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They are capitalized when referring to a specific piece title, and lowercase when speaking generally about the form (Symphony, Sonata, Prelude and Fugue, Concerto). Non-standard (artistic) titles are italicized, including opera titles (Of Rage and Remembrance, Duo Ye, Trittico, Die Winterreise) Example:
5 sty 2015 · Summary. In February 1848, the celebrated pianist Franz Liszt assumed his duties full time as Kapellmeister at Weimar, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar.
6 sie 2023 · A program symphony stands out in the realm of classical music due to several defining characteristics: Narrative structure: Unlike traditional symphonies, a program symphony tells a specific story or depicts a sequence of events through music.
16 lip 2023 · Program Symphony. Any instrumental genre could be composed in such a way as to tell a story or paint a picture in the mind’s eye of the listener. A program symphony is the result of a composer applying the principle of program music to the genre of the symphony.
1 Introduction: understanding the symphony. JULIAN HORTON. Contexts. Writing in 1849, Richard Wagner famously announced the symphony’s death at Beethoven’s hands and its transformation into music drama.
18 gru 2020 · Program music, a category that applies explicitly to Mahler’s early symphonies and implicitly to all of them, had a long and complicated history by the time he made his first attempts. Purely instrumental works by Froberger, Frescobaldi, Kuhnau ( Biblische Historien ), Bach ( Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo) and ...
Part I. Historical overview of the genre. Part II. Studies in symphonic analysis. Part III. Performance, reception and genre. 13. The symphony and the classical orchestra. 14. Beethoven’s shadow: the nineteenth century. 15. The symphony as programme music. 16. ‘Symphonies of the free spirit’: the Austro-German symphony in early Soviet Russia. 17.
