In composing Doug, Kerbel was approaching the arcane languages of music, its notation, its performance culture and its rituals, with the perspective and insight of the outsider.
Agents of SHIELD and Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary blogs extensively and entertainingly about his music for the show, with performance videos and musical notation.
Hogwood's philosophy with the orchestra, and indeed in all his projects, was to attempt to understand and recreate the composer's intentions, in terms of both notation and performance.
He was also passionate about music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the early Romantics and the neoclassical school, where he applied the same rigour and supreme musicianship to all his work, striving to discover and to recreate the composer's intentions both in notation and performance.
For performers and performance, perhaps the most important developments in the wake of polyphony were refinements of rhythmic notation necessary to keep independent melodic lines synchronous.
The room, for example, significantly enhances the ballet's ability to capture, store and retrieve its performances, and because dance notation — the written system of recording the physical movements in a dance piece — can be imprecise, such digital films can be a valuable teaching tool.
In his coordinated purple outfit, fantastic hair, and sharp, self-deprecating sense of humor, Applebaum takes us through his wild interpretations of music sonically, in notation, and in performance.
This would entail singing, playing and notation leading to the performance of a short madrigal.
Aspects of music are treated in counterpoint, harmony, instrumentation, mode, music criticism, music composition, music performance, music recording, musical sound, music notation, rhythm, scale, and tuning and temperament.
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