Louise Talma (October 31, 1906 in Arcachon, France–August 13, 1996 in Saratoga Springs, NY) was a composer. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts (Juilliard School of Music, 1922–1930) and received her bachelor of music degree from New York University and masters of arts degree from Columbia University. She studied with Isidor Philipp, at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, and with Nadia Boulanger every summer from 1926 to 1939. Isidor Philipp ( 2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French Pianist, Composer, and distinguished The Fontainebleau Schools started in 1921 with the involvement of the United States in the First World War Nadia Boulanger (September 16 1887 &ndash October 22 1979 was an influential French Composer, conductor, and Music professor She taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
She began composing in a spare neoclassical tonal style featuring static harmonies, short distinct melodies in counterpoint, ostinatos, and pedal points varied through mode, tempo, rhythm, metre, articulation. Neoclassicism in music was a 20th century development particularly popular in the period between the two World Wars in which composers drew inspiration from music of the 18th century Tonality is a system of Music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic. In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously and chords actual or implied in Music. In Music, a melody (from Greek μελῳδία - melōidía, "singing chanting" also tune, voice, or In Music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and Rhythm, and interdependent in Harmony In Music, an Ostinato (derived from Italian: "stubborn" see also Oscillation) is a motif or phrase which is persistently In tonal music, a pedal point (also pedal tone pedal note organ point or pedal is a Sustained tone typically in the bass, during which at least one In Music, a scale is an ordered series of Musical intervals which along with the key or tonic, define the pitches However mode 2266-Tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl or TEMPO is the Chemical compound with the formula (CH23(CMe22NO Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός - rhythmos, "any measured flow or movement symmetry" is the variation of the length and accentuation of The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Also featured were rhythmic units varied through imitation, augmentation, and diminution. A rhythmic unit is a Durational pattern which occupies a period of time equivalent to a pulse or pulses on an underlying Metric level, as opposed to a Imitation is an advanced Behavior whereby an individual observes and replicates another's Diminution, from Italian diminuimento, is a musical term used to mean different things in the context of melodies and intervals or chords.
She began using the twelve tone technique in 1954 after hearing Irving Fine's String Quartet, and returned to a neo-tonal style in her last works of the 1980s and 1990s. Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony, especially in British usage twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold She wrote most of her compositions at the MacDowell Colony where she also met composers of the "Boston school", Arthur Berger, Lukas Foss, Irving Fine, Alexie Haieff, Harold Shapero, and Claudio Spies. The MacDowell Colony is an Art colony in Peterborough New Hampshire, founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, wife of composer Edward MacDowell, Arthur Berger ( May 15 1912 in New York City –- October 7 2003 in Boston Massachusetts was a Composer who has been described as Lukas Foss (born Lukas Fuchs, August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is an American Composer, conductor Irving Gifford Fine ( December 3 1914 &ndash August 23 1962) was an American Composer. For the mathematics professor see Harold S Shapiro. For the economics professor see Harold T She provided a bequest for one million dollars for the MacDowell Colony in her will. She died at the Yaddo artists colony. Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400 acre (16 km² estate in Saratoga Springs New York.
She was the first woman to receive two Guggenheims, be elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1974), and to receive the Sibelius Medal for composition from the Harriet Cohen International Music Awards in London (1963). The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster assist and sustain excellence" in American Literature, The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was founded in 1951 by Sir Arnold Bax and others in 1951 in honour of the British pianist Harriet Cohen. She was also the first American woman to have a full-scale opera performed in Germany and the first American to teach at Fontainebleau. Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. (All Music Guide)
Her works include Song of the Songless (1928), Three Madrigals (1928), Two Dances (1934), In principio erat verbum (1939), Six Etudes (1954), The Alcestiad (1955–1958) with text by Thornton Wilder, Full Circle (1985), Spacings (1994), A Time to Remember (1966–1967) based on speeches of John F. Kennedy. Thornton Niven Wilder ( April 17, 1897 &ndash December 7, 1975) was an American Playwright and Novelist. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of
External links
- All Music Guide: Louise Talma
- Talma Society: Louise Talma Biography including and interview by Luann Dragone
- Classics Today review: Louis Talma, CRI 833
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