Traditional Asian Music: Kabuki, Gagaku, Beijing Opera, and More
KABUKI: Music
The music in kabuki is performed live, by shamisen players and an ensemble known as the hayashi. … Within a single play, act, or even scene, a series of different genres of song+shamisen are employed as needed to musically accompany dance pieces, narrative sections, sections borrowing from the puppet theater, etc.
GAGAKU
Gagaku is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial Court in Kyoto for several centuries since the 7th century. It is today performed
Read MoreA Comprehensive Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Music: Forms, Techniques, and Styles
Medieval Music
Duplum, Triplum, Quadruplum
A two-voice organum was called an organum duplum, a three-voice organum is triplum, and a four-voice is quadruplum. Voices above tenor were likewise named in ascending order: duplum, triplum, and quadruplum. Preotinus used organa for three or four voices.
Medieval Motet
13th Century- polyphonic with tenor vocal work using text from an existing discant clausula. It is in Latin or French, sacred or secular text. Tenor melodies are from chant or other melodies.
Read MoreFigures of Speech and Poetic License in Literature
To Reduce Syllables Per Line
Aphesis
Omission of the initial part of a word or phrase (It is à ’tis).
Syncope
Omission of one or more sounds, letters, or syllables from the middle of a word (ever à e’er).
Apocope
Omission of the last letter or syllable at the end of a word (often à oft).
Elision Plus Contraction (Slurring of a Syllable)
There is à there’s.
To Increase Syllables Per Line
Addition of a Stressed Syllable
Past tense: -éd (clothed à clothéd).
Word Formation
By using prefixes (-a, -en)
Read MoreFolklorism and Nationalism in 20th-Century Music
Folklorism
Those who write in German from the 1960s to 1980s on Eurocentrism are influenced by what we found in the theories. The studies are from the point of view of the Germans, not Europe. Folklore is a societal interest in popular and traditional culture. There are two types of listeners:
- Assets: Retrieves the folkloric to incorporate into a work
- Liabilities: The listener hears and supports. He identifies with music that he has not heard before.
- Ideas, attitudes, and values included under the basic
Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie: A Comparative Study of Two Musical Pioneers
Ravel 1875-1937
As a person and as a musician does not look or Debussy or Satie. He had studied music.
Sign in with Faure Conservatory and study. Early works with the personality of composer and marcados.Fauré, to the failures of the Grand Prix in Rome that I can not win, increasing his popularity, and causing a scandal that puts Fauré as director of the conservatory. It is grouped with anyone. Lives of the classes and their compositions exclusively, has no bohemian attitude, posture should be
Literary Movements in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Prose, Poetry, and Realism
Theme: Prose, Drama, and Poetry in the Eighteenth Century
1.2) Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
The accession of Charles IV assumed the postegracion Jovellanos who was exiled to his hometown. In 1802 he was imprisoned in Majorca in the Bellver Castle.
Jovellanos’s Prose
Most of the prose of Jovellanos is essays on the reform of various aspects of a memory company. A company on entertainment studying public history of various games or performances.
3) The Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Poetry until 1750, is modeled
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