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American composer (1894–1976)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] 46 times, beginning under Vincent d’Indy in 1905. This weekend’s performances are the first since 1993.] I wrote more on Chausson HERE Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
[…] on August 30th, even Judy Collins and friends. Lastly, once can savor a list of debuts and represented living composers HERE. Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-16 17:26:11
Dreading the Augmented Sixth
The augmented sixth chord tends to be a dreaded subject in harmony courses, because it comes near the end of the textbook (e.g., Chapter 27 of Piston-DeVoto Harmony, 5th edition) but it really isn’t that complicated. There are maybe six or seven different kinds in regular use, some with geographic names: the Italian, German, and French sixths are well known, and some writers recognize Swiss or even Polish sixths. (You might wonder about the famous Neapolitan sixth, as well as the Russian sixth that I have puffed about in these pages, but these are not augmented sixth chords.) All of them have in common the interval of augmented sixth, typically in the upper voice and bass: and differing only in what goes in the inner parts. The four shown above also have the tonic note as well as the minor sixth degree and the raised fourth degree. The black unstemmed notes […]
2024-01-15 16:11:56
Schein and many other, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: January 15, 2024. Schein and much more. Several composers were born this week: Niccolò Piccinni (b. 1/16/1728), a nearly forgotten Italian composer who was famous in his day for his Neapolitan opera buffa; Cesar Cui (b. 1/18/1835), a Russian composer of French descent (his father entered Russia with Napoleon) and a member of the Mighty Five; Emmanuel Chabrier (b. 1/18/1841), a mostly self-taught French composer, whose España is his best-known symphonic work but who also wrote some very nice songs; Ernest Chausson (b. 1/20/1855), another Frenchman, who wrote the Poème for the violin and orchestra which entered the repertoire of all virtuoso violinists; Walter Piston (b. 1/20/1894), a prolific and prominent American composer of the 20th century who often used Schoenberg’s 12-note method; Alexander Tcherepnin (b. 1/20/1899), a Russian composer who was born into a prominent musical family (his father, Nikolai Tcherepnin was a noted composer […]
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