This tag: Beethoven
MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE No. 4: The Scandinavian Connection To celebrate being in Scandinavian waters the art and music inspired by Hamlet will be examined. Finland’s greatest composer, Sibelius, was also inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. Music – Sibelius’s “Storm” from Incidental Music for The Tempest. We have already heard some Sibelius this week… Read more »
- Posted on: July 28, 2016
- Featured in History, History features, Music, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged Delacroix, Delacroix and Shakespeare, European History, Hamlet, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Modern history, Ophelia, Paintings of Ophelia, Shakespeare400, Sibelius
This tag: Beethoven
Music in Time II – Music in the Classical Age 1750-1805 The course provided students with an understanding of how western classical music styles and techniques evolved during the period 1750-1805. We concentrated on the “Classical” era of the sons of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and examined the development of new types of composition… Read more »
This tag: Beethoven
Music for the Mass – A Thousand Years of Choral Music From its early origins in the Middle Ages, the Mass has inspired some of the greatest music by the greatest composers. This course examined the chronological development of the Mass and the Requiem by composers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day from… Read more »
- Posted on: May 30, 2011
- Featured in Music, Music features
- Also tagged Berlioz, Britten, Choral Music, English Composer, French composers, German composers, Haydn, Italian composers, Mozart, Puccini, Women Composers