86. Requiem for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Surely M. Bochsa has written one of the best pieces I have ever heard out of that period of creative obliteration that we call Beethoven’s. Bochsa obvious...
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87. Keys to making the Berlioz “Symphony for Band” musical
I would really have no hesitation in placing this composition ahead of the other works of Berlioz: it is noble and elevated from the first note to the last, a s...
88. Beethoven
Victory Symphony for Large Band There is no mistaking the claws of the Lion. An early critic In the Prussian National Library in Berlin there is a manuscript sc...
46. Why did the new Roman Church close the Schools?
The wretched Aristotle, who taught [the heretics] dialectic, that art of building up and demolishing, so protean in statement, so far-fetched in conjecture, so ...
47. Early Renaissance Views on Education
Poverty is the distinguished mother of all laudable study. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 1375) The term “Renaissance” was first coined in 1840, by Jules Michelet, ...
41. Music and the Origin of Languages
Music is a language without words. Martin Luther The primal organ of utterance of the inner man is music. Richard Wagner Virtually all philologists today agree ...
1. Advice for the Young Composer
The purpose of this essay is to share my experience as a beginning composer. To speak of the art of composition one must begin with notation. Suppose you were i...
98. Sinfonia da Requiem (1988), Op. 2
i. Requiem aeternam (Rest eternal)ii. Tuba mirum (The trumpet shall sound)iii. Dies Irae (Dreaded Day, Day of Ire)iv. Lacrymosa (Mournful day)v. Libera me (Deli...
100. Sinfonia Italia (1991)
i. Dawn on Monte Rosaii. Sacro Monteiii. La Visione During the Winter of 1990–1991 the Italian government invited me to serve as the President of the Jury for a...
99. A Symphony of Songs
i. Song of Faithii. Song of Tranquilityiii. Song of Freedom The origin of this Symphony has its roots in a conversation with the great American composer, Aaron ...