In The Piano Tuner‚ the character ‚the piano tuner‚ is best described as violently aggressive. In the text‚ a homeowner was home alone doing some work waiting for his wife. Suddenly a piano tuner arrived at his house‚ saying his piano needs to be fixed. The homeowner allows him to work‚ but has a short temper and became upset that he has to babysit this piano tuner.Eventually he has to evict the piano tuner who quickly became angry and attempts to kill him. “He bent my little finger in on itself
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Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2 mov.1 Analysis The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor‚ for violin‚ cello and piano‚ Op. 67‚ with four movements‚ by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944‚ in the midst of World War II. The work received its premiere in Leningrad on 14 November 1944. After 1936‚ Shostakovich separated his compositions to two parallel sections‚ one for public consumptions‚ the other one for personal expressions. Therefore‚ Shostakovich’s chamber music probably constitutes the most complete
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Baroque Period – Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor The Toccata and Fugue in D minor‚ BWV 538‚ is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Like the better-known BWV 565‚ BWV 538 also bears the titleToccata and Fugue in D Minor‚ although it is often referred to by the nickname Dorian — a reference to the fact that the piece is written without a key signature — a notation that is uncommon today and leads one to assume the Dorian mode. However‚ the two pieces are quite different musically‚ it is nearly
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The Piano Lesson In class we watched this movie called The Piano Lesson. The Setting of the production took place in 1936‚ in Pittsburg with all the exploit mainly taking place in two locations. The living room and the kitchen of Berenice and Doaker home surrounding a 17-year-old‚ upright Piano. This drama was essentially about an African- American family whose life history was imbedded inside a Piano and the Piano was not to be sold. There was a sister and a brother who have different point of views
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If you or someone you know is looking for a hobby consider hunting. Some people protest that hunting is cruel and a waste of time. These statements are however not true. Most hunter tend to hunt during their excess time. People can learn a lot of things from hunting such as survival skills‚ physical awareness‚ and awareness of your surroundings. This is a great hobby to start for these reasons along with many more. To start off‚ hunting can provide someone with a certain amount of food depending
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Describe your favorite hobby‚ pastime or sport and explain how it reflects your personality. I am a strong believer of the fact that sport is a very good starting point where one can develop important personal traits like leadership‚ commitment and team spirit. My favorite sport is cricket where each team takes it in turn to bat‚ attempting to score runs‚ while the other team bowls and fields and at the end‚ the team which score more runs‚ wins. I was exposed to cricket for the first time at the
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Piano‚ stringed keyboard musical instrument‚ derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte‚ it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col pian e forte (Italian for “harpsichord with soft and loud”). It was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori‚ a harpsichord
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his early years Bernstein wrote several compositions. At the age of 19 he wrote a “Piano Trio” (1937) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQtbPqwNWo ). This composition was written for the piano‚ cello and violin. The music begins with the cello playing slow and softly in a somber tune setting the melody and theme for the piece. Next the violin repeats the same and just as the dynamics of the
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Among many contemporary poets‚ Gabriel Okara makes his stand as one of the most influential Nigerian lyricists. Okara speaks of the same impressions of the controversial novelist Chinua Achebe. In the poem "Piano and Drums‚" Gabriel Okara shows the contrasts between the past life and the modern world. Some aspects in his poem date back before the beginning of civilization. In this essay I will reflect on Okara’s concepts and visions. The poem is effectively written in Verse Libre or free verse.
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Journal IV Music Appreciation Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major‚ K. 488 I love Mozart‚ Beethoven‚ Bach‚ Chopin‚ and all the classical period instrumental compositions. This piece is whimsical and reminds me of a butterfly just flying through the spring air after coming out of a cocoon. The tone is very warm and bright‚ listening to the overall allegretto tempo you get excited when you hear the tempo jump to vivace and back down to moderato. This concerto was completed in 1786‚ which also happened
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