Music in the making; Musical form

Music in the making. Produced by Milliken university under a grant from the Educational Television and Radio Center in cooperation with the National Association of educational broadcasters. School of music and concert pianist Elizabeth Travis chairman of the piano department in a recorded consideration of musical form Professor Travis is assisted by Jim and who will play the music a little stray sions and now a few majors from Rhapsody by Brahms. The greatest music or in other words

music often idea which develops into the complete form this tonal architecture corresponds somewhat to the architects design or cathedral presently. But before we do examine for a moment some of the elements necessary to our art we must have balance proportion contrast and recognizable or to put it another way. We must have with enough care to our ears to build up the structure of a composition. In handling the fluid medium of sound the composer plays a different role than does a writer since the composer is in the position to dictate and control materials out of which he makes music in a

spoken language. Generally total meanings arise out of what we have come to agree that words themselves mean in music the meaning arise out of what the sounds do you know other words music mean what the sounds do. Terminology involves many confusing duplications and contradictions of terms. For example the term phrase is strictly applied to a division of a musical sentence as it is in language but phrasing in general is a consideration of both larger and smaller groups of demarcation. The normal length of a musical sentence is sometimes called a period usually eight bars or the equivalent of eight bars corresponding to the first two lines of the theme from Schubert's impromptu in B-flat major. Corresponding lines of poetry The word

phrase in that special application describes normally four measures. The first really ends with the heart on the dominant. Example. You will notice that this device does not give the impression of completion or finish the phrase or section consisting of two measures is still less emphatically marked. It may have one of several less final cadences or perhaps none at all. Listen to this example.

Still from Schubert's impromptu. Form is the first element that is apparent in plastic art and perhaps the last to be comprehended in music by making a mental effort to take account of the harmonic and melodic in the rhythmic structure of a composition. We may learn to enjoy it far better than we otherwise otherwise would be possible. The great English pedagogue says that in order to arrive at any satisfactory and intelligent basis for understanding and projecting form we must consider everything in the light of progression. That is movement toward some more or less clearly defined destination or cadence. Let's take the opening bars of America as one of the simplest. It comes just as you know of three bits each with its little climax and the third bit forming a capping climax to the other two. That is the first bar

progresses to the second the third to the fourth and the fifth to the sixth. Like this. Now we find in the opening measures an F major a very similar structure that is too short or less accented progressions kept by a longer and stronger one. To protect the structure or form of a piece of music often very necessary to disregard the bar lines which separate the piece measures. For example if we observe the accentuation of the bar in this novel the rhythm sound upside down like this.

What we wish to express in order to give sense to these measures is the swing itself. Each of the three progressions moving toward its climax and the third progressing toward an important climax. Now listen once again the same phrase played first incorrectly with the proper accentuation which exposes the correct music. It is interesting on this

program we find discussing. The answer. Professor Elizabeth Travis assisted by has brought you a recorded

consideration of music and. Music in the making was produced by Milliken university under a grant from the Educational Television and Radio Center. This program is distributed by the National Association of educational broadcasters. This is the end E.B. Radio Network.