Ravel`s String Quartet: History and Analysis
... the form and evolution which the subsequent work should have as a whole. I may thus be occupied for years without writing a single note of the work after which the writing goes relatively rapidly; but there is still much time to be spent in eliminating everything that might be regarded as superfluou ...
... the form and evolution which the subsequent work should have as a whole. I may thus be occupied for years without writing a single note of the work after which the writing goes relatively rapidly; but there is still much time to be spent in eliminating everything that might be regarded as superfluou ...
The Case of Guillaume Lekeu`s String Quartet
... The use of an antique, sterile musical language is not only strikingly irrelevant to the trends of fin-de-siècle Europe, but is also anachronistic when placed in the context of Lekeu’s stylistic development. Also significant is the work’s layout in six movements, an architectural anomaly in the cont ...
... The use of an antique, sterile musical language is not only strikingly irrelevant to the trends of fin-de-siècle Europe, but is also anachronistic when placed in the context of Lekeu’s stylistic development. Also significant is the work’s layout in six movements, an architectural anomaly in the cont ...
Night Songs program note
... Du Bois wrote Night Songs (Nachtliederen) in 2005 for the Kronos Quartet; tonight marks the New York premiere of the piece. Commissioned for the Kronos Quartet. "At night, as I lay in the camp on my plank bed, surrounded by women and girls gently snoring, dreaming aloud, quietly sobbing and tossing ...
... Du Bois wrote Night Songs (Nachtliederen) in 2005 for the Kronos Quartet; tonight marks the New York premiere of the piece. Commissioned for the Kronos Quartet. "At night, as I lay in the camp on my plank bed, surrounded by women and girls gently snoring, dreaming aloud, quietly sobbing and tossing ...
Where Minimal and Maximal Meet
... Photos: Morton Feldman in 1974; after brief early works, he vastly expanded his canvas, suggesting that the 20-minute work had become a modernist cliché. (Jan Williams/Music Library, State University of New York at Buffalo)(pg. 36); John Snijders, center foreground, the founder of the Ives Ensemble, ...
... Photos: Morton Feldman in 1974; after brief early works, he vastly expanded his canvas, suggesting that the 20-minute work had become a modernist cliché. (Jan Williams/Music Library, State University of New York at Buffalo)(pg. 36); John Snijders, center foreground, the founder of the Ives Ensemble, ...
Liner Notes - Music@Menlo
... ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904): String Quartet no. 12 in F Major, op. 96, American (1893) The American Quartet’s beguiling evocation of the Midwestern countryside that has endeared it to generations of music lovers spills forth immediately from the first page of the score. The first theme bubbles with ...
... ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904): String Quartet no. 12 in F Major, op. 96, American (1893) The American Quartet’s beguiling evocation of the Midwestern countryside that has endeared it to generations of music lovers spills forth immediately from the first page of the score. The first theme bubbles with ...
Read full article in PDF version - Analytical Approaches To World
... were stripped of their syncopating nature in speech. One such example is the word “Kkubo” (road), whose rhythm should have consisted of a sixteenth note for the syllable “Kku,” followed by an eighth note for “bo” and “e,” the latter syllable subsumed in the former syllable. Also, according to the co ...
... were stripped of their syncopating nature in speech. One such example is the word “Kkubo” (road), whose rhythm should have consisted of a sixteenth note for the syllable “Kku,” followed by an eighth note for “bo” and “e,” the latter syllable subsumed in the former syllable. Also, according to the co ...
McCalmont`s List 12: Joseph Haydn`s String Quartet in C, Op. 76
... ● Haydn’s musical sense of humor is legendary. Listen to the first minute of the second movement of the “Surprise” Symphony (No. 94) or the final movement of his “Joke” String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 2. ● After Haydn’s funeral, two graverobbers bribed the gravedigger to give them Haydn’s head, whic ...
... ● Haydn’s musical sense of humor is legendary. Listen to the first minute of the second movement of the “Surprise” Symphony (No. 94) or the final movement of his “Joke” String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 2. ● After Haydn’s funeral, two graverobbers bribed the gravedigger to give them Haydn’s head, whic ...
PDF text - Music Theory Online
... impressive movements being treated in more depth. In a later chapter on theoretical perspectives, some of these movements are evaluated anew at greater length, particularly the first movement of the “Hunt” quartet, K. 458. One might imagine that such an overview section would be ideal for the studen ...
... impressive movements being treated in more depth. In a later chapter on theoretical perspectives, some of these movements are evaluated anew at greater length, particularly the first movement of the “Hunt” quartet, K. 458. One might imagine that such an overview section would be ideal for the studen ...
1 To some, Joseph Haydn (1732‐1809) is known familiarly as “the
... 1779 and was a set of six keyboard sonatas. In his contract with Artaria, Haydn was unable to sell his own music. This changed on New Year’s Day 1779 when he sent a letter to J.C. Lavater asking him to publicize his newly compiled set of string quartets that were written “in an entirely new, s ...
... 1779 and was a set of six keyboard sonatas. In his contract with Artaria, Haydn was unable to sell his own music. This changed on New Year’s Day 1779 when he sent a letter to J.C. Lavater asking him to publicize his newly compiled set of string quartets that were written “in an entirely new, s ...
UCP program notes Oct 4 - University of Chicago Presents
... In 1973 Benjamin Britten–frail and facing a heart operation–composed his final opera, Death in Venice. Based on Thomas Mann’s 1913 novella, the opera summed up many of the themes of Britten’s artistic career: as the aging novelist Aschenbach embarks on a quest for spiritual redemption in a city assa ...
... In 1973 Benjamin Britten–frail and facing a heart operation–composed his final opera, Death in Venice. Based on Thomas Mann’s 1913 novella, the opera summed up many of the themes of Britten’s artistic career: as the aging novelist Aschenbach embarks on a quest for spiritual redemption in a city assa ...
Creation UNLV Percussion Ensemble and Moving Light Lab
... music" social system. This work functions as self-reflection, criticism, and exploration of the creative issues that I have encountered while producing works of this nature, and the artistic issues that arise from varying degrees of complexity on both the part of the composer and performer. Just bey ...
... music" social system. This work functions as self-reflection, criticism, and exploration of the creative issues that I have encountered while producing works of this nature, and the artistic issues that arise from varying degrees of complexity on both the part of the composer and performer. Just bey ...
program notes
... Troy, abandoned by its gods. A fugue appears, and mingles with the disconsolate main theme. Tritones, the evil intervals regarded as the bane of Western music, begin to appear, and the fugue builds up to its own catastrophe. The opening chromatic cello theme attempts to come to the rescue – the fugu ...
... Troy, abandoned by its gods. A fugue appears, and mingles with the disconsolate main theme. Tritones, the evil intervals regarded as the bane of Western music, begin to appear, and the fugue builds up to its own catastrophe. The opening chromatic cello theme attempts to come to the rescue – the fugu ...
the PROGRAM - Rockport Music
... to increasingly agitated activity, as the four instruments separate into their respective voices. Their elaborated plaints, led by the soprano, culminate in a defiant final wail at the extremes of their ranges on an open fifth. ...
... to increasingly agitated activity, as the four instruments separate into their respective voices. Their elaborated plaints, led by the soprano, culminate in a defiant final wail at the extremes of their ranges on an open fifth. ...
history of barbershop
... Rupert Hall, knew each other, but were not close friends. Cash was a lawyer; Hall a businessman. Cash was returning to Tulsa from a business trip to Denver; Hall was flying to Pittsburgh. Both their flights were delayed because of bad weather. So there they were. Cash, who loved to woodshed, asked H ...
... Rupert Hall, knew each other, but were not close friends. Cash was a lawyer; Hall a businessman. Cash was returning to Tulsa from a business trip to Denver; Hall was flying to Pittsburgh. Both their flights were delayed because of bad weather. So there they were. Cash, who loved to woodshed, asked H ...
CARMINA BURANA Saturday, May 9, 2015 – 8pm at The VETS
... published. With Carmina Burana my ‘collected works’ begin.” So wrote Carl Orff to his publisher following the 1937 world premiere of the work that would make him world famous. His earlier music, tinged with Debussy, Strauss and Schoenberg, was now laid to rest in the wake of this sensational new app ...
... published. With Carmina Burana my ‘collected works’ begin.” So wrote Carl Orff to his publisher following the 1937 world premiere of the work that would make him world famous. His earlier music, tinged with Debussy, Strauss and Schoenberg, was now laid to rest in the wake of this sensational new app ...
Pre-Concert Lecture Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartets, Op. 18
... Leopold II. Another was his youngest brother, the Archduke Maximilian Franz, who in 1784 became the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne. Cologne was one of the most important principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. Most of the principalities of the Empire were ruled by secular princes, but about of thir ...
... Leopold II. Another was his youngest brother, the Archduke Maximilian Franz, who in 1784 became the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne. Cologne was one of the most important principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. Most of the principalities of the Empire were ruled by secular princes, but about of thir ...
Structure in Western Classical music 1600–1899
... 2 Name three different types of musical texture that feature in this chorus. 3 Name the four voice parts that perform this chorus. 4 What instruments accompany the singers? 5 How many different melodies are used by Handel in the chorus? 6 Identify two ways in which the last three bars of the extract ...
... 2 Name three different types of musical texture that feature in this chorus. 3 Name the four voice parts that perform this chorus. 4 What instruments accompany the singers? 5 How many different melodies are used by Handel in the chorus? 6 Identify two ways in which the last three bars of the extract ...
BIO - Jens Klimek
... school with a special focus on music ecudation, in Wernigerode in 1996. By its completion in 2003 (Abitur) he was trained in addition to regular school subjects in music history, music theory, ear training, choral conducting and score reading. He also completed his studies in choral conducting. As a ...
... school with a special focus on music ecudation, in Wernigerode in 1996. By its completion in 2003 (Abitur) he was trained in addition to regular school subjects in music history, music theory, ear training, choral conducting and score reading. He also completed his studies in choral conducting. As a ...
Sphinx Virtuosi Catalyst Quartet - University of Florida Performing Arts
... as “first-rate in every way” and the ensemble “produced a more beautiful, precise and carefully shaped sound than some fully professional orchestras that come through Carnegie Hall in the course of the year.” The chamber orchestra has returned to Carnegie Hall annually since 2006, presenting outstan ...
... as “first-rate in every way” and the ensemble “produced a more beautiful, precise and carefully shaped sound than some fully professional orchestras that come through Carnegie Hall in the course of the year.” The chamber orchestra has returned to Carnegie Hall annually since 2006, presenting outstan ...
Jonathan Biss, Piano And the Elias Quartet
... dozens more works for other instrumental combinations. But why so few piano quartets? The answer is that, in writing for keyboard, violin, viola, and violoncello, Mozart was something of a trailblazer. In the late 18th century, this combination of instruments was unusual. There are examples of ear ...
... dozens more works for other instrumental combinations. But why so few piano quartets? The answer is that, in writing for keyboard, violin, viola, and violoncello, Mozart was something of a trailblazer. In the late 18th century, this combination of instruments was unusual. There are examples of ear ...
American Record Guide Review
... I have always found Alexander Scriabin's music exciting and thrilling. With his combination of Russian romanticism, mysticism, and harmonic ambiguity, Scriabin's scores are the ultimate musical adventure. This composer was absolutely merciless with his musical demands. His music needs superhuman pla ...
... I have always found Alexander Scriabin's music exciting and thrilling. With his combination of Russian romanticism, mysticism, and harmonic ambiguity, Scriabin's scores are the ultimate musical adventure. This composer was absolutely merciless with his musical demands. His music needs superhuman pla ...
LMM - Artaria String Quartet 2015-16 Program II Politically Incorrect
... his sensibilities, and his music, but that depiction is unendingly complex. Arguments continue even today on his political views and on the compromises he may have made to sustain his creativity. The only thing certain is his position as a victim in the Soviet regime’s attempt to control the arts an ...
... his sensibilities, and his music, but that depiction is unendingly complex. Arguments continue even today on his political views and on the compromises he may have made to sustain his creativity. The only thing certain is his position as a victim in the Soviet regime’s attempt to control the arts an ...
Brentano String Quartet - Hancher
... Grimes nearly every purely instrumental composition he wrote was at the ...
... Grimes nearly every purely instrumental composition he wrote was at the ...
String Quartet in G Minor
... to it until the fall of 1919. This was the year after the conclusion of World War I (Ravel had served as an ambulance driver in the French army during the war), and the French vision of the Germanic world was quite different now than it had been when Ravel originally conceived the piece. Neverthele ...
... to it until the fall of 1919. This was the year after the conclusion of World War I (Ravel had served as an ambulance driver in the French army during the war), and the French vision of the Germanic world was quite different now than it had been when Ravel originally conceived the piece. Neverthele ...
ProvidenceQuartet07-08
... There are also regular Musical Workshops, concert trips for entire families, Performance Parties, Youth Salons, Providence Quartet concerts and demonstrations, and a leadership development group for teens. Aside from a $10 registration fee, all programs—including instruments—are provided free to par ...
... There are also regular Musical Workshops, concert trips for entire families, Performance Parties, Youth Salons, Providence Quartet concerts and demonstrations, and a leadership development group for teens. Aside from a $10 registration fee, all programs—including instruments—are provided free to par ...
Sweet Adelines International competition
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The Sweet Adelines International Competitions are the annual global championships for women's barbershop harmony a cappella singing – in quartets and choruses – for members of Sweet Adelines International (SAI) and have been held annually between September and November since 1947. They are now the largest women's singing competition in the world with over 8000 participants at the 2014 convention. There are two competitions for choruses (the international championships and the ""Harmony Classic"" for smaller choruses), and two competitions for quartets (the international championships and the ""Rising Star"" for young singers). Currently, the first three of these competitions are held together and form the Sweet Adelines International Convention. Over the course of competition history, the most successful chorus has been Melodeers Chorus from Chicago with seven championship titles, and the most successful quartet singer was Connie Noble who won with four separate quartets. MAXX Factor from Baltimore holds the record for highest quartet score, and Rönninge Show Chorus from Stockholm for highest ever chorus score.