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Music and Culture: Blogging, etc.
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Saturday, February 14, 2009. Long story short, this is a blog by an armchair musicologist talking about music. Writing has always helped me clarify my thoughts, which usually lead to improvements in my own compositional output. Maybe something interesting might come out of it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Modernism and the Cold War. Clapping in Between Movements. Improvisation Exercises for Musicians. View my complete profile.
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Music and Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Can be seen as a form of Marxist social criticism through the language of music. Alban Berg (whom Adorno studied music with) makes his committment to the proletariat working classes fairly clear in his opera,. Where the subject matter is primarily about the hardships that the poor have to suffer through in order to survive within Western society. And the Daily Show. In classical music, Postmodernism is probabl...
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians: June 2009
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians. Exercises and ideas about musical improvisation, from a classical and sometimes not-so-classical perspective. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Note: this is a work in progress.keeping it public to motivate me to finish it! When I first started studying classical music, there was a period in time when I got pretty obscessed with phasing. Largely influenced from the early musics of Steve Reich. Over the course of several years I analyzed. For a while (maybe even now? So, phasin...
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians: February 2009
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians. Exercises and ideas about musical improvisation, from a classical and sometimes not-so-classical perspective. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. If the improviser so wishes, they may experiment with other variety of formal constructions – ABABA, ABCBA, rondo, ritornello, fugues, theme and variations, concertos (with cadenzas! Here is one example of our group ( The A-Tribute Ensemble. Improvisation - One Minute Form. Although we were all doing different things at the same...
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians: April 2009
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians. Exercises and ideas about musical improvisation, from a classical and sometimes not-so-classical perspective. Monday, April 27, 2009. As an example from a previous post here. I made a recording that shows one possible way of how to develop and vary a theme within an improvisational context:. Improvisation Exercises for Musicians - Variation Exercise. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians: Recordings
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians. Exercises and ideas about musical improvisation, from a classical and sometimes not-so-classical perspective. Monday, March 16, 2009. The invention and implementation of the recording, however, allowed music to be abstracted in a completely different way, turning Romanticism up on its head. The technology allowed music to be "captured" into a fixed form,. The fact, as opposed to notational practices in which the abstraction exists a priori. 3) Editors/Composers - Ar...
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Music and Culture: Clapping in Between Movements
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Clapping in Between Movements. Alex Ross has an interesting post written about this subject here. There's kind of a funny quote:. Or whatever" is in his own words, not mine.). It seems like the "no applause during concerts" thing is a modern. Being possible without this type of tradition to keep the audience in-line. Meanwhile, jazz and other types of popular musics took advantage of amplification in order t...
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians: March 2009
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians. Exercises and ideas about musical improvisation, from a classical and sometimes not-so-classical perspective. Monday, March 16, 2009. The invention and implementation of the recording, however, allowed music to be abstracted in a completely different way, turning Romanticism up on its head. The technology allowed music to be "captured" into a fixed form,. The fact, as opposed to notational practices in which the abstraction exists a priori. 3) Editors/Composers - Ar...
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians: Variations (Example 1)
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Improvisation Exercises For Musicians. Exercises and ideas about musical improvisation, from a classical and sometimes not-so-classical perspective. Monday, April 27, 2009. As an example from a previous post here. I made a recording that shows one possible way of how to develop and vary a theme within an improvisational context:. Improvisation Exercises for Musicians - Variation Exercise. March 25, 2011 at 4:09 PM. Thank you for this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
