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On Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Cards | Periods of the Music> Musical Antigua
Classic Greece
The Classic Greece includes the period from the VIIIth century B.C. up to the limits of the Christian age, and the space that today we know as Greece, Turkey and several colonies interspersed by the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. His art and music showed the way towards the musical chore in Occident. The Greeks were considering of big value the musician. They were using it in funerals, weddings, births and religious festivals. They were singing and dancing to the sound of distant instruments like the double oboe "aulós" or the flute of Bread (several aligned open canes). Even the philosophers dealt with the music, attributing a psychological and spiritual meaning to him on the human soul. In addition to Platón and Aristotle we find writings and studies on the music prepared by Pitágoras, which related the mathematics and the flaming science of the sound. The Classic Greece was the first western civilization that there described the music as an art and an expression of importance in the formation of the citizens.
Musical cosmogony
The Hellenic gods were adopting appearances and human conducts. Apollo is the god of the poetry, the arts and the medicine. He directs the choir of the Muses, inspirers of the artistic and brilliant creation. His son Esculapio, had similar qualities and even the power to treat the evil. Again there intermingle the art, the magic and the health. Apollo supports in his arms a lyre, I arrange originally made with the shell of a turtle covered by a skin of ram and with ropes tightened on a crossbar. Hermes, on the other hand, invented the flute of the shepherds he competes with the Bread flute for conquering the ears of the peasants.
Poetry and singing
The poetical tradition in the Antigua Greece was related to the singing. It is demonstrated by the rapsodas who write the Homeric epics, accompanying itself of the singing realized by a soloist or a choir singing to the unison and an instrument. Between the abundant musical archaeological patrimony instruments, drawings, statues were, several writings on the music and a table of clay with an anthem to Delphi, although his score was still not deciphered.
Instruments
In addition to the "aulós", lyre and flute of Bread, the ancient Greeks knew the harp (although perhaps not before the Vth century B.C.), the lute of three ropes, the trumpets (that were sounding only in the field of battle) and even a complex device: the hydraulic organ. The last one is driven across a series of compressors and pistons that insuflan it angers for a few pipes when a rudimentary keyboard bangs.
They were using percussion instruments also, how the krotala, a species of castanets, the kymbala or saucers and the xylophon documented from the IVth century in reproductions on amphorae of Apulia.
Brief
On February 17, 1653: Arcangelo Corelli, musician and Italian composer is born. Grosso contributed to the crystallization of the concerto. Author of numerous instrumental works (Concert of Christmas, The Follia, sonatas), father of the sonata for violin and inspirer of a group of composers of this instrument like Varacini, Germiniani and Viotti.
On February 13, 1883: Richard Wagner dies in Venice. Composer of German origin, renovator of the romantic opera. His inclination towards the music did not wake up up to knowing the works of Weber and Beethoven. After a life lax and invested in the game and the women, he married and traveled to Paris and then to Dresden, where his work was recognized. The transfer of his remains was comparable to the funeral procession of a big sovereign one.
On February 13, 1976: the soprano Lily Pons dies. A voice crystalline and extended towards the sharp one, joined a graceful figure and personal friendliness, they constitute the props of the formidable success of Lily Pons. An exceeded publicity helped to do of her almost a sacred monster of the singing; so much it was so in the decade of '40 went so far as to consider her to be the best singer of the world.
On February 12, 1924: there is released "Rhapsody In Blue" of George Gershwin. Gershwin managed to unite in this work three fundamental elements of the music of his country: the piano popular tradition, the harmonic treatment of the music of the theater of varieties and all the ambience of the African American blues.
On February 10, 1881: I release in Paris of "The Stories of Hoffmann" of Jacques Offenbach. The opera is an adaptation of Jules Barbier and Michel Carré of several stories of writer Ernst T.A. Hoffmann. The first one takes place with a mechanical doll, the second one with the victim of the conjuration of a magician, and the third one with a moribund sick person. The history begins with a prologue ambientado in a bar.
Appointments
Daniel Barenboim
"The director does not have physical contact with the music that his instrumentalists produce and at most he can correct the phrasing or the rhythm of the score but his gesture does not exist if it does not find a band that is receiving"George Gershwin
"It would give everything what I have as a little of the genius that Schubert needed to compose his Ave Maria"Gustav Mahler
"When the work turns out to be a success, when a problem has been solved, we forget the difficulties and the perturbations and feel richly rewarded"Franz Schubert
"When one is inspired by something good, the musician is born fluently, the melodies sprout; really this is a big satisfaction"Bedrich Smetana
"With the help and the God's grace, I will be a Mozart in the composition and a Liszt in the skill"
MULTIMEDIA
Falstaff
Giuseppe Verdi
Glory all' Egitto, ad Iside
Band and Choir of the Scala of Milan - Lorin Maazel
Nein! langer trag' ich nicht die Qualen
René Kollo (Max)
Music for ropes, perc. and celesta
Béla Bartók
Interpreters
Musicians
Astor Piazzolla
Piazzolla represents one of the rarest cases in which an author is unrolled of extraordinary form so much in the world of the popular music, with his tangos of Buenos Aires, as in that of the refined or classic music. Called symphonic tango created a new genre renewing this way of decisive form the tango. If it is considered that the work of Piazzolla begins in 1946 with The desbande and concludes in 1990, with Him grand tango and with Five tango sensations, that the same year records with the quartet of ropes Kronos, it is deduced that it covers 46 years, space in which it produced not less than eight hundred works.
Voices
Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel is perhaps the biggest myth of the Argentina. His artistic skill, his incomparable talent as singer of the suburbs of Buenos Aires, his musical instinct to compose some of the biggest tangos of all the times, his marvelous character, his fanaticism for the careers, have led him to being equalled perhaps only by another legend of the country of the south of the Silver: Eva Perón. Nevertheless, while all political activity can be worth of objections, comments and mistrust on the part of certain sectors of the population, the figure of Carlos Gardel is erected as universally for all the Argentinians and the followers of the tango across the world.
Paris, on February 16
Juan José Mosalini: the soul of the bandoneón beats in Paris
The music and the dance of the River Plate came to the margins of the Seine more than one century ago, seducing the French, but Juan José Mosalini lives through the tango now a real explosion in France, of the hand of some of his contemporary teachers, like the bandoneonista. In an interview with the AFP in Paris, before traveling to Argentina, where it will offer two concerts, and from which it will set off then in the direction of China, Mosalini evoked "passionate and unconditional" relation between Paris and the tango and between he and the bandoneón, which came to his hands when it was a chiquilín.
Granada, on February 16
International festival tango Granada dedicates his XXII edition to Carlos Gardel
75 anniversary of the death of the singer and tanguista Carlos Gardel will lead XXII edition of the International Festival of Tango of Granada, which also will organize several parallel activities between which there are holidays of trasnoche, tango in the university or an exhibition. Between the artists who will take part in three forms of the festival - dance, set of instruments and sung - there is Leo Sujatovich, Cristian Zárate and the Japanese couple of dance Kyoto and Hiros Yamao.
