I remember pretty well when I first listened to Ivo Perelman’s music. I was still in college‚ and the albums I had in hand were “The Children of Ibeji” and “Man of the Forest”‚ which left me completely stunned‚ almost paralyzed‚ with that enthralling combination of Brazilian music and free improvisation. At that time‚ I was just starting to explore the free jazz scene and Ivo’s albums inevitably occupied a prominent place in my discography. Since then‚ I became an avid follower of his work and have
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MUS 603E Wenye Li Dr. Alexandra Monchick 05/07/2016 Simple but not easy: Taking Steve Reich’s Music for 18 musicians as an example After World War II‚ there were two alternative paths through the musical avant-garde. One follows the twelve-tone composing technique of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern‚ which is the path of serialism. The other is “chance music”‚ which was created by John Cage and is based on the philosophy of I-Ching. Serialism and aleatorism are the mainstream genres of 20th
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Week #6 - Quiz Total Grade: 12 (of possible 12 points) Question 1 of 12 Score: 1 (of possible 1 point) As the lied is mainly accompanied by the piano alone‚ the relationship of the pianist to the singer is one of being a(n) _____ in the total artistic effort. A. partner B. accompanist C. leader D. servant Answer Key: A Question 2 of 12 Score: 1 (of possible 1 point) When a song is composed with the same music for each stanza of the poem‚ it is called A. through-composed
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Josquin used the Pange lingua melody in his Mass‚ Missa Pange lingua. In this essay‚ I would analyse the way he had used the melody in the Agnus Dei section of his Mass and explore how he had used other techniques such as canon‚ imitation‚ sequence‚ repetition and duetting. Josquin used an example of canon to start the Agnus Dei of his mass. A canon is a strict imitation between two or more parts which the intervals between notes are exactly the same. At the beginning of the Angus Dei‚ Josquin
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One of the greatest things about music its ability to inspire growth. Many times it can evolve into bigger and greater things and many times in can do the whole opposite. One of the few topics in music where developments continued in a consistent uphill way has been that in the development of the orchestra. Claudio Monteverdi play an important role in the development of the opera orchestra. Firstly‚ Monteverdi puts an orchestra instrumental list at the beginning of his of Orfeo. This easily delineates
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The piano is introduced by Bartolomeo Cristofori as a revolutionizing instrument to the composition of music‚ while its’ drawn delighted listeners through its melodies. The Onion presents Cristofori as the author of the following satirical piece article‚ which displays inventor’s ’remorse’ towards the murder of Luca Brasi in The Godfather. Within this analysis‚ Cristofori will be asserted as the writer of the satirical article due to the use of credibility in such phrases like "I" and "me." The invention
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Melody is the key component of any song. In my opinion the melody is the identity of a song. I believe music could not exist without melody: It is like having a body but not the brain to help the body function. I think the rhythm controls the melody and‚ paired correctly‚ the harmony adds a little sparkle to the piece. I think the most important thing about the melody is that it is a way for the musician to convey a message to the listeners. When we hear the song “Wrecking Ball” the melody resonates
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Messiaen indicates in the score‚ by inserting a comma‚ that he wants the performers to play the entire phrase in one breath. It is often heard differently during a number of performances as clarinetists are not able to execute the entire phrase in one breath as the composer suggested. Many times‚ clarinetists chose to circle-breath during the beginning of the third movement in order to follow composer’s guidelines. In addition to the comma at the end of the fourth bar‚ Messiaen indicates breath marks
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Adagio for Strings? One of the most deep and heart-felt emotional pieces written in the 1930s many would say. For many listeners‚ Sammuel Barber’s expertly crafted‚ deeply felt scores‚ helped fill an emotional void left by the onslought of modernism. Barber‚ in his youth was sort of a prodigy. By age 10 he wrote a short opera entitled ’The Rode Tree’. By age 14 he was one fo the first students to attend New Curtis Institute of Music. By the age of 28 he had written Adagio for Strings. Beginning
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The bassadance is a dance where you have to dance slow. The bassadance‚ also referred to as Basse danse‚ was a popular dance from the 15th to 16th centuries. The word Basse describes a movement in dance‚ where people glide slowly and gracefully without having their feet leave the floor. There were four types of steps: pas simple‚ pas double‚ demarche‚ and branle. With the pas simples‚ dancers took two steps in one measure‚ with the feel of 6/4. In pas double‚ the dancers took three steps in one measure
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