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Inori (Stockhausen)
''Inori'' (Japanese for "Adorations"), for one or two soloists with orchestra, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1973–74 (Nr. 38 in the composer's catalog of works). History ''Inori'' is a meditative work. The word ''inori'' (祈り) in Japanese means "prayer, invocation, adoration". "It is like an opera with only one character and no singing, only thoughts visible as gesture and audible as reciprocally modulated sound". "The solo part is composed as a melody and is theoretically performable by a melody instrument; however the relationship between solo gesture and orchestra response is so complete that the solo melody is invariably interpreted in silence by a dancer-mime, employing a vocabulary of gestures drawn from a variety of religious practices". The Australian dancer and choreographer Philippa Cullen, who spent some time in Germany working with Stockhausen in 1973, is credited with drawing his attention to choreographic prayer gestures, in particular t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchestral Music
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass * woodwinds, such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon * Brass instruments, such as the horn, trumpet, trombone, cornet, and tuba * percussion instruments, such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, and mallet percussion instruments Other instruments such as the piano, harpsichord, and celesta may sometimes appear in a fifth keyboard section or may stand alone as soloist instruments, as may the concert harp and, for performances of some modern compositions, electronic instruments and guitars. A full-size Western orchestra may sometimes be called a or philharmonic orchestra (from Greek ''phil-'', "loving", and "harmony"). The actual number of musicians employed in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Von Blumröder
Christoph von Blumröder (born 18 July 1951) is a German musicologist. Career Born in Northeim, Blumröder studied musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, philosophy and history of the . After his doctorate in 1979, Blumröder was a research assistant at the ' (1972–2006). From 1980 Blumröder also taught at the university there, where he received his habilitation in 1990. After assistant professorships at the University of Bonn in the winter semester of 1991/92 and at the Saarland University in the summer semester of 1995, he accepted an appointment as professor for contemporary music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne in the winter semester of 1996/97. There he founded the cycles of events ''Composition and Musicology in Dialogue'' (1997) and ''Space Music'' (1998) as well as the publication series ''Signale aus Köln. Beiträge zur Musik der Zeit'' and was elected chairman of the associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Compositions
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compositions By Karlheinz Stockhausen
Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space *Composition (music), an original piece of music and its creation *Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work * ''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters * Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction * ''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker * Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a video Computer science *Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones *Object composition, combining simpler data types into more complex data types, or function calls into calling functions History *Composition of 1867, Austro-Hungaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th-century Classical Music
20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had previously. So this century was without a dominant style. Modernism, impressionism, and post-romanticism can all be traced to the decades before the turn of the 20th century, but can be included because they evolved beyond the musical boundaries of the 19th-century styles that were part of the earlier common practice period. Neoclassicism and expressionism came mostly after 1900. Minimalism started much later in the century and can be seen as a change from the modern to post-modern era, although some date post-modernism from as early as about 1930. Aleatory, atonality, serialism, '' musique concrète'', electronic music, and concept music were all developed during the century. Jazz and ethnic folk music became important influences on many composers during this century. History At the turn of the century, music was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Grünzweig
Werner Grünzweig (born 1959) is an Austrian musicologist and archivist. Life Born in Graz, Grünzweig first studied piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and from 1984 musicology and American studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He graduated with an M.A. in 1989. In 1995 he was awarded the M.A. with the work ''Ahnung und Wissen, Geist und Form : Alban Berg als Musikschriftsteller und Analytiker der Musik Arnold Schönbergs'' on WorldCat (published 2000 at the |
Elisabeth Schmierer
Elisabeth Schmierer (born in 1955) is a German musicologist. She researches and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Career Born in Tübingen, Schmierer graduated from high school in Freudenstadt and initially studied school music at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. This was followed by studies in musicology, history and art history at the University of Kiel, where she also received her doctorate in 1989. Her habilitation was completed at the Technische Universität Berlin. Seit 2000 lehrt sie in Essen. She is married to Matthias Brzoska. Publications * ''Die Orchesterlieder Gustav Mahlers''. Kassel 1991 (Dissertation) * ''Die Tragédies lyriques Niccolò Piccinnis. Zur Synthese französischer und italienischer Oper im späten 18. Jahrhundert'', 1999 (Habilitationsschrift) * ''Kleine Geschichte der Oper''. Stuttgart 2001. * ''Komponisten-Porträts'' Stuttgart: Reclam 2003, 2010 * ''Geschichte des Liedes''. Laaber-Verl. 2007. 2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Brzoska
Matthias Brzoska (born 24 June 1955) is a German musicologist. He leads his research and teaches at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Career Brzoska studied musicology in Marburg and Berlin with Reinhold Brinkmann, Sieghart Döhring and Carl Dahlhaus and French philology with Hermann Hofer. From 1981 to 1986 he was an assistant lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and received his doctorate in 1986 at the Technical University Berlin with a dissertation on Franz Schreker. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in Paris on a research project financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1992 he was habilitated at the University of Bayreuth with a study on the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk. He then became professor of musicology at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His research focuses on opera, music and intertextual relations between music and other arts. He undertook various research projects together with his wife, the musicologist Elisabeth Schmierer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanne Fontaine
Susanne Fontaine (born 31 January 1961) is a German musicologist and university teacher. Life Born in Merzig/Saarland, Fontaine studied musicology, Germanistic and philosophy from 1980 until 1986 at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, School music at the Universität der Künste Berlin as well as musicology and Germanistic at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1992 to 1998 Fontaine was a research assistant at the Hochschule der Künste; in 1999 she received a habilitation scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on the topic ''The figure of Maria Magdalena in the music of the 17th and 18th century''. In 2000 and 2001 she held the professorship for musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In the winter semester 2002/03 Fontaine was a lecturer at the musicology department of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. In 2003 she was appointed professor at the University of Potsdam an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmar Budde
Elmar Budde (born 13 June 1935) is a German musicologist. He studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Training and career Born in Bochum, Budde studied piano and school music at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg where he passed his state examination in 1961. After subsequent studies in musicology and Germanistic at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, he received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on the early Anton Webern. In 1972 he was appointed Professor of musicology at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts). His areas of research include the history of musical composition from the Middle Ages to the present; the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of performance practice and interpretation and questions and problems of the interdisciplinary (music - painting - architecture) and finally the music of Franz Schubert. Honour * Elisabeth Schmierer, Susanne Fontaine, Werner Grünzweig an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Riethmüller
Albrecht Riethmüller (born 21 January 1947) is a German musicologist. Life Born in 1947 in Stuttgart, Riethmüller studied musicology, philosophy and modern German literature at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1974 from Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with the dissertation ''Die Musik als Abbild der Realität'', and habilitated in 1984 with his study on ''Ferruccio Busoni's Poetik''. He first took a guest professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1983), and held substitute professorships at the universities of Heidelberg, (1984/85) and Frankfurt (1986). Riethmüller held additional teaching positions at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (1985–87) and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (1994). In 1986 he was appointed Professor of musicology at the Goethe University Frankfurt, succeeding Ludwig Finscher, and in 1992 he was appointed Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, succeeding Rudolf Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga De La Motte-Haber
Helga de la Motte-Haber (born 2 October 1938) is a German musicologist focusing on the study of systematic musicology. Life Haber was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as the first child of Paula Haber, ''née'' Kilian, and the physicist and mathematician Gustav Haber. Two brothers followed in 1939 and 1941. She survived the Second World War and the post-war period, according to her own statement, "in the back of the Palatinate" (Winseln, Leutershausen and Frankelbach) - a few kilometres from the French border and the Siegfried Line. She attended school in Kaiserslautern and in Kusel, where she passed her Abitur in 1957. Her father also taught at the grammar school. In 1957, Haber began studying psychology at the University of Mainz with Albert Wellek, a representative of the Gestalt psychology of the Leipzig School. Her fields of work were music psychology and synaesthesia. In 1959 Haber moved to Vienna, where taught in the tradition of Viennese psychology. After a short excurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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