Every Good Boy - By David Nicholls Can a piano have an effect on people? It definitely can. It can make people happy‚ it can get people in a good mood and it can play wonderful music for the ears. But what about a bad effect? In this short story the piano plays a very big role. It goes from being a big joy for the narrator‚ to become a satanic piano that were never to be touched again‚ because of a big fear… The short story is about a nine-year old boy. He was not good at anything. He
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music full time with Christian Gottlob Neefe. March 26‚ 1778 Beethoven performed his first piano recital at the age of seven; at the twelve years of age Beethoven published his first composition made up of Piano Variations (Ludwig Beethoven). Throughout the years Beethoven began to experiment with different styles and genres of music‚ the styles changes can be heard in his symphonies‚ String quartets‚ and Piano Sonatas. At a young age Beethoven requested to be an assistant court organist‚ because of
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Evaluation In the overall analysis of the three pieces in terms of piano‚ guitar and orchestra versions‚ I have found that the three songs in various versions are different in some extent. That is to say‚ each piece has its distinguished feature with reference to sound‚ time‚ structure‚ melody‚ tempo‚ and harmony. To be more specific‚ the report will examine each song within its different versions only. Before I start analyzing the pieces‚ I would like to give a brief introduction about
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Morceau de Concert Written 1887 by Camille Saint-Saëns‚ the work for solo horn and piano was written first‚ the edition for solo horn and orchestra was developed later. The style is classical with hints of Romanticism. The form of the first movement is theme and variation‚ there are two themes that Saint-Saëns introduces and then develops from an eighth note pattern into a triplet pattern‚ and then into a sixteenth-note pattern. This is a piece that I am playing for juries and my lesson teacher
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The Science of Musical Instruments - Grade 10 teaching and learning project Music is an artform‚ but there's a lot of science in there too. Whether your instrument is your voice‚ a flute‚ a marimba‚ a recorder‚ a violin or a piano‚ sound is a form of energy and to make sound requires a change from one form of energy - usually kinetic (motion energy) - into sound energy. So whatever your instrument there's a scientific explanation to how it works. The art of music is how well you put that
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My hands flew across the piano keys as piano teachers and students watch intensely‚ trying to find any errors that I make. As I play I hear the music becoming blurry like a watercolor painting‚ mixing together and becoming one monstrous mess. I notice this and try to correct it by lifting my foot off the piano pedal‚ but the pedals do not work like the ones I normally use. I lose it as I am playing and silently say‚ “Jesus help me!” I continue to play and eventually correct the problem‚ but by that
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Mary Dradshaw Steinway Two investment bankers Dana Messina and Kyle Kirkland purchased Steinway and Sons‚ a New York piano manufacturer company for $100 million. It is their task to decide whether Steinway should continue it’s high-end‚ niche strategy of premium pianos‚ or to expand their current line of pianos to further grow their revenue. As Dana and Kyle step further into turning Steinway and Sons to a successful profitable business‚ they are faced with several existing issues that first
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The term keyboard‚ according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ is “a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard like that of a piano and that produces sounds electronically.” This is the modern definition of a keyboard‚ as it can be used as a term describing any key-like instrument which does not contain a firmly established identity‚ such as the clavichord and the harpsichord. The keyboard has been a prevalent instrument since as early as the third century BC‚ and therefore has
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half of the 18th century‚ and Romantic music in particular dominated the Romantic movement in Germany. Piano is the most important instrument of the Rmoantic Period Frederic Chopin Frédéric Chopin was born Fyderyk Franciszek Szopen on March 1‚ 1810‚ in the small village of ? elazowa Wola‚ Duchy of Warsaw (now Poland). Works and Ideals The Chopin nocturnes constitute 21 short pieces for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin between 1827 and 1846. They are generally considered among the finest short
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mostly on a solo piano. He was born on March 1st‚ 1810 in what used to be Duchy of Warsaw and was raised in Warsaw. It later on in 1815 came to be a part of Poland. Many people considered him to be a child prodigy as his family didn’t have money‚ yet he grew up motived to love music by his mom was and because his father worked for a noble family he had access to instruments from an early age and was exposed to cultured Warsaw society. By the age of 6 Chopin was playing the piano better than most
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