Gary McAleer has utilized his gift of musical creativity to come out with a pleasant style of music. It is a fusion of Classical training and a love for the Jazz styles; hence, the innovation of—Clazz.
Combining the classical artistry of melodic and harmonic voicing with the steady tempo of intriguing rhythms in percussion creates a fresh tonality. The value of this method is seen in light of the three freedoms that music provides:
1. Freedom of Dynamics: where emphasis is given to non-chord tones that when resolved to the chord tones gives a sense of deliverance from the tension in the sound
2. Freedom of Rhythm: where changes within the rhythmic patterns and tempos offer a graceful variety of styles
3. Freedom of Articulation: where the tonal shape of notes from legato to staccato provide music’s playful qualities
Without the application of these tools of artistry the performance of music would be identical in character to reading words in monotone, without any dynamics, meter, or phrasing.
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On the other side of the musical spectrum lies Classical Music. A carefully made CD has been prepared in this genre as well, eliciting a depth of artistry that only classical music can provide.
This CD has been recorded using selected compositions of the Great Masters. Although Violin and Piano is the only instrumentation the variety of styles throughout music history gives great diversity of musical experience thus maintaining fresh changes from beginning to end.
The “Father of Classical Music” is the German composer, J.S. Bach (1685-1750): a man who lived over 250 years ago whose creative exercise came at the height of the Reformation from religious tyranny. Who was the inspiration behind Bach’s musical creativity? On the top of the first page of his compositions he wrote, “To the Glory of God.” He is among the most respectable of classical composers whose livelihood was writing music for the church; and his technical demands stretched the facility of the human hand to greatly improve the skill of music composition and performance. His rules of music composition became the standard for all the composers that followed him over the next 100 years.
After Bach came the music periods of Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. Each of these men had rules of composition that were exclusively devoted to their personal tastes in tonality and character, preferring certain scales (from the 36 available), rhythms (with graceful use of slowing and accelerating tempos), and voice arpeggiation (broken chords) whose choices of arrangements are incredibly diverse (example: just 4 voices, as used in church hymnals, produce 24 variations). This classical music CD is wonderful for serious listening as well as background music for your office or home tasks.
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