Music Appreciation, Class #9
... Giovanni) are radical characters and thereby symbolic of the entire Classical period. Your answer must include a discussion of the musical and ...
... Giovanni) are radical characters and thereby symbolic of the entire Classical period. Your answer must include a discussion of the musical and ...
Compositional Technology
... • One way to create compositions is to isolate the aesthetic code of a certain musical genre and use this code to create new similar compositions. Knowledge-based systems are based on a pre-made set of arguments that can be used to compose new works of the same style or genre. Usually this is accomp ...
... • One way to create compositions is to isolate the aesthetic code of a certain musical genre and use this code to create new similar compositions. Knowledge-based systems are based on a pre-made set of arguments that can be used to compose new works of the same style or genre. Usually this is accomp ...
BACH 727 - BACH on the PEDAL-HARPSICHORD
... sound as “authentic”. While such an instrument may be suitable for early Italian music, and less so for Flemish and French music, it bears little resemblance to the much more solid, larger and more richly-toned instruments which would have been found in baroque Germany. And two manuals at least woul ...
... sound as “authentic”. While such an instrument may be suitable for early Italian music, and less so for Flemish and French music, it bears little resemblance to the much more solid, larger and more richly-toned instruments which would have been found in baroque Germany. And two manuals at least woul ...
Forgotten composers back on playlist - Kenneth Woods
... in the late 20th century. As a result, it fell into such neglect that, when his four symphonies were released on the label Avie in 2011 and 2012, they were all world premiere recordings. “After years of the family trying to get any of this music recorded,” Woods says, “two orchestras agreed within d ...
... in the late 20th century. As a result, it fell into such neglect that, when his four symphonies were released on the label Avie in 2011 and 2012, they were all world premiere recordings. “After years of the family trying to get any of this music recorded,” Woods says, “two orchestras agreed within d ...
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... Exposition - the main themes of the piece are played for the first time. This section can be further divided into: First group - this consists of one or more themes, all of them in the home key. So if the piece is in C major, all of the music in the first group will be in C major. Transition - in th ...
... Exposition - the main themes of the piece are played for the first time. This section can be further divided into: First group - this consists of one or more themes, all of them in the home key. So if the piece is in C major, all of the music in the first group will be in C major. Transition - in th ...
| MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
... But in the early 18th century, the idea of buying a ticket to see an opera was new. For decades, opera had been a courtly entertainment, paid for and attended by the aristocracy and their guests. It wasn’t until the end of the 17th century that it became a public business all over Europe—and a risky ...
... But in the early 18th century, the idea of buying a ticket to see an opera was new. For decades, opera had been a courtly entertainment, paid for and attended by the aristocracy and their guests. It wasn’t until the end of the 17th century that it became a public business all over Europe—and a risky ...
On mixing popular and classical music
... my repertoire. Most of the classical musicians I know listen to and enjoy contemporary music, but some are held back by the conservative idea that popular music is inferior. Bernstein, Bartók, Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Prokofiev all integrated popular music into their music. If they did it, y ...
... my repertoire. Most of the classical musicians I know listen to and enjoy contemporary music, but some are held back by the conservative idea that popular music is inferior. Bernstein, Bartók, Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Prokofiev all integrated popular music into their music. If they did it, y ...
New Proposals 2016 Neapolitan Sacred Music in the time of Pergolesi
... Gaetano Veneziano, a pupil and collaborator of Francesco Provenzale the most important Neapolitan composer of the 17th century, was born in Apulia in 1656 and died in Naples in 1716 after a long and successful career as organist and then master of the Neapolitan Royal Chapel in the place of Alessand ...
... Gaetano Veneziano, a pupil and collaborator of Francesco Provenzale the most important Neapolitan composer of the 17th century, was born in Apulia in 1656 and died in Naples in 1716 after a long and successful career as organist and then master of the Neapolitan Royal Chapel in the place of Alessand ...
The music of California-based composer, Jeffrey Parola, draws
... premiered in New York City in May 2013. Upcoming commissions include a piece for bassoon and string quartet for a professional Los Angeles-based ensemble to be premiered in June 2014, and a piece for the BluePrint New Music Ensemble, to be premiered in Spring 2016 with Nicole Paiement conducting. Je ...
... premiered in New York City in May 2013. Upcoming commissions include a piece for bassoon and string quartet for a professional Los Angeles-based ensemble to be premiered in June 2014, and a piece for the BluePrint New Music Ensemble, to be premiered in Spring 2016 with Nicole Paiement conducting. Je ...
To the lyre
... The kithara • The kithara was a large performance lyre • held in the left hand, and strummed with the right. • The left hand was used to pull away strings which were not to sound when strumming. • Though famously of seven strings (the "seventone lyre") in the archaic and classical periods, the p ...
... The kithara • The kithara was a large performance lyre • held in the left hand, and strummed with the right. • The left hand was used to pull away strings which were not to sound when strumming. • Though famously of seven strings (the "seventone lyre") in the archaic and classical periods, the p ...
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... supporting himself by writing about music and giving lessons. Berlioz may well have been the first great composer to not be able to play a musical instrument, nor to have shown any musical talent at an early age. But he perservered, and became interested in the vast possibilities of orchestration an ...
... supporting himself by writing about music and giving lessons. Berlioz may well have been the first great composer to not be able to play a musical instrument, nor to have shown any musical talent at an early age. But he perservered, and became interested in the vast possibilities of orchestration an ...
Róża Różańska
... The parody technique allows Anerio to quote both entire polyphonic structures and single melodic lines. However, despite the strong convergence essential for the procedure of parody, the composer was able to present their own solutions while adhering to the rules of classical counterpoint and the st ...
... The parody technique allows Anerio to quote both entire polyphonic structures and single melodic lines. However, despite the strong convergence essential for the procedure of parody, the composer was able to present their own solutions while adhering to the rules of classical counterpoint and the st ...
Classical Music in Postwar Years
... Varese did this in his late seventies with tools now available creating Poème électronique. The synthesizer was then invented and made it easier to record. The invention of the Synthesizer led to electronic music studios spreading across the US. ...
... Varese did this in his late seventies with tools now available creating Poème électronique. The synthesizer was then invented and made it easier to record. The invention of the Synthesizer led to electronic music studios spreading across the US. ...
NIAGARA Composed by SOL KAPLAN RIVER OF NO RETURN
... mainstay Ken Darby, here sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford. This tune—along with another Newman/Darby composition, “Down in the Meadow”—gets considerable instrumental play in the score; both featuring charming pieces of gentle Americana. The rest of the scoring duties were divided between two other super ...
... mainstay Ken Darby, here sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford. This tune—along with another Newman/Darby composition, “Down in the Meadow”—gets considerable instrumental play in the score; both featuring charming pieces of gentle Americana. The rest of the scoring duties were divided between two other super ...
Antonin Dvorak - gozips.uakron.edu
... New World Symphony • Dvorak 9 Symphony • Influence by visit to ...
... New World Symphony • Dvorak 9 Symphony • Influence by visit to ...
Programme with notes
... This programme, entitled La Dolce Vita, celebrates the pleasures, the pains and the passions of life, emotions as vivid today as they were in the Italy of three, four or even five centuries ago when this music was first performed for its original audiences. During this period improvisation was usual ...
... This programme, entitled La Dolce Vita, celebrates the pleasures, the pains and the passions of life, emotions as vivid today as they were in the Italy of three, four or even five centuries ago when this music was first performed for its original audiences. During this period improvisation was usual ...
The Origin of Albanian Folk Iso-polyphony Tuesday, December 28
... The Corsican polyphony includes sacred and secular forms. Secular polyphony includes forms such as paghjella, terzetti, madrigale, lamentu and nanne. Sacred polyphony is sometimes used in the Catholic mass and there are many traditional polyphonic mass chants. At concerts, the Miserere or the Kyrie ...
... The Corsican polyphony includes sacred and secular forms. Secular polyphony includes forms such as paghjella, terzetti, madrigale, lamentu and nanne. Sacred polyphony is sometimes used in the Catholic mass and there are many traditional polyphonic mass chants. At concerts, the Miserere or the Kyrie ...
Music In The Renaissance
... Renaissance town musicians: higher pay and status Flemish composers: parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France. Germany, England and Spain – other countries with a vibrant musical life ...
... Renaissance town musicians: higher pay and status Flemish composers: parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France. Germany, England and Spain – other countries with a vibrant musical life ...
HERE
... critic Max Schütz, who declared ``Only a master writes like this; only a poet by God's grace has such inspiration.'' Dvorák's new-found international recognition came during a prolific period in his life. The Wind Serenade was written in only two weeks, and during the rest of the year he wrote his f ...
... critic Max Schütz, who declared ``Only a master writes like this; only a poet by God's grace has such inspiration.'' Dvorák's new-found international recognition came during a prolific period in his life. The Wind Serenade was written in only two weeks, and during the rest of the year he wrote his f ...
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... • What is a Melody? • A musical line, with direction, shape, and structure • The main part in the music that we listen to ...
... • What is a Melody? • A musical line, with direction, shape, and structure • The main part in the music that we listen to ...
Which Master`s Voice?
... different artists, playing consecutively on a single piano, can make it sound like three different instruments, in the space not only of an evening but of a mere half-hour - and all without the services of a tuner or technician. But while the increasingly widespread impression of tonal uniformity am ...
... different artists, playing consecutively on a single piano, can make it sound like three different instruments, in the space not only of an evening but of a mere half-hour - and all without the services of a tuner or technician. But while the increasingly widespread impression of tonal uniformity am ...
Class number: 22 Johann Sebastian Bach`s musical life Johann
... Bach composed a mass for the Dresden court, which he later incorporated in his Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, in 1733. Mass in B minor is Bach’s last large work, and Stauffer described as “Bach’s most universal church work. Consisting mainly of recycled movements from cantatas written over a thirty-five- ...
... Bach composed a mass for the Dresden court, which he later incorporated in his Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, in 1733. Mass in B minor is Bach’s last large work, and Stauffer described as “Bach’s most universal church work. Consisting mainly of recycled movements from cantatas written over a thirty-five- ...
Here is a list of possible essay questions that students may find
... Outline the structure of the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter - make reference to the score, using bar numbers and instrument names to make your answer clear. ...
... Outline the structure of the first movement of Mozart's Jupiter - make reference to the score, using bar numbers and instrument names to make your answer clear. ...
30.,31.07.,01.,02.08. Dubrovačka trilogija
... personalities of his native homeland of Moravia. Though largely a vocal author, whose 'chants of speech' in his operas made a decisive step in breaking up with the romantic traditions, in his symphony and chamber music Janáček wrote original and expressive pieces that place him at the very top of th ...
... personalities of his native homeland of Moravia. Though largely a vocal author, whose 'chants of speech' in his operas made a decisive step in breaking up with the romantic traditions, in his symphony and chamber music Janáček wrote original and expressive pieces that place him at the very top of th ...
a2007_12dec_notes
... Das heimlich Lied – the secret song Louis Spohr’s composition style is a transition between Classicism and Romanticism. With Carl Maria Weber, he paved way for German Romantic opera. Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born in 1784 he was a child prodigy from a musical family and r ...
... Das heimlich Lied – the secret song Louis Spohr’s composition style is a transition between Classicism and Romanticism. With Carl Maria Weber, he paved way for German Romantic opera. Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born in 1784 he was a child prodigy from a musical family and r ...