Sakura Sakura – Traditional Folk Song with Koto
Sakura Sakura – Yukihiro Yoko, Guitar Variations
Sakura Sakura – Beatmania DJ Troopers
Thunder in the Drought Chinese Traditional Music
Tonality and Scales in Chinese Music
Many who have read Chinese scores in the numerical notation may have at some time or other wondered if Chinese Music is all in the major key?
The numerical notation uses 7 different numbers to represent the 7 notes of the diatonic scale and in essence, these are the notes of the major scale in Western classical music. As a result, it is very common for many to have a misconception that there are only major keys in Chinese music. Keys in Chinese music however isn’t as simple as that.
The Chinese is one of the most ancient cultures in the world and it has writings that date back thousands of years which are still accessible now. Over this vast range of time, there has been numerous theses, books and all sorts of writings on music and its keys and…
The numerical notation uses 7 different numbers to represent the 7 notes of the diatonic scale and in essence, these are the notes of the major scale in Western classical music. As a result, it is very common for many to have a misconception that there are only major keys in Chinese music. Keys in Chinese music however isn’t as simple as that.
The Chinese is one of the most ancient cultures in the world and it has writings that date back thousands of years which are still accessible now. Over this vast range of time, there has been numerous theses, books and all sorts of writings on music and its keys and…
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Cipher Notation of Gamelan Music
Gamelan Cipher Notation
Gamelan musicians have always learned gamelan as an aural tradition. They learn and memorize a piece by hearing it played and by practicing it themselves. There is a written cipher notation for gamelan. Notation is not generally used by Javanese musicians but may be used by others, such as ethnomusicologists and foreign students learning gamelan.
Gamelan notation is written in numbers with special characters for accentuating instruments. Music is not notated in a score for all the instruments, so one generally sees the balungan, or melody. Other parts can be notated but this can be difficult to read–it is often easier to learn how to derive one’s part and use one’s own shorthand notation for reminders.
The notation for the buka and umpak of Lancaran Jaranan is shown in the image below (the lagu section of Jaranan is not notated).
See the score Here
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Indonesian Gamelan Music
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~jjordan/gamelan/instrum-photo.html
Go to this websit and take a closer look at the instruments you find in an Indonesian Gamelan Orchestra.
Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia. In Javanese the term is said to be a variant of the word pelag meaning “fine” or “beautiful”.[2] The other, older, scale commonly used is called slendro. Pelog has seven notes, but many gamelan ensembles only have keys for five of the pitches. Even in ensembles that have all seven notes, many pieces only use a subset of five notes.
Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonicscale, 
Play(help·info) the older of the two most common scales (laras) used in Indonesiangamelan music, the other being pélog. In Javanese the term is said to derive either from…
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Dvorak’s New World Symphony Movement 2 Largo
Score for New World Symphony Mvt 2 Largo
Dvorák’s “New World” and jazz music: Heirs to a common heritage
In 1892, Czech composer Antonín Dvorák came to the United States. He came at the invitation of a Mrs. Jeannette Thurber, a wealthy music lover who wanted him to head up her latest pet project—a conservatory of music meant to rival the famous conservatories of Europe.
Dr. Dvorák, already known for his use of traditional Czech musical elements in his compositions, arrived in the New World to find it rich with ethnic music. He was particularly impressed with the spirituals of the black slaves:
“I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called the Negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States. When I first came here…
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Composition Assessment
Composition Assessment
The Erlking
Find the score Here
http://imslp.org/wiki/Erlk%C3%B6nig,_D.328_(Schubert,_Franz)
Who rides here so late through night and wind?
It is a father with his small child.
He holds his son firm in his arms
He clasps him safely, he keeps him warm.
“My son, oh why do you look so afraid?”
“See Father, don’t you see the Erlking is there?
The Erlking, Erlking with crown and cloak?”
“My son, it’s a wisp of mist.”
“My dearest child, come, go with me!
all kinds of games I’ll play with you;
such lovely flowers bloom on the bank,
and my mother has many golden clothes.”
“My father, my father, and do you not hear,
What erlking promises sweetly to me?”
“Stay peaceful, oh stay calm, dearest child;
In leaves so dry there rustles the wind.”
“Will you dear boy, will you come with me
My daughters soon they will wait on you;
My daughters lead in…
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Raindrop Prelude by Chopin
Robert Schumann Dichterliebe
Robert Schumann
Here is the Score Lily and the Rose from Dichterleibe
Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann’s published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Works such as Kinderszenen, Album für die Jugend, Blumenstück, Sonatas and Albumblätter are among his most famous. His writings…
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