Incidental music - Incidental music Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack". Incidental music is often "background" music, and adds atmosphere to the action. It may also include pieces which will provide the main interest for the audience, for example overtures, or music played during scene changes. It may also be required in plays which have musicians performing on-stage. The use of incidental music dates back at least as far as Greek drama. A number of classical composers have written incidental music for various plays, with the more famous examples including Ludwig van Beethoven's music for.
Video game music - Video game music Video game music is the music pieces from computer and video games (the Magnavox Odyssey being the only video game console without sound capability, therefore being a silent console). Until the appearance in 1990–1992 of the Super NES, video game music often sounded characteristically "bleepy", although some home computer sound chips, like the Commodore 64's SID, partly ameliorated this. With its SONY SPC700 chip, the Super NES revolutionized video game music, spawning the modern age of this field of applied acoustics (or digital sound revolution), exemplified by games such as Final Fantasy IV, V, and VI, Chrono Trigger, Castlevania IV, and ActRaiser. Some NES games, which originally had bleepy soundtracks, have later been enhanced-remade for the Super NES, Sony Playstation, or some other modern game.
1968 in music - 1968 in music See also: 1967 in music, other events of 1968, 1969 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music' Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular music 5 Musical theater 6 Musical films 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 Awards 9.1 Grammy Awards 9.2 Eurovision Song Contest Events January 4 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding. January 6 - Gibson patents its "Flying V" electric guitar design January 21 - Simon and Garfunkel release album The Graduate Original Soundtrack January - The Beatles launch Apple Corps, Ltd, a disastrously mismanaged entertainment company that included a.
Sheet music - Sheet music Sheet music is musical notation written down on paper; it is the musical analog of a book. Reading sheet music is the standard way to learn and perform a piece in some cultures and styles of music. In western classical music, it is very rare for a performer to learn a piece in any other way. With the exception of piano, where memorization is expected, classical musicians ordinarily have the sheet music at hand when performing. Even in jazz music, which is mostly improvised, there is a lot of sheet music describing arrangements, melodies, and chord changes. Sheet music is less important in other forms of music, however. In popular music, although sheet music is produced, it is nowadays more usual for people to learn.
Musical terminology - used in musical terminology which are likely to occur on printed or sheet music. Many of these terms have a Italian etymology, reinforcing the heritage of much music originating from Italy. In different countries, the terms you see below may be written in the language of that country. Terms The term accelerando is a directive for the musician to gradually increase the tempo. Adagio - slow. Adagietto - rather slow. Adagissimo - very slow Ad libitium the speed and manner are left to the performer, ad lib. Affrettando - hurrying, pressing onwards. Agitato - agitated. Alla Breve - indicates two minims in a bar, formerly four. The term appassionato (from Italian) tells the performer to play (or sing) passionately. In Italian, arpeggio literally means like a harp. It is used to.
List of genres of music (A-M) - List of genres of music (A-M) Recognised musical genres and forms include the following (see the individual genre pages for more information on each genre and musical genres for information about the major groupings). See also: List of genres of music (N-Z) A B C D E F G H I J K L M A A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing Aak - Chinese ritual music Aaroubi - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which comes from Algiers Abaimajani Abajeños - folk music of the Perépecha of Mexico Aboriginal rock - rock and roll mixed with Australian aborigine music, began in 1980s Abwe Acid croft - mixture of traditional Scottish music with house influences Acid house - house music using simple tone generators with.
Jacopo Peri - Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor singer and keyboard player, and later as a composer. His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigalss. In the 1590s, Peri became associated with Jacopo Corsi, the leading patron of music in Florence. A general feeling that contemporary art was inferior to classical Greek and Roman works led to them attempting to recreate Greek tragedy. The poet Ottavio Rinuccini was brought in to write a text, and the result, Dafne, though nowadays thought to be a long way from anything the Greeks would have recognised, is seen as the first work in a new form, opera. Rinuccini and Peri next collaborated on Euridice..
John Eccles - was an English composer. Born in London, Eccles first studied music under his father, Solomon Eccles. He was appointed to the King's band in 1694, and in 1700 became Master of the King's Musick. Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris (John Weldon won). Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1680s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Jointly with Henry Purcell he wrote incidental music for Thomas Durfey's Don Quixote. He became a composer to Drury Lane theatre in 1693 and when some of the actors broke off to form their own company.
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again - jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid 1970s. Graeme's impressions of Eddie Waring (a rugby league commentator) and John's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore (astronomer and broadcaster) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Lenny Henry, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect many, many years later. One peculiar aspect of the show was the unchanging sign-off song which Bill Oddie performed as "Angus Prune" which was not a character who ever appeared in the sketches (except in "The Angus Prune Story" aired on 18 April 1966) or, for that matter, anywhere else. Spoof dramas were billed as Prune Playhouse and many parodies of commercial radio (which was only.
Harry Von Tilzer - at age 14, where he took his new name, and soon proved successful playing piano and calyope and writing new tunes and incidental music for the shows. He continued doing this in Burlesque and Vaudeville shows for some years, writing many tunes which were not published or which he sold to entertainers for 1 or 2 dollars. In 1898 he sold his song "My Old New Hampshire Home" to a publisher for $15, and watched it become a national hit, selling over 2 million copies of the sheet music. This prompted him to become a professional songwriter. He was made a partner of the Shapiro Bernstein Publishing Company. His 1900 number "A Bird In A Gilded Cage" became one of the bigest hits of the age. Von Tilzer became one of.
Hanns Eisler - a German composer. Eisler was born in Leipzig. He was initially self-taught in music, and after serving in the Hungarian army in World War I, worked as a proof-reader for the music publishers Universal Edition. From 1919 to 1923 he studied under Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna, and from 1925 taught music in Berlin. Eisler joined the German Communist Party in 1926. He came to be critical of his early works written under Schoenberg, developing a simpler style with influences drawn from jazz. His work also became more political, reflecting his Marxist views. He wrote many songs and other works with texts by Bertolt Brecht (such as Die Massnahme (1930) and Die Mutter (1931)). Their largest-scale collaboration was the Deutsche Sinfonie (1935-57), a cantata against fascism. In the early 1930s, Eisler's works.
Hamburg State Opera - a central figure of the German Baroque, joined the Hamburg Opera, and in subsequent years Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Adolph Hasse and various Italian companies were among the guests. To replace the aging wooden structure on the Gaensemarkt, the first stone was laid on 18 May 1826 for the Stadt-Theater on the present-day site of the Hamburg State Opera. The new theater, with seating for 2800, was inaugurated less than a year later with Beethoven's incidental music to Egmont. The building was renovated in 1873, when both the exterior and interior remodeled in the reining "Gründerzeit" style of the time, and again in 1891, when electric lighting was introduced. Under the direction of Bernhard Pollini, the Stadtsoper mounted its first complete Ring Cycle in 1879. In 1883, the year of Wagner's.
Henry Lawes - composer of the day. In 1626, Lawes was received as one of the gentlemen of the chapel royal, and held the position until the Commonwealth put a stop to church music. Even during that period without music, Lawes continued his work as a composer, and the famous collection of his vocal pieces, Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, was published in 1653 and followed by two other books under the same title in 1655 and 1658 respectively. On the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Lawes returned to the royal chapel, and composed an anthem for the coronation of King Charles II. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Lawes's name has become known beyond musical circles because of his friendship with John Milton, for whose masque, Comus, he.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal - graduating in 1901. Hofmannsthal met the composer Richard Strauss, and wrote libretti for several of his operas, the first being Elektra (1909). In 1912 he adapted the 15th century English morality play Everyman as Jedermann, and Jean Sibelius wrote incidental music for it. The play became a staple at the Salzburg Festival, which Hofmannsthal founded with Max Reinhardt in 1920. His later plays displayed an increasing interest with religious, and particularly with Roman Catholic themes. He died in Rodaun near Vienna..
Georges Auric - his first compositions published. Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions. As a young student of at the Paris Conservatory in 1920, and, considered avant-garde, Auric became part of Satie and Cocteau’s famous group, Les Six. His participation led to writing settings of poetry and other texts as songs and musicals. The other members of "Les Six" were: Louis Durey - (1888-1979) Arthur Honegger - (1892-1955) Darius Milhaud - (1892-1974) Francis Poulenc - (1899-1963) Germaine Tailleferre - (1892-1983) (the only female in the group) When Jean Cocteau started making motion pictures, at the beginning of the 1930s Auric began writing film scores. He wrote soundtracks for a number of French and British films, and his success led to writing the music.
Get Carter - forty days. The film was produced by Michael Klinger and released by MGM. As well as Caine, the film gave roles to the playwright John Osborne, Ian Hendry, Bryan Mosley, and Geraldine Moffat, among others, and also a cameo by Britt Ekland. The distinctive music in the film was composed by Roy Budd, a jazz and "easy listening" specialist, who worked well outside his previous boundaries for this film. The much admired theme tune features the sounds of Caine's train journey from London to Newcastle. All the music was played by Budd and two other jazz musicians -- Geoff Cline and Chris Careen. Initial critical reception was poor, especially in Britain -- "soulless and nastily erotic . . . virtuoso viciousness", "sado-masochistic fantasy", and "one would rather wash one's mouth out.
Glissando - to either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (an "effective" glissando). Musical instruments with continuously variable pitch can effect a true glissando over a substantial range. These include unfretted stringed instruments (such as the violin and some bass guitars), stringed instruments with a way of stretching the strings (such as a guitar with a whammy bar), wind instruments without valves or stops (such as the trombone or slide whistle), synthesizers, the human voice, and the water organ. True glissandi can be produced to at least a limited extent on most instruments; for example, fretted stringed instruments (such as the guitar or mandolin) can effect a glissando of up to a minor third (three.
Felix Mendelssohn - - November 4, 1847) was a German composer of classical music. He was perhaps the greatest child prodigy after Mozart. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker, Abraham, who was himself the son of the famous Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn. Felix's family, however, converted to Christianity, and moved to Berlin in 1812. His sister was Fanny Mendelssohn (later Fanny Hensel), who was a well known pianist and amateur composer herself. Mendelssohn began taking piano lessons from his mother when he was six, and at seven was tutored by Marie Bigot in Paris. From 1817 he studied composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter in Berlin. He probably made his first public concert appearance at the age of nine, when he participated in a chamber music concert. He was also a.
Film score - Film score A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. In some cases, film themes have become accepted into the canon of classical music. In many instances, film scores are performed by orchestras, which vary in size, from a small ensemble to a huge number of musicians, perhaps including a choir. The orchestra is either a studio orchestra, employed by the studio, or a performing orchestra such as the London Symphony Orchestra. For films with even smaller budgets, however, and possibly for TV or video games (although these, too, frequently have orchestral scores), a synthesiser can be used to re-create the sound of an orchestra. This.
Edvard Grieg - Leipzig Conservatory, and later by the Danish composer Niels W. Gade, Grieg is noted as a nationalist composer, drawing inspiration from Norwegian folk music. Early works include a symphony and a piano sonata. He also wrote three sonatas for piano and violin, and his many short pieces for piano led some to call him the Chopin of the north. Grieg is probably best known for his incidental music to the play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, and for his Piano Concerto in A minor. Other notable works include: Holberg Suite (for string orchestra) Ten volumes of Lyric Pieces (for piano).
