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The Legacy of Tchaikovsky’s Ballets - CMUSE
WEB3 days ago · Swan Lake. The first of the three ballets was Swan Lake (1877).Precise origins of the narrative are cloudy, but there is a strong suggestion that the idea was an adaptation of The Stolen Veil by Johan Karl August Musäus.Tchaikovsky’s music was composed within a year of the commission.. He was apparently thrilled to receive the opportunity to compose a ballet but equally anxious to move on ...
4 Types of Counterpoint in Classical Music - CMUSE
WEB13 hours ago · 4. Inverted Counterpoint. This final contrapuntal offering incorporates a challenging technical method that will elude many composers. What happens is the melodic voices become interchangeable. This means shifting the upper voice to the lower voice and vice versa.. The transposition is commonly at the octave, but other variants are possible with some clever calculations.
The Importance of Music Education in Schools - CMUSE
WEB2 days ago · A study by Jian Sun from the School of Music and Dance (Xihua University, China: Organisational Psychology: volume 13;2022), highlights the enormous importance of music both during the Pandemic and in the following years.. Tens of thousands of people struggled during the lockdowns with mental health help centres overwhelmed constantly. Music became, for many, a coping mechanism.
The Connection between Classical Music and Visual Arts
WEB16 hours ago · The Fusion of Classical Music and Visual Art in Artists’ and Composers’ Works. Olivier Messiaen. Olivier Messiaen was one such composer who gave detailed explanations of his synaesthesia.Messiaen was able to give very precise color mixtures unique to him that related directly to his music.. Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. Wassily Kandinsky’s association with synaesthesia has ...
The Role of Music in Film and Television - CMUSE
WEB4 days ago · The music’s role in these films is clear-cut from the outset. Give the hero(s) their musical identity, underpin and enhance the action, and magnify and reflect the on-screen emotions to lead the audience through the movie.. In these films, I feel we hear the echoes of earlier classic films with vivid orchestral scores written by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams or Ernest Korngold.
Brief History of Music: An Introduction - CMUSE
WEBOct 5, 2022 by Dr Justin Wildridge. Brief History of Music. In all probability, music has played an important role in the lifecycle of humans perhaps even before we could speak. Significant evidence has been discovered that very early man developed primitive flutes from animal bones and used stones and wood as percussion.
Debussy and Impressionism: The Shaping Of Modern Classical Music
WEBOct 5, 2023 · A harmony that increasingly stretched the boundaries of tonality by using augmented chords or extended chords like the 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th.. In this way, there was also the influence of early jazz, and the rhythms of this genre of music crept into Debussy’s music. The ragtime syncopation, for instance, features in Debussy’s General Lavine from Debussy’s second book of Piano Preludes.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major - CMUSE
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · Before Pachelbel’s Canon in D is dismissed or eternally embraced, I propose we examine the work and its context a little closer.Johann Pachelbel was German baptized, in Nuremberg in 1653 and lived until the age of 52, dying in Nuremberg in 1706. (His precise date of birth is not known). By many accounts, Pachelbel was a prolific composer in his day, a fine organ player and teacher.
The Story Behind Für Elise - CMUSE
WEBApr 5, 2022 by Dr Justin Wildridge. Story Behind Für Elise. In spite of composing some of the most dramatically beautiful music ever heard, Beethoven’s life was littered with tragedy. Apart from the obvious horror of gradually going deaf, Beethoven did not have much luck with love either. During Beethoven’s brief and troubled life, he fell ...