Filippe Moura Dr. Polo September 22‚ 2014 ! ! Pyotr Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1 in D Major‚ op.11 Pyotr Iliyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer born 7 May 1840. During his life as a composer he worked basically on symphonies‚ concertos‚ operas‚ ballets‚ chamber music and a choral. By the time Tchaikovsky composed this string quartet he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and with this job’s payment he was barely getting by. The composer decided to present the concerto of his own
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The Life of Franz Schubert Franz Schubert was a brilliant Austrian composer. His full name was Franz Peter Schubert. He was on January 31‚ 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund‚ Austria and died on November 19‚ 1828 in Vienna‚ Austria. Franz wrote 600 lieder‚ operas‚ 7 masses‚ nine symphonies‚ liturgical music‚ and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. He was the fourth surviving son of Franz Theodor Schubert who was a schoolmaster. Franz mother Elisabeth who was a homemaker. Franz had thirteen siblings
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Mozart: String Quartet in G Major‚ K. 80‚ III (Menuetto) Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart (1756-1791) was one of the most influential composers of the classical era. He was already proficient on violin and piano by age 5‚ which is the same age in which he began composing. In 1770‚ when Mozart was 14 years old‚ he composed “String Quartet in G Major‚ K. 80”. The string quartet has 4 movements: “Adagio”‚ “Allegro”‚ “Menuetto”‚ and “Rondeao Allegro”. The third movement‚ “Menuetto”‚ begins in the key of G
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The Four Quartets Eliot finds an interesting aspect of time and eternity as displayed in this poem. There are philosophical investigations made in the poem within the twentieth century. The poem highlights the efforts of scientists in the bid to comprehend time (Kramer 10). This begins from Einstein’s explanation of quantum mechanics that enabled artists and scientists to come up with numerous ideologies regarding time. Postmodernists hold the view that the value of timelessness on eternity results
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Performance. WORK: | Piano Quartet in Eb major Mvmt’1 Op.47 By Robert Schumann | <Instrumentation: Violin‚ Viola‚ Cello and Piano> Robert Alexander Schumann was a German Romantic composer and music critic who lived from 8 June 1810 to 29 July 1856. He composed this piece in 1842‚ also known as his ‘Chamber Music Year.’ Schumann had never written a chamber work until this year except an early piano quartet in 1829. However‚ in 1842‚ he composed the Three String Quartets Op. 41‚ the Piano Quintet
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“Franz Schubert was a programmatic composer”. Discuss this statement with reference to two pieces studied and refer to three of the concepts of music in your answer. Composers of the Romantic Period were attracted to programme music – music that provides a story‚ idea or scene. Franz Schubert‚ one of the earliest 19th Century composers‚ was very much so‚ a programmatic composer. In a short lifespan of 31 years‚ Franz Peter Schubert composed 600 lieder‚ (plural for ‘lied’‚ the German word for ‘song’
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AIR WAR COLLEGE AIR UNIVERSITY STRING OF PEARLS: Meeting the Challenge of China’s Rising Power Across the Asian Littoral by CHRISTOPHER J. PEHRSON Lt Col‚ USAF XXX-XX-1752 A Research Report Submitted to the Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of Graduation Requirements Maxwell Air Force Base‚ Alabama 17 May 2006 [PRIVACY ACT NOTICE: Information on this page is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974 and must be safeguarded from unauthorized disclosure.] CERTIFICATE I have read
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What is Art songs? The human voice is a natural instrument with unique capabilities. Speech and music have been combined since the earliest times‚ so that Song is probably one of the oldest musical forms. Simple definitions for song might be "a piece of music performed by voice‚ with or without instrumental accompaniment‚" or "a poem set to music." The German word for such classical song is Lied (singular) and Lieder (plural)‚ so that you will hear the terms "art song‚" "lied" and "lieder" used
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Musicology 240 Paper #2 “Der Lindenbaum” is a particular song from Die Winterraise‚ a song cycle written by Franz Schubert‚ that focuses on the narrator who has been spurned by his lover and is now traveling on his own. The song cycle uses lyrics from a series of 24 poems by the poet Wilhelm Müller. The piece begins with a piano introduction. The piano is playing fast triplets in a major tonality‚ and seems to be representing the rustling of leaves. The introduction ends in measures 7 and
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String theory is defined by Merriam-Webster as‚ "A physical theory in which one-dimensional loops travel through space and also merge and lyse as time elapses. This is in contrast to ordinary quantum field theory‚ which predicts point particles that emit and absorb each other. String theory is a candidate for a Theory of Everything." String theory would solve the long fight between Einstein’s theory of relativity and Quantum Physics. String theory proclaims that everything in our universe‚ from
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