music_history_overview ADAPTED 2015
... rhythm or harmony. Everyone sang the same thing. • These tunes are also called Gregorian Chant, which were named after Pope Gregory I. ...
... rhythm or harmony. Everyone sang the same thing. • These tunes are also called Gregorian Chant, which were named after Pope Gregory I. ...
Baroque Era
... The seasons each have their different textures used to depict the different seasons. ...
... The seasons each have their different textures used to depict the different seasons. ...
The Baroque Period
... • Sequence- successive repetition of a musical idea in different pitches • Terraced Dynamics- alternating between loud and soft in a piece • Patronage system- composers were employed by a court or church full-time • The Harpsichord!! Composers LOVED writing for the harpsichord. It was the electric g ...
... • Sequence- successive repetition of a musical idea in different pitches • Terraced Dynamics- alternating between loud and soft in a piece • Patronage system- composers were employed by a court or church full-time • The Harpsichord!! Composers LOVED writing for the harpsichord. It was the electric g ...
Music of the Baroque
... movement (as of a suite) having compound triple rhythm and composed in fugal style ...
... movement (as of a suite) having compound triple rhythm and composed in fugal style ...
Classical Guided Notes
... he composed from the age of______________________and performed before European royalty. Worked with many other famous composers at a young age traveling to many places while doing so. Many of his teachers felt that they_____________________________________________________to teach Mozart. Had a reput ...
... he composed from the age of______________________and performed before European royalty. Worked with many other famous composers at a young age traveling to many places while doing so. Many of his teachers felt that they_____________________________________________________to teach Mozart. Had a reput ...
Chapter 36: “Many Streams”: Millenium`s End I. Competing Visions A
... D. By the late 1990s Adams’s music was the most performed of any American classical composer. 1. Some of his popular works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986, instrumental), and the operas The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) and Doctor Atomic (2005). XIV. A New Spirituality A. Peter Sellars, who ...
... D. By the late 1990s Adams’s music was the most performed of any American classical composer. 1. Some of his popular works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986, instrumental), and the operas The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) and Doctor Atomic (2005). XIV. A New Spirituality A. Peter Sellars, who ...
Netværk - Wayne Siegel – Composer
... write down a specific case of an idea, even though the idea might be realized in many different forms with equal success depending on the situation. A composition is often built around a general structure or process which comprises the idea of the work. This aspect was left unchanged in our composit ...
... write down a specific case of an idea, even though the idea might be realized in many different forms with equal success depending on the situation. A composition is often built around a general structure or process which comprises the idea of the work. This aspect was left unchanged in our composit ...
Music History Review
... plenty of word painting. In what era was this form developed? Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque ...
... plenty of word painting. In what era was this form developed? Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque ...
Document
... The Qada inhabited numerous sites in an area sprawling from the Second Cataract northward to Toshka. The earliest extant evidence of human remains in the entire Nile Valley has been discovered within this region. During periods perhaps even earlier than that of the first pharaohs of Egypt, a line of ...
... The Qada inhabited numerous sites in an area sprawling from the Second Cataract northward to Toshka. The earliest extant evidence of human remains in the entire Nile Valley has been discovered within this region. During periods perhaps even earlier than that of the first pharaohs of Egypt, a line of ...
Aaron Copland was the pioneer of American music -
... Aaron Copland was the pioneer of American music -- he showed the world how to write classical music in an American way. He was born in 1900, when Americans were rarely recognized as composers in the music world. So Copland went to Europe for serious study, and, in the 1920s, wrote pieces with the fl ...
... Aaron Copland was the pioneer of American music -- he showed the world how to write classical music in an American way. He was born in 1900, when Americans were rarely recognized as composers in the music world. So Copland went to Europe for serious study, and, in the 1920s, wrote pieces with the fl ...
Sample Music Release Form - Ohio University School of Media Arts
... or cause to be used the aforesaid musical compositions and recordings in conjunction with the aforesaid film production in any manner he deems fit including, but not limited to, the purpose of advertising and exploiting said film production and the right to license and distribute the aforesaid music ...
... or cause to be used the aforesaid musical compositions and recordings in conjunction with the aforesaid film production in any manner he deems fit including, but not limited to, the purpose of advertising and exploiting said film production and the right to license and distribute the aforesaid music ...
Document
... A prolific composer as a child, wrote his first published work, a piano quartet, by the time he was thirteen. Mendelssohn's personal life was fairly conventional compared to many composers of note. He was happily married and had four children. He performed as a pianist, organist and conductor ...
... A prolific composer as a child, wrote his first published work, a piano quartet, by the time he was thirteen. Mendelssohn's personal life was fairly conventional compared to many composers of note. He was happily married and had four children. He performed as a pianist, organist and conductor ...
The Romantic Period
... size of a flute and plays notes an octave higher. The piccolo uses the same fingering as the flute. As well as in orchestras, piccolos can be heard in wind bands and other ensembles. ...
... size of a flute and plays notes an octave higher. The piccolo uses the same fingering as the flute. As well as in orchestras, piccolos can be heard in wind bands and other ensembles. ...
Baroque Era Study Guide
... Baroque Era Study Guide Baroque = “bizarre” o Formal, elaborate, music/art was complex Religious conflict between protestant/Catholic Virtuoso: highly skilled musician Amateur: a skilled non-professional musician o Every home has a piano o Everyone learns to play an instrument/sing Monody: ...
... Baroque Era Study Guide Baroque = “bizarre” o Formal, elaborate, music/art was complex Religious conflict between protestant/Catholic Virtuoso: highly skilled musician Amateur: a skilled non-professional musician o Every home has a piano o Everyone learns to play an instrument/sing Monody: ...
Our Study of Music*s History
... Michelangelo and Shakespeare used their talents to support the humanist spirit that came with this reform. ...
... Michelangelo and Shakespeare used their talents to support the humanist spirit that came with this reform. ...
JACQUES DAVIDOVICI
... animated series produced by Canal+ in which the characters interact with his music, was attributed an Emmy Award. Since then, Jacques Davidovici has composed the soundtracks for more than fourty films. Although he has composed in quite a wide range of styles, passing from Klezmer in Patrick Braoudé’ ...
... animated series produced by Canal+ in which the characters interact with his music, was attributed an Emmy Award. Since then, Jacques Davidovici has composed the soundtracks for more than fourty films. Although he has composed in quite a wide range of styles, passing from Klezmer in Patrick Braoudé’ ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
... Webern against the wishes of his family; six children were born, of whom two survived infancy. Musically, this was a period of outstanding creativity which saw the production of many of his best known symphonic, concertante and operatic works, and his final, incomplete Requiem. The circumstances of ...
... Webern against the wishes of his family; six children were born, of whom two survived infancy. Musically, this was a period of outstanding creativity which saw the production of many of his best known symphonic, concertante and operatic works, and his final, incomplete Requiem. The circumstances of ...
TEST 6 STUDY GUIDE
... 69. The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a 70. The text of A Survivor from Warsaw 71. A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and 72. When he was nineteen, Alban Berg began to study music privately with 73. The vocal lines in Wozzeck ...
... 69. The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a 70. The text of A Survivor from Warsaw 71. A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and 72. When he was nineteen, Alban Berg began to study music privately with 73. The vocal lines in Wozzeck ...
Music Appreciation
... Haydn – influence on music Farewell Symphony Surprise Symphony Mozart – child prodigy Opera compositional style Lorenzo da Ponte operas Don Giovanni – plot Requiem Beethoven – life and character Compositional style 3 compositional periods Early – Pathetique Sonata Heiligenstadt Testament 9 Symphonie ...
... Haydn – influence on music Farewell Symphony Surprise Symphony Mozart – child prodigy Opera compositional style Lorenzo da Ponte operas Don Giovanni – plot Requiem Beethoven – life and character Compositional style 3 compositional periods Early – Pathetique Sonata Heiligenstadt Testament 9 Symphonie ...
medieval music
... Mostly monophonic (one instrument or voice part only). If music is polyphonic (multiple lines of music being sung/played at once) then the chords are often dissonant (ugly, contradicting sounds). Mostly vocal music, very few instruments used. Gregorian Chant (plainsong) Named in honor of Pop ...
... Mostly monophonic (one instrument or voice part only). If music is polyphonic (multiple lines of music being sung/played at once) then the chords are often dissonant (ugly, contradicting sounds). Mostly vocal music, very few instruments used. Gregorian Chant (plainsong) Named in honor of Pop ...
Composer Biographies
... Christopher Burns is a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. His instrumental chamber works weave energetic gestures into densely layered surfaces. Polyphony and multiplicity also feature in his electroacoustic music, embodied in gritty, rough-hewn textures. As an improviser, Christopher comb ...
... Christopher Burns is a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. His instrumental chamber works weave energetic gestures into densely layered surfaces. Polyphony and multiplicity also feature in his electroacoustic music, embodied in gritty, rough-hewn textures. As an improviser, Christopher comb ...
Baroque Music
... written in the form of a dance suite. – This type of sonata would eventually develop into the Solo sonata which would be widely used in the late baroque period. • Solo Sonata:1 solo instrument with continuo. • The solo instrument is usually the violin. • Continuo: a continuous line of bass or harmon ...
... written in the form of a dance suite. – This type of sonata would eventually develop into the Solo sonata which would be widely used in the late baroque period. • Solo Sonata:1 solo instrument with continuo. • The solo instrument is usually the violin. • Continuo: a continuous line of bass or harmon ...
A Brief Survey of Western Music
... Program music is instrumental music that tells a story. An example is music that is composed for a play (or in our time, a movie) which becomes so popular that it is performed separately, without the original play. This type of program music is called incidental music. ...
... Program music is instrumental music that tells a story. An example is music that is composed for a play (or in our time, a movie) which becomes so popular that it is performed separately, without the original play. This type of program music is called incidental music. ...