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    Viennese aristocracy and soon enjoyed success as a piano virtuoso‚ playing at private houses or palaces rather than in public. His public début was in 1795; about the same time his first important publications appeared‚ three piano trios and three piano sonatas. As a pianist‚ it was reported‚ he had fire‚ brilliance and fantasy as well as depth of feeling. It is

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    and influences‚ he looked to their harmonic and formal models for his own works. However‚ both Mozart and Haydn placed the great weight of a musical movement in the statement of ideas called the exposition‚ for Beethoven the development section of a sonata form

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    ‘J.S. Bach had more in common with Holborne than he did with Haydn.’ Discuss using studied pieces. Despite all coming from different periods‚ Bach’s piece does have a lot in common with Holborne’s Pavane and Galliard. For one thing‚ they both mainly have a contrapuntal texture and are for few instruments‚ whilst Haydn’s Symphony is‚ obviously‚ for a symphony orchestra. Both the Bach and the Holborne were intended to be played at home‚ whilst the Haydn would have been intended to be played in

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    A comparative study of the use of the baroque and modern flutes in composition‚ with specific reference to - Sonata IV for flute and continuo by J.S Bach‚ and Sonata for flute by Hindemith The baroque‚ or transverse flute is of great interest to me‚ mainly because of my own flute playing experience. I have always considered the baroque flute a much softer and more beautiful instrument‚ and it is because of this interest that I have decided to carry out my investigation upon the differences between

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    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 his young age Court officials were hesitant but accepted him (Ludwig Van Beethoven). Through his young years of his life‚ it is clearly evident to how devoted and passionate

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    BEETHOVEN‚ Ludwig van (1770-1827) The composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written‚ Ludwig van Beethoven created a bridge between the 18th-century classical period and the new beginnings of Romanticism. His greatest breakthroughs in composition came in his instrumental work‚ including his symphonies. Unlike his predecessor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ for whom writing music seemed to come easily‚ Beethoven always struggled to perfect his work. Ludwig van Beethoven was

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    a confusing additional voice. The now-popular instrumental music was dominated by several well-defined forms: the sonata‚ the symphony‚ and the concerto‚ though none of these were specifically defined or taught at the time as they are now in music theory. All three derive from sonata form‚ which is both the overlying form of an entire work and the structure of a single movement. Sonata form matured during the

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    and historical genre. But in order to discover how the symphony has developed as a whole‚ the internal cogs that turn this device must first of all be recognised. Throughout the 18th Century‚ the term known today as ‘symphony’ was then known as ‘sonata’‚ ‘sinfonia’ or what would also be named‚ an ‘overture’. This would usually feature three contrasting sections. It may be an instrumental ensemble providing an introduction to an Opera or it could also be used as an orchestral interlude‚ like that

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    is      A.  five.     B. six.     C. three. D.  four.    Answer Key: D Question 10 of 14     Score: 1   (of possible 1 point) The opening movement of a Classical symphony was written in the most important form of the time‚ the _____ form.    A. sonata   B. rondo     C.  theme and variations     D.  minuet and trio    Answer Key: A Question 11 of 14     Score: 1   (of possible 1 point) The third movement of a Classical symphony usually gives the listener a moment of _____ due to its _____.   

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    Not only was the work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft uniformly bleak‚ but what he did write was sometimes execrable. Take this random passage from a 1985 HP Lovecraft omnibus: "But oddly enough‚ the worthy gentleman owned himself most impalpably disquieted by a mere minor detail. On the huge mahogany table there lay face downward a badly worn copy of Borellus‚ bearing many cryptical marginalia and interlineations in Curwen’s hand." The American writer‚ who died in 1937‚ is also widely considered

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