Music theory

In opera, the composer is the dramatist. In opera the music interprets, crystallizes, and intensifies the expressive meaning of the words, far beyond anything with the words alone are capable of (Greenberg, 2009, L11, 8:35). During the transitory period of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, the tremendous increase in the popularity of secular stage drama punctuated by musical intermezzos (music played between the acts of stage plays) invariably ignited opera into existence. As discussed by…

The music industry is a major media institution that is widely influential in the way that people perceive their surroundings and how they experience discrimination and oppression within society. Popular media, such as music, acts as a catalyst for social construction (Glantz 3). Whether by way of radio, MP3 downloads, or music videos, people throughout the country, and all over the world are exposed to dominant ideologies through music that shape their thoughts and behaviors. One specific genre…

During 1919, Louis spent most of his summer holidays playing on riverboats with a band led by Fate Marable. Louis had improved his music theory skills and…

Robert Schumann was a German composer and music critic. He could be considered one of the most influential composer of the Romantic era. Schumann works as a writer and a critic played a great role in the works of some of the leading composers of his days and even today. The most unique detail in Robert Schumann's work is its relations to literature. Though several of his compositions portray scenes from poems, characters, plays and novels there are some that are about place and people that were…

toward music was recognized early on by his father, who was his first piano teacher. His father exposed the young Liszt to music by taking him to concerts. It was around the age of six he started piano lessons with his father. At age nine, Liszt made his first public appearance as a performer, playing a concerto by Ries. Several noblemen of the region took notice to Liszt and offered to pay for musical studies in Vienna. Liszt soon began studying the piano under Carl Czerny and music…

recognize as a simple C. As time has passed, humans have progressed from single note instruments, to handwriting sheet music for orchestras, to machines that have all the information from past generations stored in memory so everyone who has access to that technology can be an artist. The physical perception of music is described as such, but music does not only influence our ears. Powerful music affects the learning process of the brain in multiple ways, such as improving creativity,…

some form of art education, and what it can do for them in the future. For many kids today, the arts establish a foundation beyond everyday learning. The two most common types of arts curriculum is visual arts and performing arts, with a focus in music, respectively. Without some form of arts curriculum, children will not be able to see the true benefits of learning, and will not have the desire to perform to the best of their abilities. The most often recognized form of art is visual arts.…

protection of ear and so on. In this part, he emphasizes the relationship between keeping the ear open while being safe, that is, aware of the sounds around us while avoiding damaging sounds, such as uncomfortable music, even when other seems not affect by that. Switching from feeling the music to actively joining in it, the author focuses on the description of resonance, a mixture of sound in order.…

being a music teacher helped Davis express his love for music. By the age of 16 Davis was talented enough to play at local restaurants and bars around the city. Within one year a band called “Blue Devils” recognized Davis’s talent and asked him to join. Right after Miles finished high school in 1944 he moved to New York to study at Juilliard School which is arguably one of the most influential art school in the world. Although Juilliard School of Arts helped him improve his musical theory, Miles…

cultivating an ongoing dialectical debate about composing techniques, expanded by my experience in electronic music with Riccardo Sinigaglia. In those years, inevitably, I felt like to explore an original path. This led me to seek which poetics moves the need for a language, that today I describe, thanks also to the discussions with Filippo Maria Caramazza, in Pericronismo – Perichronism Music…