What Classical Music Is
... rhythm would be more steadily propulsive, its separate strands would stand out more, layered on each other, even tugging at each other, rather than blending—but even so, if on a classical radio station we heard Bach right after Brahms, we wouldn’t feel a jolt. All these pieces live in what we’ve com ...
... rhythm would be more steadily propulsive, its separate strands would stand out more, layered on each other, even tugging at each other, rather than blending—but even so, if on a classical radio station we heard Bach right after Brahms, we wouldn’t feel a jolt. All these pieces live in what we’ve com ...
The Story of Classical Music
... The first composer to actually write an opera was an Italian called Jacopo Peri. It was called Dafne, but it’s been lost, so we don’t know what it sounds like today. The prize for writing the first important opera usually goes to another Italian. His name was Claudio Monteverdi and his opera was ca ...
... The first composer to actually write an opera was an Italian called Jacopo Peri. It was called Dafne, but it’s been lost, so we don’t know what it sounds like today. The prize for writing the first important opera usually goes to another Italian. His name was Claudio Monteverdi and his opera was ca ...
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 ...
Minimalism in Music: in search of a definition Tom Johnson
... silence, which is what we have here in this room of “Silent Music,” and which can be heard as the total minimalism. Of course, by the usual definitions of these two words, “silent music” is a contradiction in terms. But then, it was also a contradiction in terms when Magritte painted a pipe and wrot ...
... silence, which is what we have here in this room of “Silent Music,” and which can be heard as the total minimalism. Of course, by the usual definitions of these two words, “silent music” is a contradiction in terms. But then, it was also a contradiction in terms when Magritte painted a pipe and wrot ...
Tin Pan Alley
... composers such as Duke Ellington, it was natural for the professional songwriters to extend the harmonic vocabulary of the popular song. Some argue, for example James Maher in his introduction to Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song, that particularly with the book musical, songs took on greater soph ...
... composers such as Duke Ellington, it was natural for the professional songwriters to extend the harmonic vocabulary of the popular song. Some argue, for example James Maher in his introduction to Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song, that particularly with the book musical, songs took on greater soph ...
Renaissance Period (1450 – 1600)
... Renaissance music, stable, consonant chords are favored; triads occur often, while dissonances are played down. Renaissance choral music did not need instrumental accompaniment. For this reason, the period is sometimes called the “golden age” of unaccompanied – a cappella-choral music. Instruments w ...
... Renaissance music, stable, consonant chords are favored; triads occur often, while dissonances are played down. Renaissance choral music did not need instrumental accompaniment. For this reason, the period is sometimes called the “golden age” of unaccompanied – a cappella-choral music. Instruments w ...
Jubilant Song - Philharmonic Society of Orange County
... work for no money and were bought and sold like property, this is what is called slavery. These people were not allowed to bring anything with them from home, but they did have their arts and culture. African music has had a very large effect on the development of music in America. Today you will he ...
... work for no money and were bought and sold like property, this is what is called slavery. These people were not allowed to bring anything with them from home, but they did have their arts and culture. African music has had a very large effect on the development of music in America. Today you will he ...
HARLEM QuARTET - Rockport Music
... were commissioned by and dedicated to Count—and later, Prince—Andrei Kirillovich Rasumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna. They immediately became known as “the Rasumovsky quartets.” This patron and friend of Beethoven, one of the wealthiest men in Europe, was a passionate amateur musician. He m ...
... were commissioned by and dedicated to Count—and later, Prince—Andrei Kirillovich Rasumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna. They immediately became known as “the Rasumovsky quartets.” This patron and friend of Beethoven, one of the wealthiest men in Europe, was a passionate amateur musician. He m ...
Listening Notes
... the lowest notes it can play) sounds very gentle and fuzzy; the medium register is woody and light; the high register is strong and a bit squeaky! Closely related to the clarinet is the saxophone. The saxophone was invented in about 1840 by a very clever Frenchman called Adolphe Sax. He came up with ...
... the lowest notes it can play) sounds very gentle and fuzzy; the medium register is woody and light; the high register is strong and a bit squeaky! Closely related to the clarinet is the saxophone. The saxophone was invented in about 1840 by a very clever Frenchman called Adolphe Sax. He came up with ...
The UNESCO courier
... musician will never play the same piece in the same way twice. In classical music, on the other hand, you have to reproduce down to the last note exactly what the composer created. The jazz ...
... musician will never play the same piece in the same way twice. In classical music, on the other hand, you have to reproduce down to the last note exactly what the composer created. The jazz ...
abstracts - South Asia Institute
... ancient compositions passed on by professional temple musicians, called ragis. The concert will showcase, in particular, the repertoire transmitted by the lineage of Bhai Jwala Singh (1879-1952), a legendary ragi of the Sri Darbar Sahib. As established in 1968, by a special committee of the Punjabi ...
... ancient compositions passed on by professional temple musicians, called ragis. The concert will showcase, in particular, the repertoire transmitted by the lineage of Bhai Jwala Singh (1879-1952), a legendary ragi of the Sri Darbar Sahib. As established in 1968, by a special committee of the Punjabi ...
Table of Contents
... Church where he was part of a “professional” boy’s choir. After his voice matured he continued his musical career as an instrumentalist. He was especially gifted on the organ and harpsichord. (The piano had not yet been invented.) While the Catholic Church provided their congregation with Gregorian ...
... Church where he was part of a “professional” boy’s choir. After his voice matured he continued his musical career as an instrumentalist. He was especially gifted on the organ and harpsichord. (The piano had not yet been invented.) While the Catholic Church provided their congregation with Gregorian ...
The Renaissance
... Renaissance. This was a time when the many monarchies of Europe vied in outdoing each other in pride, pomp and pageantry. Many monarchs employed composers at their courts, where they were little more than servants expected to churn out music for any desired occasions. The greatest composer of the pe ...
... Renaissance. This was a time when the many monarchies of Europe vied in outdoing each other in pride, pomp and pageantry. Many monarchs employed composers at their courts, where they were little more than servants expected to churn out music for any desired occasions. The greatest composer of the pe ...
The Rebirth of the Musical Author in Recent Fiction
... The rebirth of the author in contemporary criticism is being accompanied, I would like to argue, by a growing fascination with the author-character as the subject of recent fiction. This can be seen reflected in current approaches to the life of real and fictional writers such as Henry James, in Dav ...
... The rebirth of the author in contemporary criticism is being accompanied, I would like to argue, by a growing fascination with the author-character as the subject of recent fiction. This can be seen reflected in current approaches to the life of real and fictional writers such as Henry James, in Dav ...
Chapter Three: Musical Appropriation
... way that two novelists can be leagues apart in terms of voice even if they write on the same subject. Framers of the United States copyright regime determined that nuances and particularities in various media deserved protection. For instance, the copyright for a literary work protects not only the ...
... way that two novelists can be leagues apart in terms of voice even if they write on the same subject. Framers of the United States copyright regime determined that nuances and particularities in various media deserved protection. For instance, the copyright for a literary work protects not only the ...
Summary EWCM ppt Lectures (FALL2016)
... For Greeks, oral disagreement was a tool of competition. Without secure employment, philosophers were teachers. They depended on skill in debate for livelihood and fame. They tended to argue face to face and to expect the public to decide, just as it decided in the assembly or at trials. In Ancient ...
... For Greeks, oral disagreement was a tool of competition. Without secure employment, philosophers were teachers. They depended on skill in debate for livelihood and fame. They tended to argue face to face and to expect the public to decide, just as it decided in the assembly or at trials. In Ancient ...
Music in Modernism c. 1900-2000
... century. Still, it is difficult to put a proverbial “stamp” on exactly when music began showing signs of what is now referred to as modernism, but historians generally agree that the very beginning of the century is an acceptable marker, though Schoenberg’s formal break with tonality did not ...
... century. Still, it is difficult to put a proverbial “stamp” on exactly when music began showing signs of what is now referred to as modernism, but historians generally agree that the very beginning of the century is an acceptable marker, though Schoenberg’s formal break with tonality did not ...
Medieval music - WordPress.com
... \, indicating a lowering. These eventually evolved into the basic symbols for neumatic notation, the virga (or "rod") which indicates a higher note and still looked like the acutus from which it came; and the punctum (or "dot") which indicates a lower note and, as the name suggests, reduced the grav ...
... \, indicating a lowering. These eventually evolved into the basic symbols for neumatic notation, the virga (or "rod") which indicates a higher note and still looked like the acutus from which it came; and the punctum (or "dot") which indicates a lower note and, as the name suggests, reduced the grav ...
GCSE Music Revision Guide
... a pedal tone is being performed the player will keep returning to the note even though he is playing other notes. The pedal note is typically in the bass (lowest) note, however there are instances where the pedal note is in the highest note. Most musical instruments we know of today do this becau ...
... a pedal tone is being performed the player will keep returning to the note even though he is playing other notes. The pedal note is typically in the bass (lowest) note, however there are instances where the pedal note is in the highest note. Most musical instruments we know of today do this becau ...
2017 Spring meeting PROGRAM - American Musicological Society
... is how it implicitly dumps the onus of survival and flourishing on the individual.” In order to strengthen perceptions of jazz as high art, early jazz criticism, and later the young field of jazz studies, often presented Duke Ellington as a remarkably strong individual composer. While this narrative ...
... is how it implicitly dumps the onus of survival and flourishing on the individual.” In order to strengthen perceptions of jazz as high art, early jazz criticism, and later the young field of jazz studies, often presented Duke Ellington as a remarkably strong individual composer. While this narrative ...
Music is a Language - Kitchener
... A Brief History of Symphony Orchestras The history of the modern orchestra that we are familiar with today goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt. The first orchestras were made up of small groups of musicians that gathered for festivals, holidays or funerals. During the time of the Roman Empire, t ...
... A Brief History of Symphony Orchestras The history of the modern orchestra that we are familiar with today goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt. The first orchestras were made up of small groups of musicians that gathered for festivals, holidays or funerals. During the time of the Roman Empire, t ...
Electronic Sounds
... The music can be very abrasive, as in "Calligrams," a score for a video by Steina. Parts of it are frictional to an extreme, like the grating of giant pieces of metal . Although the Vasulkas now work with video a great deal, Woody says that the technology doesn't interest him particularly. He uses i ...
... The music can be very abrasive, as in "Calligrams," a score for a video by Steina. Parts of it are frictional to an extreme, like the grating of giant pieces of metal . Although the Vasulkas now work with video a great deal, Woody says that the technology doesn't interest him particularly. He uses i ...
The Soundtrack
... outside the filmic world. This article endeavours to modify this practice by placing music within the larger notion of “the soundtrack”. This new model assumes that irrespective of industrial determinants, the soundtrack is perceived by an audience as such a unity; that music, dialogue, effects and ...
... outside the filmic world. This article endeavours to modify this practice by placing music within the larger notion of “the soundtrack”. This new model assumes that irrespective of industrial determinants, the soundtrack is perceived by an audience as such a unity; that music, dialogue, effects and ...
program - Ensemble for the Romantic Century
... popular character while at the same time being suitable for the recital hall. The composer himself expounded his views on the use of folk elements in the context of art song: I humbly think that in popular song the spirit is more important than the letter. Rhythm, modality and melodic intervals that ...
... popular character while at the same time being suitable for the recital hall. The composer himself expounded his views on the use of folk elements in the context of art song: I humbly think that in popular song the spirit is more important than the letter. Rhythm, modality and melodic intervals that ...
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 ...
Sheet music
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols. Like its analogs – books, pamphlets, etc. – the medium of sheet music typically is paper (or, in earlier times, parchment), although the access to musical notation in recent years also includes presentation on computer screens. Use of the term ""sheet"" is intended to differentiate written music from an audio presentation, as in a sound recording, broadcast or live performance, which may involve video as well. In everyday use, ""sheet music"" (or simply ""music"") can refer to the print publication of commercial music in conjunction with the release of a new film, show, record album, or other special or popular event which involves music. The first sheet of printed sheet music was made in 1473.Score is a common alternative (and more generic) term for sheet music, and there are several types of scores, as discussed below. (Note: the term score can also refer to theatre music written for a play, musical, opera, ballet, television programme or film; for the last of these, see Film score.)