Dating back to the 12th century, the monophonic chanson reached its greatest popularity with the trouvères of the 13th century, and can still be found in the mid-14th-century lais (a verse-song form) of the composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut.
But Ms. Uchida also stressed the new directors' commitment to contemporary music, especially in the form of the composer-in-residence program, which had been dropped for a time.
His book-length poem Brotherly Love (1981) details the life of Quaker leader William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania; it formed the basis of composer Ezra Lademan's oratorio of the same name.
The director David Bintley used Marlowe's play as the basis for the ballet Edward II, first performed in 1995; the music from the ballet forms a part of composer John McCabe's symphony Edward II, produced in 2000.
If the yoking of Stockhausen and Sun Ra says something essential about the Respect Sextet, there was an even clearer invocation in the form of the pianist-composer Misha Mengelberg.
The title translates, "From the Canyons to the Stars," and indeed worship of nature was a form of transportation, bearing the composer and the listener to more altitudinous contemplations of God.
This began with the first records, which were viewed as a form of theft by the composers of the day.
"I wasn't trying to make a statement about war, so much as letting the soldiers tell their stories," says Little, who with fellow Princeton graduate student Judd Greenstein has formed a collective of composers called Free Speech Zone, which produces politically themed music.
In 1954, a glorious parody of Lever kühn appeared in the form of Gottfried Rosenbaum, the lovable émigré composer in Randall Jarrell's academic satire "Pictures from an Institution".
Animated spreads of composer and choreographer, dancer and musician, form an enchanting illustration of music composition.
Fuging tune, a form of hymnody developed by American composers of the so-called First New England school during the period of the American Revolution (1775 83).
