The Rebirth of the Musical Author in Recent Fiction
... home puts into practice her first musical principle: “Any sound or no sound at all is valid, as ‘good’ as any other sound” (MacLaverty 220). Indeed, the act of composition for this authormusician implies a process of ‘inner hearing’, and rendering the rhythms of everyday life in musical terms, since ...
... home puts into practice her first musical principle: “Any sound or no sound at all is valid, as ‘good’ as any other sound” (MacLaverty 220). Indeed, the act of composition for this authormusician implies a process of ‘inner hearing’, and rendering the rhythms of everyday life in musical terms, since ...
Pierre Boulez Conductor Webern Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1
... told Ritter. Mahler gave this melody to the tenor horn, an instrument with a dark and mysterious tone that he remembered from the military bands which he often heard as a child, when his family lived near an army barracks. This movement is one of Mahler’s most fantastic creations. The harmonies are ...
... told Ritter. Mahler gave this melody to the tenor horn, an instrument with a dark and mysterious tone that he remembered from the military bands which he often heard as a child, when his family lived near an army barracks. This movement is one of Mahler’s most fantastic creations. The harmonies are ...
Festival Program - Electronic Music Midwest
... This video uses the piece Clusters by Hubert Howe, for which the program notes are as follows: Most sounds that we hear in music consist of a spectrum of harmonic partials or overtones, and sometimes these also include some inharmonic components. In Clusters, the overtones are all clusters of 5-note ...
... This video uses the piece Clusters by Hubert Howe, for which the program notes are as follows: Most sounds that we hear in music consist of a spectrum of harmonic partials or overtones, and sometimes these also include some inharmonic components. In Clusters, the overtones are all clusters of 5-note ...
Chapter_Twenty Seven_Outline
... b. Schoenberg added to the irony of the poetry by using melodrama (based on recitation) for the singer. He called this Sprechstimme. c. Mondestrucken demonstrates how he approached cohesion in this work. 1) All intervallic material is presented at the beginning in an ostinato in the piano part. 2) I ...
... b. Schoenberg added to the irony of the poetry by using melodrama (based on recitation) for the singer. He called this Sprechstimme. c. Mondestrucken demonstrates how he approached cohesion in this work. 1) All intervallic material is presented at the beginning in an ostinato in the piano part. 2) I ...
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 ...
Concert d`aujourd`hui! Works by Domenico Scarlatti (1683
... with the help of Jascha Heifetz, he landed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a film composer. Over the next 15 years, he worked on scores for some 200 films there and at the other major film studios. Rita Hayworth hired him to write the music for The Loves of Carmen (1948), produced by Hayworth ...
... with the help of Jascha Heifetz, he landed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a film composer. Over the next 15 years, he worked on scores for some 200 films there and at the other major film studios. Rita Hayworth hired him to write the music for The Loves of Carmen (1948), produced by Hayworth ...
The Renaissance
... Having had a clerical education and taken Holy orders, Machaut's career as a poet and composer took flight when he joined the court of John, Duke of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia around 1323, serving as the king's secretary until that monarch's death in battle at Crécy in 1346. Sometime before this ...
... Having had a clerical education and taken Holy orders, Machaut's career as a poet and composer took flight when he joined the court of John, Duke of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia around 1323, serving as the king's secretary until that monarch's death in battle at Crécy in 1346. Sometime before this ...
Renaissance Period (1450 – 1600)
... The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic. Choral pieces had 4, 5 or 6 parts which were nearly equal in melodic interest. Imitation among the voices is common: each presents the same melodic idea in turn as in a round. Homophonic texture, with successions of chords, is also used, especi ...
... The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly polyphonic. Choral pieces had 4, 5 or 6 parts which were nearly equal in melodic interest. Imitation among the voices is common: each presents the same melodic idea in turn as in a round. Homophonic texture, with successions of chords, is also used, especi ...
MakingMUSIC Concert guide - The Louisville Orchestra
... Very few composers have the honor of changing the musical landscape to the extent that nothing would be the same after a singular work. Mozart and his opera The Marriage of Figaro sit comfortably within that exclusive category that includes Ludwig van Beethoven and his Third Symphony “Eroica” and St ...
... Very few composers have the honor of changing the musical landscape to the extent that nothing would be the same after a singular work. Mozart and his opera The Marriage of Figaro sit comfortably within that exclusive category that includes Ludwig van Beethoven and his Third Symphony “Eroica” and St ...
The Story of Classical Music
... The prize for writing the first important opera usually goes to another Italian. His name was Claudio Monteverdi and his opera was called L’Orfeo. It told the mythological tale of Orpheus – a musician who, when his wife Euridice died, went down to Hades, the land of the dead, to try to get her back. ...
... The prize for writing the first important opera usually goes to another Italian. His name was Claudio Monteverdi and his opera was called L’Orfeo. It told the mythological tale of Orpheus – a musician who, when his wife Euridice died, went down to Hades, the land of the dead, to try to get her back. ...
anatomy of the orchestra
... Even before the premiere of his first opera, however, Smetana had begun to compose another opera based on a comical tale from the Czech countryside. The Bartered Bride was based on a short script by a friend of Smetana. The plot takes place in a village where Jeník, a farmer’s son, has fallen in lov ...
... Even before the premiere of his first opera, however, Smetana had begun to compose another opera based on a comical tale from the Czech countryside. The Bartered Bride was based on a short script by a friend of Smetana. The plot takes place in a village where Jeník, a farmer’s son, has fallen in lov ...
program - Ensemble for the Romantic Century
... quotation of folk material. All the themes are original, but the inspiration from Spanish traditions is obvious. The Danza Española no. 5, subtitled “Andaluza” by the publisher (Granados gave a specific title to only one of the dances) recalls the characteristic rhythmic and melodic features of sou ...
... quotation of folk material. All the themes are original, but the inspiration from Spanish traditions is obvious. The Danza Española no. 5, subtitled “Andaluza” by the publisher (Granados gave a specific title to only one of the dances) recalls the characteristic rhythmic and melodic features of sou ...
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... music the other arts played a great role for me, especially sculpture and there I made some attempts of my own: For instance, I made sculptures from many ordinary pieces of wood. In 1943 I read Heinrich von Kleist’s little book Über das Marionettentheater (About Marionettes) and I was fascinated by ...
... music the other arts played a great role for me, especially sculpture and there I made some attempts of my own: For instance, I made sculptures from many ordinary pieces of wood. In 1943 I read Heinrich von Kleist’s little book Über das Marionettentheater (About Marionettes) and I was fascinated by ...
HARLEM QuARTET - Rockport Music
... theme as the musical epicenter. Although scarcely audible, the piece actually starts with music directly derived from the Arietta theme, leaving out the melody, but maintaining the same rhythmical flow and harmonic landscape, as if Beethoven’s theme is dreaming about yet another variation on itself. ...
... theme as the musical epicenter. Although scarcely audible, the piece actually starts with music directly derived from the Arietta theme, leaving out the melody, but maintaining the same rhythmical flow and harmonic landscape, as if Beethoven’s theme is dreaming about yet another variation on itself. ...
Music in Modernism c. 1900-2000
... The composers of Germany and Austria were the first to take steps into a larger tonal vocabulary. Though considered more of a Romantic figure than a modernistic one, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) set new standards as musical director of the Vienna Opera Orchestra, particularly in his massive symphonies ...
... The composers of Germany and Austria were the first to take steps into a larger tonal vocabulary. Though considered more of a Romantic figure than a modernistic one, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) set new standards as musical director of the Vienna Opera Orchestra, particularly in his massive symphonies ...
Masterpieces of Western Music
... solo passage leads us into a central solo that introduces brand new material. It starts with the flute and violin in a quiet dialogue playing in a moody minor key. Bach gives us a new texture, sequences of detached notes in the cello, flute, and violin, and then long high notes to prepare us for the ...
... solo passage leads us into a central solo that introduces brand new material. It starts with the flute and violin in a quiet dialogue playing in a moody minor key. Bach gives us a new texture, sequences of detached notes in the cello, flute, and violin, and then long high notes to prepare us for the ...
Table of Contents
... enduring form. These are the chants that were organized by Pope Gregory the Great (540-604.) They were sung in unison, without any accompaniment. Their melodies were built on a number of musical scales, two of which approximate our modern major and minor scales. The use of these chants during Europe ...
... enduring form. These are the chants that were organized by Pope Gregory the Great (540-604.) They were sung in unison, without any accompaniment. Their melodies were built on a number of musical scales, two of which approximate our modern major and minor scales. The use of these chants during Europe ...
GCSE Music Revision Guide
... Pedal vs. drone: A pedal tone is a repeated note, typically with other notes around it. When 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 t ...
... Pedal vs. drone: A pedal tone is a repeated note, typically with other notes around it. When 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 t ...
The Soundtrack
... performance in Scorsese’s remake (1991) 9 . Music’s capacity to evoke a sense of place, whether historical or geographical, has been part of the composer’s skill-base from a time long before moving images were invented. In Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), Mozart ...
... performance in Scorsese’s remake (1991) 9 . Music’s capacity to evoke a sense of place, whether historical or geographical, has been part of the composer’s skill-base from a time long before moving images were invented. In Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782), Mozart ...
Music and Poetr yy - Dayton Performing Arts Alliance
... Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of classical music’s most popular pieces with over 100 recordings in existence. The work is actually four concerti for solo violin, string orchestra and harpsichord. These pieces allowed violinists to show off the virtuoso possibilities of the violin, whose design had j ...
... Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is one of classical music’s most popular pieces with over 100 recordings in existence. The work is actually four concerti for solo violin, string orchestra and harpsichord. These pieces allowed violinists to show off the virtuoso possibilities of the violin, whose design had j ...
Summary EWCM ppt Lectures (FALL2016)
... J. S. Bach’s Cantatas • Chorales are used in Bach in all the cantatas. He wrote more than 200 chorale cantatas. Bach’s Organ Chorales (Chorale Preludes) • Chorales preludes (organ chorales) are compositions that employ either an entire chorale melody or part of a melody at any time during the compos ...
... J. S. Bach’s Cantatas • Chorales are used in Bach in all the cantatas. He wrote more than 200 chorale cantatas. Bach’s Organ Chorales (Chorale Preludes) • Chorales preludes (organ chorales) are compositions that employ either an entire chorale melody or part of a melody at any time during the compos ...
Shira 2014 Program - Congregation B`nai B`rith
... Marc Blitzstein. Some of his works, especially his score for West Side Story, helped bridge the gap between classical and popular music. His music was rooted in tonality but in some works like his Kaddish Symphony and the opera A Quiet Place he mixed in 12-tone elements. Bernstein himself said his m ...
... Marc Blitzstein. Some of his works, especially his score for West Side Story, helped bridge the gap between classical and popular music. His music was rooted in tonality but in some works like his Kaddish Symphony and the opera A Quiet Place he mixed in 12-tone elements. Bernstein himself said his m ...
University Band Symphonic Band - College of Fine Arts
... editor, Reed’s life was intertwined with music almost from birth in New York City on January 25th, 1921. His parents loved music and made it part of their daily lives; as a result Reed was well acquainted with most of the standard symphonic and operatic repertoire while he was even in elementary sch ...
... editor, Reed’s life was intertwined with music almost from birth in New York City on January 25th, 1921. His parents loved music and made it part of their daily lives; as a result Reed was well acquainted with most of the standard symphonic and operatic repertoire while he was even in elementary sch ...
Electronic Sounds
... "You see, by using the computer, the burden of the creative process has been shifted. You don't have to agonize over what the next note will be. The overall form or texture is what's important ." He compared the chance music to the work of pointillist painter Georges Seurat, whose paintings are made ...
... "You see, by using the computer, the burden of the creative process has been shifted. You don't have to agonize over what the next note will be. The overall form or texture is what's important ." He compared the chance music to the work of pointillist painter Georges Seurat, whose paintings are made ...
Listening Notes
... A brass instrument is really just a long tube with a mouthpiece to blow into at one end and a funnel (called a “bell”) at the other. To play a brass instrument, you must pucker your lips together and blow a raspberry into the cup-shaped mouthpiece. The air inside the tube vibrates (i.e. shakes back ...
... A brass instrument is really just a long tube with a mouthpiece to blow into at one end and a funnel (called a “bell”) at the other. To play a brass instrument, you must pucker your lips together and blow a raspberry into the cup-shaped mouthpiece. The air inside the tube vibrates (i.e. shakes back ...