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Another form of theatre music is incidental music, which, as in radio, film and television, is used to accompany the action or to separate the scenes of a play. The physical embodiment of the music is called a score , which includes the music and, if there are lyrics, it also shows the lyrics.
Other composers with atonal pieces include Harrison Birtwistle & Peter Maxwell Davies, [54] Jacob Druckman, Barbara Kolb, [55] Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Brian Ferneyhough, [56] Alexander Goehr, [57] Lou Harrison, Mårten Hagström, Paul Hindemith, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, George Perle, [58] Sergei Prokofiev, David Raksin, [59] Nikolai Roslavets, [60 ...
Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp (in Danish: Aladdin, eller Den forunderlige Lampe; typically shortened to just Aladdin), Op. 34 (FS 89; CNW 17), is theatre music for soloists, mixed choir, and orchestra written from 1917 to 1919 by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen to accompany the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenschläger's 1805 "dramatic fairy tale" ("dramatisk eventyr") of the same name.
Theatrical styles are influenced by their time and place, artistic and other social structures, and the individual styles of the particular artists. As theater is a mongrel art form, a production may or may not have stylistic integrity with regard to script, acting, direction, design, music, and venue.
Spiegel im Spiegel (lit. Tooltip literal translation 'mirror(s) in the mirror') is a composition by Arvo Pärt written in 1978, just before his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other.
Viola sonata – Sonata for solo viola, often accompanied by piano. Violin sonata – Sonata for solo violin, often accompanied by piano. Symphonic poem – Orchestral composition based on an extra-musical narrative, often a literary or pictorial idea. Symphony – Large-scale composition, typically for an orchestra and often in four movements.
Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts (Opus 115) (German: Manfred. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen ) is a work of incidental music by Robert Schumann . The work is based on the 1817 poem Manfred by Lord Byron and consists of an overture , and 15 pieces of music: an entracte , melodramas , and several solos and choruses .
The Variations in E-flat major piano trio, Op. 44, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a series of fourteen variations on a theme, written for piano, violin and cello. Although this may be one of Beethoven's early works (written circa 1792, i.e., at around age 22) it was assigned its opus number when it was published by Hoffmeister in Leipzig, more than a decade after Beethoven began writing it.