Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism
06.08.2010 | 1 Comment ››Russian music has undergone significant alterations in technique, style, instrumentation, as well as their accompanying ideologies during the socialist realist period. These changes involved political ...
Pre-Islamic Persian and Pre-Islamic Turkish Music
05.05.2010 | No Comments ››Pre-Islamic Persian Music Under the Archaemenids (550-320 BCE) music served and important function in worship as well as in courtly entertainment The first written evidence of Persian ...
Claude Debussy
05.05.2010 | No Comments ››Transition from 19th century romanticism Liked to play with instrumental color “impressionist in music with a touch of exoticism” Drew from other cultures (Spain, Indonesia), after being influences ...
Pre-Islamic Arab Music
05.03.2010 | No Comments ››Pre-Islamic Arabic Music Jahiliyah = pre-islamic period = “wrath”, “pride”, “impudence”, “ignorance” Music in nomadic encampments for every event, social meetings, inciting warriors, etc. Earliest songs: Huda (ghina’ ...
Music of the Modern Era
05.02.2010 | No Comments ››Definitions Modernism: regarded with suspicion and sceptisism, it refers to an attitude, later it was associated with avant-garde, it meant different things in different time periods, ...
