The Opera Industry
... events in Beethoven’s life and times, ones that in part caused him to turn away from the “heroic” style and that caused a serious hiatus in his compositional output. Let’s pause for a moment over those circumstances. 1809, the year before the composition of Op. 95, Beethoven’s residence in Vienna, a ...
... events in Beethoven’s life and times, ones that in part caused him to turn away from the “heroic” style and that caused a serious hiatus in his compositional output. Let’s pause for a moment over those circumstances. 1809, the year before the composition of Op. 95, Beethoven’s residence in Vienna, a ...
File - Bill Troxler
... A scale divides the octave into a number of tones - Scales exhibit these characteristics: ...
... A scale divides the octave into a number of tones - Scales exhibit these characteristics: ...
Stream Segregation and Perceived Syncopation
... increased complexity of these melodies, as well as to their potential to “capture a listener’s attention.” [11] This approach to explaining the rhythmic effects of implied polyphony coincides with Carl Schachter’s (1976) definition of “tonal rhythms.” In an essay intended mostly as a defense agains ...
... increased complexity of these melodies, as well as to their potential to “capture a listener’s attention.” [11] This approach to explaining the rhythmic effects of implied polyphony coincides with Carl Schachter’s (1976) definition of “tonal rhythms.” In an essay intended mostly as a defense agains ...
(shorter list) Orchestra Terms
... (plucked) section of music, arco is often used to indicate the next passage of music should be ...
... (plucked) section of music, arco is often used to indicate the next passage of music should be ...
Debussy`s Corner of Paris 1908
... – E – Ab - C again) There is still another way of dividing the octave equally. It can be divided by minor 3rds. ...
... – E – Ab - C again) There is still another way of dividing the octave equally. It can be divided by minor 3rds. ...
Jazz Piano Quartal Voicing Workshop
... only did the content (the actual chord voicings) change, but the context (the way that the voicings were used and the forms within which they appeared) was also dramatically altered. First, the music moved from being tonal to being also modal. Most of what pianists played in the harmony up until tha ...
... only did the content (the actual chord voicings) change, but the context (the way that the voicings were used and the forms within which they appeared) was also dramatically altered. First, the music moved from being tonal to being also modal. Most of what pianists played in the harmony up until tha ...
La Monte Young`s The Well-Tuned Piano Kyle Gann Perspectives of
... pitches are neither equal in importance nor all used in every performance. On the Gramavision recording, the 4411256 C# occurs only on the fifth compact disc, in the sections indicated as being in "The Elysian Fields." Young rarely uses Gff 132311024, and the pitch doesn't occur on the recording at ...
... pitches are neither equal in importance nor all used in every performance. On the Gramavision recording, the 4411256 C# occurs only on the fifth compact disc, in the sections indicated as being in "The Elysian Fields." Young rarely uses Gff 132311024, and the pitch doesn't occur on the recording at ...
The Rise of 6 in the Nineteenth Century
... Today, a discussion of the major scale’s dynamic nature has become a near-obligatory component of harmony textbooks, if only a token one. A broad consensus exists concerning these dynamics: the “active”/“dynamic”/“dependent” degrees progress stepwise to the “stable”/“static”/“principal” degrees of t ...
... Today, a discussion of the major scale’s dynamic nature has become a near-obligatory component of harmony textbooks, if only a token one. A broad consensus exists concerning these dynamics: the “active”/“dynamic”/“dependent” degrees progress stepwise to the “stable”/“static”/“principal” degrees of t ...
MTO 4.2: Alpern, Review Article, “Will the Real Anton Webern
... [13] Shreffler traces the successive stages of Webern’s compositional process through motivic fragments, continuity drafts, revision copies, and printer’s copies, in each step carefully monitoring his musical methods and choices. We learn that he customarily began composing by intuitively conceiving ...
... [13] Shreffler traces the successive stages of Webern’s compositional process through motivic fragments, continuity drafts, revision copies, and printer’s copies, in each step carefully monitoring his musical methods and choices. We learn that he customarily began composing by intuitively conceiving ...
6 Schoenberg`s `second melody`, or, `Meyer
... and harmonic relationships. A melodic relationship is established in reference to a scalar collection of pitches, and the basic unit of melodic motion is the individual step. If the melodic interval between two pitches exceeds a second, we sense that one or more notes of the scale have been skipped ...
... and harmonic relationships. A melodic relationship is established in reference to a scalar collection of pitches, and the basic unit of melodic motion is the individual step. If the melodic interval between two pitches exceeds a second, we sense that one or more notes of the scale have been skipped ...
Melody
... gives whole-tone music a quality of endlessness, The whole-tone scale consists of six whole steps. which composers often use to achieve a dreamy, ethereal effect. The French composer Claude Debussy, whose music we will study in Chapter 25, often used the whole-tone scale to achieve vague and dreamy ...
... gives whole-tone music a quality of endlessness, The whole-tone scale consists of six whole steps. which composers often use to achieve a dreamy, ethereal effect. The French composer Claude Debussy, whose music we will study in Chapter 25, often used the whole-tone scale to achieve vague and dreamy ...
Two Chinese Contemporary piano works "Combination of Long and
... simply sounds the pitch F on the downbeat in the melody. There is a short twomeasure transition starting in measure 20 using the idea from motive C. This transition prepares for the new tonal center of C-natural in the development section. In this transition, there is an emphasis on the pitch B, whi ...
... simply sounds the pitch F on the downbeat in the melody. There is a short twomeasure transition starting in measure 20 using the idea from motive C. This transition prepares for the new tonal center of C-natural in the development section. In this transition, there is an emphasis on the pitch B, whi ...
2 – First Species Counterpoint
... Example 2-3 below demonstrates these two intervals used properly. Harmonic Considerations 18th century counterpoint differs from 16th century counterpoint in that not only are the intervallic combinations considered, but also the harmonic progressions implied by the various intervallic combinations. ...
... Example 2-3 below demonstrates these two intervals used properly. Harmonic Considerations 18th century counterpoint differs from 16th century counterpoint in that not only are the intervallic combinations considered, but also the harmonic progressions implied by the various intervallic combinations. ...
Cadences Chord Hierarchy in Cadences Authentic Cadences V
... instead of going from chord V to I, interrupted cadence move from chord V to vi. 2. Expected chord I missing, so it is known as a deceptive cadence (DC) 3. If the leading note is in the soprano part of chord V (very common), then the 3rd of chord vi should be doubled (unique to this cadence): if the ...
... instead of going from chord V to I, interrupted cadence move from chord V to vi. 2. Expected chord I missing, so it is known as a deceptive cadence (DC) 3. If the leading note is in the soprano part of chord V (very common), then the 3rd of chord vi should be doubled (unique to this cadence): if the ...
Accents and expression in piano performance
... Performed accents in music: As in speech, clear relationship between performed and immanent accents. Performed accents are used to reinforce immanent accents. Pianists bring out grouping , melodic and metrical accents by systematically varying key velocity, onset time, and articulation. This allows ...
... Performed accents in music: As in speech, clear relationship between performed and immanent accents. Performed accents are used to reinforce immanent accents. Pianists bring out grouping , melodic and metrical accents by systematically varying key velocity, onset time, and articulation. This allows ...
Disciplining Knowledge in Music Theory
... abstraction of melody and line from the motions of contrapuntal parts. I should clarify again that while abstractions can occur in a chronological domain, they just as likely will appear in an epistemological one, that is, in the representation of objects and concepts according to idealized or gener ...
... abstraction of melody and line from the motions of contrapuntal parts. I should clarify again that while abstractions can occur in a chronological domain, they just as likely will appear in an epistemological one, that is, in the representation of objects and concepts according to idealized or gener ...
On the Slow Movement of Brahms`s F-Minor Clarinet Sonata
... factor that softens the sense of return in m. 49 is register: since each statement of the thirds-cycle brings the register successively lower, the clarinet’s melody in m. 49 is a full octave lower than its original presentation had been in the movement’s opening. This change of register, combined wi ...
... factor that softens the sense of return in m. 49 is register: since each statement of the thirds-cycle brings the register successively lower, the clarinet’s melody in m. 49 is a full octave lower than its original presentation had been in the movement’s opening. This change of register, combined wi ...
The early development of music. Analysis of the Jiahu bone flutes
... for the Jiahu people (Li et al. 2003). All the flutes were made of the ulnae, or wing bones, of the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis Millen). This bird is appreciated for its graceful movement in traditional Chinese culture, and a sacred value is often attached to it. ...
... for the Jiahu people (Li et al. 2003). All the flutes were made of the ulnae, or wing bones, of the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis Millen). This bird is appreciated for its graceful movement in traditional Chinese culture, and a sacred value is often attached to it. ...
PDF text - Music Theory Online
... and their properties based on details of the voice-leading motions that connect one seventh chord to another. The larger part of our study is concerned with the ways in which P 3,0 transformations operate within harmonic structures from the late nineteenth-century repertoire. II. Types and Notation ...
... and their properties based on details of the voice-leading motions that connect one seventh chord to another. The larger part of our study is concerned with the ways in which P 3,0 transformations operate within harmonic structures from the late nineteenth-century repertoire. II. Types and Notation ...
A Composition Project: an Original 12
... rests. This allowed me to create unique rhythms that would play a succession of quick notes rather then spread them out allowing for the brain to have moments of dense material and others that were spread out. Another challenge I faced was answering the question of why. This question came in many fo ...
... rests. This allowed me to create unique rhythms that would play a succession of quick notes rather then spread them out allowing for the brain to have moments of dense material and others that were spread out. Another challenge I faced was answering the question of why. This question came in many fo ...
Psychology and Music - Diana Deutsch
... view, the world of mathematics is held to provide an ideal which the world of sense-perception can only imitate. Experimental procedures are therefore held to be irrelevant: if the results of experiments are in accordance with theory, then they are redundant; if the results conflict with theory, the ...
... view, the world of mathematics is held to provide an ideal which the world of sense-perception can only imitate. Experimental procedures are therefore held to be irrelevant: if the results of experiments are in accordance with theory, then they are redundant; if the results conflict with theory, the ...
Understanding Chord Symbols - Florida Music Education Associations
... to shed some light on the situation. First of all, it is important to know that chord symbols are not key signature-specific. Though there are common patterns (such as the ubiquitous ii-V7-I), chord symbols exist independent of the home key of the composition, and as such can appear in any particula ...
... to shed some light on the situation. First of all, it is important to know that chord symbols are not key signature-specific. Though there are common patterns (such as the ubiquitous ii-V7-I), chord symbols exist independent of the home key of the composition, and as such can appear in any particula ...
CMJ Wilkie Language Music Interaction Design_v2
... reasoning operations (Johnson 2005; Lakoff and Núñez 2000). As shown in Figure 1 for example, if an object is inside a container and that container is inside another container, then the object is inside both containers. Similarly we can deduce that if “the music computing students are in the compute ...
... reasoning operations (Johnson 2005; Lakoff and Núñez 2000). As shown in Figure 1 for example, if an object is inside a container and that container is inside another container, then the object is inside both containers. Similarly we can deduce that if “the music computing students are in the compute ...