Everyone has heard Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. This piece of music has 3 movements‚ which are major changes to the song such as the key‚tempo‚and volume. This piece of music is very passionate‚ it was written after Beethoven had gone deaf. from the eerie but beautiful begging to very intense near the end. This song can be compared to Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein‚ which also has a lot of passionate written on its pages. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata begins very eerie and soft. It can make you
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instruments called for the composing of more “refined” music as well‚ and these composers blossomed in Italy‚ France‚ England and Germany. Three Italian families from Cremona made the violin and their work has not been surpassed even to this day. Violin sonatas were written in Italy. Also‚ harpsichords and clavichords had been perfected which were the forerunners of the piano. In 1685-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach became one of the most famous musicians the world has ever known. This man was an organist‚ violinist
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works for violin that will appeal to all lovers of western art music. Bach: Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin The Baroque period includes music written from approximately 1600 to 1750. The most famous composer of the time was Johann Sebastian Bach who lived from March 21‚ 1685 to July 28‚ 1750. Some of his most famous and most profound violin works are the six sonatas and partitas for violin. These six sonatas and partitas
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Peter’s Church Notting Hill. The piece was written and published in 1801. It is also called the ‘Spring’ sonata. It was sung to t Moritz von Fries. They play the first movement‚ the Allegro‚ which is defined by a fast and lively tempo. Eugen’s violin notes are quick and sharp‚ forming part of the four notes starting the first movement. The melodramatic pauses leave the audience guessing where the sonata will lead. Melodies from the piano weave in and out of the violins gusto‚ blending with a natural flair
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The Well-tempered Prelude and Fugue Part 1 in G minor BWV 861 J.S. Bach (1680-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach was a great composer and performer‚ born in Eisenach Thuringia Germany. Future musicians praised him as ‘father of music’; throughout his life he had composed countless beautiful pieces‚ including the Brandenburg concertos‚ the Mass in B minor‚ The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1 & Book 2) etc. The Well-Tempered Clavier is considered to have a set of the Prelude and Fugue for each piece. They
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“Mozart Effect” The Mozart effect has two general definitions. Firstly‚ it is a set of research results that indicate that listening to Mozart’s music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning". And also it is popularized versions of the theory‚ which suggest that "listening to Mozart makes you smarter"‚ or that early childhood exposure to classical music has a beneficial effect on mental development. The term
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he enrolled at a teacher training college in Vienna. In 1814 he took a job as an assistant at his father’s school. As a young composer he had written numerous of piano works‚ symphony‚ string quartets‚ and a three act opera. His last three piano sonatas‚ where in C minor‚ A major‚ and B-flat major. Around 1822 Franz was having difficult times. His financial needs weren’t going the way it was supposed to and his friendships were going down the drain. His life
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MOZART’S UNFINISHED FANTASY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FANTASY IN D MINOR‚ K. 397 BY EPHRAIM HACKMEY Submitted to the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Music Indiana University May 2012 Accepted by the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music‚ Indiana University‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Music ___________________________________ Prof. Menahem Pressler‚ Research Director __________________________________
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Marriage of figaro‚ Moonlight sonata‚ Don Giovanni‚ and a few others‚ but Moonlight sonata grabbed my attention the most. I began to learn this piece by ear as I had no prior piano knowledge. Little by little‚ the piece began to come along and i performed it in class to the best of my ability. I’ve never been that nervous at anytime of my life. In the last semester of my senior year at high school‚ I decided to learn the third movement of moonlight sonata‚ yet this time my apporach
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1820/30s-1910) • Nationality: German • Contemporaries: Haydn‚ Mozart‚ Clementi • Works included: • 32 piano sonatas (including the ’Pathetique’; the ’Moonlight’; the ’Appassionata’); bagatelles‚ 6 sonatinas • 9 symphonies - including the ’Eroica’ (3rd); ’Pastoral’ (6th); the ’Choral’ (9th) • chamber music - including 9 piano trios‚ 5 cello and piano sonatas and 10 violin and piano sonatas • Opera - Fidelio • 5 piano concertos • 1 violin concerto • 1 triple concerto for piano‚ violin and cello
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