When a composer develops a musical idea, they use a process known as fragmentation.
As a composer develops a musical idea she may use fragmentation as a way to shorten the musical motive.
Blue Man Group take a very simple musical idea and make it sound richly complex since they use found instruments.
Of course ... most all composer use this when composing. Yes all composer use counterpoint, bad ones don't use it lol.
Conlon Nancarrow was an American-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico and is best known for the pieces he wrote for the 'player piano'. Conlon Nancarrow was one of the first composers to use musical instruments as machines.
The purpose of program music is to attempt to musically render an extra-musical narrative. The program itself is provided to an audience in any variety of forms and then expressed via a form that the composer/writer attempts to use in expressing it.
As a composer develops a musical idea she may use fragmentation as a way to shorten the musical motive.
The canon has been in use as a musical form since the early Renaissance, if not before. The first composer or musician to try it is unknown to us.
Richard Wagner was the nineteenth century composer whose use of leitmotifs in his operas influenced the idea of unity in film music. Filmmakers such as Max Steiner and Erich Korngold adapted this method, incorporating recurring musical themes to represent characters, emotions, or ideas throughout a film.
easier for a reader to under stand or a code for the composer so no one can steal the idea
Blue Man Group take a very simple musical idea and make it sound richly complex since they use found instruments.
Of course ... most all composer use this when composing. Yes all composer use counterpoint, bad ones don't use it lol.
There is a musical on Broadway.
The purpose of program music is to attempt to musically render an extra-musical narrative. The program itself is provided to an audience in any variety of forms and then expressed via a form that the composer/writer attempts to use in expressing it.
Conlon Nancarrow was an American-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico and is best known for the pieces he wrote for the 'player piano'. Conlon Nancarrow was one of the first composers to use musical instruments as machines.
Fortissimo means "strongest" or "loudest" in Italian, and is used in music notation. Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1556-1612) was the first known composer to use the terms piano and forte, which refer to volume/intensity of a musical note or notes.
You must first secure their written permission, or the heirs of the composer if h/she is dead.
"The young composer was very nonchalant about winning the Pulitzer Prize for music, as if it were something every young composer did."