Questions tagged [classical-music]
Questions about the music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music during a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times.
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What is the name of this Chostakovitch Waltz? [on hold]
It is in 3/4, starts like this
A C D EEEE D C DDD B D E
I found it in a beginner piano book. I would like to listen to a version on Youtube, so I would like to find the complete name of it
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Music for the British Royal Family
Other than Benjamin Britten's God Save the Queen (and excluding modern pop and rock music) are there any other pieces of classical music (CPP, or 20th/21st Century) which are strongly linked (either ...
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Should I keep the piano part “self content” when writing a trio?
I am recently writing a piano trio. At first, I treated every part (piano L, piano R, flute, cello) as independent parts of a little "orchestra" and only consider the harmony as a whole. As a result, ...
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How did composers “test” their music?
How did composers "test" their music, especially in multi-instrument works
(eg. chamber, orchestra) or in pieces for instruments they didn't know how to play?
Did they really have an orchestra (for ...
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Please can I have examples of classical music vocal pieces for a trio [closed]
I am recently singing in a group consisting of me (a tenor), an alto and a soprano. We are looking for classical pieces to sing. I have searched the internet and cannot seem to find anything! Does ...
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Sources for analysis of Bach fugues?
I've been working on Bach's Sonata #1 for Solo Violin (BWV 1001) and I have concluded that I would benefit from some sort of analysis of the Fugue. In particular, something that shows every point and ...
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Hindemith's Traditional harmony Book 1, Chapter II, rule 1
I recently started working my way through Hindemith's Traditional harmony Book 1 on my own. The instructions are short and simple, but sometimes too much so for a self-learner.
I have reached ...
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Concertos vs Symphonies
I'm writing a paper to compare Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Mandolins with Haydn's "Surprise" in G Major. And I came across something interesting while researching concertos and symphonies.
My question ...
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Technique for Gretchen am Spinnrade - Schubert/Liszt
I'm having a fair crack at learning "Gretchen am Spinnrade" which is the Lizst arrangement of the famous Schubert Lieder work.
I would ask advice of any accomplished pianist that knows either the ...
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Unintentional plagiarism while composing
I have recently started composing using some knowledge that I got after a few months of studying counterpoint and harmony (well it is more like trying to compose). And I have mentioned that quite ...
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How do we know what classical (older) music actually sounded like
This is some kind of a complementary question to Are there any composer instructions on how to play a melody?
How can we (in modern times) know how a piece of classical music was actually intended to ...
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English translation of Brahms' essay: “Octaven und Quinten”?
I am now doing some research on Brahm's essay, Octaven u. Quinten. I cannot read German, so I cannot do anything with the original manuscript. I have read some secondary sources about this essay, but ...
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Why does the leading tone (G#) go to E rather than A in this example?
Why does the leading tone (G#) go to E rather than A in this example?
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Classical Guitar Exercises for Proper Tab Fingering? [closed]
Related: Figuring the Classical Fingering from Sheet Music
Are there any classical guitar exercises, (for classical music), that also include the Tab as well as proper frettting-hand fingering ...
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What are the typical trumpet parts in classical music?
So I'm a pianist looking at one of my favorite concertos ever, the Rachmaninoff 2. I had been listening to some symphonic works prior to it, so for some reason I noticed that in the concerto, there ...
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Penultimate chord in Messiaen's Regard du Pere seems to break the pattern
I have a question about a particular chord in “Regard du Pere,” the first piece in the Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus by Messiaen. I am using the 1947 Editions Durand and don’t know of any other ...
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Where should I change bow direction for these notes?
Here is a small extract from Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 49, II Andante con moto tranquillo:
Until I can redo the screenshot, these notes should be marked as staccato too
I am a bit confused ...
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How many meanings does the word “classical” have in music?
I know that the word "classical" can mean the period of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. However, "classical" can also mean the whole common practice period (CPP). We can even take a step further -- it ...
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How important was music theory for classical composers?
From my knowledge, there are many composers in the classical and romantic period who are almost obsessed with musical theory and logical reasoning. For example, Brahms wrote a lot of essays on the ...
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How can I identify a tune?
Can anyone steer me to a book or website or smartphone app that will help me find out where a tune is from? I've got an imperfect memory of a tune that I heard years ago and I would love to listen to ...
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Why are subdominants unstable?
In music theory, the subdominant is unstable and need to be resolved to the mediant. Similar resolution happens to the leading note and other notes that are not in the tonic triad. (Of course, I am ...
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Has Bela Bartok influenced Jazz tremendously?
Bela Bartok rediscovered Modal scales from eastern Europe. Lydian, Phrygian, etc...
What I was wondering was.... was it the first time that these scales were rediscovered and went into mainstream ...
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Classical guitar 5th string buzzing
This is to ask that I have a classical guitar Yamaha C70. Whenever I play the A note on any of the frets the 5 string I.e. the A string starts to resonate and it's quite irritating. It takes around 7-...
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What makes a piece a bagatelle?
Now I know length is part of the answer. Nobody wouldn't consider a 10 minute long rondo to be a bagatelle. Bagatelles tend to be around 3-5 minutes in length. Also, from my experience(though this is ...
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Why does the same classical piece sound like it's in a different key in different recordings?
I've noticed that sometimes a different recording of the same piece will sound like it's being played in a different key. For example, I listened to Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, BWV 1051: III. ...
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What is this particular type of chord progression, common in classical music, called?
I don't know anything about music theory but I am a fanatic when it comes to listening to classical music. For a while I have been curious about a type of chord progression which is very common in ...
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Suggestion/Identifying Style of Music [closed]
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place for this question but I've been searching far and wide to find pieces similar in sound and have had no luck googling.
In Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto ...
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Composition by Hand: Workflow, habit, and handwriting [closed]
I have been composing using the computer for over two decades. However, I think this is not a very productive approach and I now wish to compose more often. To my understanding, very little is known ...
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Renaissance or Baroque pieces with no instrumentation
I found out today that Michael Praetorius's Terpsichore is written with no indication about what instruments to use. I knew that the Art of the Fugue doesn't have instrumentation either, but I'd ...
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How to play clef changes in Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity? (F Horn)
I've played horn for 8 years as a student through middle and high school and rarely come across the bass clef, except maybe twice when playing Sonata op. 10. When it comes to this piece (Jupiter, ...
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Nylon guitar: How to mute open strings
So from most videos I am seeing, it seems that classical guitar technique requires you to hold your hand away from the strings.
If I pluck an e on the 2nd fret of the D string, and then stop that e, ...
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Can you arrange choral music from a classical string section? [closed]
For instance, can I take classical sheet music and assign the first violins to choral soprano, second violins to choral alto, violas to choral tenor, cellos to choral baritone, and double basses to ...
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How to read a classical music title as a host in a classical music concert?
So, I was invited to host a mini piano and orchestra concert at my school despite having a little knowledge of classical music. I have some problems with the naming conventions of some musical pieces, ...
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Turn above an X symbol in Chopin’s prelude in E minor
I am a self-taught pianist and thought I would pick this piece up relatively easily and quickly, but being self-taught I often run into unknown signs, symbols, and other things like that, that give me ...
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Duration of lexical directives like “dolce,” “espress.,” and “marcato?”
What is the duration of lexical directives like "dolce," "espress.," (espressivo) and "marcato" when they appear in a written score beneath a bar?
Is it until the end of the bar, for the remainder of ...
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Are there texts that describe why composers sound like themselves? [closed]
I'm interested in understanding what makes a particular composer sound like themselves. I'm asking for references to text books or videos that will dig into this.
Here are some examples of the kind ...
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What is meant by “large scale tonal organization?”
I found this in a CD liner note. "the work shows the influence of Beethoven in its dramatic contrasts and its feeling for large scale tonal organization."
What does this mean?
TIA
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How accurate is the von Bulow edition of the Beethoven piano sonatas?
I'm wondering whether or not the Hans von Bulow edition is scholarly and accurate or not.I'm aware that Liszt favored it as his students recollect that he only used that edition when teaching the ...
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How to Learn Classical Piano pieces by ear without the sheet music
Yesterday, I was reading about how the famous jazz pianists would play music by ear from recordings and I was appalled to find that I had never tried myself. I have a perfect pitch and so so relative ...
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Calculation of a note's frequency in the 18th-19th century
Suppose you are trying to reproduce an A major scale from the early 18th or 19th century, when A4 was perhaps tuned to 429.3Hz. What is the correct frequency (in Hz) for the next C# up (assuming we ...
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Why is Bach's Cello Suite 1 written in 16th notes
I come from a blues/rock background and play some jazz too. Recently I started to learn Bach's cello suite 1 on bass guitar, and I am confused by the way I am supposed to feel the rhythm. If I were to ...
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In Glenn Gould's “So you want to write a fugue”, what's that instrumental part?
I come from learning about fugues and encountered the seemingly famous "So you want to write a fugue" piece by Glenn Gould.
In the middle, there is this instumental part:
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Combining forms to make a new musical form
Has there ever been a composer between Baroque and early Romantic periods (within piano literature) who created a new form based on a combination of previously separate forms into a new iteration or ...
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Examples of pictures using notated music [closed]
My teacher was talking about a college professor she had that had a picture drawn out that was drawn using music. It was a playable piece but looked complicated. I'd like to see an example and can't ...
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Difference between new-age classical and traditional classical as far as theory?
I'm wondering what the differences between new-age classical (Yiruma, Dustin O'Halloran, etc) versus classical (Bach, Beethoven, etc) are as far as theory goes.
Traditional classical always seems ...
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DAW fit for composing/recording in standard music notation? [closed]
I was curious about what's the best recording software for a classically trained musician, but one who writes indie rock/pop/folk/hip-hop/EDM? In fact, I'm not professionally trained, but I grew up ...
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Slow motion song name? [closed]
What song is this? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPoUARy3ZWqb4_Btv9UVi61kenZ2SQzK/view?usp=sharing Its been driving me crazy and I just can't figure it out.
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Who plays classical music by ear? [closed]
One of the things I'm working on is playing classical music by ear. I've figured easier things like Canon in D, Prelude in C. But I'm trying to work my way up. I'm wondering if it's possible to play ...
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Is it possible to understand and enjoy classical music just by listening, without music theory knowledge? [closed]
Pretty much every book out there which claims to teach the readers to appreciate classical music, has significant amount of theory in it. Ex: What to listen for in Music by Aaron Copland. Is it not ...
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Why were parallel fifths used in this Rachmaninoff Prelude? [duplicate]
For instance, recently I have seen the use of parallel fifths in Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C♯ minor, The Bells of Moscow:
I thought they were completely forbidden. Then, under certain conditions, are ...
