Music Notation: Languages Gained, Lost, Remembered, Reclaimed
Herbert Brün (1918 - 2000), pioneering composer of electronic and computerized music, returned many times to the unassuming phrase, “A...
Jordan Alexander Key
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Ragtime and Rhetoric: William Bolcom, "The Garden of Eden, III. The Serpents Kiss"
William Bolcom’s The Garden of Eden is a set of four piano rags, completed by Bolcom in 1969. Illustrating an abstract narrative from the...
Jordan Alexander Key
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Olivier Messiaen: Musical Rhetoric in "Visions de l’Amen, Amen de la Création”
Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen for two pianos, first premiered in 1943, is aesthetically similar to better known pieces from Messiaen's...
Jordan Alexander Key
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Hermann Schroeder on Liturgical Music in the 20th Century
Schroeder on Liturgical Music in the 20th Century The accessibility of Schroder’s choral music is probably in part due to Schroeder’s...
Jordan Alexander Key
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Hermann Schroeder: Mid-Life & Choral Works
Biography: Mid-Life Hermann Schroeder’s first professional post of distinction was as teacher of theory at the Rheinische Musikschule in...
Jordan Alexander Key
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Hermann Schroeder: Style in Perspective
What follows in my third post are excerpted score examples of Schroeder’s style as demonstrated on the organ. This discussion is...
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Hermann Schroeder: Early Life & Organ Works
Biography: Early Caree Schroeder grew up in a Catholic household with musical parents. When he was eleven he began receiving piano and...
Jordan Alexander Key
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Hermann Schroeder (1904 - 1984): Introduction
Over the past year, I have become appreciably interested in the music of a lesser known German composer, Hermann Schroeder (1904 - 1984)....
Jordan Alexander Key
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