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The Signature Series by producer Paolo Pietropaolo (host of In Concert on CBC Radio 2) and co-producer Denise Ball is a music program that explores the personality behind key signatures of music by personifying each of the 24 keys as a person. In 2013, Pietropaolo won the Prix Italia in the category of best work for music for the program.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Melodia (Greek: Μελῳδία, Melōidíā: 'singing, chanting; chant, choral song') is the personification of Melody in medieval Byzantine iconography. The motif is most associated with the "aristocratic" Psalters of the Middle Byzantine period, so-called because of the wealthy patrons for whom they were produced.
Dante has several personification characters, but prefers using real persons to represent most sins and virtues. [35] In Elizabethan literature many of the characters in Edmund Spenser's enormous epic The Faerie Queene, though given different names, are effectively personifications, especially of virtues. [36]
A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring. It may have melodic pitch , harmonic progression , and rhythmic meter . The 1964 Grove's Dictionary defines the figure as "the exact counterpart of the German 'motiv' and the French 'motif ' ": it produces a "single complete and distinct ...
"Over the Rainbow" is a song sung by the character Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in the 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz. "Pocketful of Rainbows" is a song from the 1960 Elvis Presley album, G.I. Blues, written by Fred Wise and Ben Weisman. Rainbow Country by Bob Marley. In 2017, American singer and songwriter Kesha released the album Rainbow ...
Pictures at an Exhibition [a] is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year.
The 19th century music educator Pierre Galin developed a method of notating music known as the Galin-Paris-Chevé system, building on a notation system created in the 18th century by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This system used numbers to indicate scale degrees, and used dots either above or below the note to indicate if they were in the lowest ...