Music

You need to write about “Gamelan music and its influence on classical music.” AND a feedback is to write about John Cage’s Prepared Piano piece, . Some links to help you write the paper : Instruments, , theory, Classical Impressions ,

Watch the following video below about the enlightenment which crosses from the end of the baroque into the classical period. Find and discuss two major figures as well as two influential ideas that came from the Enlightenment era and how it impacted society.  Watch the video first:

The assignment is for the 20th-century classical piece of your choice.  In other words, a piece that is written for orchestra, choir, or a chamber ensemble.  Jazz music or rock music does not fit for this assignment – Jazz is the focus for assignment #7, and rock music between 1950-1970 is assignment #8.   Please do not use the following Modern pieces from the textbook for your listening assignment: Debussy,  Clouds Stravinsky,  Rite of Spring Schoenberg,  Pierrot Lunaire Berg, Wozzeck Ives,  Second Orchestral Suite Ravel,  Piano Concerto in G Bartók,  Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Crawford,  Prelude for Piano No. 6 Still,  Afro-American Symphony Copland,  Appalachian Spring Prokofiev,  Alexander Nevsky Weberm,  Five Orchestral Pieces Varèse,  Poème Electronique Ligeti,  Lux Aeterna Cage,  4’ 33” Reich,  Music for 18 Musicians León,  Indigena Adams,  Doctor Atomic Shaw, Partita for 8 voices

Essay on Max Steiner and Alfred Newmann

Music Theory

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Composer Promotion