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Music in the making. Produced by Millikan university under a grant from the Educational Television and Radio Center in cooperation with the National Association of educational broadcasters. The Milliken School of Music presents concert pianist Elizabeth Travis chairman of the piano department in a recorded consideration of contrapuntal playing Louise crimps who was assisting Professor Travis by playing the musical illustrations. We'll open the program with a few measures from Bach to Cottle in D major. In many respects as many points of
exposing it we might speak of a piece of music much the same as every composition. Not necessarily a proper composer may break into a few at any time in the same way an author piece of prose and verse program contrapuntal play are to be taken from Bach's caught the movement which you will hear first on these two motives. Now let's listen for a moment to a bit of contrapuntal conversation we
have. First the announcement of the two lives. Now in the middle voice. We have the answer to this announcement in the key of C Sharp major which is the Don. Listen for the answer. The first in the middle voice the second appearing this time in the base. In listening to our opening bit of the Takata. You may have detected a measure which did not sound at all like part of the few pattern short soft interlude like this one are characteristic of form and they're called episode. Their function is to effect a modulation of some related key in which again the voices or some of them enter the subject. Let's listen to the way our heart episode functions.
First the two entrances of our subject. By
contrast 40 x. X x.
Why.
Professor Elizabeth Travis assisted by the prince has brought here a record of
consideration of playing. Music in the making was produced by Milliken university under a grant from the Educational Television Radio Center. This program is distributed by the National Association of educational broadcasters. This is the end of the tape network.
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Series
Music in the making
Episode
Contrapuntal playing
Producing Organization
Millikin University
Contributing Organization
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/500-n29p6v1x
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Description
Episode Description
In this program, Elizabeth Travis explains the use of counterpoint in musical performance and composition.
Series Description
Instructional comments and musical illustrations using faculty and students from the Millikin University School of Music. The first thirteen programs in the series focus upon historical aspects of music. The second half of the series explores music's technical side.
Broadcast Date
1956-01-01
Topics
Music
Subjects
Fugue.
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:14:34
Credits
Producing Organization: Millikin University
AAPB Contributor Holdings
University of Maryland
Identifier: 56-8-14 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:14:21
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Citations
Chicago: “Music in the making; Contrapuntal playing,” 1956-01-01, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-n29p6v1x.
MLA: “Music in the making; Contrapuntal playing.” 1956-01-01. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-n29p6v1x>.
APA: Music in the making; Contrapuntal playing. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-n29p6v1x