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  European classical music Summary
Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day.
The term classical music did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the period from Bach to Beethoven as an era in music parallel to the golden age of sculpture, architecture and art of classical antiquity (from which no music has directly survived).
Classical music is primarily a written musical tradition, preserved in music notation, as opposed to being transmitted orally, by rote, or in recordings.
www.bookrags.com /European_classical_music   (2680 words)

  
 John Weinzweig, Canada's dean of classical composing, dies
Canadian classical music composer John Weinzweig died Thursday night in a Toronto hospital.
A founder of the Canadian League of Composers, he was a champion of Canadian classical music throughout his lifetime.
His music was known for its clarity of texture, economy of material, rhythmic energy and short melodic outbursts contrasted with long flowing lines.
www.cbc.ca /canada/toronto/story/2006/08/25/john-weinzweig-obit.html   (1701 words)

  
 European classical music at AllExperts
For the period of music in the late 18th century, see Classical period (music).
Classical music as "music of the classical era"
Finally, while equal temperament became gradually accepted as the dominant musical temperament during the 19th century, different historical temperaments are often used for music from earlier periods.
en.allexperts.com /e/e/eu/european_classical_music.htm   (2493 words)

  
 Sound Effects - The Boston Globe
Sarah Rodman is a staff music critic for the Boston Globe.
He plays music with his whole body, all spring-loaded dub lines, and he was a wonder to watch.
Besides the music, the on-street freebie patrols had you covered from Mentos to beer cozies to condoms, which seems like it will be a pretty natural progression for some SXSW attendees this week.
www.boston.com /ae/music/blog   (5044 words)

  
 Canadian Brass - ABOUT US - PAST MEMBERS
Canadian Brass had radical ideas, mixing styles and reaching audiences with acting and humor, though the music always was seriously well played.
Along with his own performing skills, Stuart has made a significant contribution to the Canadian classical music scene by establishing Opening Day Recordings, a label that has given many fine Canadian classical artists an opportunity to be heard on an international stage.
As a professor of trumpet and brass chamber music, Mills is continuing that long-standing commitment to music education.
www.canadianbrass.com /bios/pastmembers.html   (2451 words)

  
 Canadian Classical Music Student Writing Contest
The prize for the best English paper is courtesy of Sony Classical Canada.
Students must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants, or be registered at a Canadian school.
Papers can be in the form of an interview, an article on music history etc. Articles based on a thesis will also be accepted.
www.scena.org /lsmnews/2002StudentWritingcontest.html   (365 words)

  
 Music & Media
Music and Media is made possible in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music and Media held its inaugural meeting on January 19 and 20 in New York City.
Music and Media is a forum for broadcasters, new media producers, musicians and music industry professionals to broaden and serve audiences for the musical arts through broadcast and new media technologies.
www.musicandmedia.org   (284 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born to Polish-Jewish immigrants, Weinzweig made a name for himself composing scores for the CBC and the National Film Board and advocating for Canadian classical music.
Weinzweig’s interest in music began when he was 14, when he picked up the mandolin and the piano.
As revered as his music was, it was for his passion for Canadian classical music — and for the desire to get it heard — that Weinzweig really made his mark.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=10056   (600 words)

  
 John Weinzweig, dean of Canadian classical music, dies at age 93   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
TORONTO (CP) - Composer John Weinzweig, who taught many of the country's leading musicians and was considered the dean of Canadian classical music, has died.
"He was not only influencing the musicians who were playing this music but radio audiences across the country were listening to this new modern style of music now and were able to appreciate it," van Eyk said.
He founded the Canadian League of Composers in 1951, a crucial body that for the first time promoted Canadian composers, said Gray.
www.cbc.ca /cp/entertainment/060825/e082558.html   (692 words)

  
 Canadian Brass: Christmas Brass Quintets and Horn Quartet Sheet Music Downloads at Musicnotes.com
In addition to their performances and recordings of classical music, Canadian Brass has also become highly influential in the traditional Christmas music arena.
One of the classic Christmas Carols, this quintet arrangement (again, arranged by none other than Christopher Dedrick) not only captures the essence of the season, but includes a marvelous tuba solo intro sure to give your holiday performance a bit of extra flair (not to mention giving your tuba player an extra workout!).
The Canadian Brass arrangement for horn is no different - creating one of the more dynamic and beautiful performances available for this piece.
www.musicnotes.com /features/artists/canadian_brass   (673 words)

  
  Resources by Subject - Canadian Music Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the premiere reference source for Music--and for disciplines related to Music.
CMPI is a www-based index to Canadian music periodical literature, covering all aspects of musical activity in Canada.
There is no "Subject Heading" for Canadian printed music available to us, in terms of "art music" or "serious music" or "classical music", therefore there is no easy way to search for Canadian repertoire via the Western Libraries Catalogue.
www.lib.uwo.ca /resources/canadianmusicresources.shtml   (2460 words)

  
 Canadian Brass - LUTHER HENDERSON
When The Canadian Brass wanted to cut a CD with Duke Ellington's music, the call went out to Luther Henderson.
He has been active and well-known inside the music profession since the early 1940s when his collaboration with Ellington got his career off to a flying start, fresh out of the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Two musicals and orchestra arrangements for his famous son-in-law Simon Rattle are in the works.
www.canadianbrass.com /lh/archive.html   (464 words)

  
 Music, Genres, Classical,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is a ring for lovers of classical music to enter their site and be appart of a webring for the art of Classical Music
Music can thus be defined as an art form that arranges sounds in a fashion that follows certain natural principles and provides that special inner feeling of happiness and contentment.
From Hip Hop to the Classics, something for everyone that may bring a smile to your lips or put a song in your heart.
dir.webring.com /rw?d=Music/Genres/Classical   (541 words)

  
 Classical Music Links
Classical Music Tribute - Directory of composers, performers and related material.
Classical Music on The Russian Web - Links to Russian musicians, conductors, choruses, orchestras, musical organization, halls and theaters.
DW3 Classical Music Resources - A well organized, well maintained index of 1,500 classical music links, including homepages, chronologies, and necrologies of composers; genre-specific pages, databases, and other scholarly resources.
www.geocities.com /classicalmusic12345   (486 words)

  
 music
Music and Technology.com: Resources for the Recording Musician
Music and Vision ("world's first daily classical music magazine")
Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music
www.library.umass.edu /catalog/mus.html   (485 words)

  
 Canadian Classical Music @ CanEHdian.com
Classical Music Forum - Post a message in our new classical music forum.
Start discussions and share your comments with other classical music fans.
relating to or designating European music of the latter half of the 18th century 2.
www.canehdian.com /genre/classical.html   (90 words)

  
 Music and Wine: Shirazmataz
In addition to her many performance activities, she is an active researcher specializing in market research, music education, and audience development.
He currently directs the Toronto-based new music group Ensemble Noir -which was the first Canadian classical music ensemble to do an extensive tour of Africa to Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa in 2003.
His own music is influenced by the lyricism and rhythms of Africa, blended with an eclectic, post-modern approach to contemporary music.
www.paristransatlantic.com /duo   (1269 words)

  
 Dean of Canadian classical music dead at 93   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
TORONTO (CP) -- Composer John Weinzweig, who taught many of the country's leading musicians and was considered the dean of Canadian classical music, has died.
The eldest child of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Weinzweig first studied music at 14 in Toronto, playing mandolin and piano.
In an audio clip preserved by the Canadian Music Centre, Weinzweig is heard bemoaning the dearth of homegrown pieces at a roundtable meeting of CBC producers in 2002.
www.canada.com /reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=f9c83808-5f5c-43fa-9fb5-4ec51300ab2b   (587 words)

  
 A Salut to the Money Makers of The Canadian Music Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Classical Album of the Year Nominees Brawl, Have to Be Separated
The violence was blamed on the bitterly divisive oboe/bassoon rivalry that has been tearing Canadian classical music apart for years now.
Despite numerous pleas for sanity from leading figures of the classical community, the antagonism between the warring camps seems destined to continue.
www.thehammer.ca /pages/junos/classical_album_juno.html   (362 words)

  
 Curricular Resources in Music
This site allows students to look for information on sound in music, science, and math, ask questions of the music experts, see sample instruments designed for the program, have fun with sounds and with instruments, and find information on careers that mix music, science, and math.
Your middle/junior high students will enjoy this webquest in which they and their team mates research a musical genre as part of their task to build a music theme park in their city.
The first, Music History Hall of Fame, challenges students to conduct research in order that they can nominate two people, from two different periods of classical music history, for induction into a Hall of Fame.
www.cln.org /subjects/music_cur.html   (1607 words)

  
 PlaybillArts: News: John Weinzweig, 'Dean of Canadian Composers,' Dies at 93
John Weinzweig, a composer and professor who was widely considered the "dean" of Canadian classical music and who taught many of the nation's currently prominent composers, died the night of August 24 in a Toronto hospital, according to reports from the CBC and the Canadian Press.
Born in Toronto to Polish-Jewish immigrants, Weinzweig began studying music at age 14 and decided to become a composer by age 19, according to the Canadian Press.
The CP notes that Weinzweig was often critical of Canada's large musical institutions, particularly the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the CBC, for what he saw as lackluster support for native-born composers.
www.playbillarts.com /news/article/5135.html   (528 words)

  
 Classical Music and Opera at ClassicalPlus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Classical music, musicology, music education and philosophy of music.
The premiere source for classical music and opera.
Music downloads, audio and video provided for personal, non-commercial use only and may not be re-distributed.
classicalplus.gmn.com /links/default.asp?cat=14   (229 words)

  
 Chicago Classical Music | An Online Community for Classical Music Enthusiasts
At our last Classical Committee meeting, Rachel Barton Pine noted that the way these categories are defined results in very disparate types of performances being compared against each other, such that many superb recordings stand little or no chance of ever winning an award — or even being nominated for one.
But here is a good read for classical music lovers and lovers of classical music alike.
This got me to thinking about how some of the most interesting classical music comes as the result of different traditions mixing: whether it’s Brahms’s “Hungarian” Dances, or Dvorak’s use of Negro spirituals in the “New World Symphony”, or more recently Lou Harrison and Michael Tippet’s explorations of Javanese modes in their compositions.
chicagoclassicalmusic.org   (1318 words)

  
 Top 10 sites for the classical music buff - 50Plus.com
The granddaddy of Canadian classical music sites, La Scena Musicale Online is definitely the place to go for news about the classical music industry.
If playing classical music is something you love to do, this is the site to visit.
If you're looking for classical music downloads to play on your iTunes or iPod this is an excellent site at which to start (this is different from the Naxos site, which uses streaming media).
www.50plus.com /display.cfm?libraryID=112&cabinetID=369&documentID=12528   (656 words)

  
 Brudirect.com  - News Headline
The first Canadian classical performance in Brunei will take place when award winning piano soloist, Roger Lord will perform a concert on Tuesday, October 31st at the Empire Hotel and Country Club.
He currently holds the position of Professor of Music at the Universite de Moncton, in his home province of New Brunswick.
Mr Neil Reeder, the Canadian High Commissioner in Brunei said that it is an honour to sponsor an artist of Mr Lord's calibre for the first Canadian classical music concert in Brunei.
www.brudirect.com /DailyInfo/News/Archive/Oct00/251000/bb13.htm   (233 words)

  
 Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
This event is one of CMC's series of national performances called New Music In New Places, designed to bring Canadian contemporary music out of concert halls and into the lives of Canadians.
New Music in New Places acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund, administered by The SOCAN Foundation.
Housing Canada's largest collection of Canadian classical music works, the CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world.
www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=25852699&rb=1   (570 words)

  
 Music & Arts Internet Resources
Medieval Music Database -- "Covers all of the music of the fourteenth century and all liturgical chant currently electronically indexed"; 70,000 works may be browsed.
TML: Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum database for Latin music -- An "evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance".
Classical Music Library -- A streaming online music database, featuring classical music from over 32 labels.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/music/offsite.html   (665 words)

  
 Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee.
Though The New York Times referred to Wuorinen as "the brainy serialist and Columbia professor", his music is not typically serialist in that it combines the tonal language of Arnold Sch�nberg with the rhythmic vitality of Stravinsky.
Juliet Palmer is guest curator for Continuum Contemporary Music�s 2005-2007 seasons and serves on the board of the Canadian Music Centre.
sequenza21.com /2006_02_01_s21calendar.html   (4036 words)

  
 Mills Resource Pages - Composition & Theory
The American Music Center (AMC) is a national service and information center for new American music.
From Department of Music Cognition at the Ohio State University School of Music.
This resource aims to clarify the basic principles behind Schenker's influential and controversial theory of tonal music using musical examples and comprehensive theoretical explanations.
music.library.wisc.edu /resources/studycomptheory.htm   (330 words)

  
 Canadian Music Centre - Ontario
Toronto, ON New Music in New Places acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund, administered by The SOCAN Foundation.
All New Music in New Places events are sponsored by Bowdens Media Monitoring Limited, CNW Group Ltd. and The Communications Group Inc.
Founded in 1959, the CMC is Canada’s primary place to find scores, parts and recordings of Canadian contemporary music composers.   Housing Canada's largest collection of Canadian classical music works, the CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world.
www.musiccentre.ca /ont.cfm?subsection=eve&eventsid=1336   (353 words)

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