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eighth blackbird: A Year In Texts

2008-08-31 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...texts, spelling errors uncorrected, with the excpetion of textually bleeping out expletives From Lisa 6/19/08 5:43 pm: Matthew and are taking van now. Eating dinner and then hiding in ghetto manor. If you have a problem with that let us know now From Matthew 12/3/07, 8:18-9:55 pm Matthew: Lookup the recipe for Hot Toddy Nick: 1 tbsp honey,...
 
Tags: nick, matt, michael, tim, tim und ich, wayhappy birthday dude, matthew, birthday, dude
 
 
 
 
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Settling the Pop Score: Pop Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

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2008-11-20 06:00:14 by Doug in 1st4music.net
...Texts and Identity Politics (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series Customer Review: Review from a UK reader Certainly pathbreaking, although at times difficult to grasp, Settling the Pop Score is truly interdisciplinary and at the cutting end of music research. Stan Hawkins addresses irony and humour in an entertaining way, and his chapters...
 
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Renaissance Research "Conservatory Project" Assignment On 20th And 21st Century Classical Music And Opera: Readers' Listening/Studying Choice

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2008-09-18 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...texts. Listen to the two works very carefully and try to study their texts [and the translations of the texts] and their musical scores while listening. Then write a five page essay comparing your findings, impressions, and feelings about the two works For example, compare Pierre Boulez's Pli Selon Pli and Henryck Gorecki's Symphony #3 [...
 
Tags: music, western music theory, classical music, music theory, pli selon pli, poetic texts, texts, compare, magdalena abakanowicz
 
 
 
 
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Alexander Goehr, "Das Gesetz der Quadrille Op. 41"

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2008-01-30 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...texts are taken from the posthumously published notebooks of Franz Kafka which contain material varying from aphorisms to relatively extended narrative sketches. Goehr's selections represent well the author's ironic vision which turns at the end to a note of hopeless poetry; in the last song (No. 9) the texture is almost unbearably still...
 
Tags: alexander goehr, goehr, quadrille, franz kafka, tonal music, tonal, tonal composer, music, london
 
 
 
 
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ideas for next piece

2008-02-11 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...texts that I would want to set. So I started thinking: what about setting some blog posts from around the Web? Not that I care about or need precedent, but there is ample precedent for taking everyday texts and using them in music (Partch's Barstow , the third movement of Berio's Sinfonia , some of the 70's music of Rzewski, etc). So perhaps...
 
Tags: piece, postminimalist, postminimalist piece, piano, piano piece, beadle, music composition, music, scientist george beadle
 
 
 
 
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Argento Premiere at National Cathedral

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2008-03-05 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...texts for the work, in some cases modifying liturgical texts and in others creating new ones The results of that approach were mixed. Liturgical and Biblical texts are solid, proven over centuries and weighted with significance beyond the simple content of their meaning. While Evensong is no doubt a sincere expression of the love Argento...
 
Tags: argento, love, love argento, carolyn bailey argento, dominick argento, argento focuses, cathedral choral society, solo, texts
 
 
 
 
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Sofia Gubaidulina: Johnnespassion

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2008-03-21 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...texts of equal quality. She felt it was desirable to, s ense not only a single hand, but a single spirit in both texts. The combination of St Johns Gospel, Revelation and various other passages of Scripture swell the libretto to 3000 words; three times the length of Water Passion The method used in previous chapters to discuss in...
 
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Muerte, Danza y Ensalada

2008-06-20 05:46:08 by Robert H in Planet Hugill - Classical Music blog from Robert Hugill
 
...texts provided for the audience. Towards the end of the evening the house lights were brought up, at Hollingworth's suggestion, to allow the audience to be able to read their texts The only blot was that the concert was nearly 20 minutes late starting. Perhaps it was because the audience seemed unable to arrive; at the advertised starting...
 
Tags: audience, festival, texts, spanishenglish texts, chelsea festival, robert hollingworth, hollingworth, chelsea, 15th century
 
 
 
 
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Luciano Berio, "Epifanie"

2008-07-30 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...texts of the vocal pieces have been taken from Proust (L'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs Antonio Machado (Nuevas Canciones), Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Ulysses), Edoardo Sanguineti (Triperuno), Claude Simon La Route des Flandres), and Brecht (An die Nachgeborenen The significant connection between the vocal pieces...
 
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