The violin is an instrument of enormous versatility and striking beauty. It is capable of nuanced expression surpassed only by the human voice. Finding the best violin pieces is not always an easy task‚ especially when there are so many masterful composers. From the Baroque period to the Classical period there are 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
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Tamisha Guy; recently selected as one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch‚ Catherine Ellis Kirk; a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts‚ and Jeremy Jae Neal; Western Michigan University alum. The music‚ originally composed by Mozart‚ creates a sense of wit and fresh
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Identify what you consider to be the director’s main purpose and explore‚ in depth ‚ one or two main visual/ oral techniques used to achieve this purpose. An important theme in Frank Darabont’s film ‚ The Shawshank Redemption is hope in humanity. The film demonstrates that hope is a good thing . The director’s main purpose was to convey this idea through the film to the audience by using visual and verbal techniques. In Darabont’s film the theme of hope in mankind is important as it enables the
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this entire piece‚ you hear the repetition and imitative polyphony of these four notes resounding throughout every section. The French horns bellow this motive during the development section‚ which creates a grandiose feeling into the next section. Mozart is not quite as demanding in his use of these motives‚ but rhythmically speaking it is very present. The repeating rhythm of two eighth notes and a stressed quarter note can be heard all throughout. They both use harmonic minor to ensure a stronger
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HeeSun Kim Dr. Prudence McDaniel MUSI 1306 13 March 2015 On March 3 2015‚ I attended a string trio concert. The concert was held at First Presbyterian Church‚ in Bryan‚ TX; started at 7:30 pm and finished at 9:15pm.The ensemble‚ named Aspen String Trio‚ consists of three types of instruments: a violin for Davide Perry‚ viola for Victoria Chang‚ and cello for Michael Mermagen. There was approximately an audience of two hundred people and most of the seats were occupied. Most audience members were
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listened to 10 minutes of Mozart sonatas performed much better on spatial reasoning tasks then the students who did not listen. Soon after‚ this study was blown out of proportion‚ and the Mozart Effect was born. The Mozart Effect is the claim that people became more intelligent upon listening to Mozart’s music. It has even gotten to the point where the New York Jets played Mozart during practice to enhance their performance‚ and newborns in Georgia received free copies of Mozart CDs to increase intelligence
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John Keats poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" seem to have been written with the intention of describing a moment in one’s life‚ like that of the fleeting tune of a nightingale or a scene pictured on an urn. Within each of these moments a multitude of emotions are established‚ with each morphing from one to another very subtly. What is also more subtle about these two poems is their differences. While they do touch on very similar topics‚ the objects used to personify Keats’
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magic and silliness of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute‚” this singspiel is just as mystical as Mozart’s Requiem. After all‚ the opera is the spiritual journey of a searching young prince‚ whose life is altered by falling in love and by encountering a wise but deeply flawed mentor. Still‚ that first festival offered a rich and unusual range of programs‚ from performances of Brahms’s “German Requiem‚” to a Chinese martial-arts-inspired dance work‚ to a telling of the biblical story of Judith using
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The Oboe HISTORY The oboe first appeared during the 17th century. Even though the oboe made its orchestral debut in France in 1657‚ its earliest ancestral oboe like instruments were first used around 2800 B.C. The closest predecessor of the modern oboe is an instrument also part of the double reed family called the shawm‚ which dates way back to its creation in the 1200’s. The first baroque oboe made out of boxwood was created in France for the purpose of entertaining the French court. Its
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expression with clever musical-mathematical feats‚ like fugues and cannons in which the same melody is played against it self in various ways. Famous for their intellectual depth‚ Bach�s pieces and compositions have inspired many musicians such as Mozart. Mozart‚ one of the most famous musicians ever‚ was greatly inspired by Bach. He even once said ’Now‚ here is something one can learn from!’. Bach is often compared to the ’original’ classical artist is terms of adequacy. Beethoven was also inspired by
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