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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is ...
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Celesta
Celesta French type, four-octave Celesta or Celeste The celesta (IPA )) or celeste () is a struck idiophone ... dampen the sound. The sound of the celesta is akin to that of the glockenspiel ... name, celeste meaning "heavenly" in French. The celesta is a transposing instrument, sounding one ...
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1937 in music
1937 in music See also: 1936 in music, other events of 1937, 1938 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Events January 21 - Paul Sacher conducts the world premiere of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in ...
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1936 in music
1936 in music See also: 1935 in music, other events of 1936, 1937 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Events January 4 - Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade April 19 - in Barcelona, ...
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Louis Andriessen
... conservatism of much of the Dutch contemporary music scene that Andriessen quickly moved towards forming a radically alternative music. Since the early 1970s he has refused ... ongoing Schonberg and Asko ensembles. Andriessen's music is somewhat unusual in contemporary European composition ... of sound which lend much of his music an unmistakable force. Large scale pieces such ... derived in part from the big band music of Count Basie and Stan Kenton, ...
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Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)
... the infamous Pravda editorial "Chaos Instead of Music". Nevertheless, Shostakovich continued work on the symphony ... Fourth Symphony at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival. Music The work is approximately one hour in ... After building to a powerful climax, the music ebbs away, ushering in the quieter second ... like figure that begins on the lower strings and slowly makes it way across the ... nocturnal figurations played by the harp and celesta. Eventually we run into the tick- ...
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Ramon Lazkano
... contemporary Basque composer and conductor of classical music. Career Ramon Lazkano (born in San Sebastián ... at the San Sebastian Higher Conservatory of Music, where he obtained a Higher Degree in ... received a DEA degree in 20th Century Music and Musicology from the Ecole des Hautes ... also a prizewinner of the Institute of Music and Drama Arts, the Colegio de España ... invited him in 1999 to introduce his music and that same year he was ...
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List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich
... Scarlatti for wind orchestra (1928) Opus 18: Music to the Silent Film "New Babylon" for ... New Babylon" for orchestra (1976) Opus 19: Music to the Comedy "The Bedbug" by Mayakovsky ... for orchestra (1929). Opus 19b: Arrangement of Music to "The Bedbug" for piano (1929) Opus ... Armer Columbus" for orchestra (1929) Opus 24: Music to the Play "The Gunshot" by Bezymensky (1929) Opus 25: Music to the Play "Virgin Soil" by ...
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Leonid Bashmakov   (translated from Dutch)
... Afterwards he was theatre vault master and music pedagogue in Tampere . In the 1950er years ... oeuvre you find symphonies, solo-concerten, chamber music, toneelmuziek, mental work and composities for orchestraorchestra ... 7 2002 Panorama 2004 Four episodes for strings for strijkorkest Andante Allegro non troppo Molto ... 4 horns, 4 trumpet, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion 1983 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No ... Concerto for Harpsichord, Two string Quartets and Percussion 1992 Concerto for Trumpet (high bb) ...
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Béla Bartók
... of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is usually considered one of the ... field of ethnomusicology, the study of folk music and the music of non-Western cultures. Childhood and early ... János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. There he met Zoltán Kodály and together they collected folk music from the region. This was to ...
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