Category: Music History
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Mozart’s Command of Both the Imagination and the Ear
Mozart’s Command of the Imagination and the Ear From Jan Swafford’s, The Reign of Love, a Mozart Biography Summary and Analysis by Orion Music and Arts Copyright, ©, Orion Music and Arts MA 2023-2024, All Rights Reserved Mozart Studied as A Child In Chapter Four of Jan Swafford’s ’An Instrument at the Command of Music’…
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Fairy-Tales in Music – Music Education for Children
By Orion Music and Arts Cambridge MA Copyright, © Orion Music and Arts Cambridge MA, 2023-2024, All Rights Reserved Fairy-Tales in Music Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, or Ma mere l’oye, as in the original French, a series of compositions based on French fairy-tales, is one example of fairy-tales that have been set to music.…
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Goethe and Romantic Music
Changes in Music – From Classical to Romantic By Orion Music and Arts, Cambridge MA, 2023-2024 Copyright, ©, Orion Music and Arts MA 2023-2024, All Rights Reserved Philosophy, Music, and Form As the music historian Barbara Hanning has written, one important change that occurred in the transition between Classical to Romantic music was a sense…
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Mozart and Violin Literature – The Duo Sonata
From Jan Swafford’s, The Reign of Love (2020) – Mozart and the Duo Sonata Mozart’s Contribution to Violin Literature By Orion Music and Arts, Cambridge MA, 2023-2024 Copyright, ©, Orion Music and Arts MA 2023-2024, All Rights Reserved Mozart’s Duo Sonatas Mozart composed some of the Classical period’s most exquisite works for violin. Some of…
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Mozart’s Violin Concerti
From Jan Swafford, The Reign of Love – A Mozart Biography By Orion Music and Arts, Cambridge MA, 2023-2024 Copyright, ©, Orion Music and Arts MA 2023-2024, All Rights Reserved Mozart’s Contribution to Violin Performance – the Five Violin Concerti The music historian Jan Swafford considers Mozart’s violin concerti as some of the finest to…
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Leopold Auer’s Advice on Violin Fingering
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