Chaconne - Chaconne The chaconne is a form of music. Originally a kind of dance in a slow 3/4 time which first emerged in the 16th century and which is probably of Spanish provenance, the word was later applied to any work in 3/4 consisting of a set of variations over a never-changing bass (a ground bass). One of the best known examples is the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's second partita for solo violin (the bass line is not always present in this work, but it is strongly implied). Bach's Goldberg Variations are also frequently reckoned to be a chaconne, although Bach did not explicitly label them as such. After the baroque period, the chaconne form was not often used, though the 32 Variations in C minor.
Violin Concerto (John Adams) - minimalist Philip Glass. For this work, Adams received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Movements: quarter note = 78 Chaconne: Body through which the dream flows Toccare References: Interview of John Adams in Perspectives of New Music. http://www.earbox.com/sub-html/interviews/ja-on-vc-low.html.
Ira Gershwin - from Jazz to Art Deco. The expanding Gershwin Collection includes a wealth of correspondence that provides details of the brothers' lives and personalities. Twenty-four-year-old George (1898-1937) writes to Ira (1896-1983) from London on his first trip abroad: "When I reached shore, a woman reporter came up to me and asked for a few words. I felt like I was [composer Jerome] Kern or somebody." To longtime friend Mabel Schirmer in 1936, George reports: "Of course, there are depressing moments too, when talk of Hitler and his gang creep into the conversation. For some reason or other the feeling out here [in California] is even more acute than in the East." To Emily Paley, sister of Ira's wife, Leonore, George writes: "Stravinsky and Mother got on famously. Isn't Hollywood wonderful?" Ira's letters.
Goldberg Variations - by Bach himself. It appears elsewhere in the notebook of music owned by Bach's second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. After a statement of the aria the beginning of the piece, there are thirty variations. The variations generally do not follow the melody of the aria, but rather use its bass line and chord progression. Because of this, and because of the 3/4 time signature, the work is often said to be a chaconne--the difference being that the theme for a chaconne is usually just four bars long, whereas Bach's aria is in two sections of eight bars, each repeated. Every third variation in the series of 30 is a canon, following an ascending pattern: the first is a canon at the unison, the second is a canon at the second (that.
Gustav Holst - instruments such as the piano). He died in London. His daughter Imogen Holst was also a composer and conductor. Other works The Hymn of Jesus (1917) The Perfect Fool, an opera (1918-1922) At the Boar's Head (1924) A Somerset Rhapsody (1907) First Suite for Military Band in Eb (1909) Chaconne Intermezzo March Second Suite for Military Band in F (1911) March: Morris Dance, Swansea Town, Claudy Banks Song Without Words "I'll Love my Love" Song of the Blacksmith Fantasia on the "Dargason" St. Paul's Suite (Finale is another arrangement of 4th movement in Second Suite) (1913) Jig Ostinato Intermezzo Finale (The Dargason) Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo (1930 Lyric Movement (1933) The Mystic Trumpeter (1904).
Ferruccio Busoni - Piano Sonatina No. 2 of 1912 comes closest) it is often difficult in his later works to determine what key his music is in. Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt are often identified as key influences, though some of his music has a neo-classical bent, and includes melodies resembling Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Many of his works are for piano. Some idea of Busoni's mature attitude to composition can be gained from his 1907 manifesto, Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music, a publication somewhat controversial in its time. As well as discussing then little-explored areas such as electronic music and microtonal music (both techniques he never employed), he asserted that music should distill the essence of music of the past to make something new. Many of Busoni's works are based on.
Franz Schmidt - and Fredigundis (1916-21); two string quartets (1925, 1929), a piano quintet (1926) and two quintets for clarinet, string trio and piano (left hand) (1932, 1938); Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for piano (left hand) and orchestra (1923); a piano concerto (1934); Variations on a Hussar's Song for orchestra (1930); a quantity of important organ music, including the Prelude and Fugue in E flat (1924), the Toccata (1924), the Chaconne (1925, orchestrated 1931) and the Prelude and Fugue in C (1927). His crowning achievement was the oratorio Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (1935-37), a setting of the Book of Revelation. Schmidt is generally, if erroneously, regarded as a conservative composer, but the rhythmic subtlety and harmonic complexity of much of his music belie this. His music is modern without being.
Passacaglia - to be a instrumental work in 3/4 based on a ground (that is, a melody which repeats unchangingly throughout while other lines are freely varied). The passacaglia is very closely related to the chaconne, except that in the chaconne, the repeating melody is always in the bass (that is, it is a ground bass). One of the best known examples of a passacaglia in classical music is the one in C minor for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 582. A later example is the finale of Josef Rheinberger's 8th organ sonata. Perhaps the most frequently heard passacaglia, however, is the finale of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 (although Brahms did not explicitly call it a passacaglia, it follows the rules of one and the repeated figure is based on one.
Ostinato - is repeated over and over at the same pitch. Ostinato is frequently used in Baroque music, where the basso continuo invites the use of the technique, and fixed forms such as the passacaglia and the chaconne require it. The left hand in boogie woogie piano playing is another. See also Alberti bass..
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