Mensural notation

The Menuets from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major explores the tonality of G Major and what can be done to make it sound engaging, dance-like, and captivating. Both Menuet I and Menuet II function as individual movements, yet they contribute to and complement one another. Both explore different rhythmic patterns and tonal aspects, all the while staying and maintaining in the same realm of G Major. I will be talking about rhythm and how it drives the melody forward, shift of tonality and tonicization and how it materializes the movements, and cadences and pauses and how it balances characters from both Menuets. The first point I like to discuss is rhythm. The rhythm helps make the line light and dance-like. In the first Menuet, Bach explores a number of rhythms, yet they hold some body to them. There is rhythmic pattern of two eighth notes, one quarter note, one eighth note, and two sixteenth notes that are used sparingly, which leads the melodical line to the next measure. There are the six eighth notes, the “body” or “essence” of the Menuet. The quarter notes and half notes suggest a pause, almost even functioning like a cadential figure. Even the dotted quarter note in measure sixteen, the only one in the movement, acts as a “break point.” Only one dotted half note appears: the end of Menuet I, closing with a perfect authentic cadence. This suggests, then, shorter durations of rhythms travel to a destination spot, while longer rhythms act as a stopping point or at…

While creating the lesson plans for my 10-day unit, I made a template to guide me in my instruction. For the procedure section of my lesson plan, I have split each class into three different parts: theory instruction (12 minutes), assessment/activity (15 minutes), and singing (25 minutes). Theory instruction is when I am using my knowledge of student’s prior skills to expand on what they know, and teach new concepts that will link to those from before. During the assessment/activity, I make…

that were between six and eleven syllables long. The lines would occasionally rhyme but in various alteration patterns. Where the text originated from depended on the composer, but a great portion of early motets, especially from Notre-Dame were derived from poems. The Franconian/Petrucious Motet subgenres During the first part of the thirteenth century when motets were new, the duration of a given note was heavily restricted based on its place within the recurring modal rhythmic pattern.…

This classical music recital on September 24, 2015, in Duncan Recital Hall at Baird Musical Hall stars many of Morehead State University’s musical professors. The compositions it features are Donald Gillis’s They’re Off, Béla Bartók’s Quarrel, W.A. Mozart’s La ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni), Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Fantasie Concertante for Piano, Clarinet, and Bassoon, Michel Blavet’s Variations on a Theme by Corelli, John Macky’s Damn, and Ryan Mcguillicuddy’s On The Bus. In Donald Gillis’s…

little else is available to shed light on the subject. Minamino explains how the majority of music performed by beggar musicians was never recorded onto paper, but instead simply memorized and changed/improvised as needed. Notated music may have not been practical anyway, according to Minamino’s assertion that beggar musicians were not formally trained in the art. Professional musicians, those of higher status and means, were able to study at the university, whereas beggar musicians were more…

Business suit, waistcoat, black trousers and bow tie. Double check the time. Last preparation with a pocket square, check the tickets, and order the cab. David Geffen Hall at Lincoln center to experience New York Philharmonic. Thursday, April 7 by half past seven all classical music lovers in a hurry toward to classical music concert of Beethoven and Strauss. The audience is exciting about this evening, and it is foreseeing, program for today is big. It includes Strauss “Oboe Concerto” and…

Throughout the timeline of Music, There has been many different genres and styles created by Musicians, throughout this timeline we received the 20th Century genre of Impressionism. The genre focuses on conveying emotions and moods behind a pacific event or a reflection on how the composer is feeling, an example of Impressionism genre that gives the audience the feel of emotion is Krzytof Penderecki’s Impressionism piece Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima, which he has transformed the…

Classical music has been around since the 11th century and is a growing art in the music world today. In that century, composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, and many more would have never thought that their music would have played a large role in the 21st century. For years now, researchers have wondered what effects come from listening to classical music and many have found that listening to classical music is beneficial in education while helping improve memory, learning and…

I would like you to take a minute to think about one of the most important things in your life, personally it would be my family and friends, but some people might agree with me when I say that music plays a huge part in our lives. For as long as humans have been around there has been some form of music made by these people, it’s safe to assume that even the first human beings had some form of music that they created and performed. Music can easily be compared to stories that have been passed…

Warm greetings to those who have found this time capsule. Encased in this time capsule are ten handpicked and meticulously decided pieces of music that represent the musical culture of the classical era until the 21st Century. Brought to you by the decisions of a group of musical professionals are a pieces that will captivate you into the history of the western world. Before intricately contriving a list of musical pieces, my group and I brainstormed the process of fabricating the list. We…