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One of the concerts attended for this assignment took place over Thanksgiving weekend. It was entitled, suitably enough, A Mozart Thanksgiving. It featured the work of Jeffrey Kahane, who both conducted and played the piano. The concert was held over Continue Reading...
Part 3 - Piano Concerto #2 in G minor, Op. 22 -- Camille Saint-Saens (1868) -- This work is said to be Saint-Saens' most popular piano concerto; premiered with the composer as the soloist and Anton Rubinstein conducting. Saint-Saens wrote it in 3 w Continue Reading...
This was particularly true with the masterful oboe and bassoon dialog and the grand finale -- more than hinting with classical harmony of the structure and order of the Viennese universe.
Harbison -- Another short and enjoyable piece, masterfully d Continue Reading...
Apparantely, Haydn made a huge amount of money on this piece, causing him to comment, "a thing possible only in England." The Vivaldi Concerto, it turns out, can be played as a Lute or Guitar Concerto, with the lute being a bit more popular in Court Continue Reading...
In the scene where the Emperor and his aides argue about the language for the new opera, one of the aides notes, "Plain German for plain people," and "German is too brutal" ("Amadeus"). Underlying this conversation is the idea that the north could n Continue Reading...
The term, rondeau: andante grazioso, refers to the final movement of a piece of music and andante grazioso means to play gracefully.
For Mozart's "Violin Concerto No 4," the violin is accompanied by two oboes, two horns, and a string section. The Continue Reading...
La Mort D'Ophelie, Berlioz -- -Choir
Style-Romanticism
Unity and Variety-emphasis upon unity
Structure of the Music
Purpose of the Music
Tempo-Adagio
Volume-low
Rhythm-Consistent
Melody-Consistent
Harmony-balanced
Form-Circular
Historica Continue Reading...
joy of attending the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert at Lincoln Center. The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performed a total of two pieces. The first of the two was the Violin Concerto No.3 in G. major, K.216(1775) and the second was Symp Continue Reading...
Classical Symphony
Music, like other forms of art, evolved from numerous traditions that, when taken together, formed a new way of thinking about, and performing, certain types of works. Audiences change over time, and certain musical compositions t Continue Reading...
In other words each music performance is different and the impulsiveness of each performance confirms the concept of indeterminate music.
6) Describe an Indonesian Gamelan. (Textbook p. 282-283)
It said that Debussy, when he heard the Indonesian e Continue Reading...
In June, 1966he first appeared in Covent Garden in another Donizetti role, Tonio in la Fille du Regiment and was so skilled at the difficult range of the role the press dubbed him the "King of the High C's" (Woodstra, Brennan and Schrott, iv; (Ah Me Continue Reading...
Kamien (161) notes that "theme and variations" was a basic musical idea widely used in the Classical period. In the second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 94, the strings play the theme for the first time, softly and sweetly. Suddenly, the orchest Continue Reading...
Richter and Gardiner in Bach's Canata Recordings
The Baroque was a style expressed in art, music, architecture and even literature from the Age of Discovery in the 16th century until the early 18th century. Most describe it as more dramatic, florid, Continue Reading...
Pioneering Jazz Musician, Sidney Bechet
About Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was a pioneer jazz musician who changed the music of his time into a unique art form. Considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians of New Orleans, Bechet was an innova Continue Reading...
EDSE 600: History and Philosophy of Education / / 3.0 credits
The class entitled, History and Philosophy of Education, focused on the origin of education and the "philosophical influences of modern educational theory and practice. Study of: philos Continue Reading...
in "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace Continue Reading...
music of the Twentieth Century. Specifically, it will compare music of the Twentieth Century to the music of a previous period, and include information about the significance of composers in society, the role of music in the societal landscape, and Continue Reading...