Music 2710F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Johann Kirnberger, Hauptstimme, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
23 Nov 2017
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2710f music history tuesday november 7th language of instrumental music. Fair game: heinrich christoph koch (1749 1816, subject the thing. In music, it is the main theme (riff: predicate the thing that is about the subject. In music, the bit that compliments the main riff: hauptsatz topic sentence in german, johann philipp kirnberger (1721 1783) student of bach and writer of treatise on composition. Music and language: relationship, music sets a text, text inspires melody, character, the music of language, music is a universal language . Similarities: the flow in the same direction, they were aural / oral first, they are modes of communication, they have a sort of grammar to govern their operations. Unity in variety : composer must be aware of what type of musical characteristics s/he mixes, enough contrast to be interesting, enough unity to belong to the whole.
