my favorite concert yet at the Morrison Center Recital Hall. It was a cello concert with graduate Jacob Saunders‚ accompanied by Betsi Hodges on the piano. The scene was beautiful‚ and the energy was great. White Christmas lights‚ and the position of the instruments made me feel like I was at a classy coffee shop in France. The cello and piano were the first instruments I ever learned how to play‚ and I went with a friend who plays the cello currently‚ so we both had a great appreciation for
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were associated with vocal music‚ such as operas. 2. What is a sonata? How is it related to the sonata form? A sonata is a large-scale composition that is played. 3. What is a coda? The coda will use music from the movement‚ but it typically does not add anything to the "argument" of the piece 4. What are the three different parts of the sonata form? Describe each part. Exposition: The exposition is the first part of the sonata form‚ and it is where the composer will bring in‚ or "expose‚" all
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The first piece‚ “Song for Ezra”‚ was an original jazz piece on solo piano‚ composed and performed by Charles Neuman. His inspiration for this piece was his son‚ Ezra. It offered an easy relaxed tempo with a reminiscent tone. It was like taking a casual stroll in the park on a nice sunny day. He fully used the range of the piano‚ from the higher
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the world in a way I never thought possible. Every song was a new adventure. Once‚ I was the passenger of‚ as Berlin critic Ludwig Rellstab described it‚ “a boat passing the wild scenery of Lake Lucerne in the Moonlight” in Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” Another time‚ I was a soldier in the Turkish military‚ being encouraged by Mozart’s “Rondo alla Turca.” And yet‚ I was still only a listener. In all my fantasies brought about by the pieces I revered‚ I could only stand aside and listen as a nameless
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The form of this piece is called the classical sonata form. Sonata form contains three main sections. The first section is called the exposition‚ the second section is called the development and the third section is called the recapitulation. The exposition starts with d minor‚ with a feeling of melancholy. The cello starts the main melody and then violin repeats the melody. The first part of the exposition starts from mm.1-mm.117. On mm.38 the piano plays an arppeggiated diminished seventh chord
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known to be violent at times. His grandfather was a prosperous musician and a role model for young Beethoven. Beethoven wrote many popular Sonatas‚ Symphonies‚ Concertos‚ and other pieces for piano and orchestra. As Beethoven grew older‚ he became deaf‚ but still wrote music while growing deaf. Some of Beethoven’s most famous pieces include Moonlight Sonata or Quasi una fantasia‚ Fur Elise‚ Symphony no. 9 or Ode to Joy‚ and the very popular‚ Symphony no.5. Beethoven lived partly in the Classical
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Being famous is subjective to what the people want and what they people understand and/or know. I gathered eleven surveys and averaged out their numbers to get the most famous composers. They are in order from 1st to 5th. As the first-most famous composer‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was consistently first place in online surveys. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer who lived from 1685-1750‚ part of the Baroque Period. Bach wrote hundreds of pieces for organ‚ choir‚ as well as many other instruments
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The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time‚ ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While‚ Western music first emerged from Europe. Western music has developed
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many composers works. The music gives a sense of drama and urgency is incorporated into in vocal forms such as the cantata‚ mass‚ opera‚ oratorio and passion‚ and in instrumental forms such as the concerto‚ concerto grosso‚ prelude‚ fugue‚ toccata sonata and suite. Vibrant rhythms and expressive dissonances heighten tension in many Baroque works. Much of the Baroque keyboard music written for the harpsichord and clavichord was written in suites comprising separate dance pieces‚ changing in tempo
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He wrote masterpieces in his time * Beethoven- classical/ Symphony no. 5/ influenced composers throughout the 19th century * Vivaldi- baroque/ The Four Seasons/ he was a violin teacher for a school for orphaned or illegitimate girls * Haydn- classical/ The creation/ he played a big role in improving the string quartet and symphony * Machaut- medieval/ Puis qu’en oubli/ first important composers whose works survived * J.S. Bach – baroque/ Concerto in No. 5 in D Major/ gave the harpsichord
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