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    Antonin Dvorak began composing during a time when nationalists from many states were attempting to have music of their own. The world relied heavily on Germanic music for a long time‚ so composers were being tasked with trying to create new music for the non-germanic states. Dvorak was among these commissioned. His compositions were best known for being able to create a national style through the use of folk songs. The pieces he wrote‚ that incorporated the folk songs of the Slavic people‚ gave him

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    Throughout the years of piano and cello practice‚ I never truly appreciated the musical style of the Romantic period. The dissonance created by contrasting melodies and key changes starkly contrasted the lyrical and cheerful melodies of the Baroque and Classical period. Often classical music as a genre sparks recognition of composers such as Bach‚ Mozart‚ and Beethoven – neglecting others like as Mendelssohn and Chopin. This semester‚ Exploring Music caused me to explore new methods of musical thought

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    father was in the Royal Air Force and was not supportive‚ but his mother was the one who introduced him and helped him start his career in rock music. His passion for music all started at the early age of four when he taught himself how to play the piano. Royal Academy of Music in London helped John to improve and execute his skills with the youth scholarship that he had won when he was only eleven years of age. Since John had difficulties in relationship

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    Elements Music is an art based on the organization of sounds in time. Also the universal language of man or something who knows Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound Tone is a sound that has a definite pitch Interval is the distance in a pitch between any two tones Tones are separated by an interval called the octave Tones have a specific frequency in music Pitch range is the distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce

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    Status in Two Chekhov Stories In the introduction to our edition of Chekhov’s short stories‚ by George Pahomov‚ it is stated that Chekhov’s fiction “captured the burgeoning Russian democracy” and that “in Chekhov’s democratic world view‚ no one was excluded” (vii-viii). We see these ideals being put forward in the two stories by Chekhov that we will discuss in this paper. In these two stories‚ “The Resurrection” and “The Dance Pianist‚” we can see how Chekhov depicts a world where the author’s

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    paper will discuss the life and work of the Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in terms of his relationship to the Romantic movement in music. Tchaikovsky was born in 1840 in the town of Votinsk in Russia. Although he learned to play the piano as a child‚ his family wanted him to pursue a career as a lawyer. For this reason‚ Tchaikovsky began attending the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence at the age of 10‚ and by the age of 19 he obtained a position as clerk in the Ministry of Justice

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    The Pianist In this essay I will talk about Wladyslaw Szpilman‚ he was a Jewish pianist that lived during the World War II‚ he suffered a lot because the Nazis were persecuting the Jewish people‚ I would like to describe how he lived and how was the situation during the Jewish Holocaust. The Holocaust was a massive murder of the Jewish‚ this was ordered by Adolf Hitler who was from Germany and was the Nazi leader‚ it is said that he killed around six million Jews from around Europe but during this

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    called Cogitation. I felt this piece could be in a movie. I really liked the parts the piano and flutes had in this. I loved how the piece grew bigger in sound and momentum in the end. I noticed that the violins played softly and there was a super high note coming from a flute in the orchestra which was beautiful. My most favorite performance of the night came from Betty Karamatova playing the piano. She played the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff. This is another performer who moves along with her

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    On Tuesday November 3rd the Toronto Symphony Orchestra preformed at the Roy Thompson Hall. This concert highlighted the brass section in the orchestra and even included the world famous tuba soloist‚ Øystein Baadsvik from Norway. He is the only tuba virtuoso to make a career out of being a tuba soloist. The conductor for this performance was Sameer Patel‚ who is known as one of America’s best young conductors. Sameer Patel is newly appointed the position of assistant conductor for the San Diego

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    those four beats are repeated and a harmony is added the music accelerates and crescendos to a fortissimo that adds a sense of frenzy to the music. Just then‚ trumpets herald in the second theme which slows down to an adagio tempo with a quieter mezzo piano dynamic‚ the major key here provides a lighter feeling of peace and calm briefly before building excitement is created through another crescendo and tempo acceleration. The music runs through the development with a mixture of both themes in major

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