Write an informed essay on a distinguished musicologist of your choice. Illustrate your answer with reference to two important works they have written.
Musicology can be defined as ‘the scholarly study of music’ that spans over a number of sub disciplines to understand where and how music has moved to in time. Sub disciplines such as historical, music theory, criticism and aesthetics to mention a few are all principal theories for the exploration and understanding of music.
Music and musicology are both separate and related constructs. Music, as a practical, actively has its own history, but musicology, as a process of study, inquiry and reflection, while it forms its own context and employs distinct concepts, is clearly dependent upon the
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She reminisce on her youth and how she was taught to attentively be “all ears” at a performance and that respect to both the performer and the memory of the original composer must be preserved. Cusick makes an interesting link between the performance of Norman Jessye and a performance from Pearl Jam and how the social rules and the temperament of the performer dictates how we as an audience are supposed to react to the act. She gives examples of this by an experiment with her students, to compare selected singers performing the same piece in order to engage the students that ‘singers might make choices of dynamics, phrasing, timbre and so on’ and that while still preserving the repertoire it could be changed significantly. Cusick that it is a life experience that we learn to be an audience to classical music. From firstly learning to play piano at a young age we simply learn to play the notes but as we get older we are encouraged to interpret feeling into the music, but not our own feeling but the feeling intended by the …show more content…
She helps in the understanding of classical music and how we are not to class it as dated but to comprehend the emotion and context behind a piece and the composer is to relive it. From Cusick’s writings on the War on Terror, the issue of the use of music in conflict situations should be recognised and banned when it is used in contexts of cruel, inhuman treatment’ Her works vary greatly in topics that can appeal to all readers, she engages with themes of today’s world also as historic ones and the meaning musicology has to the practice and study of
He considered his music as part of category of American Music and he devoted his life to music to give new meanings to the field (PBS). Organization of the paper: This research paper is based on the notable personality
I don’t know how long he played. I was overcome by sleep. When I awoke at daybreak, I saw Juliek facing me, hunched over, dead. Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse”(95). In order to reveal the idea that when Juliek died, so did the “melancholy” sound of
Many listeners in this plane hold an individual attitude because the music always seems to play a role in the listener’s life, where as it might reminds them of something or someone. The author talks about how the question of “how close should the intelligent music lover wish to come to pinning a definite meaning” (Copeland, 1939). It becomes personal, going in their mind the true meaning of what they are listening to, yet they are unable to explain it. This helps the listeners to experience different types of feeling.
In 2016 our youth and society falls victim to the music industry and its impact on how we dress, dance and act. Music is a catalyst to allow others a glimpse into our minds. Rather you write a symphony or an R&B song the music we compose is a piece of ourselves. Through the power of music we change the world and people around us, much like the musicians before our
Introduction Wilhelm Richard Wagner was one of the most significant composers in Western music history. His music’s influence can be felt in the modern age. A rough childhood did not stop him from becoming one of the world's most influential—and controversial—composers.
David talked about a famous composer Leonard Bernstein’s work from a British perspective. For the British, they thought those American composers just too much praise how great they were in their work. Leonard Bernstein the American composer who were multi talented in musician. For his pieces Candide and West Side Story which performed in London, but those pieces received opposite comments. They thought Bernstein and American musicians had not lucid between ‘light’ and ‘serious’ music, and they did not respect music, because they did many musical and symphony together.
His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again” (Wiesel 95). While Nazi order had forbidden Jews from playing Beethoven, as it was German music, Juliek plays it anyway. He sets his own boundaries with the music he plays and does not follow the ruling of others.
Furthermore, in general, Roy Harris was delved into him and his works by American scholars. Unlike foreign composers, it was easy to search information in English since he is an American composer. In this process of research, the primary sources of bibliographies are several scholar’s books, journal articles, and dissertations. In addition, it was categorized with several keywords: biography, symphonies, band music, keyboard music, vocal music, chamber music, choral music, and theory. First of all, his biographies are the most searched section of this project, included fifty-two bibliographies regarding subject.
Every music around the world has its own history, the instruments, rhythms, and even the compositions have their own origins. Music is a tool, it is used as a way of communicating with other individuals. It is very powerful considering it can express a person’s emotions or feelings such as grief, sadness, happiness, love, and even those emotions which cannot be explained or be expressed. Jazz music is like a language. It is a language that musicians use to express their emotions on a concrete moment or the emotions that they are feeling while they are performing.
The intimacy of the camerawork gives the audience the sense of being seated alongside David. The melodic and passionate strains of the concerto are interrupted by a series of harsh, unmusical sounds which express David’s growing separation from the reality of his performance. These sounds create a disturbing effect as they interrupt the melody and technical skill of the
This essay analyses Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, and how this minimalistic piece of Steve Reich’s later days proves to be a work of an alternative paradigm to many of his other earlier works. Music for 18 Musicians is an alternative paradigm to Steve Reich’s earlier works in various aspects. These aspects include harmony, rhythm, and instrumentation, which will the elements described and explained in this
What is music? My favorite definition comes from the ever-prestigious dictionary.com: "An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. " I think it's a shame that this definition cannot be found in more prominent dictionaries because I feel that this encompasses every aspect of music that I appreciate so much. Ever since I was a little girl I had a connection to all sorts of music; from Disney Princess soundtracks to attempting to play the electric keyboard.
Roy opposes the old homology and believes music has many characterizations that should be considered. His ‘new homology’ is similar to Frith’s stating that music can create communities with their own
Although Schnittke studied and later taught at the Moscow Conservatory, his approach in composing still held influences of his education in Vienna during his adolescent years. Schnittke 's music comprises of a distinctive feature, the polystylistic idiom, which can be found all over his extensive repertory. Towards the latter years of his life, Schnittke suffered a series of strokes, but notwithstanding, his compositional creativity did not falter, rather, it flourishes even more. Assessing Schnittke 's extensive oeuvre, one would not pick up on his serialism, but instead, will perceive the eccentricity of his style. "I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
In his critique, Igor Stravinsky classifies that conductors and their role in traditional concert music is not as great as it seems. Stravinsky develops his classification by comparing conductors to actors and politicians, and exemplifying how the conductors contribute to the orchestra's music. Stravinsky’s purpose is to educate his audience on how conductors are not as important as they seem, and also on how they do not contribute to the music. To support this, Stravinsky takes on a hypercritical tone with his audience of fellow critics, press agents, and reviewers.