this year’s concert series on January 31s at the Slosberg Music Center‚ a show that compelled virtually everyone to attend‚ even intern president‚ Lisa Lynch‚ attended. The show’s program began with a composition by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)‚ two sonatas for violin and piano from 1876‚ which was a breakthrough work‚ back then‚ for the 30-year-old composer. Before the composition was printed‚ Fauré was known chiefly as a composer of songs and short piano works‚ and they were mostly listened in salons
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“God Only Knows” is taken from The Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson‚ the artistic visionary and sole composer on the album‚ was inspired to begin working on Pet Sounds after hearing The Beatles’ Rubber Soul in December 1965. He was shocked by the lack of filler tracks and the cohesive artistic goal of the album‚ features unheard of at a time when full-length LPs were used as a method to sell more profitable singles rather than as artistic statements. Inspired by these ideas‚ Wilson is quoted
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home town to honor him. Following his wish‚ his own Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak was played in an orchestration by his friend Johan Halvorsen‚ who had married Grieg’s niece. In addition‚ the Funeral March movement from Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 was played. His and his wife’s ashes are entombed in a mountain crypt near his house‚
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second violins‚ viola and cello. When writing for the string quartet‚ the composer had to overcome the lack of contrasting tone colours through the use of beautiful melodic and harmonic lines. Most string quartets included two allegro movements in sonata-allegro form‚ an andante and a dance movement. The Symphony: The symphony had its roots in opera overtures. It was the first monumental form written exclusively for instrumentalists. In their symphonies‚ usually longer‚
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New York: McGraw-Hill‚ 2011. Print. Kemp‚ Lindsay "Polyphonic Texture and Genres." NAU. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. Whent‚ Chris. "Arcangelo Corelli." HOASM. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. Zaslaw‚ Neal. "Ornaments for Corelli ’s Violin Sonatas‚ Op.5." Oxford Journals. Oxford University Press‚ 1996
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Recital (Piano) Kwan Liang Hao (Candidate ID number) Date ‚ Time Exam Venue CONTENTS I. JOHANNE SEBASTIAN BACH---------------TOCCATA IN E MINOR‚ BWV 914 (1685-1750) (TIME) II. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN---------------SONATA IN C MINOR‚ OP.13 NO.8 – (1770-1827) ‘PATHETIQUE’ (TIME) i. GRAVE : ALLEGRO DI MOLTE E CON BRIO ii. ADAGIO CANTABILE iii. RONDO : ALLEGRO III. FREDERIC CHOPIN------------------------IMPROMPTU IN C-SHARP MINOR‚ (1810-1849)
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to the end Opera‚ instrumental music Classical Fluctuates to provide sudden‚ dramatic contrasts of character Sonatas‚ Rondos‚ Variations are used a lot Flexible rhythm Light‚ elegant and restrained Beethoven‚ Mozart‚ Hadyn Dynamics used to create contrast of mood and express emotions Music with particular qualities of clarity and balance in melody‚ harmony and rhythm Sonatas Romantic Ternary‚ Free form used a lot Chopin‚ Liszt‚ Schumann‚ Schubert Passionate and expressive Extreme
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Mozart’s particular talents didn’t run to developing new forms or styles‚ but in perfecting those that were already in vogue for the time. He could take three or four notes and use them to create the most beautifully haunting theme and build an entire sonata around it. The variations in dynamics in his
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1. Which weighs more? The modern piano 2. Which instrument responds more rapidly to the player’s touch? The 18th-c. piano 3. An extended range of available notes (seven-and-a-quarter octaves‚ instead of just five) is a feature of the modern piano 4. If the relationship between two (or more) musical tones is simple and stable‚ we call the combination consonant 5. When composers combine tones successively‚ we call the resulting series a melody 6. By the late 18th century‚ the
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to cultivate the minds of people and allowing them to interact with their inner thoughts and passions. By studying two different art forms‚ one can discover the similarities in how they affect their audiences. More specifically‚ the song “Moonlight Sonata” composed by Ludwig von Beethoven during the Romantic Era‚ and the poem “Frost at Midnight” written by the famous poet‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ can be compared by focusing on their personal influences‚ desired moods‚ and the messages they are trying
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