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Petr Eben's Oratorio Apologia Sokratus
© 2010 Nelly Matova PETR EBEN’S ORATORIO APOLOGIA SOKRATUS (1967) AND BALLET CURSES AND BLESSINGS (1983): AN INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SYMBOLISM BEHIND THE TEXT SETTINGS AND MUSICAL STYLE BY NELLY MATOVA DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Music with a concentration in Choral Music in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Associate Professor Donna Buchanan, Chair Professor Sever Tipei Assistant Professor David Cooper Assistant Professor Ricardo Herrera ABSTRACT The Czech composer Petr Eben (1927-2007) has written music in all genres except symphony, but he is highly recognized for his organ and choral compositions, which are his preferred genres. His vocal works include choral songs and vocal- instrumental works at a wide range of difficulty levels, from simple pedagogical songs to very advanced and technically challenging compositions. This study examines two of Eben‘s vocal-instrumental compositions. The oratorio Apologia Sokratus (1967) is a three-movement work; its libretto is based on Plato‘s Apology of Socrates. The ballet Curses and Blessings (1983) has a libretto compiled from numerous texts from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. The formal design of the ballet is unusual—a three-movement composition where the first is choral, the second is orchestral, and the third combines the previous two played simultaneously. Eben assembled the libretti for both compositions and they both address the contrasting sides of the human soul, evil and good, and the everlasting fight between them. This unity and contrast is the philosophical foundation for both compositions. -
Lost Sounds of the Past Brought to Life (W/ Video, Audio) 31 August 2009
Lost sounds of the past brought to life (w/ Video, Audio) 31 August 2009 In many respects, ASTRA’s Lost Sounds Orchestra is like any other orchestra — with real musicians, rehearsals and performances — except its goal is to offer its audience a completely new world of music. The sounds of the barbiton and the salpinx are currently being finalized, while a guitar player is familiarizing himself with both the epigonion and the barbiton using his specially adapted electric MIDI guitar, which has been programmed with the lost sounds. The sounds of even more instruments, such as an ancient lower Mediterranean frame drum, should also be completed by the end of An audience experiences “the sonic scenario of the summer. past.” Image courtesy Luca Petrella More information: www.lostsoundsorchestra.org/ Source: Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) Salpinx, barbiton, aulos, syrinx. Never heard them? Never heard of them? Neither had anyone else, for centuries. Until now. These were all musical instruments, familiar to ancient civilizations but long since forgotten. Ancient instruments can be lost because they are too difficult to build, or too difficult to play, but they can be heard again thanks to the ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) team. These researchers accomplish this feat using computer modeling and grid technology - the shared resources of a distributed network of hundreds of computers. Having successfully reconstructed the sound of an earlier instrument called the “epigonion,” ASTRA is working on a whole host of other lost instruments including the salpinx (a kind of ancient trumpet), the barbiton (an ancient base guitar), the aulos (an ancient oboe) and the syrinx (a pan flute). -
African and African-American Contributions to World Music
Portland Public Schools Geocultural Baseline Essay Series African and African-American Contributions to World Music by John Charshee Lawrence-McIntyre, Ph.D. Reviewed by Hunter Havelin Adams, III Edited by Carolyn M. Leonard Biographical Sketch of the Author Charshee Lawrence-Mcintyre is Associate Professor of Humanities at the State University of New York at Old Westbury in the English Language Studies Program. PPS Geocultural Baseline Essay Series AUTHOR: Lawrence-McIntyre SUBJECT: Music CONTENTS Content Page BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.............................................................................................. I CONTENTS ..........................................................................................................................................................II INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................1 CLASSICAL AFRICA'S INFLUENCE ON OTHER CIVILIZATIONS ........................................................4 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN INSTRUMENTS .....................................................................................................................4 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUSIC AND FORMS .............................................................................................................8 MIGRATION AND EVOLUTION OF MUSIC THROUGHOUT CONTINENTAL AFRICA ...................12 TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS .............................................................................................................................14 -
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Music of Ancient Greece & Music of Greek Antiquity
www.anticopedie.net How did music sound in ancient Greece? Greece, its temples, its statues, its museums... A hurried tourist, even with a superficial look and having not thought about the history of Athenian democracy, its philosophers, its scholars and its great authors, soon will ask the question: but how did sound the music played by countless characters painted on vases, sculptures as bas-relief or statues, which hold in their hands strange instruments? Orpheus and his lyre, Pan and his flute, Apollo and his zither, statues or legends: music is everywhere. We may have a pretty good idea of musical instruments , so often depicted on vases, frescoes or sculptures. But still we must consider that the Greek history spreads over a long period, and the musicians of Cycladic statuettes (2700-2500 BC) have probably little in common with the ones of the classical and Roman times. Some rare archaeological finds – taking into account the fragility of the material – were discovered, and complement - and sometimes correct - this knowledge. Indirectly, quotes and comments on tragedies, comedies, poems and various literary texts also provide valuable elements. But the reconstruction of ancient music requires also the availability of music scores, and this is the most problematic point. Put it all together, in total, only about sixty musical documents were founds, many of them being torn, creased, written on delicate papyrus. The few texts engraved on stone steles, more complete, are of utmost interest. Researchers soon realized that the little signs written above the lines of texts should correspond to a musical notation. But how to transpose these signs on the five-line stave we use today, with bars, notes, rests and other symbols that seem so familiar to us? Fortunately, the musical theories developed by the Greeks are well known, which may seem surprising. -
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC in the ROMAN AGE.1 the Cultivation Of
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE ROMAN AGE.1 THE cultivation of instrumental music remained in a backward state among the Greeks in the fifth and fourth centuries, B.C. - This was certainly not due to any want of taste for music.as a whole, for-no race ever valued it higher than did the Greeks. The reasons seem to have been, first, the bondage of-the instrument to the voice, second, the unsettled state of the musical scale, and thirdly, the dislike of the Greeks for over-elaboration in music. • .. • .-..-. ' . These three points are well illustrated in. the Republic of Plato, In opening the discussion on the admissibility of certain modes,-Socrates is made to say that a musical composition is made up of three things, the 'words,' the 'harmony,' and the 'rhythm,' and that the musical "words' are in themselves in no way different from the words of. common speech.2 In another place much scorn is cast by Glaucon on the musicians that sought for the least perceptible interval to make that the unit of sound-measurementr some of the experimenters declaring that they could distinguish an intermed- iate note, where others insisted that the two sounds had passed into unison.3 Socrates answers 'You mean those gentlemen who tease and torture the strings, screwing them up on the pegs.' . • Socrates and Glaucon both speak as amateurs in music, and their feelings must have been shared by many Athenians at the time. Just as with us there are some who long for the return of Handel's 'noble harmonies,' as a relief from the chromatic aberrations of the Wagnerian school, so these two worthy Greeks looked back to the sturdy Dorian airs of Terpander as the true strains of the Hellenic muse, before she had learnt to voice the subtler moods of the heart of man. -
The Venusian Triad: Love, Music and Death
SŁAWOMIRA ŻERAŃSKA-KOMINEK (Warszawa) The Venusian Triad: Love, Music and Death We accept as evident and natural the kindred nature of music and love, sensing keenly the commonality of their expressive-emotional potential. This occurs in great measure thanks to literary and iconograph ie conventions, which frequently employ musical metaphor to express love and to describe erotic experience. (One typical manifestation of such convention is the image of the lover singing a serenade beneath his be loved’s window.) However, the genesis of the affinity between music and amorous feelings, to which philosophy, art and literature make very fre quent reference, is neither obvious nor, much less, easy to elucidate. A cer tain role is played here by the semantic polyvalence of music, by dint of which it is deemed the most excellent language of sentiment. The verbal expression of erotic experience, meanwhile, is practically impossible, as the Polish philosopher Stanisław Lem discussed in Filozofia przypadku: The specific problem from the field of literary studies that we would like to examine is whether literature can penetrate the realm of culture to its very limits, or does it fall short? The limits of literature coincide with the limits of language. The ques tion is thus whether language has the right of unhindered access to the core of all cultural phenomena, or do there remain certain preserves that lie beyond its bounds? The fact is that man [...] can experience certain events only tacitly, ac cording to the facts which present themselves and are consciously experienced or perceived, but not according to some kind of articulation. -
Musical Instruments... : with Numerous Woodcuts
'.''" 1I win*®. $ r I 462 I ". 1 c:"7 yfJ.V ("**.': .5™i •« V ViS U 8«w - ^^^^^^^^^^^^ IhH fl Cornell University B Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022319994 SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ART HANDBOOKS. Edited by WILLIAM MASKELL. No. 5 -MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. These Handbooks are reprints of the dissertations prefixed to the large catalogues of the chief divisions of works of art in the Museum at South Kensington ; arranged and sofar abridged as to bring each into a portable sha£e. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education having determined on the publication of them, the editor trusts that they will meet the j>urj>ose intended; namely, to be useful, not alone for the collections at South Ken- sington but for other collections, by enabling the public at a trifling cost to understand something of the history and character of the subjects treated of. The authorities referred to in each book are given in the large catalogues ; where will also be found detailed descriptions of the very numerous examples in the South Kensington Museum. W. M. August, 1875. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. BY CARL ENGEL, WITH NUMEROUS WOODCUTS. Published for the Committee of Council on Education BY SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND ARMSTRONG, NEW YORK. 1876. LIST OF WOODCUTS. Prehistoric whistle .,.. VI MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Hindustan, vina . Persian, chang . „ bagpipe Turkish harp Persian dulcimer The rebab Aztec whistles . Antique pipe from central America Pipes of the Aztecs Peruvian bone pipe „ huayra-puhura »» >» Orinoco Indian trumpet South American Juruparis Indian trumpets . -
MA Orpheus by Brueghel 4 Abril 2021.Pages
Beatriz González Crespo Matrikelnummer: 61800331 Music by Brueghel: Abstract, conceptual and allegorical musical iconography, and context in Orpheus singing before Pluto and Proserpina, by Jan Brueghel KMA Wissenschaftliche Arbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Master of Arts Des MasterstuDiums Violoncello StuDienkennzahl: RA 066 718 an Der Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Betreut Durch: LaubholD, Lars-EdvarD Univ.Prof. Dr. Zweitleser: Körber, Till AlexanDer Ao.Univ.Prof. Mag. Linz, 8. April 2021 ANTON BRUCKNER PRIVATUNIVERSITÄT für Musik, Schauspiel und Tanz Hagenstraße 57 I 4040 Linz, Österreich I W www.bruckneruni.at !2 INDEX 1. Index ………… 3 2. Introduction ………… 5 3. Prologue ………… 8 PART 1: 4. Biography: Life and trajectory ………… 16 5. Historical and Musical Chronology ………… 18 6. His work ………… 20 PART 2: 7. Music and allegories ………… 24 8. Brueghel & Music ………… 29 9. Clarifications for the reader ………… 30 10. Orpheus singing before Pluto and Proserpina ………… 31 11. Conclusions ………… 50 APPENDIX: 12. Full painting ………… 52 13. Bibliography ………… 53 !3 !4 INTRODUCTION In this work we have as a reference the painting of "Orpheus singing before Pluto and Proserpine" by Jan Brueghel and we talk about the use by the painter of abstract and/or conceptual musical iconography. As it is in the cases that are treated: - The creatures with a musical aspect/allegory that appear, and - The harp, a musical instrument placed and represented in a different way and with different purposes. The context of the work of art is also dealt with, in terms of the theme and also in musical terms, in this case the Greek myth of Orpheus in Hell, necessary to see the repercussions that this has on its musical content. -
Edited by Annie Caubet the Power of Images
edited by Annie Caubet The Power of Images Venice, Palazzo Loredan / Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo Stefano 15 September 2018 – 20 January 2019 Cover, Back Cover, page 4 Exhibition curated by Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue With the Patronage of “Oxus Lady” called “Ligabue Venus” Eastern Iran, Central Asia Annie Caubet Inti Ligabue President Oxus Culture (ca. 2200–1800 BC) General Coordination Ligabue Collection, Venice Secretariat for Management, Massimo Casarin (cat. 86) Administrative and Public and Private Loans Executive Vice President Secretariat Shipping and Insurance Design Lucia Berti Claudia Ghedin Marcello Francone Coordination and Communication Lucia Berti Editorial Coordination Claudia Ghedin Eva Vanzella Public Lenders Management of Public and Private Loans, Promotor Copy Editor Transport and Insurance Emily Ligniti Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich Petra Lanza Layout (Zurich, Switzerland) Archive and Iconography Serena Parini Platinum Sponsor Translations Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Marta Dal Martello Lauren Sunstein for Scriptum, Rome University of Oxford Archive and Installation (Oxford, United Kingdom) Iconographical Research Communicative Layout Paola Lamanna Badisches Landesmuseum Federico Dei Rossi Main Sponsor (Karlsruhe, Germany) Ubis Three First published in Italy in 2018 by Congregazione Armena Mechitarista Photography Skira editore S.p.A. (Venice, Italy) Hughes Dubois Palazzo Casati Stampa Caroline Leloup Department of Antiquities Cyprus Via Torino 61 Archivi FGL 20123 Milano (Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus) Exhibition Design Italy Musée d’Archéologie nationale www.skira.net Luca Facchini Saint-Germain-en-Laye www.fondazioneligabue.it Ubis Three (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) © 2018 Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Multimedia Projects Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire Venice Marco Morbiato © 2018 Skira editore, Milan (Brussels, Belgium) Simone Tasselli All rights reserved under international Musei Civici di Padova – Sergio Pingenti copyright conventions. -
The Biblical Nebel*
Catalog TOC <<Page>> THE BIBLICAL NEBEL* Bathja Bayer, Jerusalem The nebel, mentioned 27 times in the Bible, is generally supposed to have been a harp, and probably of the upperchested type (i.e. with the resonator held upright against the body of the player).1 We have been led to doubt this for several reasons, of which three seemed to be the most important. First the sources did not necessarily prove the nebel to have been a harp, if one did not assume a priori that they ought todo so. Secondly the archaeo logical evidence now available for the Syropalaestinian area showed no repre sentations of harps before the hellenistic period; those that then appeared were few in number, and in both form and context belonged to the "cosmo politan" hellenistic background.2 Even granting the random factors of survival and discovery a correspondence between "textual" and "material" frequency was evident for most of the other identiifable Biblical instruments such as tof (frame drum), mesiltayim (cymbals) and most important kinnor (lyre). How could this silence of the archaelogical record be explained for the supposed nebel = harp ?One could not but be remindedof the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime ("The dog did nothing in the nighttime." "That was the curious incident", remarked Sherlock Holmes). Lastly some of the most "decisive5' sources did not seem to be in the nature of evidence at all, although it was they which were supposed to prove the equation ofnebel=harp. They were much later than the Biblical or even the Second Temple period (Hieronymus at the beginning of the iffth century CE, or Se'adyah Ga'on in the ninth!), and therefore belonged to the history of exegesis. -
Violin-Making : As It Was and Is, Being a Historical, Theoretical, And
CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE [USIC Cornell University Library ML B02.H56 1885 Violin-making :as it was and Is, bein 3 1924 022 320 216 The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022320216 VIOLm-MAKmG: AS IT WAS ATO IS. ; "jForetootHs." "(Jfor ktxie jt 5« a man tof attasitt " 'Eat make a thjnjf pwfgtte tdtz feat agghte " ^tti toait Bt ga rtbf, anie iszl orxtt stgite " JfatttfS majii b« fnanli* thatte nexttx ram t0« Isghtt, " "^kouih 2* mafetre 1)0* hgs bgUflfiwe ani msghti. " SiagwKS thegm toi tak« jt a» I hvaxt tntenivi, "^nS« to* iaxsbxt mit, gfjhattt i hane nfcitbji. FRONTISPIECE. From a Photograph by Van der Weyde. Vincent Brooks, Woodburytype. : VIOLIN-MAKING, AS IT WAS AND IS: BEING A ON THE SCIENCE Aro AUT OF VIOLm-MAKITO, POK THE USE OP VIOLIN MA.KERS AND PLAYERS, Amateue asd Propessional. ED. HEEON-^LLEN, AviHOB OF "Thb Ahcestbt of the Violiu," "Thb Histoby of a GtBXAt ViOLiir Case," "The Bouance of a Stbasivabi," etc., etc. WITH UPWARDS OF 200 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR. Viva fui in sylvis, sum diird oeeisa securi, Dum viici tacui, mortua dulee oano. PRECEDED BY 9n €seas on tte 17101111 antr its position as a. iXtusical Snstcument LONDON WARD, LOCK, & CO., LIMITED, WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE. PrinUdby Hazcll, IVats,,,, &- Fi„^.