Musical Dynamics
... Musical Dynamics • Dynamics are indicators of the relative intensity or volume of a musical line. ...
... Musical Dynamics • Dynamics are indicators of the relative intensity or volume of a musical line. ...
Piano Curriculum - Eastman School of Music
... 1. The examiner will ask to hear scales, arpeggios, and chord progressions in one or two keys. The goal of 7 Major/3 Minor keys is not attainable by all level one students. Metronome is not used in the examination: tempo is a practice guideline. 2. The student will play three contrasting pieces. Stu ...
... 1. The examiner will ask to hear scales, arpeggios, and chord progressions in one or two keys. The goal of 7 Major/3 Minor keys is not attainable by all level one students. Metronome is not used in the examination: tempo is a practice guideline. 2. The student will play three contrasting pieces. Stu ...
Program Notes Joseph Haydn (1732
... and he continued to develop symphonic forms within that context. After Haydn‟s triumphant return to Vienna from his second season of concerts in London in 1795, the composer could count among his greatest admirers the Empress Marie Therese, wife of Franz I of Austria. It is perhaps a mark of Haydn‟s ...
... and he continued to develop symphonic forms within that context. After Haydn‟s triumphant return to Vienna from his second season of concerts in London in 1795, the composer could count among his greatest admirers the Empress Marie Therese, wife of Franz I of Austria. It is perhaps a mark of Haydn‟s ...
Volume 23 No.1 - Chamber Music Journal
... ment, yet the unity of thought is preserved. (Passionately agitated). This properly describes the main theme. The writing exhibits considerable chromaticism and has episodes of Lisztian tonality more advanced than what one finds in Brahms. An absolutely extraordinary scherzo, Allegro vivace, follows ...
... ment, yet the unity of thought is preserved. (Passionately agitated). This properly describes the main theme. The writing exhibits considerable chromaticism and has episodes of Lisztian tonality more advanced than what one finds in Brahms. An absolutely extraordinary scherzo, Allegro vivace, follows ...
Music Appreciation
... • Atonal music is dissonant, which means it sounds as if all the notes are wrong. • After this, Schoenberg took it even one step further and began using mathematics to choose which notes to play. • He called this “12 – tone music” or “serialism”. ...
... • Atonal music is dissonant, which means it sounds as if all the notes are wrong. • After this, Schoenberg took it even one step further and began using mathematics to choose which notes to play. • He called this “12 – tone music” or “serialism”. ...
Listening Notes
... A brass instrument is really just a long tube with a mouthpiece to blow into at one end and a funnel (called a “bell”) at the other. To play a brass instrument, you must pucker your lips together and blow a raspberry into the cup-shaped mouthpiece. The air inside the tube vibrates (i.e. shakes back ...
... A brass instrument is really just a long tube with a mouthpiece to blow into at one end and a funnel (called a “bell”) at the other. To play a brass instrument, you must pucker your lips together and blow a raspberry into the cup-shaped mouthpiece. The air inside the tube vibrates (i.e. shakes back ...
program - Seattle Children`s Theatre • Seattle Men`s Chorus • Seattle
... his marriage to Clara. The deep adoration reflected in Adelbert von Chamisso’s poetry and Schumann’s music mirror the composer and wife’s devotion to one another as newlyweds. The first song in the cycle, “Seit ich ihn gesehen,” (“Since I Saw Him”) opens hesitantly, the truncated phrases in the pian ...
... his marriage to Clara. The deep adoration reflected in Adelbert von Chamisso’s poetry and Schumann’s music mirror the composer and wife’s devotion to one another as newlyweds. The first song in the cycle, “Seit ich ihn gesehen,” (“Since I Saw Him”) opens hesitantly, the truncated phrases in the pian ...
Bell`s virtuosic and dramatic delivery matched the quaret`s
... transitional year, with a number of guests filling in at violins I and II. With that she introduced new member Francesca Hiew at violin II, and guest artist Sophie Rowell at violin I, a returning familiar face who performed with the ASQ from 2006 to 2011. The evening’s performance began with Juan Cr ...
... transitional year, with a number of guests filling in at violins I and II. With that she introduced new member Francesca Hiew at violin II, and guest artist Sophie Rowell at violin I, a returning familiar face who performed with the ASQ from 2006 to 2011. The evening’s performance began with Juan Cr ...
Royal Conservatory of Music Violin Technique, Level 5
... Royal Conservatory of Music Violin Repertoire Album 2 Violin Technique, Level 2 The Encore Series, Bk.1 ...
... Royal Conservatory of Music Violin Repertoire Album 2 Violin Technique, Level 2 The Encore Series, Bk.1 ...
Mantroch – A Future Orchestral Voice For Pipers
... The concepts of time, of linearity in music, of argument and experiential perspective are and have been areas of constant debate throughout history, especially recent history: composers are in a way obliged to generate a new paradigm for each and every piece they write. This particular description o ...
... The concepts of time, of linearity in music, of argument and experiential perspective are and have been areas of constant debate throughout history, especially recent history: composers are in a way obliged to generate a new paradigm for each and every piece they write. This particular description o ...
Subtle Irony in Personal Growth: Beethoven and
... submediant in a more historical perspective, Beethoven essentially looks forward, while Prokofiev is still looking back. Regardless, the use of a distinctively romantic gesture constructs both Beethoven’s and Prokofiev’s pieces as less an ironic response to 18th century Classicism and more of a broa ...
... submediant in a more historical perspective, Beethoven essentially looks forward, while Prokofiev is still looking back. Regardless, the use of a distinctively romantic gesture constructs both Beethoven’s and Prokofiev’s pieces as less an ironic response to 18th century Classicism and more of a broa ...
John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes: Sonatas I-III
... The twenty movements forming Sonatas and Interludes were not composed in sequence but were later organised symmetrically; every group of four sonatas is separated by an interlude, with the centre marked by two interludes. ...
... The twenty movements forming Sonatas and Interludes were not composed in sequence but were later organised symmetrically; every group of four sonatas is separated by an interlude, with the centre marked by two interludes. ...
Rediscovering “sonoristics”: A groundbreaking theory from
... a timbral one by means of a specific textural disposition, orchestration, dynamics, and articulation. Thus, although an analyst may still discover in a composition the dominanttonic relationships, the actual, sounding form of the work “contains something more than its external tonal attire. There ar ...
... a timbral one by means of a specific textural disposition, orchestration, dynamics, and articulation. Thus, although an analyst may still discover in a composition the dominanttonic relationships, the actual, sounding form of the work “contains something more than its external tonal attire. There ar ...
Composition.
... The fact that humans are capable of musical composition led the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss to call music ‘the supreme mystery among the human sciences’. His point is confirmed by the great number of myths that bear on musical creativity and by the veneration accorded to compositions and comp ...
... The fact that humans are capable of musical composition led the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss to call music ‘the supreme mystery among the human sciences’. His point is confirmed by the great number of myths that bear on musical creativity and by the veneration accorded to compositions and comp ...
Writing for clarinet/double bass/voice
... Recordings of a range of music for harp, clarinet, double bass and soprano can be found on the website of the Hermes Experiment – an ensemble that uses this instrumentation. The group will be performing the entries at the Finals of the Cambridge Young Composer of the Year Competition on 30 October 2 ...
... Recordings of a range of music for harp, clarinet, double bass and soprano can be found on the website of the Hermes Experiment – an ensemble that uses this instrumentation. The group will be performing the entries at the Finals of the Cambridge Young Composer of the Year Competition on 30 October 2 ...
Transfer Applicant Diagnostic Exam--Music History
... 1. Which of the following became the standard for symphonic scoring with Haydn’s London symphonies? A) strings, double woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), 2 trumpet, 2 horn, timpani B) strings, single woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), 1 trumpet, 1 horn, 1 trombone C) strings, 2 obo ...
... 1. Which of the following became the standard for symphonic scoring with Haydn’s London symphonies? A) strings, double woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), 2 trumpet, 2 horn, timpani B) strings, single woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), 1 trumpet, 1 horn, 1 trombone C) strings, 2 obo ...
Haydn: London Symphony, No.104 (Movement one)
... • Along with Mozart and Beethoven is recognised as one of the three ‘Great’ Classical composers. • Showed musical talent at a young age and had written his first symphony and string quartet before 1760. Was remembered as ‘the Father of the Symphony’. • In 1761 was appointed to the court of Prince ...
... • Along with Mozart and Beethoven is recognised as one of the three ‘Great’ Classical composers. • Showed musical talent at a young age and had written his first symphony and string quartet before 1760. Was remembered as ‘the Father of the Symphony’. • In 1761 was appointed to the court of Prince ...
Romantic and impressionist harmony
... mass) a nice example with the remarkable progressions of F major, F# minor, C# major, D major, Eb minor, Bb major, B major, C minor and F major. The leading tone then becomes more important and enables the chromatic world of Liszt and Wagner with their complex chords and fast key interactions (which ...
... mass) a nice example with the remarkable progressions of F major, F# minor, C# major, D major, Eb minor, Bb major, B major, C minor and F major. The leading tone then becomes more important and enables the chromatic world of Liszt and Wagner with their complex chords and fast key interactions (which ...
Bezuidenhout interview
... When did you first become interested in early pianos and period performance, and what drew you to that world? Honestly, I was a huge recording nerd back in Australia (my family emigrated there in 1988) and it was there that I really started following the trends of the field as a whole. As a 12-year- ...
... When did you first become interested in early pianos and period performance, and what drew you to that world? Honestly, I was a huge recording nerd back in Australia (my family emigrated there in 1988) and it was there that I really started following the trends of the field as a whole. As a 12-year- ...
the existing work
... by his son, Johann Baptiste Mara, who was apparently a more prolific composer). Naturally the question arises whether this work might have originated as a composition for cello. Although the viola was cultivated at Berlin—there is a remarkable repertory of solo, trio, and quartet sonatas, as well as ...
... by his son, Johann Baptiste Mara, who was apparently a more prolific composer). Naturally the question arises whether this work might have originated as a composition for cello. Although the viola was cultivated at Berlin—there is a remarkable repertory of solo, trio, and quartet sonatas, as well as ...
Haydn: London Symphony, No.104
... At a time when the new Classical style favoured a relatively simple texture of the single melody line plus chordal accompaniment in contrast to the rich polyphonic textures of the Baroque, Haydn actually included a variety of textures into his vocal and instrumental music: • he knew how to present ...
... At a time when the new Classical style favoured a relatively simple texture of the single melody line plus chordal accompaniment in contrast to the rich polyphonic textures of the Baroque, Haydn actually included a variety of textures into his vocal and instrumental music: • he knew how to present ...
Tonal Harmony Chapter 5 Pinciples of Voice Leading
... Objectionable parallels: result when two parts that are separated by a P5 or a P8, or by their octave equivalents, move to as new pitch classes that are separated by the same interval Parallel 4ths are acceptable Contrary 5ths and 8ves: also called consecutive 5ths and 8ths by contrary motion ...
... Objectionable parallels: result when two parts that are separated by a P5 or a P8, or by their octave equivalents, move to as new pitch classes that are separated by the same interval Parallel 4ths are acceptable Contrary 5ths and 8ves: also called consecutive 5ths and 8ths by contrary motion ...
Pierre Boulez Conductor Webern Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
... him as “perfect repose based on perfect harmony. . . . I have put you with the classical composers—but as one who to me is still a pioneer.” Most listeners then, however, found Mahler’s music nearly as incomprehensible as Schoenberg’s, and the Seventh Symphony, in particular, took a long time to mak ...
... him as “perfect repose based on perfect harmony. . . . I have put you with the classical composers—but as one who to me is still a pioneer.” Most listeners then, however, found Mahler’s music nearly as incomprehensible as Schoenberg’s, and the Seventh Symphony, in particular, took a long time to mak ...
Chapter outlines - Mommas-Lil-Girl
... Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik modulates in the first minute from G major to D Major (iMusic) o Transposition: shifting all the tones of a piece to a new pitch level The pattern of whole and half steps does not change ...
... Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik modulates in the first minute from G major to D Major (iMusic) o Transposition: shifting all the tones of a piece to a new pitch level The pattern of whole and half steps does not change ...
Long Live the King P.D.Q. Bach (1807
... “the most dangerous musician since Nero,” and other things not quite so complimentary. They even started a rumor that P.D.Q. Bach, without a doubt Johann Sebastian’s last and least offspring, was not ...
... “the most dangerous musician since Nero,” and other things not quite so complimentary. They even started a rumor that P.D.Q. Bach, without a doubt Johann Sebastian’s last and least offspring, was not ...