Musicon / Musical education / Learn about Classical Music with Creative Kids
Creative Kids Central is an interactive web site with the aim to let kids learn about classical music. It includes information on musical genres and games that will help you build you own opera!, know about symphonic music, take a glance at the world of Brahms and Chamber Music – all very ::More
Musicon / Notes / Barenboim, Beethoven and Berlioz in Athens, 2009
Yesterday night I was with friends at Herodes Atticus Odeon in Athens, where Daniel Barenboim and the Filarmonica della Scala played the 3rd piano concerto of Beethoven and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. The audience was listening in solemn silence and it was very warm and welcoming. ::More
Musicon / Classical Music / The movements of a symphony
Symphonies’ First movements are quick and energetic, and frequently full of dramatic fire. In them the psychological story is begun which is to be developed in the remaining chapters of the work–its sorrows, hopes, prayers, or communings in the slow movement; its madness or merriment ::More
Musicon / Musical education / The double-bassoon (contra bassoon)
A swelling martial fanfare may be made absurd by changing it from trumpets to a weak-voiced wood-wind. It is only the string quartet that speaks all the musical languages of passion and emotion. The double-bassoon is so large an instrument that it has to be bent on itself to bring it under the ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Bassoon – The grave voice of the oboe
The grave voice of the oboe is heard from the bassoon, where, without becoming assertive, it gains a quality entirely unknown to the oboe and English horn. It is this quality that makes the bassoon the humorist par excellence of the orchestra. It is a reedy bass, very apt to recall to those who ::More
