Clara Josephine Wieck was born on September 13th‚ 1819 in Leipzig‚ Germany. She was born into music‚ as her whole family growing up played an instrument. Her father Friedrich Wieck made a living as a first-rate piano teacher‚ and it was he who taught Clara and her mother Marianne. He even gave lessons to Clara’s future husband‚ Robert Schumann. After Clara’s parents divorced after eight years of marriage‚ she went to live with her father at the age of five. Friedrich Wieck saw the talent his daughter
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Lutheran family‚ and spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is grouped with J.S Bach and Beethoven to be one of the ‘three Bs’. Brahms was a virtuoso pianist‚ and premiered many of his own works – many of the pieces that he composed for the piano were written to match his standards. He was extremely skilled at counterpoint‚ and used a lot of counterpoint to ‘honour’ the ‘purity’ of the structure of counterpoint and to advance them into a romantic idiom‚ to create new bold approaches to harmony
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is an optional part of a sonata-form movement? A. exposition |C. coda | B. development |D. recapitulation | 7. A _____________ is a musical composition that is usually light in mood‚ and meant for evening entertainment. A. minuet and trio B. aubade C. serenade D. rondo 8. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Mozart wrote masterpieces in all the musical forms of his time. B. Between the ages of six and fifteen‚ Mozart was continually on tour in England and Europe
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Remained popular in England and America throughout the 19th century. Beginnings of American Popular Song -most fashion‚ art‚ and entertainment came from England. -Parlor songs were demanded more because of the introduction of domestically manufacture pianos around 1830. -Primary output of American composers and publishers was sacred music. -1789 - turning point for American secular music. New ratified constitution made national copyright act. It protected printed materials for 14 years‚ renewable for
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Bernstein- Something’s coming essay Melody Something’s coming has many examples of blue notes. These are either F G# or C‚ and can be seen in bars 18-20 in the vocal line. A tritone is a jump of 3 tones and can be seen in the vocal line ‘soon as it’‚ (G# D). The melody is partly fragmentary as it usually contains fragment semi-tones in the rhythmic parts‚ e.g. there are two fragmented notes F# G in the vocal line‚ ‘Could it be?’ to ‘if I can wait.’ The words are predominantly syllabic in the
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major In my introduction to music class we were assigned to listen and evaluate a particular piece of music in order to reflect on our unique individuality. For my project I chose Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 and his work of the piano concerto No. 23 in A Major specifically the second movement that was created in 1786. In addition to listening‚ the piece must be broken down and organized into themes or motives. By the end of the project we should be able
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me feel happy and excited. Like ragtime is is known today‚ the tune is all solo piano‚ no vocals. The tune is upbeat and fast‚ and you can hear a lot of moving up and down the scale. This tune follows ragtime form without an introduction‚ that’s not always present in ragtime. Also‚ there is repetitive sixteen bars and a trio section. The first and second strain can be heard right as the song begins and 0:30‚ with a trio strain
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in any way) the composition is VERY intimate with ornamentations; the melody is fragmented and improvised‚ very emotional with embellishments everywhere Alberti Bass: A style of bass accompaniment used in piano sonatas (a style of arpeggiation‚ keeps the pieces moving) (used in Mozart’s piano sonatas!!) Opera Buffa: Comical opera‚ always in Italian‚ strictly sung Intermezzo: A type of opera buffa (which has 2 acts) intermeshing with the 3 acts of the opera seria. It will go as follows: Act 1
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Buddy Rich From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Buddy Rich | | Background information | Birth name | Bernard Rich | Also known as | Traps the Drum Wonder (as a boy) and "B" (as an adult) | Born | September 30‚ 1917(1917-09-30) | Origin | Brooklyn‚ New York | Died | April 2‚ 1987 (aged 69) | Genre(s) | Jazz‚ Big band | Occupation(s) | Musician‚ songwriter‚ bandleader | Instrument(s) | drums and percussion | Years active | 1919–1987 | | | | | Bernard "Buddy" Rich
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continued the success and gave her first concert at eighteen. From then on‚ constant music from Chaminade was being published and gaining popularity. Out of all of her fantastic works‚ I fell in love with Piano Trio No.1 in G minor‚ op.11. The piece has such an amazing musical flow with the piano being the star. It took me a while to choose a specific movement and after careful listening‚ I decided on III. Presto leggiero. I compared the movements to movie genres and I‚II‚IV could all be played in
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