provide‚ west side story was one of a kind. The soundtrack of the movie was produced by Leonard Bernstein. He was displeased with the original orchestrations for the movie. The music was orchestrated to be played by 30 musicians‚ but for the movie this number was tripled. Bernstein found this adaptation of the music as “overbearing and lacking in texture and subtlety”. Besides the several changes done by Bernstein‚ the music was a huge part of this movie’s success. Throughout the entire musical we can
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Mojave Trio. The names of the performers are Sara Parkins‚ Margaret Parkins‚ Genevieve Feiwen Lee‚ and Alma Fernandez. The instruments that were played are the Violin played by Parkins S‚ the cello played by Parkins M‚ the piano played by Lee‚ and the Viola played by Fernandez. The place where the concert was being held at was the Bing Theater at the LACMA the theater was big enough to hold a lot of people. If there was an estimated guess there were probably 30-40 rows. The stage had the piano‚ and
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Trinity College London Practical examination in Piano ATCL Recital Programme Prelude and Fugue in A flat‚ BWV 862 (No.17 from The Well-tempered Clavier‚ Book I) by Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude Fugue Sonata in A major‚ K. 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Theme and variations Minuet with trio Rondo Nocturne in B flat minor‚ Op.9 No.1 by Frederic Chopin Waltz in E-flat major‚ Op. 18 by Frederic Chopin Trios Novelettes‚ Nos. 1 and 2 by Francis Poulenc Novelette I in C major
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Lederrick Wesley 2-17-2010 MUS 872 Dr. Randy Westbrook Ornette Coleman and his influence on popular music/jazz Ornette Coleman is one of the most influential artists in jazz and considered an American icon and legend. There are not many musicians that emerge who dramatically changed the way we listen to music. Ornette Coleman was of the major innovators of free jazz as well as a great saxophonist and composer. Coleman’s bluesy‚ playful music revolutionized jazz by ignoring regular harmonies
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job‚ instead his income was based on giving piano‚ singing‚ and violin lessons to the public (Kerman 354). Johann wanted his first son to be great‚ especially in the music field‚ so he pushed him to learn the piano and violin at a very early age. For instance‚ Beethoven had his first public appearance at the age of eight on March 26‚ 1778. He performed at a concert with one of his father’s other pupils. His performance consisted of concertos and trios on the keyboard. Beethoven continued to play
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Accounts where provided by the neighbors of the small boy weeping while he played the clavier. Standing atop a footstool to reach the keys of the piano‚ his father would beat him for every time he had a hesitation or a small mistake. Beethoven was flogged‚ locked in the cellar and got deprived of sleep so he could more practice in‚ and this was on a daily basis. He also studied the violin and studied
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I have recently attended and taken part in the Christmas Concert located at Marysburg‚ Sk‚ on December 2nd. The concert included many musical acts including choirs‚ instruments such as hand-bells‚ guitar‚ oboe‚ etc‚ and also included organ and piano. The songs that were performed were mostly Christmas songs like “Dance Into the Night“‚ and “O Come All Ye Faithful”. The pieces were well performed‚ due to lots of practicing. The director‚ Sharon Carter‚ put a lot of effort into all aspects of the
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1. Which weighs more? The modern piano 2. Which instrument responds more rapidly to the player’s touch? The 18th-c. piano 3. An extended range of available notes (seven-and-a-quarter octaves‚ instead of just five) is a feature of the modern piano 4. If the relationship between two (or more) musical tones is simple and stable‚ we call the combination consonant 5. When composers combine tones successively‚ we call the resulting series a melody 6. By the late 18th century‚ the
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Handel‚ Tchaikovsky‚ and many more. Many instruments were designed and perfected in this era. In this era of music‚ Orchestration was developed and perfected. This era started the more common use of wind and percussion instruments in orchestra. Trios were also very common in this period as well. Classical music was also the first era of music to include Chorus‚ which is primarily used in modern music today. One of the most famous composers was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Salzburg‚ Austria on
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Intro Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer‚ the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910‚ and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved‚ instantly being used in many orchestra’s and was one of the most favoured
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