characteristics for the corresponding regions. Incorporating stylistic features of another culture while composing for a Western audience as described by Locke’s idea of transcultural composing, is realized in this set. Debussy’s incorporation of distinctive scales, rhythmic patterns, harmonies, and colors commonly associated with the exotic also follows Locke’s idea of submerged exoticism. La soirée dans Grenade allows both submerged exoticism and transcultural composing to intersect. Although Debussy tries to imitate authentic Spanish music, the music does not reflect Spanish tradition except for the imitation of the strumming guitar. The Spanish composer Manuel de Falla would also echo this concept by saying, "There is not even one measure of this music borrowed from the Spanish folklore, and yet the entire composition in its most minute details, conveys admirably…
identifies this work as quite unique if compared to other sonatas from the Romantic period. Schumann and Brahms for instance, have another musical approach in their piano sonatas. Moreover, Chopin’s harmony was innovative with unresolved dominant sevenths and surprising cadences, which also can be found in the Piano Sonata Op.35 No.2. He often used the chromatic scale in his melodies and harmonically, this chromaticism is observed as an extension of the diatonic scale. Therefore, Chopin’s main…
French Horns. These types were: Le grande cor (the big horn), cor à plusiers tours (horn of several turns), cor qui n'a qu'un seul tour (horn with only one turn), and le huchet (the horn with which one calls from afar). These horns were mostly popular in Europe. The first horns were “monotone” instruments. The most useful range to write horn music in was in the upper harmonics, or “clarino” range, where the natural harmonics are close together. If the hornist needed to switch keys in the music,…
(Andalusian ballet) , but with a slower tempo (moderato assai). Two melodies, the first is in C major and it is diatonic, the second is in C minor and it is more rich of syncopation and flattened notes, like Bb, Eb and Db. Those two themes, are played on a rhythmic pattern without variations from the beginning to the Finale, structured in two bars, initially played only by drums, and it is used as introduction for two bars every time one of the themes come in. Some instruments double the key…
posth. 67, No. 2 begins with a double period (mm. 1-16) that briefly modulates in and out of the relative key of B-flat major. The first two measures use a v-i progression in g minor that is the mimicked with a modulated V-I in B-flat in measure three and four to finish the phrase with an IAC to solidify the beginning of the common double period structure. The motif then repeats itself over the v-i progression in g minor again, but changes from the original statement by staying in g minor and…
Technical aspects of the Double Bass in changes Physical changes in the instrument This is still a debate on whether the base comes from the violin family or shrimp family (some research shows even family ties guitar all the time. The only thing we are sure the tool is still under development in relation to the time it was used in the music. The history of the base begins about the first half of the 16th century, based on the violin family.However the term "base" is not often used until the end…
melody is composed in a D melodic minor scale, and the lower voice is written in A melodic minor. Mosco Carner states that “Bach in contrast to most modern composers, is here as much concerned with the vertical factor as he is with the horizontal.” In the previous example, the key relationship of an ascending perfect fifth creates a euphonic sound because there is only one conflicting scale degree.…
started to use around the 1890’s to provide a low-pitched bass line that would outline the chord sequences of any song. Before jazz, the bass was mostly known for its use in grand orchestras. The double bass arose in Germany during the late 1650’s. It was mostly used in Orchestras for classical music, creating a low pitched base for the violins and violas while harmonizing with the cellos. As time evolved, around 1890, the African American communities in early New Orleans began jazz ensembles…
is little known on how widely accepted his theories were at the time, however we do know that his theories are widely used today. Heinrich Schenker Heinrich Schenker went to the University of Vienna to study law, under his father’s advising. While there, he enrolled at a conservatory in Vienna where he learned harmony and theory from Bruckner. He did not stay long at the conservatory, however, do to his father’s death, and his need to help provide for his mother and siblings. He was most…
The structure of this piece is AABBA. He A sections are based on the G Major Dorian scale, and the B sections are based on the A Major Aeolian scale.” (Spitzer, 2013) Free Jazz emerged during the late 1950’s as a brand new approach to jazz improvisation. It gained the majority of its popularity in the 60’s and became a major development in jazz music from then on. Its main characteristic is that there aren’t actually any rules. In the early 1940’s the pianist Lennie Tristano and composer Bob…