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Theme and Variations - About this Website
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. To learn about the authors of this site, musicologists Sienna M. Wood. Please click their names to visit their websites. Looking for Music Basics? Our pages on basic music theory are now at Music Crash Courses. All pages on this site are printer-friendly. Click here to print this page!
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Theme and Variations: New Perspectives in Music History
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. Vivaldi and Star Wars. Language and music have played important roles in culture ever since their emergence in prehistoric humans. In this section, we will examine several genres of vocal music that have a particularly close relationship to language. Read more. Why do we write about music? Dance has been an...
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Theme and Variations - Improvisation
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. Big Band and Swing. Improvisation in Popular Music. Improvisation in Classical Music. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 14. Bach's Toccata in D Minor. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Improvisation in Another Sense. After the first initial statement of the melody, players take turns improvising over the set harmonic ...
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Theme and Variations - Music and Drama
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. The Concerto and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Piazzolla's Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. The Programmatic Symphony and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Music and the Theater. The Overture and Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Popular Music and the Compilation Score. Williams's Score for Star Wars. Return onc...
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Theme and Variations - Humor in Music
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. Passereau's "Il est bel et bon". Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Kander and Ebb's Chicago. Comedy Bands and Humor in Popular Music. Music has been the vehicle for scathing satire, bawdy double entendres. Passereau's "Il est bel et bon". Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro. The Barber of Seville.
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Theme and Variations - Musical Borrowing and Appropriation
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. Borrowing in Renaissance Masses. Victoria's O magnum mysterium. Expressive and Symbolic Borrowing. Paganini's Caprice No. 24: Borrowing a Theme for Variations. Liszt's Six Grandes Etudes de Paganini. Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. Collage art, and...
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Theme and Variations - Music and Visual Art
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. Mussorgsky: Aural Representations of Art. Hildegard von Bingen: Composer and Artist. Whistler and Chopin: What's in a name? Graphic Notation: The Score as Art. Music and Visual Art. Mussorgsky: Aural Representations of Art. Mussorgsky wrote a piano piece based on the occasion, Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Theme and Variations - Music and Philosophy
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. The Doctrine of the Affections. Schopenhauer on Representing Emotion in Music. Hanslick on the Purpose of Music. Musical Responses to Intellectual Currents. Dvořák and Nationalism. Barber and the American Sound. So where do the paths of music and philosophy cross? Read the excerpt from Aristotle's Politics ...
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Theme and Variations - Extended Techniques and Experimental Music
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New Perspectives in Music History. Musical Borrowing and Appropriation. Music in Politics and Revolution. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Music and Visual Art. Listening to Audio Examples. Schoenberg and Atonal Music. John Cage and Aleatory Music. Arvo Pärt and Tintinnabuli. The Bowed Piano Ensemble. Extended Techniques and Experimental Music. Schoenberg and Atonal Music. In the early 20. With composition techniques that deliberately avoided patterns that evoked familiar scales, chords, and o...