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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“The Lesson” Edward Lucie-Smith About the Poet Edward Lucie-Smith‚ a British poet and art critic‚ was born in Jamaica in 1933 and graduated from Oxford University in 1954. He has lived in London since 1951‚ where he worked as an advertising copywriter (1956-66) and as an editor of books on art. Among his works of poetry are A Tropical Childhood (1961) and Confessions and Histories (1964). His important criticism includes Art in Britain 1969-1970 (1970)‚ Symbolist Art (1973)‚ American Art Now (1985)
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Variations for Clarinet and Piano‚ By Carl Maria Von Weber (In the point of view of Max) Maria Carl Von Weber was a famous composer during the early 1800s. He composed many well known pieces like the variations for clarinet and piano. Even though this is not his most famous accomplishment‚ this is still a very challenging piece to play with simplifications in most of the variations. Although it took around 3 months to learn the piece‚ I now have confidence while playing. I also have won an honorable
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the Mendelssohn bank played a role in stopping Napoleons Continental System. Mendelssohn was very blessed in growing up with the best education and began his musical education at the age of 6. Mendelssohn and his brother and sisters were given piano lessons by their mother. A year later he was then under the teachings of Carl Friedrich Zelter another German composer. In 1818 at around the age of 9 Mendelssohn began to perform in public playing pieces of music from composers Joseph Wolfl‚ Jan Ladislav
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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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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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English 9 May 6‚ 2010 My First Piano Recital I started piano lessons at the age of four and a half. That is a very young age to start! My teacher was Ms. Crossman; we had a lesson every week. One day‚ sometime after my fifth birthday‚ she told me that when you take piano lessons‚ you have to play at a piano recital. I didn’t even know what a piano recital was! Ms. Crossman explained to me how everybody’s relatives and friends come to the middle school and watch us play one song that we’ve worked
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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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Commentary – Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara In Gabriel Okara’s poem‚ “Piano and Drums”‚ Okara expresses his feelings and thoughts of a primitive society in contrast to a western society. Being an African himself‚ and having studied in a western society‚ the poem reflects the confusion in his emotions as well as the loss of self-identity. The title of the poem itself‚ “Piano and Drums” displays a sense of dissimilarity and contrast as the instruments are so unalike in terms of sophistication.
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Disability Awareness Lesson Go Math! 3rd grade single digit multiplication Objectives: 1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge gained from the day before by correctly solving the problem of the day. 2. Students will use different strategies to solve single digit multiplication problems with at least 80% accuracy. Activity 1: The students will complete problem of the day. The problem will be related to what the students learned the day before and will be posted on the board and they
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