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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Author Archives: Luke Dahn. Composer and music theorist Luke Dahn is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Utah. He is also co-founder and artistic co-director of Ensemble Périphérie, and lives in Salt Lake City with his wife Yu Jueng and daughter Mae. http:/ www.lukedahn.net. A Majestic Trill from Schumann. August 24, 2016. 8220;Correcting” Bach’s Parallel Fifths: Breitkopf Editorial Practices. July 22, 2016. 3-Second New Music Quiz. Here&...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and Molto Adagio Thoughts on Music | For M is Musick
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Review Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. By John Eliot Gardiner →. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Molto Adagio. July 9, 2013. In a letter to Robert Bridges, Hopkins acknowledged the difficulty of his own poetry by suggesting that it must be read molto adagio. This idea of reading poetry molto adagio. Hearing when such is an impossibility (or when such does unjust damage to the character of the work)? Is indeed a skill that must be honed through intentional practice.
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Glenn Gould’s Singing Transcribed – Bach Sinfonia 4 | For M is Musick
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Review Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. By John Eliot Gardiner. Aleatory Quiz →. Glenn Gould’s Singing Transcribed Bach Sinfonia 4. March 31, 2014. So, what to make of Glenn Gould’s incessant singing and muttering while performing? Some find it intolerable. Others find it charming. Some of us may even have favorite Gould vocalized passages. (One of mine is the 17. Measure of the 14. The first recording project following his well-known withdrawal from the concert s...
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Review – Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner | For M is Musick
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Molto Adagio. Glenn Gould’s Singing Transcribed Bach Sinfonia 4 →. Review Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. By John Eliot Gardiner. January 13, 2014. Bach, the epitome of a musician who strove all life long and finally acquired the ‘Habit of Perfection,’ was a thoroughly imperfect human being something we don’t usually tolerate in one of our heroes. In the thirteen chapters prior, Gardiner. Success in [the Laudamus of the B minor Mass] dep...
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Goldberg Tempo Variations | For M is Musick
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Goldberg Variation 5, Measure 17 and Dead Kittens. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Molto Adagio. Thoughts on Music →. June 9, 2013. I like charts. And I like Bach’s. Here is a chart of tempos taken from six prominent recordings of the. Glenn Gould’s landmark 1955 recording. Gould’s 1959 live recording. Gould’s 1982 recording. Murray Perahia’s 2000 recording. András Schiff’s 2001 recording. And Angela Hewitt’s 2000 recording. Var 3 (Canon 1). Var 6 (Canon 2). Var 9 (Canon 3).
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Aleatory Quiz | For M is Musick
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Glenn Gould’s Singing Transcribed Bach Sinfonia 4. Liszt’s Nuages gris. April 22, 2014. John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, c. 1958. It’s Aleatory Week in my Music Theory IV class, and I always give a fun aleatory quiz for the occasion. Aleatory. Derived from the Latin. The below quiz contains six excerpts from the following three piano works: Pierre Boulez’s. Piano Sonata No.2. 1947-48), Karlheinz Stockhausen’s. Set 1 (Nos.1-4) (1952), and John Cage’s. The Oriental ...
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Goldberg Variation 5, Measure 17 and Dead Kittens | For M is Musick
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Detecting Errors in Benward and Kolosick’s Ear Training. Tempo Variations →. Goldberg Variation 5, Measure 17 and Dead Kittens. April 21, 2013. I absolutely love the Goldberg Variations. I even took the time (a lot of time! To arrange a version of them. A clearer version of this chart in modern notation is found here. According to this chart, the 17. Measure of the 5. Goldberg Variation should be rendered as follows:. Rendered in such a way, no objectionably part-writ...
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For M is Musick. Luke Dahn on Music. Newer posts →. Liszt’s Nuages gris. September 19, 2015. Post tonal theory class, opening class agenda, two musical excerpts: the iconic opening. To Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Act I Prelude and Franz Liszt’s remarkable little piano piece, Nuages gris. The former, completed in 1859, is iconic for signaling the limits of chromatic saturation within. From 1908. The fact that Scriabin’s cadence has more. Alexander Scriabin, Etude, op.56 no.4 (ending). Liszt, Nuages gris.