Ricks collected writings including books of Poems & Satire, Music & Speculative Spiritual Essays and Much More! Also Check out Ricks Weblog & Ricks Music/Visuals in main menu.
The Conservatory at Humanities Web outlines the rise of post-romantic music, rhythmic, harmonic, and tonal experimentation, and lists major composers with biographies, suggested reading, and additional resources.
Introduction to recent compositional work from Essentials of Music. Linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and living or recently deceased composer biographies.
The premiere source for classical music and opera. Classical Music News Reading Room, Webcast Scheduler, News Releases, Audio and Video links, Streaming eCards, The Canadian Classical Music Calendar database, Downloads. The magazine is available in HTML a
A Comparison of the Approaches of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern to Serialism in Their Music. Essay by Rebecca Taylor for Music Teachers UK examines similarities and differences in their works. [PDF]
The Order of Numbers in the Second Viennese School. Math background for help in understanding the some of the works of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, and Milton Babbitt by Carlota Simões, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal. [PDF]
Wikipedia article noting principles of atonalism and serialism which characterized the movement and listing its main members and suggesting other possible people who might be included.
Includes MIDI files of symmetrical 13-note all-interval-class/all-contour melodies, which are a conceptual basis for a new conception of tonality that transcends the archaic tonal/atonal opposition.
The AFMM produces and commissions works which use pitches and musical scales which are not organized in the standard twelve tone to the octave equally tempered way.
Classical Music Pages article from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music plus detailed information on Petrushka and a picture gallery, list of works, and bibliography.
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