación Focus
... The organ is an instrument that the church has embraced since the 10th century, shaping its internal structure and giving it its role in religious worship. Since the NSth century, when worshipping God was diversified by the Lutheran and Calvinist reformations and the Counter-Reformation of the Counc ...
... The organ is an instrument that the church has embraced since the 10th century, shaping its internal structure and giving it its role in religious worship. Since the NSth century, when worshipping God was diversified by the Lutheran and Calvinist reformations and the Counter-Reformation of the Counc ...
Classical 3
... • @ 22 left Bonn for Vienna studied with Haydn • Rebelled against social convention in that he believed the artist deserved as much respect as nobility • The same artistocrat’s who shunned and allowed Mozart to die penniless gave Beethoven salaries ...
... • @ 22 left Bonn for Vienna studied with Haydn • Rebelled against social convention in that he believed the artist deserved as much respect as nobility • The same artistocrat’s who shunned and allowed Mozart to die penniless gave Beethoven salaries ...
Maestro Analysis Task Essay - Aldridge State High School
... 2. Make sure you deconstruct in detail your film. Be really familiar and knowledgeable about the relationship between the film (time, place, setting, characters, emotional themes etc) the musical elements manipulated by the composer and the effect this has in relation to the action. 3. Be very expli ...
... 2. Make sure you deconstruct in detail your film. Be really familiar and knowledgeable about the relationship between the film (time, place, setting, characters, emotional themes etc) the musical elements manipulated by the composer and the effect this has in relation to the action. 3. Be very expli ...
Notable Events during the Baroque Period (1600
... antiquated. During his lifetime he was more celebrated as an organist than as a composer. Unlike Mozart and Beethoven in the following period, he had little posthumous influence until Mendelssohn rediscovered his choral masterpieces in the 19 th century and his works began to be performed once more. ...
... antiquated. During his lifetime he was more celebrated as an organist than as a composer. Unlike Mozart and Beethoven in the following period, he had little posthumous influence until Mendelssohn rediscovered his choral masterpieces in the 19 th century and his works began to be performed once more. ...
Writing your own ensemble arrangements
... higher obligato. OR look in the accompaniment—there may be counter melodies and variations that some of the instruments could play to add depth and variety. (One of the most powerful parts of the piece can be when ALL instruments are playing in unison with the accompaniment by organ, piano, and harp ...
... higher obligato. OR look in the accompaniment—there may be counter melodies and variations that some of the instruments could play to add depth and variety. (One of the most powerful parts of the piece can be when ALL instruments are playing in unison with the accompaniment by organ, piano, and harp ...
Regarding Lîla
... domains, like stochastics, Markov chains, fractals, etc. Works of this ilk tend to sound, to the interested but unitiated listener, as ‘musicalese’ rather than ‘music.’ Again, Lerdahl: “Let us distinguish between a ‘natural’ and an ‘artificial’ compositional grammar. A natural grammar arises spontan ...
... domains, like stochastics, Markov chains, fractals, etc. Works of this ilk tend to sound, to the interested but unitiated listener, as ‘musicalese’ rather than ‘music.’ Again, Lerdahl: “Let us distinguish between a ‘natural’ and an ‘artificial’ compositional grammar. A natural grammar arises spontan ...
THE ANCIENT GREEK LYRE This unique album features 6
... just a tantalizing taste of the glory of the tragically lost, magnificent musical culture of ancient Greece. The two Delphic Hymns are dated c.138 BC and 128 BC. Recent musilogical research may indicate that both Hymns were actually written in 128 BCE: " They were long regarded as being dated circa ...
... just a tantalizing taste of the glory of the tragically lost, magnificent musical culture of ancient Greece. The two Delphic Hymns are dated c.138 BC and 128 BC. Recent musilogical research may indicate that both Hymns were actually written in 128 BCE: " They were long regarded as being dated circa ...