Classical Music Videolica

For years, we’ve recognized that listening to music has benefits for children’s development. The music of the Austrian Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) grew farther and farther from nineteenth-century harmonic fashions, till he was writing music that has been known as “atonal,” that means that, in a sure technical respect, no note in it is extra central than every other. (Nearly no music from Gregorian occasions through the 19th century had been atonal.) Within the 1920’s, Schoenberg introduced the “twelve-tone system,” a brand new approach for organizing music with out the necessity for a central observe. Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, setting poems of Albert Giraud, dates from earlier than his twelve-tone period. The poems transport Pierrot, the inventory character of the Italian commedia del’arte, into alien, psychologically charged situations. Pierrot Lunaire uses a method called Sprechstimme (“speech-sound”); it’s not quite spoken, not quite sung.

If we don’t make this distinction clear, all that follows is nonsense. Too many people apply modernism to something that resided in the 20th century that contained somewhat dissonance. That may be a widespread error. For others, modernism exists in any period – it simply is what’s taking place at a given time, and is acceptable as a description for music in that period. This, too, is improper for its reluctance to confront the artistic process.

Using early music synthesizers and the physical manipulation of magnetic tape prefigured at present’s use of digital sampling by many composers. Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928) used a conventional song of religious praise as his raw materials on this early instance. All kinds of concerts will be on supply, from soloists to an orchestra. Our performers have selected a extremely diverse repertoire, starting from Baroque to modern music and cross-overs.