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His harmonic language is more modern, freely using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale within his tonal framework, as detailed in his three-volume treatise, The Craft of Musical Composition . Life and career.
Most of Paul Hindemith's music uses a unique system that is tonal but non-diatonic; it is centered around a tonic, and modulates from one tonal center to another like most tonal music, but uses all 12 notes freely rather than relying on a scale picked as a subset of these notes.
TitleChorale MelodyChorale MelodyYearSontata for trumpet and pianoAlle Menschen müssen sterben (Zahn ...Alle Menschen müssen sterben (Zahn ...1939Paul Hindemith (Wikipedia) Paul Hindemith ...Paul Hindemith (Wikipedia) Paul Hindemith ...Paul Hindemith (Answers.com) Paaul ...Paul Hindemith (Answers.com) Paaul ...Only Hindemith's notes are much more advanced, as they naturally would be, being written over 200 years later. And once we hear it this way — as a continuation of what Bach started — Hindemith's music suddenly begins to sound much more "normal."
tonality. Paul Hindemith (born November 16, 1895, Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died December 28, 1963, Frankfurt am Main) was one of the principal German composers of the first half of the 20th century and a leading musical theorist. He sought to revitalize tonality—the traditional harmonic system that was being challenged by many ...
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Hindemith understood the spontaneous «vision» of the work to be created, in as many details as possible, to be the actual compositional-creative achievement. He considered the ability to have such «visions» as unconditionally given, and not teachable to others. On the other hand, he considered the working-out or «materialisation» of this ...
Feb 25, 2016 · Introduction. Paul Hindemith (b. 1895–d. 1963) was one of the most versatile and energetic musicians among the major 20th-century composers. After playing violin in the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra for several years (most of them as concertmaster), he became a leading solo violist and member of the Amar Quartet, among the most respected groups ...
Often dismissed today as a dry neo-classicist, the German composer Paul Hindemith was in fact one of the most visionary figures of his time, says John Allison. Here he explores his life and works
