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  Amusements - Music
When a musical entertainment was given by the officers of the Fort and the gentry of the city, the evening usually ended in a " ball for the ladies." Professional concerts were advertised with the same attraction.
Music was more a part of the social life than it is today.
He will undertake to compose, or set to music, any piece on any subject, divine or moral, either in prose or verse, and adapt the music according to the sense of the subject for the organ, harpsichord or spinnet, on application to him and a moderate satisfaction.
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 Untitled Document
Musical form becomes dictated by a rhetorical focus, a relation heightened by the terms compositio, dispositio, res, verba, grandis, ornata, figura, flos, and color, which Lippius garners directly from the rhetorical texts of Cicero and Quintilian, and places liberally throughout his treatises on music and rhetoric.
This outlook is not surprising for Lippius, considering that he viewed text and music as related by Aristotelian philosophy; the body, analogous to the music of a work, and the soul, analogous to the text of a work, attest to the importance of the text in Lippius' conception of music.
Music was able to recover from the excesses of the Baroque in a much easier manner, because music was already linked to science through the mathematics of sound production, and because music was not directly attacked in the philosophical treatises of the day as rhetoric was.
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 Encyclopedia: 1764
Category: 1764 Jump to: navigation, search March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years).
Ivan VI with his mother Anna Leopoldovna Ascension to the throne Ivan VI of Russia (Иоанн Антонович), (August 23, 1740 - July 16, 1764), reigned as Emperor of Russia 1740 - 1741, was the son of Prince Antony Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg and of the princess Anna Leopoldovna of Mecklenburg.
The Reverend Nathaniel Bliss (28 November 1700-2 September 1764) was a noted English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764.
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 Learn more about List of musical events in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
2004 in music - The Offspring releases Splinter
1967 in music - The Beatles release Sgt.
1786 in music - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
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 Baroque Music
Renaissance music (Remember, it came before Baroque.) was more like a bowlful of toppings without banana or ice cream, just a bowlful of assorted nuts, syrups, sprinkles, cherries and cream all congealing together into a puddle of oversweet ooze.
His passion and devotion was to his music alone, and the young maidens of his school remained just that—at least as far as he was concerned.
It was a lucky coincidence that he was as good a violin player as he was, since the music he wrote was so difficult, written to showcase only the greatest of the violin soloists.
www.sesk.org /Aesthetics/Music/Baroque.htm   (3051 words)

  
 Music Library - New Titles - November, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Di tanti palpiti [music] : in F [sic] : for the flute and piano forte / arranged by T. Bucher.
The Marseille's hymn [sic] [music] : for the flute and piano forte / L. Drouet.
Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo, D 181 [music] : offertorium in a per coro (SATB) ed orchestra : 2 oboi, 2 clarinetti, 2 fagotti, 3 tromboni, 2 violini, viola e bassi (violoncello, contrabbasso ed organo) / Franz Schubert ; herausgegeben von Werner Bodendorff.
www.lib.unimelb.edu.au /collections/music/acq/2004-11.html   (4498 words)

  
 Jean-Philippe Rameau
As a composer, he was known only for his keyboard music (a second collection appeared in 1729-30) and his cantatas, though he had also written some church music.
In 1745 he was appointed a royal chamber music composer; thereafter several of his works had their premieres at court theatres.
Rameau's harpsichord music is notable for its variety of texture, its originality of line and its boldness of harmony.
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 1763 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1762 in music, other events of 1763, 1764 in music, list of years in music.
James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London
The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, visiting Paris and London
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 Soul Of America - Baton Rouge: Zydeco Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
They brought music that originated in France, but was tempered in Nova Scotia through interaction with Native Americans and British settlers.
Since lyrical music is often about day-to-day concerns and aspirations, those lifestyle stories were changed to refer the Southwest Louisiana lifestyle an gathered new influences from Native Americans in the region.
A number of music historians note that melodies built around a refrain that enabled singers and collective dancing, common to West African culture.
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 Music History Resources
Note: This document is not intended as a stand-alone account of Western musical history, but rather as an aid to assist students using one of the standard music history texts (in particular, the Grout/Palisca volume).
Crowning achievement of Italian chamber music in the late 17th c.
Allegro is musical center of gravity of the church sonata (retains traits of the canzona: in its use of imitation, rhythm and modification of the subject after the exposition) 2.
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 Stanley, John Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
John Stanley - Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry with life and comments on works.
Music samples from his opus 2 concertos for harpsichord/organ and strings.
Classical Music Archives: Stanley - Music files offered in MIDI format.
www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_S_Stanley,_John.html   (1790 words)

  
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In contrast to the staid, stuffy and harmonically simple music of Lully, Rameau's ballet sequences are energetic, harmonically inventive and imaginatively scored.
Rameau's music has all the qualities that would characterize French music well into the 20th century - gracet clarity, wit, occasional sentimentality and a taste for the picturesque.
All Rameau's harpsichord music can be found on three discs sold in retail stores on the CRD label or obtained through the mail from the Musical Heritage Society.
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 MTO 5.2: Employment Listings
Must demonstrate promise of scholarly achievement in music theory and excellence in teaching undergraduate and graduate music theory.
Responsibilities include: developing and teaching music technology courses at introductory and advanced levels, administering two music computer facilities and additional smart classrooms, and assisting faculty in the development of CAI skills.
The Department of Music is located administratively in the College of Arts and Sciences, the largest of the nine university colleges.
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 Bach Notes
Bach was a busy man all his life: organist, choir master, music teacher, court musician, and instructor at a boys school, father of 20 children.
The mystery is how he found time to compose music at all, much less create great musical masterpieces.
After JS Bach's death, all his original musical manuscripts were divided among his family.
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 Music Directory: Harpists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Davis, Pumehana - Pumehana Davis is a professional harpist providing musical services for weddings and special events for more than twenty years on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Manno, John - John Manno specializes in classical music, is proficient on both the pedal (or concert) harp, as well as the lever (or folk or Irish) harp.
Monica Ramos - Monica Ramos is breaking traditional barriers as she is creating pioneering modern music with the classical harp in focus, an instrument seldom seen before in this environment...
www.jazar-music.com /directory/Instruments/Stringed/Harp/Harpists   (3777 words)

  
 1764 in music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
1764 in music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1764 in music contains research on
1764 in music, Events, Popular music, Opera, Classical music, Births and Deaths.
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 JONATHAN BATTISHILL - LoveToKnow Article on JONATHAN BATTISHILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
(!~ (1738-1801), one of the bst,8th century English compasers of church music.
Until 1764 he wrote chiefly for the theatre (incidental songs, pantomime music, and an opera in collaboration with Michael Arne, the son of Thomas Arne), but his later compositions are chiefly glees, part-songs and church music.
In 1763 he had married a singer at Covent Garden theatre where he was harpsichordist.
60.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BATTISHILL_JONATHAN.htm   (107 words)

  
 Rameau, Jean-Philippe Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Epitome of French music 1683-1764 - Analysis of his style and the aesthetic wars in Parisian opera between the French and Italian styles.
Classical Music Archives: Biography of Rameau - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music.
But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
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 Music (Links)
World music, new age, folk, etc. (In English and Spanish).
With music ready to listen to (for example, first link is a fragment from the celebrated Andante of the Piano Concerto No. 21).
Music and dance from all corners of the world.
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 1764 Online Research :: Information about 1764   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Years: 1761 1762 1763 - 1764 - 1765 1766 1767
1764 in topic: Art 1764 in architecture - 1764 in literature - 1764 in music Other topics 1764 in Canada - 1764 in science
Lists of leaders: List of colonial governors in 1764 - List of state leaders in 1764
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 Semana: A Day in Mexico: the Mercury Baroque Ensemble brings 18th century Mexican music to life.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
But this October Houston audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy the Mercury Baroque Ensemble's performance of A Day in Mexico, 1764, a sampling of the music that was common to the era.
"It's really wonderful to perform this music, to give the audience a taste of what Mexico sounded like some 230 years ago," she says.
"This is a snapshot of Mexican culture and music in 1764."
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 List of musical events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
1905 in music - Franz Lehar The Merry Widow permiers
1879 in music - Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance debuts
1876 in music - Ricard Wagner's Siegfried debuts
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 A Capella Cantatas
the music theoretician, Johann Adoph Scheibe (1708-1776) (his father, Johann Scheibe, an organ builder was very highly regarded by Bach) is the infamous critic of Bach's music in the Birnbaum-Scheibe controversy.
But because it has become customary for composers to set to music many arias which are only accompanied by string instruments, it will become necessary to gain some insight into this matter.
It is very difficult music, but you clearly have much experience and expertise singing Bach, so that the difficulties are not so great for you.
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 Books / Instruments Performers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Starting with the most popular chords used in music, and then moving to other chords in open in barre position.
Music Space - #1 Source For As Seen On TV Music & Videos
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 Re: I have POTC sheet music for flute!!!
In Response to:Re: I have POTC sheet music for flute!!!
For the music, what instrument do you want it for.
POTC free sheet music for the clarinet and/or piano
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 New Books Updated 11/09/05
Dance of the French baroque theatre [videorecording] / [presented by] Apollo's Banquet ; reconstructions and choreography by Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird.
Music and Marx : ideas, practice, politics / edited by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi.
Visual music : synaesthesia in art and music since 1900 / organized by Kerry Brougher...
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 Find in a Library: Music and the French enlightenment : reconstruction of a dialogue, 1750-1764
Find in a Library: Music and the French enlightenment : reconstruction of a dialogue, 1750-1764
Music and the French enlightenment : reconstruction of a dialogue, 1750-1764
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
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 ARC World Music - Official Site
Here you can find one of the finest selections of top quality folk and world music from all over the world - Australian Didgeridoo to the Celtic Harp to Egyptian Tabla and beyond...
We specialize in top quality world and folk music.
Our site is possibly the most extensive collection of world and folk music from around the world.
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 MUSIC CITY BBG #1764
The girls of Music City hail from Nashville Tennessee and are members of The
Nashville BBG has been in existence since July 18, 1958, and has had several different names, but most recently has been known as Music City BBG #1764.
Here are the top three, so pick the one that suits your fancy.
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 Jean Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) & Clical Music Discussion Deck
CLICAL MUSIC, Jean Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764), Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart all sail aboard
And the brave of heart shall certainly wish to sign their souls aboard The Jolly Roger.
Jean Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764), Clical Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven all sail aboard The Jolly Roger.
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