denny Schools Periods & Styles book

Diangelo Cicilia performs Deux Etudes de Concert for classical guitar, by the french composer Andre Jolivet. The piece has 2 Parts: 00:14 Part 1... comme un Prelude 03:51 Part 2... comme une Danse. More info about Diangelo Cicilia at: ciciliamusic.com more about Andre Jolivet from Wikpedia en.wikipedia.org Born in Paris to artistic parents (one a painter, one a pianist), Jolivet was encouraged by them to become a teacher, going to teachers' college and teaching primary school in Paris (taking three years in between to serve in the military). However, he eventually chose to instead follow his own artistic ambitions and take up first cello and then composition. He first studied with Paul Le Flem, who gave him a firm grounding in classical forms of harmony and counterpoint. After hearing his first concert of Arnold Schoenberg he became interested in atonal music, and then on Le Flem's recommendation became the only European student of Edgard Varèse, who passed on his knowledge of musical acoustics, atonal music, sound masses, and orchestration. In 1936 Jolivet founded the group La jeune France along with composers Olivier Messiaen, Daniel-Lesur and Yves Baudrier, who were attempting to re-establish a more human and less abstract form of composition. La jeune France developed from the avant-garde chamber music society La spirale, formed by Jolivet, Messiaen, and Lesur the previous year. Jolivet's aesthetic ideals underwent many changes throughout his career. His initial ...