The Moldau written by Bedřich Smetana in 1874 is one of the most widely performed symphonic poems ever written. This paper will deconstruct‚ analyse and evaluate this piece and examine both of the ways in which it pushes the boundaries of the Classical Period establishing a new romantic style. This piece is written as a nationalistic piece as Smetana shows his love for his homeland and describes the flowing river in which he grew up going to. This 13 minute piece is separated into 8 sections‚ each
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Nicole Music 122 Dr. December 5‚ 2012 Beethoven and Tchaikovsky’s Final Symphonies: Comparative Analysis Although from different eras‚ embracing different styles‚ Beethoven and Tchaikovsky can both be identified as two of the most influential‚ emotional composers. As men they were alike in the profound emotion put into everything they did. They both had emotional issues though Beethoven was angrier‚ and frustrated while Tchaikovsky was quite depressed and always had feelings of guilt
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Symphonie Fantastique‚ Hector Berlioz By carefully listening to the first movement of the symphonic work‚ this could be a work all on its own. Berlioz really did a fantastic job by incorporating all the sort of feelings a man in love gets by seeing the love of his life for the first time. “Reveries – Passions” is the title of the first movement‚ which depicts the feelings of tenderness‚ sad‚ crazy‚ and passionate‚ all through this one device‚ idee fixe. The idee fixe technique is used to bring out
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Carry out study of a Classical Guitar and write a report on its history‚ development and construction. The classical guitar‚ sometimes called the Spanish or nylon strung guitar‚ consists of a hollow body made with a top‚ back and sides constructed from thin pieces of wood carved and shaped to give the familiar traditional figure of eight shape. A long narrow piece of wood‚ called the neck‚ is attached to the body at one end and has‚ at the other end‚ a headstock to which are attached six tuning
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and bass trombone. For the rhythm section‚ there are piano‚ guitar‚ double bass‚ drums and vibraphone. Personally‚ among all those different genres of music‚ I like big bang jazz a lot because of the colorful timbres and the feeling of the jazz orchestra. Also‚ since I have attended to other big bang jazz performances before at MAC‚ I had the experience of the high-quality shows‚ and I
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This past week I attended a classical concert that the Music Department of WKU put on. The one I went to watch was the Trombone Studio Recital performed by the WKU Trombone Choir and Trombone Quartet. The musicians performed fifteen different pieces by many different classical composers which include: Sonata for Bass Trombone‚ Concerto in F Minor‚ Suite for Four Trombones‚ and Morceau Symphonique. The performance of Alleluia was truly an amazing experience and was my favorite piece of the concert
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Four types of Courage If you ask a class of students to name a courageous person‚ you will be able to hear a multitude of replies of names of famous people. Have you ever considered having the guts to stand out in the crowd and naming yourself as an act of courage makes you a courageous individual? American psychologists Rollo May shares that “It is easier in our society to be naked physically than to be naked psychologically or spiritually.” Humans are born naked. Before human civilization
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Comparing Tonight with Maria (Both from ‘West side story’) (Tonight also known as balcony scene – Tony and Maria sing together. Maria – sang by Tony.) The piece ‘Tonight’ begins in B maj; it opens with Tony stating “the most beautiful sound I ever heard” this is sang in a very recitative style; mainly monotone (D) – rubato. This makes his words seem the prominent element – stressing the drama. The gentile bassoon plays a descending line – while the horn plays a simplified version ~ this ‘decent’
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Within any great musical composition there lies many instances of musical emotion that stirs the soul and creates within an individual‚ a sense of strong connections with both the piece and the composer. In this great masterpiece‚ Beethoven has penned such a work that offers an individual senses of both the darkness and lightness of musical emotion contained within several musical passages while maintaining the softness and power of light‚ melodic runs. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony truly captures
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The members of the Piedmont Choirs prioritize the tuning of the choirs above almost all other aspects of the music we sing. Some people I have sung with in choir have absolute pitch‚ which means they can identify or sing any given note without the help of any instrument‚ and a multitude of people I have sung with have relative pitch‚ which means they have some notes memorized. I was in the flagship ensemble of the Piedmont Choirs the year a choir I was in was the most consistently in tune. We spent
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