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Reception Of Carmen Left Bizet
783 wordsGeorges Bizet Georges Bizet was born in Paris on October 25th, 1838. He was trained by his parents, who were musical, and admitted to the Paris Conservatoire just before his tenth birthday. There he studied counterpoint with Zimmerman and Gounod and composition with Hal " eve, and under Marmontel's tuition he became a brilliant pianist. Bizet's exceptional powers as a composer are already apparent in the products of his Conservatoire years, notably the Symphony in C, a work of precocious genius ...
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Music Of Gustav Holst
2,006 wordsGustav Holst: The Planets Suite Music derived from astrology is surprisingly rare. The ancient Greek philosophers, whatever their intellectual attitudes towards astrology may have been, were certainly not ignorant of astrological teachings and ideas. It was they, after all who put forward the idea of the "Music of the Spheres", the idea that these vast objects twirling around and whirling through space, must have hummed a tone as they went along their courses, much as a ball spun on a string wil...
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Leading Figures Of Soviet Music Including Shostakovich
1,541 wordsDmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin International Competition for Pianists...
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Contemporary As Dvorak
686 wordsDvorak Antonin Dvorak was born in Nelahozeves on September 8, 1841. Dvorak was one of the greatest of the Czech composers. He grew up with an appreciation of local folk songs and demonstrated a talent for music at an early age. His first experience with music was of a violinist and violist. He got the attention of Johannes Brahms with his Moravian Duets and soon won a competition in Vienna that he would have never won if it had not been for the insistence of Brahms. Since his patriotic compositi...
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Chance Music
628 wordsaleatory music ( ' l t^or' ) [Lat. ale a = dice game], music in which elements traditionally determined by the composer are determined either by a process of random selection chosen by the composer or by the exercise of choice by the performer (s). At the compositional stage, pitches, durations, dynamics, and so forth are made functions of playing card drawings, dice throwing's, or mathematical laws of chance, the latter with the possible aid of a computer. Those elements usually left to the per...
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Twelve Tone Music
974 wordsDefinition: Serialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them. The elements thus controlled may be the pitch of the notes, their length, their dynamics, their accents, or virtually any other musical quantity, which, in serial terms is called a parameter. More generally, serialism is any music which uses any ordered sets applied to any musical element. Whilst researching se...
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Gamelan Music
2,864 wordsOf all of the worlds' non-western music, none seems to be as familiar and at the same time as alien as Indonesian gamelan. Gamelan utilizes it's own, highly intricate, notation system under the context of large group orchestration much like a lot of western music. This fact makes gamelan easily dissect ible and imitable for western scholars and composers. It is also the main reason for such a high level of ethno musicological study done in Indonesia. Be that as it may, it is the other worldly so...
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