An orchestral audience: Classical music and continued patterns of distinction

This paper considers the key findings of a year-long collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employed, utilizing focus groups and questionnaires with over 80 participants, to research a sample group of university students. This research develops our understanding of classical music audiences, and highlights the continued individualistic, middle-class, and exclusionary culture of classical music attendance and patterns of behaviours. The research also suggests that a mobile phone app does prove a useful mechanism for selling discounted tickets, but shows little indication of being a useful means of expanding this audience beyond its traditional demographic.

José Antonio Gómez’s Ynvitatorio, Himno y 8 Responsorios : historical context and music analysis of a manuscript ; José Antonio Gómez y Olguín, Ynvitatorio, Himno y 8 Responsorios, orchestral score

La version intégrale de cette thèse est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).

Meteorological phenomena in Western classical orchestral music

Depictions of the weather are common throughout the arts. Unlike in the visual arts, however, there has been little study of meteorological inspiration in music. This article catalogues and analyzes the frequencies with which weather is depicted in a sample of classical orchestral music. The depictions vary from explicit mimicry using traditional and specialized orchestral instruments, through to subtle suggestions. It is found that composers are generally influenced by their own environment in the type of weather they choose to represent. As befits the national stereotype, British composers seem disproportionately keen to depict the UK's variable weather patterns and stormy coastline

Ambient music with orchestral percussion (I dream of Jean-Michele)

I Dream of Jean-Michele is a non-lyrical instrumental piece that harks back to the 1980s ambient scene. A good piece for digital projects that are ambient, or require the space in synthesizer styled music from the 1980s.

The mystic trumpeter; orchestral fantasy after the poem by Walt Whitman.

"Op. 19."

Concerto in F♯ minor, op. 69, [for pianoforte], the orchestral parts arranged for a second piano in score /

Acc. arr. for 2d piano.

Arias, duets, terzets and quartets with orchestral accompaniment. [music] : in four volumes.

Mode of access: Internet.

Concertos for the piano, the orchestral accompaniments arranged for a second piano.

Mode of access: Internet.

A manual of orchestration, designed especially to enable amateurs to follow intelligently the performance of orchestral music.

Mode of access: Internet.

Concerto for piano, opus 16; with the orchestral accompaniment arranged for a second piano.

Mode of access: Internet.

Concerto in A minor for violin with orchestral accompaniment. Arr. for violin with piano acc.

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Concerto for piano, op. 16. With the orchestral accompaniment arranged for a second piano.

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... Transposition (keyboard and orchestral)

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Orchestral music.

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