Liner Notes - Music@Menlo
... Stalin Prize, a newly established state prize recognizing excellence in the arts and sciences. The prize included a considerable cash award of 100,000 rubles, which Shostakovich contributed to charity benefitting Moscow’s poor. The Piano Quintet begins with a nod to a Baroque convention particularly ...
... Stalin Prize, a newly established state prize recognizing excellence in the arts and sciences. The prize included a considerable cash award of 100,000 rubles, which Shostakovich contributed to charity benefitting Moscow’s poor. The Piano Quintet begins with a nod to a Baroque convention particularly ...
here - Chamber Music Tulsa
... funding and attention away from the arts, Mozart struggled to make up for his lost income. Yet despite his public setbacks, Mozart still had friends with whom he frequently made music, and his activities in that sphere can be attested by the string of chamber works he composed after the failure of F ...
... funding and attention away from the arts, Mozart struggled to make up for his lost income. Yet despite his public setbacks, Mozart still had friends with whom he frequently made music, and his activities in that sphere can be attested by the string of chamber works he composed after the failure of F ...
Late Nineteenth-Century Developments after Beethoven
... Example: Arnold Schoenberg, “Madonna”from Pierrot Lunaire (1912) [CD 5:11] Second Viennese School Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Alban Berg (1885-1935) Anton Webern (1883-1945) Serialism A method of composition in which one or more musical elements is subject to ordering in a fixed series. Most commo ...
... Example: Arnold Schoenberg, “Madonna”from Pierrot Lunaire (1912) [CD 5:11] Second Viennese School Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Alban Berg (1885-1935) Anton Webern (1883-1945) Serialism A method of composition in which one or more musical elements is subject to ordering in a fixed series. Most commo ...
CHAPTER 1 Music in Ancient Greece
... • During his stay at the Esterházy court, Haydn composed primarily instrumental music: symphonies, string quartets, concertos, and keyboard sonatas. – Esterházy family: the richest and most influential among the German-speaking aristocrats of Hungary, with vast estates southeast of Vienna. – Baryto ...
... • During his stay at the Esterházy court, Haydn composed primarily instrumental music: symphonies, string quartets, concertos, and keyboard sonatas. – Esterházy family: the richest and most influential among the German-speaking aristocrats of Hungary, with vast estates southeast of Vienna. – Baryto ...
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
... French, Stravinsky, Jazz, Jewish—and had just added to them the austere harmonic techniques of Schoenberg. These works, though among his most masterful creations (“I expended so much time and effort ... because I wished to write as perfect a piece as I possibly could,” wrote the composer of his Shor ...
... French, Stravinsky, Jazz, Jewish—and had just added to them the austere harmonic techniques of Schoenberg. These works, though among his most masterful creations (“I expended so much time and effort ... because I wished to write as perfect a piece as I possibly could,” wrote the composer of his Shor ...
MusicHistory2
... Classic Period (mid 1700’s – early 1800’s; 1750-1820) Clear, recognizable melodies Understandable musical forms (binary, ternary, rondo, sonata, theme & variations) Some Musical Styles: Multi-movement works – 3 or 4 sections – fast, slow, (minuet), fast) Symphonies – string or full orchestra 3 or 4 ...
... Classic Period (mid 1700’s – early 1800’s; 1750-1820) Clear, recognizable melodies Understandable musical forms (binary, ternary, rondo, sonata, theme & variations) Some Musical Styles: Multi-movement works – 3 or 4 sections – fast, slow, (minuet), fast) Symphonies – string or full orchestra 3 or 4 ...
Modern Art Music Terms - Western Michigan University
... Song Cycle: A set of art-songs arranged intentionally as a cycle to depict an ongoing story, or based on the same literary source. They are for one singer accompanied by either piano or orchestra. Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire (1912)--a cycle of Lieder String Quartet: A chamber ensemble of four string ...
... Song Cycle: A set of art-songs arranged intentionally as a cycle to depict an ongoing story, or based on the same literary source. They are for one singer accompanied by either piano or orchestra. Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire (1912)--a cycle of Lieder String Quartet: A chamber ensemble of four string ...
ZEMLINSKY QUARTET - Grunau Musik Management
... Prague Spring Festival (2005, 2009, 2011), and their long-‐awaited New York debut on Schneider/New School Concerts (2009). The repertoire of the ensemble is far ranging containing more than ...
... Prague Spring Festival (2005, 2009, 2011), and their long-‐awaited New York debut on Schneider/New School Concerts (2009). The repertoire of the ensemble is far ranging containing more than ...
Pre-Concert Lecture Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartets, Op. 18
... • Virginie Gagner, second violin • Charles Pilon, viola • Tanya Prochazka, cello The concert series features two famous sets of string quartets by two of the greatest masters of the form: The two quartets that form Franz Joseph Haydn’s Op. 77 and the six quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 18. Wh ...
... • Virginie Gagner, second violin • Charles Pilon, viola • Tanya Prochazka, cello The concert series features two famous sets of string quartets by two of the greatest masters of the form: The two quartets that form Franz Joseph Haydn’s Op. 77 and the six quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 18. Wh ...
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... repeats. After that, the speed quadruples and only a beat is spent on each chord. The duration of the time spent on each chord is what gives the piece its motion, rather than variety of cho ...
... repeats. After that, the speed quadruples and only a beat is spent on each chord. The duration of the time spent on each chord is what gives the piece its motion, rather than variety of cho ...
Liner Notes - Music@Menlo
... American composer Samuel Barber was always drawn to the human voice. One of his first compositions was an operetta entitled The Rose Tree, based on a libretto by the family cook, which Barber composed when he was ten years old. This lifelong fascination would permeate Barber’s musical language—highl ...
... American composer Samuel Barber was always drawn to the human voice. One of his first compositions was an operetta entitled The Rose Tree, based on a libretto by the family cook, which Barber composed when he was ten years old. This lifelong fascination would permeate Barber’s musical language—highl ...
Curriculum Vitae - Zemlinsky Quartet
... During its early years while studying in the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts Prague, the ensemble was coached by members of renowned Czech string quartets including the Talich, Prague, Kocian and Pražák Quartet. The ensemble also took part in several master classes (ProQuartet ...
... During its early years while studying in the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts Prague, the ensemble was coached by members of renowned Czech string quartets including the Talich, Prague, Kocian and Pražák Quartet. The ensemble also took part in several master classes (ProQuartet ...
1 To relate any of the composers to American and world history
... American composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) originally composed his “Adagio for Strings” as the second movement of his First String Quartet, Op. 11 in 1936. Two years later, at the request of the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, Barber rewrote the work for string orchestra. The premiere of this ...
... American composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) originally composed his “Adagio for Strings” as the second movement of his First String Quartet, Op. 11 in 1936. Two years later, at the request of the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, Barber rewrote the work for string orchestra. The premiere of this ...
LMM - Artaria String Quartet 2015-16 Program III Its Revolutionary
... canon span thirty-six of his fifty-seven years and represent, perhaps better than any other of his works, the revered Early, Middle, and Late periods of his compositional life. These so-called “periods” are not mere academic divisions but rather a glorious arc of Beethoven’s work. So, too, do they e ...
... canon span thirty-six of his fifty-seven years and represent, perhaps better than any other of his works, the revered Early, Middle, and Late periods of his compositional life. These so-called “periods” are not mere academic divisions but rather a glorious arc of Beethoven’s work. So, too, do they e ...
Program Notes Muir String Quartet Wednesday, February
... who wrote that the music “ranges over the whole gamut of the emotions, the ceaseless agitation swelling to a yearning cry, and finally in the last movement to tragic despair.” Written when he was 69, Janáček’s first quartet was inspired by Tolstoy’s novella (1889), “The Kreuzter Sonata,” named after ...
... who wrote that the music “ranges over the whole gamut of the emotions, the ceaseless agitation swelling to a yearning cry, and finally in the last movement to tragic despair.” Written when he was 69, Janáček’s first quartet was inspired by Tolstoy’s novella (1889), “The Kreuzter Sonata,” named after ...
Program Notes - Wisconsin Union
... fact, so universal was the appeal of Haydn's melody that it was later to be used as the ‘Brotherhood’ anthem of Freemasonry, as the German national anthem Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, and even as the Protestant hymns Praise the Lord! Ye heavens, adore him and Glorious things of Thee are spok ...
... fact, so universal was the appeal of Haydn's melody that it was later to be used as the ‘Brotherhood’ anthem of Freemasonry, as the German national anthem Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, and even as the Protestant hymns Praise the Lord! Ye heavens, adore him and Glorious things of Thee are spok ...
English - Weinstadt Artists Management
... The Danish String Quartet was awarded First Prize in the Vagn Holmboe String Quartet Competition and the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in Holland First Prize as well as the Audience Prize in the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2005. They were awarded th ...
... The Danish String Quartet was awarded First Prize in the Vagn Holmboe String Quartet Competition and the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in Holland First Prize as well as the Audience Prize in the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2005. They were awarded th ...
Liner Notes - Music@Menlo
... Though not a work intended for a dramatic setting, the Opus 21 Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet illustrates the dramatic character of Chausson’s music during this time. It is also, in its design, a unique work: it is a hybrid between chamber music and a double concerto for violin and ...
... Though not a work intended for a dramatic setting, the Opus 21 Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet illustrates the dramatic character of Chausson’s music during this time. It is also, in its design, a unique work: it is a hybrid between chamber music and a double concerto for violin and ...
chamber music origins - Concert Hall Research Group
... Baroque music can be considered to have its origins and major developments in Italy. The complex polyphony of the Renaissance was initially rejected and a more simplistic solo melody with a basic accompaniment, much like Greek music ideals, was sought. A multifaceted compositional vocabulary evolved ...
... Baroque music can be considered to have its origins and major developments in Italy. The complex polyphony of the Renaissance was initially rejected and a more simplistic solo melody with a basic accompaniment, much like Greek music ideals, was sought. A multifaceted compositional vocabulary evolved ...
Read More - Attacca Quartet
... (violin), once she started with the melody, never stopped, until halfway through the piece when she passed the frantic melody onto Fleming (viola). All the while, Tokunaga (violin) and Yee (cello) sat there plucking away at their instruments, mimicking the water droplet sounds coming from the record ...
... (violin), once she started with the melody, never stopped, until halfway through the piece when she passed the frantic melody onto Fleming (viola). All the while, Tokunaga (violin) and Yee (cello) sat there plucking away at their instruments, mimicking the water droplet sounds coming from the record ...
Borealis String Quartet - University of Florida Performing Arts
... PROGRAM NOTES Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) By the time Haydn returned to Vienna in 1795, after his second immensely successful visit to London, several new elements had become integrated into his writing. His new style reflected his experience of composing for pu ...
... PROGRAM NOTES Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) By the time Haydn returned to Vienna in 1795, after his second immensely successful visit to London, several new elements had become integrated into his writing. His new style reflected his experience of composing for pu ...
Program Notes - University of Chicago Presents
... Hungary, from which he fled in to Austria 1956. His unique combination of technical innovation and humor sets him apart from other 20th century modernists. Many of his compositions involve complex masses of sound and shifting tone colors and use unconventional sounds as well as traditional instrumen ...
... Hungary, from which he fled in to Austria 1956. His unique combination of technical innovation and humor sets him apart from other 20th century modernists. Many of his compositions involve complex masses of sound and shifting tone colors and use unconventional sounds as well as traditional instrumen ...
Brahms Piano Quintet Op 34
... outburst of energetic semiquavers, which take their shape from the notes under [1] and [2], together with a falling semitone assertion by the violins (which will figure prominently in the Scherzo). The semiquavers become the accompaniment and the falling semitone seeds a new theme, which the viola t ...
... outburst of energetic semiquavers, which take their shape from the notes under [1] and [2], together with a falling semitone assertion by the violins (which will figure prominently in the Scherzo). The semiquavers become the accompaniment and the falling semitone seeds a new theme, which the viola t ...
Beethoven String Quartet Op 131
... Beethoven completed the three string quartets commissioned by Prince Galitzin (Op 127, 130 & 132) in 1826 after his Ninth Symphony. According to Karl Holz, the second violin in Ignaz Schuppanzigh's string quartet, who had effectively become Beethoven's secretary: 'While composing the three quartets. ...
... Beethoven completed the three string quartets commissioned by Prince Galitzin (Op 127, 130 & 132) in 1826 after his Ninth Symphony. According to Karl Holz, the second violin in Ignaz Schuppanzigh's string quartet, who had effectively become Beethoven's secretary: 'While composing the three quartets. ...
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.