Music Elements

Discovery Orchestra Chat 105 – Interpretation

May 22, 2013 Classical

The content of a piece of classical music has been fixed since it was finished by the composer who wrote it. But what about the words “Moderately Fast” or “Loud” written in the composition – how loud is Loud? The performer interprets these words – see how in this Discovery Orchestra Chat where Maestro Maull uses [...]

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 104 – Variation Form 3

May 22, 2013 Classical

In this Chat, George and guitarist Celil Rafik Kaya explore Celil’s own composition entitled Theme & Variations on Pass et medio.   Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 103 – Another Episode of Program Music

May 8, 2013 Classical

George gives us a piece of program music that he has loved since he was 18. Program music is written by composers when they have a specific picture to paint or story to tell with music. George uses Gabriel Faure’s Incidental Music to Pelleas and Melisande – Prelude to explain this concept.   Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 102 – False Relations

May 1, 2013 Classical

What exactly are False Relations? In this Chat, Maestro Maull and guitarist phenom Celil Rafik Kaya explore the “chromatic contradictions” in Alonso Mudarra’s Fantasy No. 10.   Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 100 – Piano Transcriptions Part 1

April 17, 2013 Classical

Maestro Maull and pianist Stephen Wu use Christoph Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirit to investigate piano transcription.   Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 99 – Effective Surprise Part 2

April 10, 2013 Chopin

George explores another composer whose music seems, on the surface, incredibly simple yet  is filled with wonderful effective surprises – Frederic Chopin!  He uses Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 in C Sharp Minor to illustrate.  Featuring pianist Stephen Wu, guest artist.   Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 98 – Utter Simplicity and Effective Surprise

April 3, 2013 Classical

Sometimes the utter simplicity of Schubert’s music masks the fact that he was brilliant at creating effective surprise for the listener. See how in this Discovery Orchestra Chat with guest artist pianist Stephen Wu. Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 97 – Noticing Tempo Change #2

March 27, 2013 Brahms

In this Chat, Maestro Maull challenges you to count the number of tempo changes in Brahms’ Hungarian Dance #6 – are you up to the challenge?   Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 92 – Change of Timbre

February 19, 2013 Classical

Listen as The Discovery Orchestra plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor (2nd Movement) and Maestro Maull explores a “Change in Timbre” in this chat. Share/Bookmark

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 91 – The Point

February 13, 2013 Classical

Sergei Rachmaninoff believed that each movement of music has a point to make. One might define this “point” as the moment of greatest emotional intensity.  How this is accomplished varies from composer to composer and composition to composition.  Find out how Rachmaninoff makes “the point” in Movement III of Symphony No. 2.   Share/Bookmark

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