Music Wise

1. Stuff done these weeks - Researched 4 Baroque instruments - Listened to various compositions that employ these instruments. I included youtube reference sources in this blog. - Sold my house in Utrecht and moved out. Now looking for a new family home for my family. This period is is just awfully busy!  2. Listening done this week I listened to this playlist of  Baroque violin music: I found this example of someone playing a composition by Henry Purcell on a newly restored English spinet (1712): 3. What I have learned I researched four instruments from the Baroque era and listened to some examples of music of each instrument. Below, I present my notes: The Baroque Violin (Strings) The violin is the soprano member of the family of string instruments that include the viola and cello (Sadie, 2001). Its construction may appear simple, but in fact it is constructed from over 80 separate parts, hich require skill of a master craftsman to cut an

Themes All composers work with the same basic elements when writing, regardless of style and genre. They generate musical ideas, exploring, developing and formalizing them into complete and comprehensible pieces. Such an idea, motif then becomes the subject of a composition, usually a melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based. This also known as a theme . The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) defines a theme formally as:  "The musical material on which part or all of a work is based, usually having a recognizable melody  and sometimes perceivable as a complete musical expression in itself, independent of the work to which it belongs . It gives a work its identity even when (as is frequently the case with a theme and variations) it is not original to the work." Below, I discuss pieces of music that I think have a strong theme in them. 1. " Brucia La Terra (The Earth Burns)" - Giovanni "Nino" Rota Performa