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The Types of Orchestra - Part 3

Simfonietta Simfonieta is a small symphony. This form has a shorter structure of the symphony and simple orchestration. Several composers of the 20th century have been successfully using this type is Janacek, Prokofiev, and Miaskovsky. Suite Suite is a collection of baroque dance and is better known as a type of instrumental. Usually begins with a prelude and closed with a gigue. The composer then adopting Suite into the shape of an orchestra. Bach and Handel wrote numerous suites for solo instruments, while also wrote orchestral works suite. Among the most famous is the Water Music, orchestral suite in ancient style, to a royal-air party on the river Thames in London, in 1717, which was attended by King George I. Bach wrote four orchestral suites, two of which are well known, namely: 
<ul>
<li>Suite in B minor, composed of the parts of the overture, rondo, Sarabande, Boure, Polonaise, Minuet, and badinerie. and,</li>
<li>Suite in D major, has a section that is very well known that water.</li>
</ul>
This work became very famous after diaransir by Wilhelmj into the violin and piano transcription. In the modern era, the famous suite is the work of Modest Mussorgsky-Pictures at an exhibition, which was originally for solo piano, later became known as the work of the <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-types-of-orchestra.html">orchestra</a>. This suite musically describes ten paintings by Victor Hartmann. From Maurive Ravel, there is a famous suite Rapshody Espagnole, an orchestral suite that provides four faces Spain, consisting of Prelude a la nuit; Malaguena; Habanera, and Feria. Symphonic Poem is one of the famous orchestra in the romantic era or often referred to as Tone Poem. Symphonic poem has only a single part with a flexible shape, but with a specific program, or a poem, or a story. This orchestra was first developed by Lizt, influenced by Wagner's musical flow. Lizt then eager to introduce the principles of Wagner in the symphonic music, which tells a story, and to give greater unity into symphonic music, he applied the technique Wagner leading motive. The most widely heard so far is Les Preludes, Poetiques Meditations inspired by the work of Lamartine. Symphony Symphony orchestra is the most significant form. A sonata for symphony orchestra, which usually consists of four parts: 
<ol>
<li>In the <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/search/?q=sonata">sonata</a> form.</li>
<li>In song form (basic form) are lyrical, followed by the theme and variations, or other forms.</li>
<li>The third part is that generally makes a minuet on the work of Haydn and Mozart symphony or a Beethoven scherzo on.</li>
<li>The last part or the finale, can be in the forms of sonata, rondo, or theme and variations.</li>
</ol>
Beethoven only wrote nine symphonies, all significant as a master piece. Each has a distinct characteristic that shows excess Beethoven comprehensively. The work of the most famous of which is the number 5 and number 9. Symphony No. theme. 5; Beethoven simple, which is said to express a knock at the door of Beethoven's deafness began contracting, it is very interesting. Something that has never been done before, is the addition of a chorus in which the 9th symphony. Among the works of Mozart's most popular symphonies to date is Symphony No.40. Waltz Waltz is a dance music in the rhythm ¾ typically used for piano music. In the formation of the orchestra, a waltz by Johann Strauss popularized and his son, Johann Strauss II, a lot of make up waltz for commercial purposes. His work concentrated more on musical and artistic terms is still frequently played under the direction of renowned kondaktors. His works are famous being The Beatiful Blue Danube; Tales from the Vienna Woods; Emperor Waltz, Artist's life; Wine; Women and Song, and Voices of Spring.

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The Types of Orchestra - Part 2

Fantasia 
Fantasia is very popular in the music instrumental solo. Beethoven wrote Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/search/label/Orchestra">Orchestra </a>in C Minor who rarely played. The work is very famous orchestra of contemporary composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, entitled Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, a theme taken from the English church composers of the 16th century, Thomas Tallis. Williams also wrote Fantasia on Christmas Carols. 
 
Intermezzo 
The work of orchestral interlude in an opera is usually played when the curtain is pulled. An example is the famous intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni composer, and Goyecas of Granados. Intermezzo is often used to exchange the "entr 'acte", the orchestral music played between scenes or scenes. However intermezzo is also present in Symphony No. 4 in D Minor by Schumann. 
 
March 
Mars is a form of music intended to accompany the march, usually composed of three parts, the middle part is a trio of lyrical. The third part is usually to repeat the first part. The work is a collection of music mars oldest dance Arbeau's work, written in 1489. The works of mars is common for musical keyboard. 
 
Minuet 
Orchestra minuet was first found in an old classic suites, is located on the French overture of Lully, Purcell and Handel, and often also present in Handel oratorios. In the work of the orchestra, minuet is usually located on the third classical sonatas, quartets, and symphonies. 
 
Nocturne 
At the beginning of this type is to piano music, but in its development are widely used in orchestral works. In the early Classical era, such as Haydn, as well as some that followed, writes nocturne for a variety of ensembles. In this case the same as nocturne a divertimento and serenade. Connotation nocturne is a work of "night music", contained in the works of Mendelssohn Nocturne, which is part of the work of Midsummer Night's Dream Suite. 
 
Overture 
Overture is an orchestral prelude or opening to initiate a work of opera, classical and baroque era is the opening overture to a suite. 
 
Rhapsody 
This type is usually for piano music. The composer of orchestral Rhapsody develop and adopt it for symphonic music. In Greek terms, raphsody is poetic heroic character. 
 
Rondo 
Rondo is a form of spun for symphonic music diadobsi of piano music. This species is often found on the last concerto. For example, the Piano Concerto in D Major (K. 466) by Mozart, Piano Concerto # 4 and 5 from Beethoven. 
 
 
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Fantasia Fantasia is very popular in the music instrumental solo. Beethoven wrote Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C Minor who r...

The Types of Orchestra

Music orchestra consists of various types. Although it is always evolving, but the kind that are important to understand the following: 
 
Bolero 
Bolero is Spanish dance in triple rhythm, usually accompanied by castanets. But first created by Sebastian Cerezo in 1780. Although this form is essentially orchestral, Chopin made a bolero for solo piano. Bolero is a famous work of Maurice Ravel, was written for the dancer Ida Rubinstein in 1928. This work is known as an orchestral work later on. 
 
Concertante 
is a concerto for two or more instruments, and orchestra. For example: Mozart - Concertante in E Flat Simfonia Major, for violin, viola, and orchestra. 
 
Concertino 
Konsertino means minor concerto. This understanding is parallel to <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/search/?q=sonata+and+sonatina">sonata and sonatina</a>. Konsertino structure simpler than the concerto, short parts and its development section varies. Some of the contemporary French composer wrote konsertino for piano and orchestra, namely: Jean Francaix, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc and. 
 
Concerto 
Concerto is works great for 1 to 4 players solo instrument with orchestra, Tapin generally for a soloist. Concerto for solo instrument and display individuality virtuositas players. Concerto generally terdidri of three parts: 
 
<ol>
<li>Using the traditional sonata form which traditionally ends with kadens. At the showcase soloist kadens virtuositasnya without orchestral accompaniment. In the first part kadens conducted improvisation, as did Mozart, but in the aftermath composer, performer, or musician, wrote the part kadens.</li>
<li>Is lyrical, sometimes in the form of the base (the form of songs), and sometimes in the form of theme-variation</li>
<li>Written in the form of a rondo accompanied kadens section at the end.</li>
</ol>
Divertimento 
Used swapped with serenade, Cassation and nocturne. The term is often applied to the composition of the same shape it was rather difficult to distinguish between the characteristics of each other. Divertimento is usually used for outdoor concerts or open space or for entertainment palace, and usually have a mild character. This form has several short sections and styles vary. 
 
 
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Zubin Mehta

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Born in Bombay, India, on 29 April 1936. He was <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/coordination-orchestra.html">kondaktor </a>orchestra, music director of Los Angeles PhilharmonicOrchestra (1962-78), New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1978-91), and the Israel Philharmonic (from1968). 
 
His father, Mehli Mehta, is a violinist, who was one of the founders of Bombay-String Quartet and the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Zubin Mehta underwent his musical studies at the Vienna Academy of Music. 
 
In 1958 he became the first champion Liverpool International Conductor's Competition and became kondaktor assistant at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for one year. 
 
From 1961 to 1967, he became music director of the Montreal Symphony. That opportunity has to kondaktor first and directly, in two major North American orchestras. 
 
In 1968, he became head of the music advisor for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. And in 1978, Mehta replaces Pierre Boulez, as music director at the New York Philharmonic <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-is-orchestra.html">Orchestra</a>. He expressed interest in specials on music late Romantic and early modern composers.

Born in Bombay, India, on 29 April 1936. He was kondaktor orchestra, music director of Los Angeles PhilharmonicOrchestra (1962-78), New Yo...

Leonard Bernstein

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Leonard Bernstein was born August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, and died in New York on October 14, 1990. 
 
It has the advantage of leading popular music and classical. Bernstein playing piano since the age of 10, and enrolled in: 
<ul>
<li>Latin School and Harvard University (graduated 1939)</li>
<li>Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1939 to 1941.</li>
</ul>
In 1943 he was appointed assistant at the New York Philharmonic <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/coordination-orchestra.html">kondaktor.</a> Early success looks when he replaced Bruno Walter kondaktor task. Not long after, he became kondaktor New York City Center <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-is-orchestra.html">Orchestra</a> from 1945 higga 1947, and appeared as a guest kondaktor in the United States, Europe, and Israel. 
 
In 1953, he was the first American to be kondaktor at La Scala, Milan. Its popularity increased as kondaktor and pianist as well as a commentator and entertainer. He continues to write music and perform as a guest in several symphony kondaktor worldwide. 
 
Works by Bernstein as a composer, among others: 
 
<ul>
<li>On the Town (1944)</li>
<li>Wonderful Town (1953)</li>
<li>Candide (1956)</li>
<li>West Side Story (1957; movie version 1961)</li>
<li>Symphony No. 1 (also called Jeremiah; 1942)</li>
<li>Chichester Psalms (1965)</li>
<li>The themes for the Jewish liturgy as in the Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish; 1963)</li>
<li>Jazz rhythms such as the Symphony # 2 (The Age of Anxiety; 1949)</li>
</ul>
In a piece of music for ballet: 
 
<ul>
<li>Fancy Free (1944)</li>
<li>Facsimile (1946)</li>
<li>Dybbuk (1974)</li>
</ul>
Bernstein also published: 
 
<ul>
<li>The Joy of Music (1959);</li>
<li>Young People's Concerts, for Reading and Listening (1962, rev. Ed. 1970);</li>
<li>The Infinite Variety of Music (1966); and</li>
<li>The Unanswered Question (1976), taken from his Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard (1973).</li>
</ul>
Besides, he also wrote the music for the film "On the Waterfront (1954)," Masses essay specifically used in the opportunities opening of "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts", in Washington, DC, in September 1971

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Herbert Von Karajan

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Born in Salzburg, Austria, on 5 April 1908 and died in Anif, near Salzburg, on July 16, 1989. Apart from being <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/coordination-orchestra.html">kondaktor</a> opera and orchestra, he is a figure well-known international musicians in the mid-20th century. 
 
He underwent his musical studies at the Mozarteum, in Salzburg. His debut as a professional kondaktor is in Salzburg in 1929. 
 
A year later he was elected to the post kondaktor in Ulm, Germany. Later he was appointed as Kapellmeister at Aachen until 1941. At the same time, he also worked as kondaktor at the Berlin State Opera. 
 
He went to Italy in 1944. In England he contributed to the establishment of London Philharmonia in 1948, and in 1955 became director of music at the Berlin Philharmonic. 
 
In 1967 Karajan established the Salzburg Easter Festival tradition. From 1969 to 1970, he became kondaktor Orchestre de Paris and finally back to the Vienna State Opera in 1977. 
 
Interpretation of musical styles Karajan has advantages in terms of accuracy and objectivity. Nevertheless, between the 1970s and the 1980s, however, more pronounced in kondaktingnya characteristic individual style.

Born in Salzburg, Austria, on 5 April 1908 and died in Anif, near Salzburg, on July 16, 1989. Apart from being kondaktor opera and orches...

Lorin Maazel Kondaktor

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Maazel grew up in Los Angeles and began his musical studies at the age of five. 
At that time he won a scholarship study Baroque music, from Fullbright scholarship. 
 
 
 
Then he received some <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/coordination-orchestra.html">kondaktor</a> contracts in various countries, including: 
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<li>Deutsche Oper, Berlin West (1965-71),</li>
<li>West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1965-75),</li>
<li>New Philharmonia Orchestra in London (1970-72; 1976-80),</li>
<li>Cleveland Orchestra (1972-82),</li>
<li>French National Orchestra (1977-90),</li>
<li>Pittsburgh Symphony (1986-96)</li>
<li>Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1993-2002)</li>
<li>In 1982-1984 he got a position as Director of the Vienna State Opera.</li>
</ul>
Maazel is very suitable for opera music and <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/coordination-orchestra.html">orchestral </a>repertoire ranges from works of the 18th century to contemporary. He was not excessive on the podium, and he combines clarity or clarity with great emotional depth.

Lorin Maazel Varencove , born on March 6, 1930 in Neuilly, France. He was a kondaktor and violinist, and a Director of the Cleveland Orchest...

Coordination Orchestra

Each section has a leader instrument (the principal) who is responsible for leading the group and also play solo parts when needed. String section has 4 sub sections: violin, viola, cello, and bass each have principal. 
 
In the string section, each principal subsections, coordinated by the principal string section (violin). Similarly, other instruments section, Hierarchy coordination occurs in brass instruments and woodwind have more or less the same pattern with the string section. If the part is contained in subsections woodwind, clarinet, then the principal clarinet the play. Some modern orchestras do not have kondaktor especially small orchestra and orchestra special featuring <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/structural-form-sonata-allegro.html">Baroque</a> music. 
 
Western classical music is a song of numbers are frequently played for the symphony concert, but the orchestra is often used in popular music and played in several films. 
 
Kondaktor 
 
An <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-is-orchestra.html">orchestra</a> with a number of players who are in great need of a kondaktor to lead the orchestra. Kondaktor using cue stick called a baton. The right hand holds a baton which serves as a reminder and variations in tempo and rhythm changes, while the left hand serves to remind aspects of expression, articulation, dynamics, and others. Command given kondaktor based on scores, the notation of the overall composition sung. 
 
Task Kondaktor 
 
Kondaktor task is to choose the works that will be played, as well as develop programs, training and interpreting orchestral music as desired by the composer. 
 
The composer had studied musical composition of a program, and then directs the <a href="http://mmusic-zone.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-is-orchestra.html">orchestra</a> so that they can play the music according to that written by the composer. He is liable for claims tempo and dynamics that must be played by the orchestra. If the orchestra changed tempo, the mood, color and taste of music is also being changed. Kondaktor can determine the dynamics and tempo according to the interpretation of the demands of a composition. 
 
Poly Kondaktor 
 
Polistylism music techniques and politempo led some composers to write music composition, played some orchestral sequence. 
 
This trend brings a musical phenomenon that polikondaktor (many kondaktor), which in any musical group led by deputy kondaktor separately.

Each section has a leader instrument (the principal) who is responsible for leading the group and also play solo parts when needed. String...