the notation 8va is sometimes seen in sheet music, meaning "play this an octave higher than written." 8va stands for ottava, the Italian word for octave. Sometimes 8va will also be used to indicate a passage is to be played an octave lower, although the similar notation 8vb (ottava ...
In February, I became a founding member of theGRAMMY Creators Alliance. The Alliance joined many big names in the music business, not for ourselves, but for the up-and-coming songwriters and artists. To bring hope. To try and change laws that are hindering the music biz. To make sure th...
Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrograph" or "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures (and writes down) sounds") preferring this designation to that of "musician," after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers ...
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Bryce:My brother and I write the initial song ideas together, meaning the kind of musical material that then the lyrics are written over. Those are really simple ideas, but sometimes they’re more fleshed out than others. In a couple examples we were almost improvising in the studio together...
finally to the nightmare in Op.15 No.1, Chopin's transformation is evident. When it comes to nocturne 15-1 in F major, Chopin seems to have completely broken away from Field's framework, giving a whole new meaning to nocturne and interweaving strong emotions into one nocturne after another...
'The Most Interesting Genre of Music': Performance, Sociability and Meaning in the Classical String Quartet, 1800–1830 It has long been recognized that journalistic discourse about the string quartet in early nineteenth-century sources stressed its elevation and seriousness in comparison to other genre...
meaning; for in one dictionary reference, a secondary non-musical definition of the word is “an expedition or journey into unexplored territory.” A certainty, however, is that another possible speculation, namely that Creston might have inferred through the title that his music was now moving ...
I want the third or fourth listen to be the better one. Immediacy is nice, but when I'm being a devoted listener and devoted fan, I want the music to expand the more I hear it. Do deeper levels of meaning unfold, and details come to surface that you're incapable of hearing on a...