Musique Concrète Revisited Chris Mercer Our conception of what
... reaction will probably be to note that it is in fact a cricket sound--in other words, I am engaged in information-gathering. Next, I may ponder the narrative or poetic significance of the presence of an insect in the work. What does the piece have to do with insects? Or I may react to the cricket so ...
... reaction will probably be to note that it is in fact a cricket sound--in other words, I am engaged in information-gathering. Next, I may ponder the narrative or poetic significance of the presence of an insect in the work. What does the piece have to do with insects? Or I may react to the cricket so ...
Composer Presentation
... His family moved to England when he was 14, where he proceeded to be kicked out of several schools, for choosing to study music rather then the required curiculum Began his composing career in 1971, while working with a Rock band called The Buggies Started composing scores for films in 1982 Has won ...
... His family moved to England when he was 14, where he proceeded to be kicked out of several schools, for choosing to study music rather then the required curiculum Began his composing career in 1971, while working with a Rock band called The Buggies Started composing scores for films in 1982 Has won ...
Tristan und Isolde - The Grange School Blogs
... being all the arts together). Wagner himself was responsible for almost every element of the opera: words, music, produc:on, set etc. The outline of the story involves Tristan (Medieval Knight) who travels ...
... being all the arts together). Wagner himself was responsible for almost every element of the opera: words, music, produc:on, set etc. The outline of the story involves Tristan (Medieval Knight) who travels ...
Jordan Jenkins “The Pines of the Appian Way” from Respighi`s
... rhythms. The basses and timpani provide a steady pulse with either 8th notes or quarter notes. When the violins enter at rehearsal 18 (Figure 3), they play their eerie chords in half notes, or dotted quarter notes slurred to a 16th note, depending on the division. There are two melodic fragments in ...
... rhythms. The basses and timpani provide a steady pulse with either 8th notes or quarter notes. When the violins enter at rehearsal 18 (Figure 3), they play their eerie chords in half notes, or dotted quarter notes slurred to a 16th note, depending on the division. There are two melodic fragments in ...
Veigar Margeirsson Bio Veigar Margeirsson is an acclaimed film
... Hammer Music, an LA-based music production company that specializes in theatrical marketing campaigns, motion pictures, TV shows and themes, and custom music services. In his executive role as VP of Creative at Pitch Hammer, Veigar oversees an elite team of music composers, sound designers, and mixe ...
... Hammer Music, an LA-based music production company that specializes in theatrical marketing campaigns, motion pictures, TV shows and themes, and custom music services. In his executive role as VP of Creative at Pitch Hammer, Veigar oversees an elite team of music composers, sound designers, and mixe ...
Society for Ethnomusicology
... vein, begins by stating the necessity of an anthropologicalapproach,but then resorts to an analysis which simply lists in prose rules the sound organization of Slavey drum dances. John Blacking (1972) has presented the single critique of musical structuralism; his concern is that structural analyses ...
... vein, begins by stating the necessity of an anthropologicalapproach,but then resorts to an analysis which simply lists in prose rules the sound organization of Slavey drum dances. John Blacking (1972) has presented the single critique of musical structuralism; his concern is that structural analyses ...
abstracts - South Asia Institute
... Sonic Iconography: The Damaru Drum’s Rhythmic Complements to Affective Visualizations in Tibetan gCod Rituals The Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055-1153) developed the Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhist ritual music practice and meditation method, known as gCod (chö). Her written liturgical gCod ...
... Sonic Iconography: The Damaru Drum’s Rhythmic Complements to Affective Visualizations in Tibetan gCod Rituals The Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055-1153) developed the Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhist ritual music practice and meditation method, known as gCod (chö). Her written liturgical gCod ...
Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th
... Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period. ...
... Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period. ...
Concerto for harpsichord (piano) and string orchestra op 40, by
... so there is no indication of it in the score. I will later add some further clarifications regarding the metric structure, which is so masterfully used by the author to set the rhythm off to advantage; the rhythm is a musical category which, in my opinion, is one of the elements that most contribute ...
... so there is no indication of it in the score. I will later add some further clarifications regarding the metric structure, which is so masterfully used by the author to set the rhythm off to advantage; the rhythm is a musical category which, in my opinion, is one of the elements that most contribute ...
dossier
... conservatory of St. Petersburg in 1908, studied with Felix Mottl, then musical director of the Munich Opera House, until 1912 and was a member of the artist community “Blauer Reiter” together with his friend Vassily Kandinsky. In 1916, he accompanied Gurdjieff on an adventurous journey that finally ...
... conservatory of St. Petersburg in 1908, studied with Felix Mottl, then musical director of the Munich Opera House, until 1912 and was a member of the artist community “Blauer Reiter” together with his friend Vassily Kandinsky. In 1916, he accompanied Gurdjieff on an adventurous journey that finally ...
Charles Leinberger. Ennio Morricone`s “The Good, the Bad and the
... provide a background about Morricone, an analysis of his compositional techniques as it relates to scoring films, a historical, social and critical context for the film and the music, and a discussion about every cue in its cinematic setting. Leinberger begins chapter one with a brief appraisal of M ...
... provide a background about Morricone, an analysis of his compositional techniques as it relates to scoring films, a historical, social and critical context for the film and the music, and a discussion about every cue in its cinematic setting. Leinberger begins chapter one with a brief appraisal of M ...
Modal Jazz - Jonathan Dimond
... Classic modal jazz compositions contain very few chords, allowing each individual mode to be used for a long period of time. An example of this is “So What” by Miles Davis, from the album Kind of Blue (1959). This only uses two chords during its 32 measure duration – Dm and Ebm. Due to the repetitio ...
... Classic modal jazz compositions contain very few chords, allowing each individual mode to be used for a long period of time. An example of this is “So What” by Miles Davis, from the album Kind of Blue (1959). This only uses two chords during its 32 measure duration – Dm and Ebm. Due to the repetitio ...
Some Notable Features of Pygmy and Bushmen Polyphonic
... interest for another reason as well, more difficult to elucidate, but potentially of even greater significance. As careful study of this very rich and unusually long list reveals, both traditions appear to have already encapsulated within them features characteristic of many different musical tradit ...
... interest for another reason as well, more difficult to elucidate, but potentially of even greater significance. As careful study of this very rich and unusually long list reveals, both traditions appear to have already encapsulated within them features characteristic of many different musical tradit ...
chanticleer - Rockport Music
... Vita. By the time she had reached adolescence, either because of her unusual nature, or as an attempt to position themselves politically, von Bingen’s parents enclosed her in a nunnery. Therein she was placed under the care of Jutta, another visionary—with her own disciples— who played a pivotal rol ...
... Vita. By the time she had reached adolescence, either because of her unusual nature, or as an attempt to position themselves politically, von Bingen’s parents enclosed her in a nunnery. Therein she was placed under the care of Jutta, another visionary—with her own disciples— who played a pivotal rol ...
Bio-E 2014 - WordPress.com
... In 2011, Fineberg was named an Artist Fellow of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Fineberg’s works are widely performed in the US, Europe and Asia. A monographic CD of his music recorded by the Ensemble Court-Circuit was released in 2002 as a part of Unviersal France’s Accord/Una Corda collection, ...
... In 2011, Fineberg was named an Artist Fellow of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Fineberg’s works are widely performed in the US, Europe and Asia. A monographic CD of his music recorded by the Ensemble Court-Circuit was released in 2002 as a part of Unviersal France’s Accord/Una Corda collection, ...
Unit 6 Chapter 1
... French Revolution, Napoleonic wars left aristocrats unable to afford to maintain private music endeavors Merging of many tiny states into fewer, larger ones, left many musicians ...
... French Revolution, Napoleonic wars left aristocrats unable to afford to maintain private music endeavors Merging of many tiny states into fewer, larger ones, left many musicians ...
Giants of French Impressionism in Music and Visual Art
... The compositional techniques Debussy used had an immediate impact on musical tradition. Debussy’s harmonies seem to float along, using chord progressions that seem to be circular. He created harmonic moods that blended into each other within a long-range harmonic plan. He used modes and the whole-to ...
... The compositional techniques Debussy used had an immediate impact on musical tradition. Debussy’s harmonies seem to float along, using chord progressions that seem to be circular. He created harmonic moods that blended into each other within a long-range harmonic plan. He used modes and the whole-to ...
Eduard Alekseyev - Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
... for all constructions of the tunes.4 Less common than stable scales, mobile scales have been traditionally characteristic of Sakha songs. They have been characterized by what turn out to be simply fluctuations of the tonal system as a whole: “purposeful, gradual changes of one, several, or all of th ...
... for all constructions of the tunes.4 Less common than stable scales, mobile scales have been traditionally characteristic of Sakha songs. They have been characterized by what turn out to be simply fluctuations of the tonal system as a whole: “purposeful, gradual changes of one, several, or all of th ...
Symmetry and Transformations in the Musical Plane
... The author finds these ideas particularly inspiring for use in composition. For example, it seemed obvious to begin a seven-movement piece with one movement dedicated to each of the seven horizontal frieze patterns. This piece, as of yet untitled, is a set of variations where one motive is transform ...
... The author finds these ideas particularly inspiring for use in composition. For example, it seemed obvious to begin a seven-movement piece with one movement dedicated to each of the seven horizontal frieze patterns. This piece, as of yet untitled, is a set of variations where one motive is transform ...
Introduction: Musical Responses to Goethe`s Faust
... selection and condensation; they require choices in relation to the musical expression a composer aspires to, in relation to instrumentation, form, genre, and style. All of these choices generate meaning and impact which differs from that of the original; many of these choices are the product of a c ...
... selection and condensation; they require choices in relation to the musical expression a composer aspires to, in relation to instrumentation, form, genre, and style. All of these choices generate meaning and impact which differs from that of the original; many of these choices are the product of a c ...
program notes - Mercury Houston
... of deliverance. The recitative that follows, too, is unusual in using the full ensemble as accompaniment, a tactic that composers reserved for recitative texts of especially intense emotion. The second aria, also in the prevailing operatic form of the da capo, introduces a hopeful mood on the theme ...
... of deliverance. The recitative that follows, too, is unusual in using the full ensemble as accompaniment, a tactic that composers reserved for recitative texts of especially intense emotion. The second aria, also in the prevailing operatic form of the da capo, introduces a hopeful mood on the theme ...
Weber Analysis - Mr. John Patzlaff
... I enjoy Carl Maria von Weber’s works mostly because of the grand ideas presented, even in his smaller works. Being one of the fathers of German Romantic Opera, many of his compositions are grandiose with rich orchestrations and a strong emphasis on chromaticism and color chords. Even in his clarinet ...
... I enjoy Carl Maria von Weber’s works mostly because of the grand ideas presented, even in his smaller works. Being one of the fathers of German Romantic Opera, many of his compositions are grandiose with rich orchestrations and a strong emphasis on chromaticism and color chords. Even in his clarinet ...
Music info - White Rose Male Voice Praise
... time as one QUAVER. Four of them equal the length of one CROTCHET, eight of them equal one MINIM and sixteen equal one SEMIBRIEVE. In summary, then, this is how the various notes relate to each other in terms of their relative duration: ...
... time as one QUAVER. Four of them equal the length of one CROTCHET, eight of them equal one MINIM and sixteen equal one SEMIBRIEVE. In summary, then, this is how the various notes relate to each other in terms of their relative duration: ...
lutoslawski`s approach to sound masses and form in
... to embody what Varèse had aimed at decades before. As he foresaw, the emergence of “new instruments” (which resulted in electronic music) in fact played an important role in the materialization of his ideas, but that was not necessarily the determinant factor that led composers to conceive and accom ...
... to embody what Varèse had aimed at decades before. As he foresaw, the emergence of “new instruments” (which resulted in electronic music) in fact played an important role in the materialization of his ideas, but that was not necessarily the determinant factor that led composers to conceive and accom ...
Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. It generally derives from observation of how musicians and composers make music, but includes hypothetical speculation. Most commonly, the term describes the academic study and analysis of fundamental elements of music such as pitch, rhythm, harmony, and form, but also refers to descriptions, concepts, or beliefs related to music. Because of the ever-expanding conception of what constitutes music (see Definition of music), a more inclusive definition could be that music theory is the consideration of any sonic phenomena, including silence, as it relates to music.Music theory is a subfield of musicology, which is itself a subfield within the overarching field of the arts and humanities. Etymologically, music theory is an act of contemplation of music, from the Greek θεωρία, a looking at, viewing, contemplation, speculation, theory, also a sight, a spectacle. As such, it is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships, but there is also a body of theory concerning such practical aspects as the creation or the performance of music, orchestration, ornamentation, improvisation, and electronic sound production. A person who researches, teaches, or writes articles about music theory is a music theorist. University study, typically to the M.A. or Ph.D level, is required to teach as a tenure-track music theorist in an American or Canadian university. Methods of analysis include mathematics, graphic analysis, and, especially, analysis enabled by Western music notation. Comparative, descriptive, statistical, and other methods are also used.The development, preservation, and transmission of music theory may be found in oral and practical music-making traditions, musical instruments, and other artifacts. For example, ancient instruments from Mesopotamia, China, and prehistoric sites around the world reveal details about the music they produced and, potentially, something of the musical theory that might have been used by their makers (see History of music and Musical instrument). In ancient and living cultures around the world, the deep and long roots of music theory are clearly visible in instruments, oral traditions, and current music making. Many cultures, at least as far back as ancient Mesopotamia, Pharoanic Egypt, and ancient China have also considered music theory in more formal ways such as written treatises and music notation.