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... star was in ascendance. Schubert spent his entire life in the shadow of Beethoven, whom he revered. As the older composer was reaching the height of his powers, developing his own distinctive musical voice, Schubert was struggling to find his own, primarily through the Lied, a vehicle that capitaliz ...
... star was in ascendance. Schubert spent his entire life in the shadow of Beethoven, whom he revered. As the older composer was reaching the height of his powers, developing his own distinctive musical voice, Schubert was struggling to find his own, primarily through the Lied, a vehicle that capitaliz ...
Something To Laugh About: Beethoven
... group concludes with an E major harmony, immediately followed by the C major harmony of the second theme. This sort of harmonic progression would have struck late-eighteenth century listeners as irrational and illogical except in one place: the end of the development section of a sonata form. Here, ...
... group concludes with an E major harmony, immediately followed by the C major harmony of the second theme. This sort of harmonic progression would have struck late-eighteenth century listeners as irrational and illogical except in one place: the end of the development section of a sonata form. Here, ...
Paper - Society for Minimalist Music
... Minimalism is perhaps one of the most misunderstood musical movements of the latter half of the twentieth century. Even among musicians, there is considerable disagreement as to the meaning of the term “minimalism” and which pieces should be categorized under this broad heading.1 Furthermore, minim ...
... Minimalism is perhaps one of the most misunderstood musical movements of the latter half of the twentieth century. Even among musicians, there is considerable disagreement as to the meaning of the term “minimalism” and which pieces should be categorized under this broad heading.1 Furthermore, minim ...
The Story of Classical Music
... Lully also did a lot to change the sound of orchestras at that time – his grouping of players was far closer to the orchestras that we have today than it was to the ones that traditionally existed. Many of the ideas were brand new – and many of the instruments he included had only just been invented ...
... Lully also did a lot to change the sound of orchestras at that time – his grouping of players was far closer to the orchestras that we have today than it was to the ones that traditionally existed. Many of the ideas were brand new – and many of the instruments he included had only just been invented ...
Boland _1
... creative world) as much as to her personality. Beyer did, for example, perform some of her own cluster music for piano in one of the Composers’ Forum-Laboratory concerts, an initiative sponsored by the American government’s Depression-time administration.2 The performance would have required extrove ...
... creative world) as much as to her personality. Beyer did, for example, perform some of her own cluster music for piano in one of the Composers’ Forum-Laboratory concerts, an initiative sponsored by the American government’s Depression-time administration.2 The performance would have required extrove ...
- MusicTeachers.co.uk
... development and maturing of Haydn's art. In addition to composing operas for the court, Haydn composed symphonies, string quartets, and other chamber music. The prince was a passionate performer on the baryton, and Haydn provided for his patron more than 150 compositions featuring this now-obsolete ...
... development and maturing of Haydn's art. In addition to composing operas for the court, Haydn composed symphonies, string quartets, and other chamber music. The prince was a passionate performer on the baryton, and Haydn provided for his patron more than 150 compositions featuring this now-obsolete ...
A Survey And Bibliography Of Chamber Music
... treatise. Christina Bashford‟s “Chamber music” article in Grove Music Online makes one point that emphasizes how incompatible Romantic ideas were with ensembles without a balance between treble and bass. She states that 19th-century concert music from Beethoven‟s Op. 59 quartets and „Kreutzer‟ violi ...
... treatise. Christina Bashford‟s “Chamber music” article in Grove Music Online makes one point that emphasizes how incompatible Romantic ideas were with ensembles without a balance between treble and bass. She states that 19th-century concert music from Beethoven‟s Op. 59 quartets and „Kreutzer‟ violi ...
The Classical Period - University of St. Thomas
... me, and all were very kind to me…I was at their church, where I was entertain’d with good musick, the organ being accompanied with violins, hautboys, flutes, clarinets, etc.” The Moravians even had songs for walking to the fields and their various types of work. Most notably, various Moravian compos ...
... me, and all were very kind to me…I was at their church, where I was entertain’d with good musick, the organ being accompanied with violins, hautboys, flutes, clarinets, etc.” The Moravians even had songs for walking to the fields and their various types of work. Most notably, various Moravian compos ...
Sofia Gubaidulina: Dualism in String Quartets
... The creation of dualism in this quartet is also drawn from the fact that each particular sound space – tape and live – creates its individual character in the music. For example the musical mechanism in the tape sound is static and consistent throughout, whereas in the live sound, Gubaidulina introd ...
... The creation of dualism in this quartet is also drawn from the fact that each particular sound space – tape and live – creates its individual character in the music. For example the musical mechanism in the tape sound is static and consistent throughout, whereas in the live sound, Gubaidulina introd ...
Rehearsal Philosophy and Techniques for Aspiring Chamber Music
... the ensemble is essential to the highest functioning rehearsal. Nearly as important is a commitment to strategic care in framing criticism so as to maintain the focus on the interpretive ideas and specific technical problems, and away from the personalities of the musicians involved. All members of ...
... the ensemble is essential to the highest functioning rehearsal. Nearly as important is a commitment to strategic care in framing criticism so as to maintain the focus on the interpretive ideas and specific technical problems, and away from the personalities of the musicians involved. All members of ...
Classical Music - UIUC HEP Group
... intervals, usually at the fourth, fifth, or octave. The resulting hollow-sounding music was called organum and very slowly developed over the next hundred years. By the eleventh century, one, two (and much later, even three) added melodic lines were no longer moving in parallel motion, but contrary ...
... intervals, usually at the fourth, fifth, or octave. The resulting hollow-sounding music was called organum and very slowly developed over the next hundred years. By the eleventh century, one, two (and much later, even three) added melodic lines were no longer moving in parallel motion, but contrary ...
LUIGI BOCCHERINI -- AN UNJUSTLY NEGLECTED GREAT
... of infant Don Luis, brother of King Charles III. From 1785, while still in Spain, he worked for the King of Prussia, Frederic-Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist who had composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven write works for him. After FredericWilhelm's death Boccherini found protection in the pe ...
... of infant Don Luis, brother of King Charles III. From 1785, while still in Spain, he worked for the King of Prussia, Frederic-Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist who had composers such as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven write works for him. After FredericWilhelm's death Boccherini found protection in the pe ...
String Quartets of Penderecki: Analyzing Form
... own ideas about composition and the music that an individual would wish write with the musical aesthetics of the day, for he lived through different artistic movements, and through it all he has been both an influential and unique figure, never compromising his own sensibilities to the artistic comm ...
... own ideas about composition and the music that an individual would wish write with the musical aesthetics of the day, for he lived through different artistic movements, and through it all he has been both an influential and unique figure, never compromising his own sensibilities to the artistic comm ...
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... once only. It is structurally satisfying to note that the piece begins and ends with music played only once. This is a nice symmetrical point. Notice that F/G/H come near the end making a climax because the ear is confronted by three kinds of new material heard for the first time in quick succession ...
... once only. It is structurally satisfying to note that the piece begins and ends with music played only once. This is a nice symmetrical point. Notice that F/G/H come near the end making a climax because the ear is confronted by three kinds of new material heard for the first time in quick succession ...
Summary EWCM ppt Lectures (FALL2016)
... the Lutheran faith since childhood. When he worked as an organist, his duties included accompanying congregational singing using the Lutheran hymns (Chorales), and used them in many of his compositions. For example: – Chorale motets (polyphonic settings of chorales) – Bach wrote six ‘chorale motets’ ...
... the Lutheran faith since childhood. When he worked as an organist, his duties included accompanying congregational singing using the Lutheran hymns (Chorales), and used them in many of his compositions. For example: – Chorale motets (polyphonic settings of chorales) – Bach wrote six ‘chorale motets’ ...
wave and sound: the guitar
... The guitar is the most common stringed instrument, and shares many characteristics with other stringed instruments. For example, the overtones potentially available on any stringed instrument are the same. Why, then, does a guitar sound so much different from, say, a violin? The answer lies in which ...
... The guitar is the most common stringed instrument, and shares many characteristics with other stringed instruments. For example, the overtones potentially available on any stringed instrument are the same. Why, then, does a guitar sound so much different from, say, a violin? The answer lies in which ...
Barry - beaufortcollege.ie
... bars 108-123 will show how close the music is rhythmically and melodically. One significant difference is that the melodic steps in 140–154 are much bigger than in 108–123. It is as if the original melodies have literally been stretched upwards and downwards and pulled apart. As a result of this con ...
... bars 108-123 will show how close the music is rhythmically and melodically. One significant difference is that the melodic steps in 140–154 are much bigger than in 108–123. It is as if the original melodies have literally been stretched upwards and downwards and pulled apart. As a result of this con ...
2014 Orchestra Curriculum Map Orchestra Curriculum Map
... help the Orchestra members develop creative, interpretive and appreciative abilities. This group does considerable performing. Participation in all performances is required of all orchestra members. Considerable opportunity is also given for solo and small ensemble work within this group. We study a ...
... help the Orchestra members develop creative, interpretive and appreciative abilities. This group does considerable performing. Participation in all performances is required of all orchestra members. Considerable opportunity is also given for solo and small ensemble work within this group. We study a ...
"Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music" By Sandra P
... their less weighty character and the insecurity of performers about how to maintain interest. Rosenblum offers specific examples as possible solutions for these dilemmas. Also of interest is the extended treatment given to various aspects of accentuation, especially Beethoven's use of metrical accen ...
... their less weighty character and the insecurity of performers about how to maintain interest. Rosenblum offers specific examples as possible solutions for these dilemmas. Also of interest is the extended treatment given to various aspects of accentuation, especially Beethoven's use of metrical accen ...
Liner Notes - Music@Menlo
... Music@Menlo’s eighth season, Maps and Legends, explored a wide compass of times, places, and universal phenomena. The season’s offerings ranged from programs that celebrated a nation’s identity to music composed in response to the changing of the seasons and the trauma of war. The 2010 edition of Mu ...
... Music@Menlo’s eighth season, Maps and Legends, explored a wide compass of times, places, and universal phenomena. The season’s offerings ranged from programs that celebrated a nation’s identity to music composed in response to the changing of the seasons and the trauma of war. The 2010 edition of Mu ...
Program Notes - The Friends of Chamber Music
... the continent’s important musical centers as a keyboard performer in 1780. He met both Haydn and Mozart in Vienna in 1781. In December 1781 he and Mozart participated in an improvising contest in the Emperor Joseph II’s court. The verdict was a tie. Mozart’s report to his father Leopold was uncharit ...
... the continent’s important musical centers as a keyboard performer in 1780. He met both Haydn and Mozart in Vienna in 1781. In December 1781 he and Mozart participated in an improvising contest in the Emperor Joseph II’s court. The verdict was a tie. Mozart’s report to his father Leopold was uncharit ...
Schubert
... ii. Winterreise (Winter's Journey, 1827) 3. It is these lieder that define Schubert. i. First, in the vast cannon they present. ii. Leon Plantinga writes, “"In his more than six hundred Lieder he explored and expanded the potentialities of the genre as no composer before him." iii. The Essentials of ...
... ii. Winterreise (Winter's Journey, 1827) 3. It is these lieder that define Schubert. i. First, in the vast cannon they present. ii. Leon Plantinga writes, “"In his more than six hundred Lieder he explored and expanded the potentialities of the genre as no composer before him." iii. The Essentials of ...
johannes brahms (1833-1897) - Singapore Symphony Orchestra
... ambitious effort at orchestrating the music of other composers, a skill that he had been polishing for over four decades. (His first paying job was that of orchestrating operettas!) Between 1897 and 1923, Schoenberg transcribed music by Bach, Beethoven, Rossini, Schumann, Busoni, Zemlinsky, Schreker ...
... ambitious effort at orchestrating the music of other composers, a skill that he had been polishing for over four decades. (His first paying job was that of orchestrating operettas!) Between 1897 and 1923, Schoenberg transcribed music by Bach, Beethoven, Rossini, Schumann, Busoni, Zemlinsky, Schreker ...
Read full article in PDF version - Analytical Approaches To World
... individual opinion and practice. With this in mind, I discuss three factors—social, political and economic—that account for the changing habitus in Tamusuza’s string quartet; or, as could be argued, as the “ever-expanding context” through the lens of Turino. During an interview conducted in June 201 ...
... individual opinion and practice. With this in mind, I discuss three factors—social, political and economic—that account for the changing habitus in Tamusuza’s string quartet; or, as could be argued, as the “ever-expanding context” through the lens of Turino. During an interview conducted in June 201 ...
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or any small chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part. However, by definition it usually does not include solo instrument performances.Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as ""the music of friends"". For more than 100 years, chamber music was played primarily by amateur musicians in their homes, and even today, when most chamber music performance has migrated from the home to the concert hall, many musicians, amateur and professional, still play chamber music for their own pleasure. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, that differ from the skills required for playing solo or symphonic works.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music (specifically, string quartet music) as ""four rational people conversing"". This conversational paradigm has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music composition from the end of the 18th century to the present. The analogy to conversation recurs in descriptions and analyses of chamber music compositions.