Composer Project help

[sixner]

So i've got a project to do in Music Theory II. (which is more like music history)... im the only person in the class NOT in the school band, so i know the least about most of the stuff we talk about... We have to pick a composer and do a full report on them.. The catch is, it cant be one we've already talked about... which is just about every major composer up to about 1900... rules out Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovski, mahler, ect....

I dont really know any composers, so i was hoping one of you might have a suggestion for one... If you give me a name i'll double check my notes to see if im able or not... Any help is appreciated

bass related now - good tapping song reccomendations... stu hamm aside, and no more than 5 strings.

-Sixner

[Left Shoe]

jack stamp, andrew boysen jr, pavel tschenokoff, mark camphouse, yasuhide ito, brian balmages, thomas ruedi , and frank ticheli (do ticheli, hes amazing)

EDIT: john barnes chance wrote Incantation and Dance, hes also amazing

EDIT: dana wilson, a very weird composer right there
EDIT #3: ernesto cavallini wrote my favorite clarinet solo (adagio - tarantella)
EDIT #4: Krzysztof Penderecki, would be a very good choice for this one, hes pretty revolutionary

[sixner]

i'll look them up when i get home, thanks!

-sixner

[AlmightyPancake]

John Cage. He revolutionized composition by popularizing chance in music as well as just composing some crazy stuff. 4:33...

[darrell]

John Cage. He revolutionized composition by popularizing chance in music as well as just composing some crazy stuff. 4:33...


How did that go again?


*silence*

Oh. :thumb:

If I were you, I would choose it on a more famous composer that you haven't covered. John Cage is pretty good... but I'd stick to Romantic. Have you covered Chopin? Liszt? Berlioz? Schubert? Schumann? Wagner?

If it were me, I think I would do it on Niccolò Paganini. He's a virtuoso violinist. There are some awesome stories about how he would file down his strings on his violin so that they would be on the edge of breaking. Then during shows he would break them on purpose as to "scare" the crowd ("Oh noes! What will do!?!/shift1/!?!?"). Thing is he would practice playing the whole piece with 4 strings, and then take one off, and learn it with three... Then two... and then one. He would plan breaking a string just to show off how good he was. He's Yngwie Malmsteen's favorite composer, I believe. Unleash the f'n fury!!! :)

If you are interested in double bass, perhaps look into Domenico Dragonetti. He was a virtuoso (aren't they all? :) ) double bassist.

Good luck!

[katana_manatee]

What about Edward Elgar? Composer of the famous cello concerto in E minor and Pomp and Circumstance?

[moghes69]

just throwing it out there, but how about frank zappa.

[bass&cookies]

rimsky korsakov(sp?) have you been over him?

[Chaos]

Antonio Vivaldi ?

:Shrug:

[Spazzout22]

John Cage. He revolutionized composition by popularizing chance in music as well as just composing some crazy stuff. 4:33...

How about John Cage is nutty. 4:33 then he goes further with 0:00 and writes himself into a corner. Also "Well, I don't really see things on a record player as music" So "perform anything" is music, but beethoven's 9th on your ipod isn't. Ya.... no. /rant

How about.... Ives, Shastakovich, Aaron Copland, what about Monteverdi (first person to use the word "Concerto"), Vivaldi, Couprin, I can look through my music history notes and give you 10,000 names if you like.

[muthafunkabass]

I recommend Paganini, Malmsteen got me so into him.

[AlmightyPancake]

How about John Cage is nutty. 4:33 then he goes further with 0:00 and writes himself into a corner. Also "Well, I don't really see things on a record player as music" So "perform anything" is music, but beethoven's 9th on your ipod isn't. Ya.... no. /rant

How about.... Ives, Shastakovich, Aaron Copland, what about Monteverdi (first person to use the word "Concerto"), Vivaldi, Couprin, I can look through my music history notes and give you 10,000 names if you like. He's right, in the way he meant. Music of his style is meant to be performed, not recorded and later listened. And since the purpose of the project is to discuss revolutionary composition, it's not difficult to use cage's chance compositions or overtone techniques.

[Spazzout22]

He's right, in the way he meant. Music of his style is meant to be performed, not recorded and later listened. And since the purpose of the project is to discuss revolutionary composition, it's not difficult to use cage's chance compositions or overtone techniques.

Right, I was just expressing my dislike of his music. When he made that statement, he was actually defining music in general, which is why it makes me iffy. Totally not meaning to offend anyone here, I just don't like his music.

[sixner]

Chopin? Liszt? Berlioz? Schubert? Schumann? Wagner? Antonio Vivaldi ?
Shastakovich, Aaron Copland, what about Monteverdi (first person to use the word "Concerto"), Vivaldi,

ALL done.... i actually did my last report on Monteverdi :thumb:

This john cage fella seems popular... *googles*

-sixner

[JBass]

i dont know how its spelled but the one im thinking of is pronounced "Show-Pan"

[sixner]

^chopin

we've already done it

-sixner

[burtonbassist_101]

igor stravinsky
pytor tchaikovsky
john barnes chance
dmitri shostakovich
john phillip sousa :lol: just kidding
robert w. smith
john williams
robert strauss
leonard bernstein
gustav holst
morton gould
modest mussorgsky

thats all i can think of right now...sorry for the long list

[Spazzout22]

I've once heard of this guy named like moatsart? Something like that, apparently he was good....


What about Wolf, Ockeghem, Lully, Liszt, Buxtehude, Verdi? Any of those? Are you needing to do modern composers or like obscure classical composers? OI Mussorgsky! I really like him totally forgot about him though,

[sixner]

^teacher just said any composer we havent already covered... he was very vague on the description... didn't even tell us what we need to include? just... a report. *shrug*

and the "moatsart" is Mozart :lol:

burton, that first 1/2 is already covered...

-sixner

[Thonk]

igor stravinsky
pytor tchaikovsky
john barnes chance
dmitri shostakovich
john phillip sousa :lol: just kidding
robert w. smith
john williams
robert strauss
leonard bernstein
gustav holst
morton gould
modest mussorgsky

thats all i can think of right now...sorry for the long list
Doesn't (didn't?) Soussa do tons of marching band arrangements?

[Spazzout22]

Doesn't (didn't?) Soussa do tons of marching band arrangements?

Ya, he's one of the more famous Band composers. Stars and stripes forever, the classic "circus" music. Great stuff.

[AlmightyPancake]

Right, I was just expressing my dislike of his music. When he made that statement, he was actually defining music in general, which is why it makes me iffy. Totally not meaning to offend anyone here, I just don't like his music.
Yeah man, I understand completely. It's just that a lot of people criticize him without understanding what he did for post modernism music.

[Left Shoe]

i hate sousa

[FunkMetalBass]

Andrew Lloyd Webber. TONS of info, wrote some of the most famous musical pieces in the history of theatre, and was an amazing composer.

EDIT: I doubt too many people are going to take that direction and go into musical theatre to find his/her composer.

[AlmightyPancake]

Musical theatre is sorely lacking in any sort of revolutionary musical techniques... it's generally very processed.

Also, webber ripped off tons of other composers and musicians... Phantom alone ripped off pink floyd and Hannibal.

[FunkMetalBass]

Since when was musical theatre about "revolutionary musical techniques"? If it really contained any, the focus would be drawn away from the visual preformance.

Secondly, who cares?

It can be an angle for stylistic writing.

It's like a Bill Gates essay. You can talk about how he became one of the richest men in the world by intelligently lying and stealing other ideas.

[Left Shoe]

might not be musically revolutionary but where else are you going to have to read 16th note runs with double sharps in cut time in the key signature of F# major?

[FunkMetalBass]

In jazz?

[The jazz metal flum]

Do Micheal Tippet. I had do some essay last year on him. He's ment to have been a big influence in modern classical music.

[sixner]

hm... i dont really like brass sections.. i like the older stuff alot more, harpsicords, violins, pianos.... stringed stuff. Brass sections remind me of marching band's (depending) and ive never been into that stuff.... hence me not being in the school band! haha...
im lookin up Tippett now...
-Sixner

[pukeboy66]

didnt jaco do some orchestral compositions?

or am i just loony

[sixner]

I'm doing Paganini... Thank you Mutha :thumb:

i was interested in the double bassist, but there was limited info, and i couldn't find any sound clip's... Paganini seems more popular, it'd be easier to do and im not real worried about this class... i've got seniorites n' what not...
-Sixner

[darrell]

I'm doing Paganini... Thank you Mutha :thumb:

i was interested in the double bassist, but there was limited info, and i couldn't find any sound clip's... Paganini seems more popular, it'd be easier to do and im not real worried about this class... i've got seniorites n' what not...
-Sixner

No... thank Darrell! :)

If you check out the first page... I mentioned Paganini. If you wanted to do double bass, look up Dragonnetti.

[Chaos]

What the hell is wrong with Sousa?

I only know stars and stripes and I think that's a cool piece :\