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... academic endeavor within which the composer and performer played separate roles. Because ‘composition’ was defined locally as a Western tradition, there were no standards for composing gugak (Korean traditional music). Rather, the earliest 20th century composers received training in Western composit ...
... academic endeavor within which the composer and performer played separate roles. Because ‘composition’ was defined locally as a Western tradition, there were no standards for composing gugak (Korean traditional music). Rather, the earliest 20th century composers received training in Western composit ...
Year 10 Music Revision - Churchdown School Academy
... These four motifs are heard in different parts and in combined in different ways throughout the movement. In section B of the listening exam you will be asked to write in detail about one of the set works. You are likely to have to put your work in context, for instance by giving its date and style, ...
... These four motifs are heard in different parts and in combined in different ways throughout the movement. In section B of the listening exam you will be asked to write in detail about one of the set works. You are likely to have to put your work in context, for instance by giving its date and style, ...
History of Music Notation
... De Mensurabili Musica, explains a set of six rhythmic modes that were in use at the time, although it is not clear how they were formed. These rhythmic modes were all in triple time and rather limited rhythm in chant to 6 different repeating patterns. ...
... De Mensurabili Musica, explains a set of six rhythmic modes that were in use at the time, although it is not clear how they were formed. These rhythmic modes were all in triple time and rather limited rhythm in chant to 6 different repeating patterns. ...
On Harmony as an Element in Music
... follow each other in an exquisite but almost unpredictable manner. See example 6, which is a modulation from Eb major to Eb minor using B-minor seventh as an intermediate, literally unheard of earlier. The particular style of Ravel is so well-known that it may be unnecessary to say anything about it ...
... follow each other in an exquisite but almost unpredictable manner. See example 6, which is a modulation from Eb major to Eb minor using B-minor seventh as an intermediate, literally unheard of earlier. The particular style of Ravel is so well-known that it may be unnecessary to say anything about it ...
Lithuanian musicology, Tome 3, Vilnius: Lietuvos muzikos
... with the change of the text concept, and focuses his attention on the musical text as an object of artistic activity which is said to be one of the most problematic and one of the most difficult to define. The ethnomusicological part of the volume includes the research of intonation and rhythmic formul ...
... with the change of the text concept, and focuses his attention on the musical text as an object of artistic activity which is said to be one of the most problematic and one of the most difficult to define. The ethnomusicological part of the volume includes the research of intonation and rhythmic formul ...
RoundstoRoundelaysASurveyofPeriodMusic
... The Ars Antiqua (ancient technique) period spans roughly from 1170 to 1310, in which polyphony, in use as early as the late 9th century for improvisational performance, began to be truly composed. The term Ars Antiqua is most commonly used to refer specifically to sacred music from this period, the ...
... The Ars Antiqua (ancient technique) period spans roughly from 1170 to 1310, in which polyphony, in use as early as the late 9th century for improvisational performance, began to be truly composed. The term Ars Antiqua is most commonly used to refer specifically to sacred music from this period, the ...
Repetitive Minimalism: A historical style or a perspective
... Potter, Keith (2007), “1976 and All That: minimalism and post-minimalism, analysis and listening strategies”, keynote lecture to the First International Conference on Music and Minimalism, 31st August, University of Wales, Bangor, published on the website of the new Society for Minimalist Music, www ...
... Potter, Keith (2007), “1976 and All That: minimalism and post-minimalism, analysis and listening strategies”, keynote lecture to the First International Conference on Music and Minimalism, 31st August, University of Wales, Bangor, published on the website of the new Society for Minimalist Music, www ...
Silent mountains and speaking memories
... de Falla’s “Homenaje”, a composition in which space and time are bundled prismatically. This piece is considered the first guitar composition of the twentieth century that doesn’t conceive this instrument from the angle of fringe- or folk-music, but brings it up-to-date with contemporaneous musical ...
... de Falla’s “Homenaje”, a composition in which space and time are bundled prismatically. This piece is considered the first guitar composition of the twentieth century that doesn’t conceive this instrument from the angle of fringe- or folk-music, but brings it up-to-date with contemporaneous musical ...
KOKO - Stratford School Academy
... The balafon also plays rolls up and down the keys (hitting one or two notes really fast, continuously). 2nd BALAFON joins in (low pitch). Then Both balafons play the theme before the drums comes in. The balafons play polyrhythms and improvise lots of melodies based around the original theme. They al ...
... The balafon also plays rolls up and down the keys (hitting one or two notes really fast, continuously). 2nd BALAFON joins in (low pitch). Then Both balafons play the theme before the drums comes in. The balafons play polyrhythms and improvise lots of melodies based around the original theme. They al ...
the classical period 1750 – 1820
... Keys change suddenly and often and some music is atonal – has no key at all. Unusual scales are used including modes, whole tone scales and blues scales. Harmony is often very dissonant with complex chords. Dynamics change frequently and a very wide range of articulation can be used. Composers carri ...
... Keys change suddenly and often and some music is atonal – has no key at all. Unusual scales are used including modes, whole tone scales and blues scales. Harmony is often very dissonant with complex chords. Dynamics change frequently and a very wide range of articulation can be used. Composers carri ...
Pictures at an Exhibition Composition Project
... your story has clear characters, a problem, a beginning/middle/end, and appropriate emotions. (You may continue onto another piece of paper if ...
... your story has clear characters, a problem, a beginning/middle/end, and appropriate emotions. (You may continue onto another piece of paper if ...
MUS LAB
... lives, is emphasized as a musical quality. Morphologies, which we normally relate to a human or mechanical action, take on an autonomous energy of their own. Alchemical both embraces and subverts our everyday experiences of metal objects, transforming the familiar and the mundane into the musical. ...
... lives, is emphasized as a musical quality. Morphologies, which we normally relate to a human or mechanical action, take on an autonomous energy of their own. Alchemical both embraces and subverts our everyday experiences of metal objects, transforming the familiar and the mundane into the musical. ...
Area of Study 1: Setwork 3
... HOMOPHONY • Main tune starts with 3 notes of the main chord F – Db – Ab falling. • A decoration called ACCICCATURA (crushed note) is used ...
... HOMOPHONY • Main tune starts with 3 notes of the main chord F – Db – Ab falling. • A decoration called ACCICCATURA (crushed note) is used ...
Powerpoint - gozips.uakron.edu
... every aspect of life. And we have developed tools that could end all life in an instant. – Everything is at the tips of our fingers, even comunication. We can send and receive messages instantly. Entertainment is the same way. ...
... every aspect of life. And we have developed tools that could end all life in an instant. – Everything is at the tips of our fingers, even comunication. We can send and receive messages instantly. Entertainment is the same way. ...
Medieval Period
... organizing the huge repertory of chant that developed during the first centuries of the Christian church, hence the term Gregorian chant. He was pope from 590 to 604, and the Medieval era continued into the 1400s, so this period consists of almost a millennium's worth of music. One of the principal ...
... organizing the huge repertory of chant that developed during the first centuries of the Christian church, hence the term Gregorian chant. He was pope from 590 to 604, and the Medieval era continued into the 1400s, so this period consists of almost a millennium's worth of music. One of the principal ...
The Cave Of Sounds: An Interactive Installation Exploring
... audience and performer [see 12]. They also shaped the creation process. Involvement was inclusive and non-selective. And while support and feedback were continuous among those involved, everyone remained free to create their instrument as they pleased. Ideas of prehistoric music guided many aspects ...
... audience and performer [see 12]. They also shaped the creation process. Involvement was inclusive and non-selective. And while support and feedback were continuous among those involved, everyone remained free to create their instrument as they pleased. Ideas of prehistoric music guided many aspects ...
Arab American Time: Ray Hanania - Al
... 3400 B.C. Among the tablets were three fragments of a single tablet in various states of preservation. The text consists of Akkadian terms written in Ugaritic Cuneiform script and is the oldest known preserved music notation in the world! The clay tablets also contain instructions for a singer accom ...
... 3400 B.C. Among the tablets were three fragments of a single tablet in various states of preservation. The text consists of Akkadian terms written in Ugaritic Cuneiform script and is the oldest known preserved music notation in the world! The clay tablets also contain instructions for a singer accom ...
Chapter 29 Germanic Expression and the Development of Serialism
... Combined twelve-tone techniques with forms from earlier musical eras Opera Wozzeck (1917-1921) considered to be greatest work ...
... Combined twelve-tone techniques with forms from earlier musical eras Opera Wozzeck (1917-1921) considered to be greatest work ...
Joan Arnau Pàmies
... Webern, Stravinsky, Crawford Seeger, Cage, Ligeti, Cardew, and Reich. Aural Skills IV, V, VI ...
... Webern, Stravinsky, Crawford Seeger, Cage, Ligeti, Cardew, and Reich. Aural Skills IV, V, VI ...
With the composition of his tone poem Finlandia
... a hymn-like theme, the most famous melody Sibelius ever wrote. The new subject is taken up by the strings and, after a brief return to the more energetic vein of the central episode, affirmed by the brass in the work’s triumphant closing measures. Like other composers who happened to create an extre ...
... a hymn-like theme, the most famous melody Sibelius ever wrote. The new subject is taken up by the strings and, after a brief return to the more energetic vein of the central episode, affirmed by the brass in the work’s triumphant closing measures. Like other composers who happened to create an extre ...
Analysis Of Stravinsky`s The Rite Of Spring Igor Stravinsky was a
... fragments that join with other fragments, creating more complex larger components. However, though simple, the fragments are chromatic and often arise out of the scalar connection of notes in lower harmony. For example, also in “Dances of the Young Girls,” Rehearsal 19, Stravinsky reorders the pitch ...
... fragments that join with other fragments, creating more complex larger components. However, though simple, the fragments are chromatic and often arise out of the scalar connection of notes in lower harmony. For example, also in “Dances of the Young Girls,” Rehearsal 19, Stravinsky reorders the pitch ...
to all research - Hindsight Project: Classical Music of the
... most they succeed in focusing attention on to a particular idea, which others may then pursue and develop. Art reaches a more than ephemeral validity only when its creator takes a wider view of tradition than the narrowly revolutionary one. " These points are raised also in Musical Borrowings which ...
... most they succeed in focusing attention on to a particular idea, which others may then pursue and develop. Art reaches a more than ephemeral validity only when its creator takes a wider view of tradition than the narrowly revolutionary one. " These points are raised also in Musical Borrowings which ...
Music History IV—Dr
... 6. What are fuging tunes? Be able to describe the form in which they were written. 7. Who was Stephen Foster? Why is he important? What songs did he write? 8. What important American musical institutions were formed in the 19th century? 9. Which composers were part of the Second New England School? ...
... 6. What are fuging tunes? Be able to describe the form in which they were written. 7. Who was Stephen Foster? Why is he important? What songs did he write? 8. What important American musical institutions were formed in the 19th century? 9. Which composers were part of the Second New England School? ...
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.