Haydn was the second son of humble parents. His father
... While in London in 1791, Haydn had been deeply moved by the performance of George Frideric Handel’s masterly oratorios. Deciding to compose further works in this genre, he obtained a suitable libretto, and, after settling in Vienna and resuming his duties for Prince Esterházy, he started work on the ...
... While in London in 1791, Haydn had been deeply moved by the performance of George Frideric Handel’s masterly oratorios. Deciding to compose further works in this genre, he obtained a suitable libretto, and, after settling in Vienna and resuming his duties for Prince Esterházy, he started work on the ...
A Selective Guide of Canadian Choral Compositions Appropriate for
... and m icro film in g . W h ile the m ost advanced technology has been used to pho tograph and reproduce this m anuscript, the quality o f the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the q uality of the m aterial subm itted. Pages in any m anuscript may have in d istin c t p rin t. In all cases the b ...
... and m icro film in g . W h ile the m ost advanced technology has been used to pho tograph and reproduce this m anuscript, the quality o f the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the q uality of the m aterial subm itted. Pages in any m anuscript may have in d istin c t p rin t. In all cases the b ...
... research on each composer (Oxford Online through library database, or other resource) and the works (Classical Archives or other resource). If you find yourself especially interested in any one composer, do read or listen to more as you have time. Try to really get to know each composer, her or his ...
Symphony and symphonic thinking in Polish music after
... is general and recalls some o f the first impressions the word ‘symphony’ brings to people’s minds. However, one has to realise quickly that there really is no easy definition o f what is ‘the symphony’. It is even more complicated considering the symphony’s long and rich tradition, with all its his ...
... is general and recalls some o f the first impressions the word ‘symphony’ brings to people’s minds. However, one has to realise quickly that there really is no easy definition o f what is ‘the symphony’. It is even more complicated considering the symphony’s long and rich tradition, with all its his ...
Masterpieces of Western Music
... both a solo instrument and a part of the “continuo” (the combination of keyboard and low sustaining instrument providing accompaniment for most Baroque compositions). The first movement, like the first movement of Vivaldi’s “The Spring,” follows essentially a ritornello format, alternating a ritorn ...
... both a solo instrument and a part of the “continuo” (the combination of keyboard and low sustaining instrument providing accompaniment for most Baroque compositions). The first movement, like the first movement of Vivaldi’s “The Spring,” follows essentially a ritornello format, alternating a ritorn ...
Program - San Francisco Lyric Chorus
... Louis Vierne composed in several different genres, but is most widely known for his solo organ compositions, especially his six organ symphonies. In addition, he composed works for orchestra, chamber music, choral works, works for solo voice, songs, and works for piano. His organ works are dramatic, ...
... Louis Vierne composed in several different genres, but is most widely known for his solo organ compositions, especially his six organ symphonies. In addition, he composed works for orchestra, chamber music, choral works, works for solo voice, songs, and works for piano. His organ works are dramatic, ...
The Story of Classical Music
... This is him walking now. By the time he was nine, his parents had both died and he was sent to live with his big brother. At 15, the young Johann had joined a choir, and this gave him the chance to really begin discovering music. He’s famous now for the lengths he would go to hear musical performanc ...
... This is him walking now. By the time he was nine, his parents had both died and he was sent to live with his big brother. At 15, the young Johann had joined a choir, and this gave him the chance to really begin discovering music. He’s famous now for the lengths he would go to hear musical performanc ...
Music in the Romantic Era – 1825-1900
... music reaches its climax. In Erlkönig, the steady triplets demonstrate the horses’ gallop in a father and son’s ride home, while the son tries to tell his father that the Erl (sometimes mistranslated as “Elf King”, in which case the piece would have been called “ElvenKönig”) King is calling out to h ...
... music reaches its climax. In Erlkönig, the steady triplets demonstrate the horses’ gallop in a father and son’s ride home, while the son tries to tell his father that the Erl (sometimes mistranslated as “Elf King”, in which case the piece would have been called “ElvenKönig”) King is calling out to h ...
Music in Modernism c. 1900-2000
... tapestry of harmonic color, he does not stray too far from an overall tonal scheme. However, like Beethoven, Mahler has been referred to as straddling the gap between the two ages, firmly placing his feet in the Romantic era, yet looking boldly into new future possibilities. Mahler’s younger contemp ...
... tapestry of harmonic color, he does not stray too far from an overall tonal scheme. However, like Beethoven, Mahler has been referred to as straddling the gap between the two ages, firmly placing his feet in the Romantic era, yet looking boldly into new future possibilities. Mahler’s younger contemp ...
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’ ...
Table of Contents
... contemporary Native American music. The students also enjoyed playing along with the recordings using a variety of traditional instruments. 2. Music-Art: Sand painting or Native American-inspired artistic responses can be enhanced by Native American music. I found the flute music to be especially we ...
... contemporary Native American music. The students also enjoyed playing along with the recordings using a variety of traditional instruments. 2. Music-Art: Sand painting or Native American-inspired artistic responses can be enhanced by Native American music. I found the flute music to be especially we ...
here - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
... minutes. Dedicated to my parents, it is based on the Advent plainsong of the same name and was started on the First Sunday of Advent 1991 and completed on Easter Sunday 1992. These two liturgical dates are important as will be explained later. The piece can be discussed in two ways. On one level, it ...
... minutes. Dedicated to my parents, it is based on the Advent plainsong of the same name and was started on the First Sunday of Advent 1991 and completed on Easter Sunday 1992. These two liturgical dates are important as will be explained later. The piece can be discussed in two ways. On one level, it ...
Rediscovered Treasures I
... galant style without the luxury of European music training (Abella Grijalva). While this repertoire stands on its own in terms of aesthetic merit, it is nonetheless fascinating to reconsider what we know about composers such as Handel, Pergolesi or Mozart after exposure to the Hispanic traditions. S ...
... galant style without the luxury of European music training (Abella Grijalva). While this repertoire stands on its own in terms of aesthetic merit, it is nonetheless fascinating to reconsider what we know about composers such as Handel, Pergolesi or Mozart after exposure to the Hispanic traditions. S ...
Music is a Language - Kitchener
... During the Baroque period, the foundations were laid for the following 300 or so years of musical expression: the idea of the modern orchestra was born, along with opera (including the overture, prelude, aria, recitative and chorus), the concerto, sonata, and modern cantata. The rather soft-grained ...
... During the Baroque period, the foundations were laid for the following 300 or so years of musical expression: the idea of the modern orchestra was born, along with opera (including the overture, prelude, aria, recitative and chorus), the concerto, sonata, and modern cantata. The rather soft-grained ...
program notes - Aston Magna Music Festival
... Before long “madrigal” came to be employed for such vocal polyphony regardless of the poetic form of the text. But one feature that came increasingly to the fore throughout the century was a conscious attempt to translate the emotional content and symbolic elements in the text into their musical equ ...
... Before long “madrigal” came to be employed for such vocal polyphony regardless of the poetic form of the text. But one feature that came increasingly to the fore throughout the century was a conscious attempt to translate the emotional content and symbolic elements in the text into their musical equ ...
University Band Symphonic Band - College of Fine Arts
... the first time, presented a concert where only his works were performed. In 1914, when World War I broke out, Grainger, along with his mother left England for the United States. After a few tours of the country and many concerts over two years and having applied for the citizenship, Grainger joined ...
... the first time, presented a concert where only his works were performed. In 1914, when World War I broke out, Grainger, along with his mother left England for the United States. After a few tours of the country and many concerts over two years and having applied for the citizenship, Grainger joined ...
Music and Poetr yy - Dayton Performing Arts Alliance
... Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of classical music’s most popular pieces with over 100 recordings in existence. The work is actually four concerti for solo violin, string orchestra and harpsichord. These pieces allowed violinists to show off the virtuoso possibilities of the violin, whose design had j ...
... Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of classical music’s most popular pieces with over 100 recordings in existence. The work is actually four concerti for solo violin, string orchestra and harpsichord. These pieces allowed violinists to show off the virtuoso possibilities of the violin, whose design had j ...
Pierre Boulez Conductor Webern Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
... block—it lacks the sheer narrative sweep of Mahler’s other symphonies. Mahler’s working methods were always idiosyncratic, but the Seventh gave him particular trouble. He didn’t have a grand design in mind when he started composing it in 1904, and when he returned to the symphony the following summe ...
... block—it lacks the sheer narrative sweep of Mahler’s other symphonies. Mahler’s working methods were always idiosyncratic, but the Seventh gave him particular trouble. He didn’t have a grand design in mind when he started composing it in 1904, and when he returned to the symphony the following summe ...
Chapter_Twenty Seven_Outline
... 1. Mahler’s Second Symphony also began as a symphonic poem, this one on death. 2. It is known as the “Resurrection” and requires the largest orchestra ever demanded at this point, as well as a chorus. a. Like Beethoven’s Ninth, the chorus is reserved for the final movement. 3. Some of the movements ...
... 1. Mahler’s Second Symphony also began as a symphonic poem, this one on death. 2. It is known as the “Resurrection” and requires the largest orchestra ever demanded at this point, as well as a chorus. a. Like Beethoven’s Ninth, the chorus is reserved for the final movement. 3. Some of the movements ...
Choral symphony
A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, and sometimes solo vocalists that, in its internal workings and overall musical architecture, adheres broadly to symphonic musical form. The term ""choral symphony"" in this context was coined by Hector Berlioz when he described his Roméo et Juliette as such in his five-paragraph introduction to that work. The direct antecedent for the choral symphony is Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth incorporates part of the Ode an die Freude (""Ode to Joy""), a poem by Friedrich Schiller, with text sung by soloists and chorus in the last movement. It is the first example of a major composer's use of the human voice on the same level as instruments in a symphony.A few 19th-century composers, notably Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt, followed Beethoven in producing choral symphonic works. Notable works in the genre were produced in the 20th century by Gustav Mahler, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, among others. The final years of the 20th century and the opening of the 21st century have seen several new works in this genre, among them compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies, Tan Dun, Philip Glass, Hans Werner Henze and Krzysztof Penderecki.The term ""choral symphony"" indicates the composer's intention that the work be symphonic, even with its fusion of narrative or dramatic elements that stems from the inclusion of words. To this end, the words are often treated symphonically to pursue non-narrative ends, by use of frequent repetition of important words and phrases, and the transposing, reordering or omission of passages of the set text. The text often determines the basic symphonic outline, while the orchestra's role in conveying the musical ideas is similar in importance to that of the chorus and soloists. Even with a symphonic emphasis, a choral symphony is often influenced in musical form and content by an external narrative, even in parts where there is no singing.