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MAKE A SOUND INVESTMENT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe you don't know the answers to these questions; author Phil Goulding certainly didn't. When Goulding first tried to learn about classical...
Who are the ten most important classical composers? Who in the world was Palestrina? Why did Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" cause a riot? Which five of each important composer's works should you buy? What is a concerto and how does it differ from a sonata?
Maybe you don't know the answers to these questions; author Phil Goulding certainly didn't. When Goulding first tried to learn about classical...
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A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people around us, and it even has the power to alleviate a range of medical conditions. The songs...
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make us smile or cry, it helps us bond with the people around us, and it even has the power to alleviate a range of medical conditions. The songs...
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This program introduces viewers to the musical styles of three distinct eras within the common practice period: Baroque, Classical, and Romantic. Typical structures, forms, instruments, rhythms, and melodies are described and supported with examples. Significant composers and famous works from each era are identified. This is an easy to follow overview of the changing characteristics of European art music over three centuries.
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Composers write the equivalent of sentences in music which we call “phrases”. Groups of phrases are put together to form “paragraphs” in music.In this video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull, viewers learn how to hear these paragraphs, which give the listener an idea of the composer’s intentions.
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This video chat from Discovery Orchestra offers another lesson in ternary form. The orchestra’s Executive Director Virginia Johnston and Maestro George Marriner Maull’s wife, Marcia, perform the second movement of Brahms’ Sonata for Clarinet & Piano No.1, highlighting the ABA form, with the special surprise ending.
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Sometimes the utter simplicity of Schubert’s music masks the fact that he was brilliant at creating effective surprise for the listener. This video chat with Maestro George Marriner Maull and guest artist pianist Stephen Wu looks at surprises in music with examples from Schubert.