Document - OpenSIUC - Southern Illinois University
... First of all, the Florestan and Eusebius characters coexist in the first, thirteenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth movements. The outstanding feature of these movements is that they have two different keys. These two characters are especially contrasted by using major and minor keys except for the fif ...
... First of all, the Florestan and Eusebius characters coexist in the first, thirteenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth movements. The outstanding feature of these movements is that they have two different keys. These two characters are especially contrasted by using major and minor keys except for the fif ...
Musical Elements
... view of music, although most musical cultures have a similar division. In a nutshell, rhythm pertains to all musical elements that are time-related. Through the establishment of a pulse or beat, rhythm creates an actual framework for which music can progress through time. It also provides a physical ...
... view of music, although most musical cultures have a similar division. In a nutshell, rhythm pertains to all musical elements that are time-related. Through the establishment of a pulse or beat, rhythm creates an actual framework for which music can progress through time. It also provides a physical ...
Aspects of contemporary technique
... symbol such as a crescendo. Some of our problems arise from not grasping that the dynamics are indications that the metric stress (relative to the bar) has shifted, the general metric rule being to play what the durational patterns are, as opposed to emphasising where they are relative to pro forma ...
... symbol such as a crescendo. Some of our problems arise from not grasping that the dynamics are indications that the metric stress (relative to the bar) has shifted, the general metric rule being to play what the durational patterns are, as opposed to emphasising where they are relative to pro forma ...
the 100 most influential musicians of all time
... prompted a young George Gershwin to create his famous orchestral composition An American in Paris. And it was John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath that provided the impetus for “Tom Joad,” Woody Guthrie’s classic entry in the American songbook. There are, of course, those musicians who, as childhood ...
... prompted a young George Gershwin to create his famous orchestral composition An American in Paris. And it was John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath that provided the impetus for “Tom Joad,” Woody Guthrie’s classic entry in the American songbook. There are, of course, those musicians who, as childhood ...
File - Music by Heart Studio
... con fuoco, con passione, dolce, giocoso, and mesto were increasingly used as an indication of their intention to the performers. These terms also indicate the frame of mind of the composers of the period. Music of this period, both vocal and instrumental, was influenced by the lyricism of the human ...
... con fuoco, con passione, dolce, giocoso, and mesto were increasingly used as an indication of their intention to the performers. These terms also indicate the frame of mind of the composers of the period. Music of this period, both vocal and instrumental, was influenced by the lyricism of the human ...
Table of Contents - Brandeis University
... Gayathri left Prague when she won a Fulbright scholarship and came to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in September 2011 to work on her opera, Phoolan Devi. She has a one-year appointment as a visiting faculty member in music. Neely Bruce, a professor at Wesleyan and a fine pianist a ...
... Gayathri left Prague when she won a Fulbright scholarship and came to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in September 2011 to work on her opera, Phoolan Devi. She has a one-year appointment as a visiting faculty member in music. Neely Bruce, a professor at Wesleyan and a fine pianist a ...
Medieval Period
... Conclusions • Most Medieval composers wrote mainly for the church and remained anonymous. • These early composers did not take the art of composition seriously. It was more a necessary function, or duty. • Most secular musicians had day jobs. Full time musicians were poor. • While music itself was ...
... Conclusions • Most Medieval composers wrote mainly for the church and remained anonymous. • These early composers did not take the art of composition seriously. It was more a necessary function, or duty. • Most secular musicians had day jobs. Full time musicians were poor. • While music itself was ...
P5a - Piano Grade 5
... • Counterpoint (the simultaneous sounding of different melodic lines) and imitation are frequently used, so both hands are often of equal importance. The texture is often polyphonic. • Ornamentation is common, particularly in slow movements and at cadences. Performers were often expected to add thei ...
... • Counterpoint (the simultaneous sounding of different melodic lines) and imitation are frequently used, so both hands are often of equal importance. The texture is often polyphonic. • Ornamentation is common, particularly in slow movements and at cadences. Performers were often expected to add thei ...
Shifted Downbeats in Classic and Romantic
... his own style of composition. 6 The structural evidence, however, is also pertinent; in order for the outlined metrical reading in 1b to properly take hold in the mind of the listener, it must be capable of creating a clear and sensible shaping of the downbeat positions. As a first reference, consid ...
... his own style of composition. 6 The structural evidence, however, is also pertinent; in order for the outlined metrical reading in 1b to properly take hold in the mind of the listener, it must be capable of creating a clear and sensible shaping of the downbeat positions. As a first reference, consid ...
Organised Sound Algorithmic composition as a model of creativity
... While this article is a generic argument for algorithmic composition, it uses examples that come from a specific system. In order to better understand the examples, this section describes the system briefly. For a more complete description, see Jacob (1995) or the author’s webpage. 2.1. System overv ...
... While this article is a generic argument for algorithmic composition, it uses examples that come from a specific system. In order to better understand the examples, this section describes the system briefly. For a more complete description, see Jacob (1995) or the author’s webpage. 2.1. System overv ...
KMBB Lecture 8
... connection of one clever idea to another similar idea, so does musical wit depend as well upon the unexpected similarity [or compatibility?] of two musical ideas and their tasteful and proper connection delivered by means of surprise”. [Technical note: don’t hide from problems of translation and ter ...
... connection of one clever idea to another similar idea, so does musical wit depend as well upon the unexpected similarity [or compatibility?] of two musical ideas and their tasteful and proper connection delivered by means of surprise”. [Technical note: don’t hide from problems of translation and ter ...
"Beethoven the Pianist" by Tilman Skowroneck
... piano work pointed far into the future of piano building” and that “decades had to pass after his death before there were pianos—and pianists—equal to the demands of his ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata Op. 106” (p. 166). For Skowroneck, Brendel’s assertion is “disproved” by the fact that Carl Czerny and othe ...
... piano work pointed far into the future of piano building” and that “decades had to pass after his death before there were pianos—and pianists—equal to the demands of his ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata Op. 106” (p. 166). For Skowroneck, Brendel’s assertion is “disproved” by the fact that Carl Czerny and othe ...
The Voice In (And Of) Indian Classical Music: Carving Out a Tradition
... Broadly defined, a gharana is a musical family or lineage with its own set of stylistic features. While historically, a gharana was exclusively a "lineage of hereditary musicians [and] their disciples (Neuman, 1990, p. 146)," today, membership is not dependant as much on bloodlines as it is on ones ...
... Broadly defined, a gharana is a musical family or lineage with its own set of stylistic features. While historically, a gharana was exclusively a "lineage of hereditary musicians [and] their disciples (Neuman, 1990, p. 146)," today, membership is not dependant as much on bloodlines as it is on ones ...
Piano Long term Plan
... notation or from memory Perform solo and with others for an audience in a variety of contexts Perform simple duets (e.g. with tutor) ...
... notation or from memory Perform solo and with others for an audience in a variety of contexts Perform simple duets (e.g. with tutor) ...
please - Bay Area Music Association
... All types of Triads & inversions. Primary & Secondary triads by name, quality, Roman numerals Rhythm: Have to be able to use any rhythm combinations ...
... All types of Triads & inversions. Primary & Secondary triads by name, quality, Roman numerals Rhythm: Have to be able to use any rhythm combinations ...
Conductor`s Concert GLORIA by Antonio Vivaldi featuring the
... the triumphant Cum Sancto Spiritu draws upon many elements of the rest of the piece, imitation, quick modal fluctuations, textural changes, including a striking disappearance of the orchestral “floor” beneath the chorus, and so forth. (It would seem that Vivaldi adapted this final movement from an o ...
... the triumphant Cum Sancto Spiritu draws upon many elements of the rest of the piece, imitation, quick modal fluctuations, textural changes, including a striking disappearance of the orchestral “floor” beneath the chorus, and so forth. (It would seem that Vivaldi adapted this final movement from an o ...
Artifact 2
... movement (Example 4). Specifically in the violin part. Modulates from D major to d minor. (mm.52-65) o Measure 70 – Half diminished seventh chord (Example 5). Listen o Lagging melody created by points of imitation in Viola I adds humor to Peer’s predicament (Example 5). ...
... movement (Example 4). Specifically in the violin part. Modulates from D major to d minor. (mm.52-65) o Measure 70 – Half diminished seventh chord (Example 5). Listen o Lagging melody created by points of imitation in Viola I adds humor to Peer’s predicament (Example 5). ...
Sarod Glossary - WordPress.com
... musical theory, however, distinguishes ten different concepts in the disposition of musical time. Madhya (laya): medium tempo. Madhyam: fourth note of seven note scale; abbreviated as ‘Ma’. Mind (meend): slide from note to note, connecting their sounds through use of microtones or shrutis; in instru ...
... musical theory, however, distinguishes ten different concepts in the disposition of musical time. Madhya (laya): medium tempo. Madhyam: fourth note of seven note scale; abbreviated as ‘Ma’. Mind (meend): slide from note to note, connecting their sounds through use of microtones or shrutis; in instru ...
js bach`s english suites - Academy of Ancient Music
... the traditional movement sequence Allemande-Courante-Sarabande as it emerged in mid-17th century France, with a concluding Gigue as it emerged as the norm established in late-17th century German practice. However, this four-movement pattern gives room for a great deal of variety, notably by way of i ...
... the traditional movement sequence Allemande-Courante-Sarabande as it emerged in mid-17th century France, with a concluding Gigue as it emerged as the norm established in late-17th century German practice. However, this four-movement pattern gives room for a great deal of variety, notably by way of i ...
Strings Long term Plan
... Standing/sitting/holding the instrument correctly and with good posture, including rest position Pluck open strings Develop good bow hold and bow with an even tone on open strings. Introduce principles of bowing through experiencing long, short, smooth and jagged sounds and gestures Co-ordinate fing ...
... Standing/sitting/holding the instrument correctly and with good posture, including rest position Pluck open strings Develop good bow hold and bow with an even tone on open strings. Introduce principles of bowing through experiencing long, short, smooth and jagged sounds and gestures Co-ordinate fing ...
The Sounds of Whitman: A Composer`s View
... hundred years bespeak an interdependent relationship. Justin Kaplan maintains that no other American poet has had his poetry set to music so often by so many different composers with such satisfactory results. 1 Indeed, more than 150 composers have produced over 1200 settings of Whitman's poetry, wi ...
... hundred years bespeak an interdependent relationship. Justin Kaplan maintains that no other American poet has had his poetry set to music so often by so many different composers with such satisfactory results. 1 Indeed, more than 150 composers have produced over 1200 settings of Whitman's poetry, wi ...
BACH 740 - MUSIC for BACH`S DOMESTIC KEYBOARD
... and tutti. This first Concerto is a solo organ piece based on a Concerto by Prince Johann Ernst, half-brother and close neighbour of Bach’s employer from 1708 to 1717, the Duke of Sachsen-Weimar. In 1713 Johann Ernst returned from a visit to Amsterdam, one of the great music-publishing centers of th ...
... and tutti. This first Concerto is a solo organ piece based on a Concerto by Prince Johann Ernst, half-brother and close neighbour of Bach’s employer from 1708 to 1717, the Duke of Sachsen-Weimar. In 1713 Johann Ernst returned from a visit to Amsterdam, one of the great music-publishing centers of th ...
The Orlando Consort
... cloth of gold in 1520, and numerous royal weddings and funerals — we can now add the series of events that took place in Toledo in the space of five months in 1502. Philip the Fair, the Hapsburg duke of Burgundy, had arrived with his wife, Joan the Mad, the daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel ...
... cloth of gold in 1520, and numerous royal weddings and funerals — we can now add the series of events that took place in Toledo in the space of five months in 1502. Philip the Fair, the Hapsburg duke of Burgundy, had arrived with his wife, Joan the Mad, the daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel ...
Chapter 6
... First printed anthology of chansons Music dates from about 1470 to 1500 Composers include those from the late Burgundian era and from the new generation – Two more volumes followed, indicating the popularity of northern composers. – More than half of the chansons are for three voices and are written ...
... First printed anthology of chansons Music dates from about 1470 to 1500 Composers include those from the late Burgundian era and from the new generation – Two more volumes followed, indicating the popularity of northern composers. – More than half of the chansons are for three voices and are written ...
The power of music for people in difficult circumstances
... The explanation why music calls up certain emotions is less easy to answer. A possibility is the close relation between music and movement. Sadness and movement go with slow movements; joy with bouncy activity, according to Jansma and De Vries (1995). Another explanation is found in the early commun ...
... The explanation why music calls up certain emotions is less easy to answer. A possibility is the close relation between music and movement. Sadness and movement go with slow movements; joy with bouncy activity, according to Jansma and De Vries (1995). Another explanation is found in the early commun ...