Saturday, August 8, 2009
Major Concepts of Music
Now let me tell you what I have learned. Music is meaningful, and the examples are endless touching the lives of so many at various periods of time. I have come to understand quite a bit about the history of music and a means to appreciate classical music. How you do this is read the history of the particular pieces that you are planning to hear and learn some of the key instruments that will bring the composition alive. Try to understand what the composer was trying to convey through his composition. The ideas played out in the melody came from much sweat and tears and that is something you learn to appreciate.
Let me add, that Pop music that is listen to on a daily basis on the radio is not truly art but just popular songs that last only two to five minutes normally they become popular because they are heard over again. Artistic music last for ours and after repeated listening you appreciates the nuisances of each piece. And the depth that has went into the compilation of the composers work. Thru the ages as pieces became more intense the pitch, duration, loudness and tone increased thus increasing the amount of pieces needed to produce the sounds increase thru the various orchestra periods such as the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic period orchestra each time incorporating more strings, wind, brass, harpsichord and eventually the piano that is used in our modern era and it is still evolving with the incorporations of Asian instruments, though it is not set in stone for the Western culture yet.
The instrumental forms such as dance that was music with no voice it was merely for merriment and has had a major effect on cultures from the period called Allemande to Siciliana which possess different meters to the style of dance. Large scale works called movements are that are twenty minutes in length and broken down into five minute increments set for dance but routinely this is when the audience gives applause to the particular movement. Baroque in my opinion is synonymous with a major part of European history but when you think of classical music the dances truly comes into play during this period and the harpsichord is an intricate part of the this dance period.
The voice is represented by Fugue which is the best way to describe polyphonic imitations of music through voice and the ranges that you here are the soprano, alto, tenor and bass and they replicate or mimic the music that is composed and when this is done correctly you have a beautiful piece of work that has come together. Now in order for this to be done you need a conductor or maestro to bring the instruments and vocals and style of music together to create what the composer wrote and this is not something that it taken lightly much skill is placed in this endeavor to bring harmony together, hence the name maestro!
I have taken this course twice, due to my schedule and lack of preparedness, but I will say that it has been well worth it, for you see it is not just about a grade, but it has profoundly taught me various themes, the concept of hard work and dedication along with inspiration to create something of worth if very important, it seems that my culture at time have forgotten this on certain matters and just taking the time to relax and enjoy something that someone took the time and effort to produce this lesson is a major take away. One that I never shall forget we must combine all aspects of these concepts into our lives so that we too can inspire others to do great things as well and there is no short cut to creating a masterpiece!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Concert on the Green
Adagio for Winds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh7wbTNu07Y Written by Larry Daehn he born in Rosendale Wisconsin in 1939 received a degree from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh as well a Masters degree from the University at Platteville teaching music for well over 33 years and has his own publications.
http://www.windband.org/foothill/pgm_note/notes_d.htm#Daehn
Laudamus Te (Mass in C Minor, K427) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHJjCiKfydo Composed on a vow to his wife to write a mass when she safely returned from delivering their first children, Mozart wrote the It was premiered on October 26, 1783. Mass in C Minor (K. 427/417a) in late 1782 and early-to-mid 1783. It was first performed on August 25, in St. Peter's church with his wife singing the solos. The Mass in C Minor is one of the few works that Mozart did not compose for money http://www.wikio.com/video/1423321
Overture to “Candide” by Leonard Bernstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422-yb8TXj8 this was not a considered a successful work when it first opened on Broadway in 1956. Rather considered a complex assortment of music that had be worked and reworked at various times. However, it has survived and does give assistance in a positive way to Voltaire’s fanciful imaginative tale. http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=51515usic/piece_detail.cfm?id=515
1. Mazltov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha6V0MT6nrQ in times past, this melody was used for the farewell as a so-called dobranots (“good night song”) to escort the guests on their leave-taking at a wedding party. http://www.euronet.nl/~amsmusic/toelicht/klezmer.htm
2. Dem Trisker rebn’s nign (The Melody of the Rabbi of Trisk)this melody was first recorded in 1925 in New York by the clarinetist Dave Tarras. The title (Trisk is a town in the Ukrainian province of Volhynia) responded to the sentiments of the many Jewish immigrants who had settled in America. They formed a potential market for the upcoming record industry. http://www.euronet.nl/~amsmusic/toelicht/klezmer.htm
3. Lomir zich iberbetn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEKKhPDJ5lA (Yiddish: Let Us Reconcile)This is a traditional wedding dance. It is performed at the party by unmarried girls and boys who, to avoid physical contact, were only connected by a handkerchief that they held at the tips, high up in the air. http://www.euronet.nl/~amsmusic/toelicht/klezmer.htm
4. Chosidle (slow dance) This is a Chassidic dance with a solemn mood. The melody is based on a nigun (Chassidic melody without words). Chassidism is an orthodox movement within the religious Judaism, in which mysticism plays an important role. http://www.euronet.nl/~amsmusic/toelicht/klezmer.htm
5. Ma jofus (Tants, tants, jidelech) Hebrew: How Beautiful…)This is a melody based on an ode to the Sabbath. It is a true classic from the klezmer repertoire, and it is also known as Tants, tants, Yidelech. In former days in Eastern Europe, Ma yofus was just as well known as Hava Nagila is today. http://www.euronet.nl/~amsmusic/toelicht/klezmer.html/~amsmusic/toelicht/klezmer.htm
2. I just Can’t Waite to Be King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXs8OS6EdAE6EdAE
3. Be Prepared http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6cw_MuTDE
4. Hakuna Matata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K92sv93_c_A
5. Can You feel the Love Tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCebAa9qKz8
6. King of Pride Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5bha0ZkRY
I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserable’s) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix0MyJnBQA Les MisĂ©rables known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a musical composed in 1980 by the French composer (person who wrote the music part) Claude-Michel Schönberg with a libretto (words) by Alain Boublil. It is the most famous of French musicals and one of the most performed musicals in the world. In 2006, the show celebrated its 21st anniversary and became the longest-running West End (England’s equivalent of America’s Broadway) musical in history, and is still running (albeit in different venues). http://susanboyle.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/who-really-wrote-i-dreamed-a-dream-music-ed-101/boyle.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/who-really-wrote-i-dreamed-a-dream-music-ed-101/
The Ultimate Patriotic Sing-Along
The Other Side of Silence
The Raven Mother
The Mountains of the Mind
The Immortal Beloved
Abusive articles about my latest concert will perhaps be set again from here to the Musikalische Zeitung. I certainly don’t want everything that is written against me to be suppressed. But people should bear in mind that nobody in Vienna has more private enemies than I have. This is the more understandable since the state of music here is becoming worse and worse.
With the issues of the day and war looming from France’s Napoleon Bonaparte and several symphonies later such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LimqvTZ3EC4 ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJGESRc3XfY
With the news of letters between he and Antoine Brentano that gives reason for the strange move and puts to rest how society because they cannot explain issues make of stories to fill in the gaps.