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1. Lutosławski, Witold (Biography)
...who gave him a secure grounding in piano technique and music
theory . His mother's financial difficulties, however, forced her to
curtail the…
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2. Ramis de Pareia, Bartolomeus (Biography)
...that these were the intervals of actual practice, not those of
theory (though Gaffurius refused to accept the distinction). It was
left…
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3. Skryabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Biography)
...expounded to Koussevitzky his ideas for a multi-media Misteriya and
his theories on colour and music; the entranced but astute
Koussevitzky offered…
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4. Weber: (9) Carl Maria von Weber (Biography)
...to his autobiographical sketch, he began to collect treatises on
music theory on this trip in an attempt to answer technical and…
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5. Johannes de Garlandia (Biography)
...the point of departure for almost all subsequent treatments of
mensural theory in the 13th century, whether their authors were of
conservative…
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6. Webern, Anton (Biography)
...row, and the first to use transposition, though only at the
tritone.
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7. Schulhoff, Erwin (Biography)
...at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his other teachers were Krehl
(music theory ) and Teichmüller (piano), an admirer of Russian music,
especially that…
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8. Sibelius, Jean (Biography)
...and Kirsti (1898, died 1900). In autumn 1892 he began teaching
theory (and violin) both at the Helsinki Music Institute and at…
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9. Vaughan Williams, Ralph (Biography)
...rather than social abstractions (although he had enough taste for
political theory as a young man to work through the Fabian tracts).…
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10. Guido of Arezzo (Biography)
...various kinds of motion are combined forms the subject of Guido's
theory of motus, and their permutations are demonstrated in a
diagram…
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11. Davies, Peter Maxwell (Biography)
...teachers were Kim, Sessions and Babbitt, who introduced him to set
theory and the concept of combinatoriality. While at Princeton he
completed…
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12. Ruggles, Carl (Biography)
...death of the financial sponsor. Ruggles then had private lessons in
theory with Josef Claus and in composition with John Knowles Paine.…
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13. Hindemith, Paul (Biography)
...on. Unable to find suitable textbooks, he undertook research in
music theory and acoustics, learning Latin and mathematics to
facilitate the reading…
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14. Britten, Benjamin: Bibliography (Biography)
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15. Musorgsky, Modest Petrovich (Biography)
...Dargomïzhsky and Cui – but more profoundly stimulated by the
mimetic theory of word-tone relations that he had found in Georg
Gervinus's…
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16. Lambertus, Magister (Biography)
...theorist. His Tractatus de musica made an important contribution to
the theory of measured music between Johannes de Garlandia and Franco
of…
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17. Mesopotamia (Subject Entry)
...musicians who played them, and details of performing practice and
music theory ; the texts of poems and hymns together with directions
for…
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18. India, §III, 2: Theory and practice of classical music: Rāga
(Subject Entry)
...scenes, situations and rasa (aesthetic flavour; see §7 below). When
the theory and practice of music became gradually divorced from drama,
more…
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19. False relation (Subject Entry)
...the term is normally also applied to the occurrence of a tritone
between two notes in adjacent chords (ex.1c), on the grounds…
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20. Harmony (Subject Entry)
...intervals and their combinations or chords and their relationships.
(In Riemann's theory of harmonic function, a harmony is the essence of
all…
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21. Solmization (Subject Entry)
...Latin Middle Ages. The earliest similar system to appear in
medieval theory was that involving the noeagis type of formula, first
used…
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22. Bell (i) (Subject Entry)
...means of fixing interval relationships in the Chinese system of
music theory . Such an instrument did not appear in Europe until
about…
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23. Czech Republic (Subject Entry)
...1348 and his election to the imperial throne in 1356, mensural
theory , based on the work of Johannes de Muris began to…
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24. Atonality (Subject Entry)
...of the works of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Hindemith. The
inadequacy of theories of tonality in dealing with this music lends
support to…
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25. Psychology of music, §V: Early development (Subject Entry)
...consonant or pleasant and those related by large-integer ratios
(e.g. the tritone ) as dissonant or unpleasant (Plomp and Levelt,
1965). In the…
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