Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers, November 29, 1983

This is the concert program of the Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers performance on Tuesday, November 29, 1983 at 12:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Three Puritan Lyrics by Christopher Francese, Just There by Marti Epstein, Three Piano Pieces by John Sharpley, Duo for Trumpet and Piano by Steven Sussman, Illusions by Andrew Horner, Air by Robert Zott, Tape Composition by Chaim Parchi, and Fruit and Vegetable Ragz by Cham Giobbi. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers, April 4, 1983

This is the concert program of Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers performance on Tuesday, April 5, 1983 at 12:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Dance by Rith Landau, Allegro for Trumpet by Craig Burdette, the distance from summer... by John Bickerton, Five Songs for Soprano by Graham Ramsay, and Nocturne by Stephen James. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers, February 15, 1983

This is the concert program of Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers performance on Tuesday, February 15, 1983 at 12:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Five Remarkably Short Piano Pieces by Francisco Noya, Destiempo by F. Noya, Solo for violin by Chambliss Giobbi, Nocturne by Stephen James, Wanting Summer to Come... by John Bickerton, and Quintet by Adam Grossman. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers, May 1, 1984

This is the concert program of the Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers performance on Tuesday, May 1, 1984 at 12:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Five Short Poems for voice and piano by Richard Applin, Quartet by Greg Tucker, Fear of the Dark by Jeff Baust, Two Songs by Mary Flavin, Moods III by Cham Giobbi, In Memoriam, Mother Goose by Marti Epstein, Sonata for violin and piano by Christopher Francese, Deconstruction II by Jackson Galloway, and Two Short works for piano and clarinet by Christine Lee. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers, March 13, 1984

This is the concert program of the Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers performance on Tuesday, March 13, 1984 at 12:30 p.m., at College of Fine Arts Room 171, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were String Trio NO. 1 by Joel Philip Friedman, Epigram by David Francis Urrows, Medieval Travels by Andrew Horner, Poem for Viola and Piano by Robert LaPat, and Moods I by Chambliss Giobbi. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers, March 27, 1984

This is the concert program of the Composers Forum presents Works by Student Composers performance on Tuesday, March 27, 1984 at 12:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Four Short Pieces for Clarinet and Piano by Robert La Pat and Illusions by Andrew Horner. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Can the evolution of music be analyzed in a quantitative manner?

We propose a methodology to study music development by applying multivariate statistics on composers characteristics. Seven representative composers were considered in terms of eight main musical features. Grades were assigned to each characteristic and their correlations were analyzed. A bootstrap method was applied to simulate hundreds of artificial composers influenced by the seven representatives chosen. Afterwards we quantify non-numeric relations like dialectics, opposition and innovation. Composers differences on style and technique were represented as geometrical distances in the feature space, making it possible to quantify, for example, how much Bach and Stockhausen differ from other composers or how much Beethoven influenced Brahms. In addition, we compared the results with a prior investigation on philosophy. Opposition, strong on philosophy, was not remarkable on music. Supporting an observation already considered by music theorists, strong influences were identified between composers by the quantification of dialectics, implying inheritance and suggesting a stronger master-disciple evolution when compared to the philosophy analysis.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, added references for sections 1 and 4.C, better mathematical description on section 2. New values and interpretation, now considering a bootstrap metho

"Musica adattata allintelligenza ed alle esigenze del pubblico" : Giuseppe Verdi, Errico Petrella, and their Audience

As we shall see, the two composers can be understood as opposites in many respects. While some superficial details of Verdis style were imitated by contemporary operatic composers, Verdi should be understood as exceptional, as pursuing a unique path amidst the Italian opera of his time. Rather than imitating either the concision of Verdis operas or their even more striking dramatic intensity, Petrella and most other Italian composers of the period instead downplayed these elements and sought instead to develop melodic appeal above all

Composers' Forum, May 1, 2001

This is the concert program of the Composers' Forum performance on Tuesday, May 1, 2001 at 12:20 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Etudes for Piano by Courtney Elf, Clarinet Trio by John Wallace, Woodwind Quintet by Koray Sazli, Nine Bagatelles for Piano by James Radford, Two Songs for Spring by Melissa Mazzoli, Sonata for Saxophone and Piano by Tetyana Ryabchikova, Dialogos e Monologos by Jorge Grossman, from Portraits for Piano by Aaron Rosenthal, Five Short Pieces for Piano by Scott Perkins, and Two Songs by Eun-Hee Shin. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Composers' Forum, March 22, 1988

This is the concert program of the Composers' Forum performance on Tuesday, March 22, 1988 at 12:30 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Two Songs by Sara Doncaster, Brass Quintet #1 by Will Ayton, Concerto for Two Saxophones, 2nd Movement by Kenneth Amis, Ubuthathu by Neil Chadwick, and Invocation - Poems by Kim So Wol by Ye Sook C. Lee. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund