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Hudson, Richard Albert was born on March 19, 1924 in Alma, Michigan, United States. Son of Albert and Ruth (Ellis) Hudson.
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There are 6 parts to this suite written for organ. Registrations are included. Titles: *Toccata - Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella *Variations on a ground bass - In the town *Invention - On Christmas night (Sussex carol) *Fugue - Noel Nouvelet *Trio - O Little Town of Bethlehem *Fantasy - he is born, the infant king
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Tracing the complex history of tempo rubato, this book identifies and traces the development of two main types of rubato: an earlier one in which note values in a melody are altered while the accompaniment keeps strict time, and a later, more familiar one in which the tempo of the entire musical substance fluctuates. In the course of his narrative, Hudson ranges widely over western music, from Gregorian Chant to Chopin, from C.P.E. Bach to jazz, quoting extensively from the writings of theorists, composers, and performers. In so doing he not only suggests new ways of approaching the rubato in the music of nineteenth-century composers like Chopin and Liszt, where we expect to encounter the term, but also illuminates the music of earlier and later periods, revealing its use even in the music of that most metronomic of composers, Stravinsky.
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This book concerns the cadences which reach their conclusion by jumping from scale degree 3 down to 1 or to 1-7-1. The chronological history commences in Gregorian Chant, where the falling third is often preceded by scale degree 4, forming the striking figure 4-3-1. The cadences move, along with the borrowed chant melodies, into the polyphony of the late 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Here, melodic figures with the shape of 4-3-1, but on any scale degree, become a significant element of style. At cadence the unbroken melodic progression 4-3-1-7-1 may lie entirely in the upper voice, or 4-3-1 may occur in a lower voice followed by 7-1 in the upper. The general effect of the falling third changes as the surrounding musical elements change and as polyphony itself evolves through time. The cadences are reborn in recitative, first in an unbroken form with 4-3-1-7-1 in the voice, later in a broken form with 4-3-1 in the voice, 7-1 in the instrumental continuo part. Many evolving rhythmic, harmonic, melodic, and other elements are important in the cadences, but two are especially significant, for they lead to difficult problems for later performers. These concern (1) the structure in which the accompaniment's V chord is notated directly below the voice's first or single scale degree 1, and (2) the possibility of an appoggiatura on scale degree 2 between the two notes of the falling third. The book suggests some new and unexpected solutions to both these problems and concludes with a brief history of the 4-3-1 figure. The book includes many musical examples by composers such as Dunstable, Dufay, Josquin, Palestrina, A. Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, Handel, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Rossini.
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composer educator musicologist
Hudson, Richard Albert was born on March 19, 1924 in Alma, Michigan, United States. Son of Albert and Ruth (Ellis) Hudson.
Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1944. Bachelor of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1949. Master of Music, Syracuse University, 1951.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967.
Associate professor organ and music theory Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1949—1950. Instructor organ and music theory Oberlin (Ohio) Conservatory of Music, 1953—1955. Private teacher organ Los Angeles, 1955—1959.
Library assistant University of California at Los Angeles, 1955—1966, associate professor music, music library, 1967—1974, professor music, 1974—1991, emeritus professor music, since 1991. Ensign United States Navy, 1943-1946.
(Tracing the complex history of tempo rubato, this book id...)
(This book concerns the cadences which reach their conclus...)
(There are 6 parts to this suite written for organ. Regist...)
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Member of American Guild Organists, International Musicol. Society, American Musicol.