A collection of uniquely American music filled the Davies Symphony Hall as the San Francisco Symphony performed on Nov. 12. Veteran music director Michael Tilson Thomas conducted four pieces: Charles Ives’ Psalm 90 and Symphony No. 3‚ Antonín Dvořák’s The American Flag‚ and George Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Although varying in style and tone‚ each piece evoked a facet of the exceptionally American cultural identity‚ coalescing to present a musical microcosm in red‚ white and blue. Featuring
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Suite No. 3 in D major. This piece was in Basic Musical Concepts: Types of Listeners 1. At the beginning of the piece‚ the quiet feel of the song almost feels like a quiet show of love. As the line continues‚ it turns into almost a somber cry‚ maybe about losing a love that was once so grand. The piece picks back up as if memories of happier times are coming back to the composer. In the second section of the piece‚ the somberness becomes more pronounced as the composer
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Beryl H. McCray World Literature Themes Professor Jenkins Essay #3 Amadeus Antonio Salieri shared a fanciful vision of his life with his audience‚ in Peter Schaffer play‚ Amadeus. His self-conscious‚ expressionistic views‚ not only provide the audience with useful information‚ but allow a glimpse of his inner thoughts‚ as once a famous musician in Vienna. The play is structured like a confession‚ which my explortation will reveal deep truths about human inequality‚
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The musical work that I am going to use in this essay is “Non avra ma’ pieta” by Francesco Landini. Classical Archives (2008) have noted that Francesco Landini was the most celebrated musician in the first school of polyphonic music in Italy. They also say that Landini was born in Fiesole on the outskirts of Florence and that he was the son of Jacopo Del Casentino‚ a painter and student of Giotto. It also states that when Francesco Landini was a child‚ he suffered from smallpox and as a result of
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Film Critique Intro to Mass Media July Term 2012 Taylor S. Haynes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been a subject of musical‚ artistic‚ and even psychological curiosity for centuries. In the screenplay‚ Amadeus‚ Peter Shaffer not only sheds light into the charmed and mentally pained life of the composer‚ but also uses a great amount of artistic license to embellish details concerning events during the period. By 1984‚ the film was adapted from the screenplay and Shaffer oversaw the project under
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Eric Whitacre is one of the most well known‚ performed‚ and awarded choral composers in the modern day choral scene. Eric was born on January 2‚ 1970 in Reno‚ Nevada‚ dabbling in piano lessons as a child and later‚ in junior high‚ joining marching band‚ and playing synthesizer in a techno-pop band. Believe it or not‚ Eric dreamt of becoming a rock star. (Bowen) Although he is not among the likes of Metallica or The Beatles‚ Eric has won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for his album "Light and
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Performance Analysis: Fantasy in C Major‚ Op. 15 (D. 760) (“Wanderer” Fantasy) Schubert composed the Fantasy in C Major (“Wanderer” Fantasy) in 1822. This fantasy became a milestone in music history because it was the first time when a composer “integrated a four-movement sonata into a single movement.” Schubert did so by matching the sequence of a traditional four-movement sonata (Allegro‚ Adagio‚ Scherzo‚ Finale) to one big sonata form (exposition‚ development‚ recapitulation‚ coda). This exploration
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 1756 and died in 1791‚ in his lifetime he created a phenomenal amount of impressive works including operas‚ sonatas‚ symphonies‚ concertos and chamber works. Mozart’s father Johann‚ also a musician‚ realised his son was particularly gifted in music at the very early age of 3‚ when he started playing keyboard. At the age of 5 Mozart was composing and performing his works all over the Europe. At the age of six Mozart performed for the Bavarian elector and the Austrian
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Music in the nineteenth century saw the creation and evolution of new music genres such as the piano miniature‚ short expressive piano pieces. During this time raw emotion and expressionism prevailed as the focus of music during this described "Romantic" movement. Robert Schumann’s "Grillen"‚ from Fantasiestucke‚ Opus 12 was written in July 1837 contains several virtues of music during his time period. Schumann’s uses various qualities in his music such as form‚ pitch‚ rhythm and meter‚ and texture
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The play "Amadeus" is Mainly Concerned With the Destructive Nature of Jealousy This passage is all too true‚ both in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus’ and in life in general. However the play is also concerned with the destructive nature of ignorance and naivety. Salieri is jealous not just of Mozart’s talent‚ but of the fact that God gave the talent to "Mozart spiteful‚ sniggering‚ conceited‚ infantine Mozart". He is envious of the vessel of God’s laughter at the patron saint of mediocrity’ as he
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