Harmony Society

Fryderyk Chopin composed around fifty-nine mazurkas with only forty-one being published during his lifetime; the remaining compositions remained in manuscript form until being published by his close friend, Julian Fontana, after Chopin’s death. Chopin’s mazurkas are based on the traditional Polish folk dance, the mazur, which are the second part of the three-fold dance routine of the original folk mazurka, also called the “round dance” when all three parts are performed together. The mazur’s…

(electronophone). The singers are singing in parallel harmony throughout the song, making this a polyphonic texture. The song is played in duple meter. The song consists only of verses, but repeats the last line of each verse to create a faux chorus. The song is 13 measures long…

In his lieder inspired by Klaus Groth’s “Es hing der Reif”, Brahms highlights both the dreamy and nightmarish aspects of fixating on love by floating in-between the relative keys of A minor and C major, introducing foreign “problematic” harmonies and chord members, and implying a strong sense of irony when concluding lines and stanzas. By never truly establishing a key until the very last lyrical statement, Brahms keeps the piece suspended in a dreamy uncertainty. This is evident even as early…

Music is a standout amongst the most vital and intense things throughout my life. My existence without songs and harmonies would be absolutely unfilled. Listening to and playing distinctive tunes helps me to de-stretch, unwind and it can likewise persuade me in attempting times. I cherish listening to music while on my approach to class, as I feel it helps me to plan for the day that holds up. I think it resemble the journals to my life as it has been there all through everything with me. When…

the innovations Monteverdi specifically made to certain instrument sections that were never seen before, were especially noted for their ingenuity. For example, Monteverdi wrote a section in Orfeo where trombones and doubles basses would play in harmony. “The instrumental score [Orfeo] had novel features and made great technical demands on the instrumentalists.” (D’Epiro…

mentioned below. The analysis was only small fraction of the book to act as a brief commentary of the prelude. In the analysis, Austin addressed the continuity of the piece with reference to the motives and used a method based on traditional diatonic harmonies focused on resolving dissonances. This may seem undialectical at first glance. However, Austin consistently approached the harmonic analysis of the piece from an audience aural perspective and took into account of instrumentation. In an…

contour which takes shape when the direction changes. This song uses disjunct motion, the intervals change quite a bit. A lot of the singing seems to be staccato, adding to the long pauses. There's also legato that's connecting the song. Harmony- There is no vocal harmony, when he continues the singing, for a breath of time, it adds an echoing effect. The chords are played in a pentatonic format. Timbre- There's an Arabic style of music incorporated into this song. The influence is heard…

Russian composer who started practising music at a young age. Throughout his youth, he played the piano, sang in choirs and after graduating from Saint Petersburg school of Law he went on to study music. Tchaikovsky was working as a professor in harmony and theory when he wrote his first ballet, Swan Lake. Swan Lake was composed in 1875 and fit the mold of pieces from the Romantic era, Swan Lake was through composed form following a powerful storyline. During the Romantic Era there was a shift…

In 1999, Tim Westergren and two of his friends launched a company out of San Francisco called Savage Beast, which would later become Pandora (Pozen & Rosenfeld, 2009). Pandora was powered by the Music Genome Project. The Music Genome Project is a music discovery engine, and each song in the project’s library was analyzed by Pandora employees (Pozen & Rosenfeld, 2009). Pandora spent time and money building up their musical library in the project so that customers were enabled to listen to songs…

Rhythmic breakdown In this figure, a whole note takes a whole in a measure, a half note takes two in a measure, a quarter note takes up four in a measure, an eighth note takes up eight in a measure and a sixteenth note takes up sixteen in a measure. As mentioned earlier, this rhythmic grouping only applies when the bottom number is 4. In a compound meter these rhythmic groupings are quite different. B. Meter- is the systematic grouping of beats and their division in regularly recurring…