Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the...
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Sir Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis are a series of analytical essays on classical music. The essays came into existence as programme...
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its larger effects. Musical analysis – a process attempting to answer the question "How does this music work?" Musical Analysis is a study of how the...
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Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader, activist and actress...
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Aida (also known as Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida) is a musical based on the opera of the same name written by Antonio Ghislanzoni with music by Giuseppe...
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (redirect from Sweeney Todd (musical))
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, also known as Sweeney Todd is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. It...
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Ascending Vaughan Williams had "taken a literary idea on which to build his musical thought … and had made the violin become both the bird's song and its flight...
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Music theory (redirect from Musical theory)
Schenkerian analysis is a method of musical analysis of tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal of a Schenkerian analysis is...
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Music history (redirect from Musical history)
musical analysis, and iconography. The application of musical analysis to further these goals is often a part of music history, though pure analysis or...
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singers.[clarification needed] Developing variation List of musical genres by era Musical analysis Program music See also: Meter (music) Titon, Jeff Todd (2009)...
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numeral analysis in several publications from 1806 onwards. Gottfried Weber's Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst (Theory of Musical Composition)...
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Béla Bartók (section Musical analysis)
German, Hungarian and Slovak or Polish ancestry. Béla displayed notable musical talent very early in life. According to his mother, he could distinguish...
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communicants subsequently have in common. In music, paradigmatic analysis was a method of musical analysis developed by Nicolas Ruwet during the 1960s but later...
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Reflets dans l'eau (section Musical analysis)
Writing "images", Debussy was purposely intending not to create linear musical progression, but a sonic representation of water. Reflets dans l'eau is...
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Music (redirect from Musical Interpretation)
Nattiez (1990), argues that "in the last analysis, it is a human being who decides what is and is not musical, even when the sound is not of human origin...
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The Pirates of Penzance (category Drama Desk Award–winning musicals)
the Tony Award for Best Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, and spawning many imitations and a 1983 film adaptation. Pirates remains...
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such as Walter Gieseking and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. The French musical critic Jean Roy wrote of Claudio Arrau's 1979 recording (Diapason d'Or...
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La fille aux cheveux de lin (section Musical analysis)
help. La fille aux cheveux de lin (French: [la fij o ʃəvø də lɛ̃]) is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the...
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War Requiem (category Musical settings of poems by Wilfred Owen)
have known graves, but are commemorated on memorials to the missing. The musical forces are divided into three groups that alternate and interact with each...
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La cathédrale engloutie (section Musical analysis)
See media help. "La cathédrale engloutie" (The Sunken Cathedral) is a musical composition by the French composer Claude Debussy for solo piano, published...
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Symphony No. 1 (Elgar) (section Musical analysis)
and the public response unprecedented. The symphony achieved what The Musical Times described as "immediate and phenomenal success", with a hundred performances...
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In mathematics, Fourier analysis (/ˈfʊrieɪ, -iər/) is the study of the way general functions may be represented or approximated by sums of simpler trigonometric...
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H.M.S. Pinafore (section Songs and musical analysis)
and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's...
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Les préludes (section Musical analysis)
romantic overtures ». • A cyclical form, i.e. a construction where a single musical cell gives rise to all the themes, and/or where themes recur cyclically...
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Norman Dello Joio (section Musical analysis)
Dello Joio was born in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on...
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Music Genome Project (redirect from Musical genome)
The Music Genome Project is a musical analysis project seeking to "capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level" using various attributes...
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Covach; Graeme M. Boone, eds. (1997). Understanding Rock: Essays in Musical Analysis. Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0195100051. Romano 2010, "Marillion"...
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Tarantella Napoletana (category Musical analysis)
North American viewers of popular media as a quintessentially Italian musical riff or melody. The tarantella was adapted into the 1950 song "Lucky, Lucky...
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Musicology (redirect from Musical scholar)
historical method), musical analysis (analysis of music to find "inner coherence") and iconography. The application of musical analysis to further these...
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Elements of music (redirect from Musical aspect)
Bruner II follows the line of temporal-based deductions in association with musical composition, denoting music's primary components as "time, pitch, and texture...
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