Organized by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of music‚ the evening was filled with a wide variety of piano repertoires given by students of the keyboard department. Audiences were looking forward to the concert as the majority are pianist themselves‚ amatuers and professional alike. The program started off with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E major BWV854 book 1 by Ong Junlin‚ the performance didn’t go smoothly however as he was not confident throughout. The prelude was fine overall‚ as listeners preferred
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Shoshana Dunner AP Music Theory Miss. Evans May 3rd 2013 Final Project: Prelude in D Flat major Op.28 Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude was composed during the romantic period (1820-1900) and completed in 1839. During the romantic period‚ most composers portrayed feelings and nature in their work. In addition‚ they used a wide range of dynamics with lots of sudden changes‚ using sforzandos and accents‚ to dramatize their music. The music was more expressive using extra instructions as well as tempo
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A.P English Literature Research Paper: The father-son relationship in The Metamorphosis‚ The Judgment‚ and A Hunger Artist is a complex and emotional fascination that is based on Franz Kafka’s life and is present as the main conflict in many of his other short stories. Kafka’s negative and struggling attitude towards the father figure in his works is based on his personal life as described from the translated works Das Schloss‚ a biography about Kafka’s life in his native tongue of German. “Hermann
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Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer whose works featured the Romantic period and Polish nationalistic music. His work ranges from Mazurkas to Nocturnes‚ from Polonaises to Waltzes‚ includes concertos‚ sonatas and much more. He was born in March 10‚ 1810 in ¯elazowa Wola to Nicolas Chopin. He grew up as a sickly but talented child‚ often hailed the child prodigy in Poland. When he was seven years old‚ he authored two polonaises. He had various instructors‚ including his own sister and his mother
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Throughout Metamorphosis‚ Franz Kafka gives clear examples on how Gregor affected the family. He tries to help the family by working a horrible job just to pay off the debts of the family. By using irony‚ imagery‚ and nostalgia‚ Franz shows how although Gregor seemed helpful‚ he actually held the family back from becoming closer and progressing in life. Once Gregor‚ “Had changed into a monstrous‚ verminous bug‚”(pg. 1) he discovered many new‚ but painful-forming qualities like‚ “The ball of his tiny
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Franz Kafka’s novella‚ The Metamorphosis ‚ is a novella riddled in symbols and themes of Kafka’s struggle with tuberculosis. This story teaches and shows the effects of isolation and on how it effects ones life. Gregor Samsa ( the main character ) is driven by a dramatic change in his life and the inability to provide for his family. Franz Kafka uses symbolism such as the window to elaborate on the important theme of isolationism in The Metamorphosis .
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Music in the nineteenth century saw the creation and evolution of new music genres such as the piano miniature‚ short expressive piano pieces. During this time raw emotion and expressionism prevailed as the focus of music during this described "Romantic" movement. Robert Schumann’s "Grillen"‚ from Fantasiestucke‚ Opus 12 was written in July 1837 contains several virtues of music during his time period. Schumann’s uses various qualities in his music such as form‚ pitch‚ rhythm and meter‚ and texture
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Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest female composers to have ever lived. She was born on November 14th‚ 1805 in Hamburg‚ Germany. Fanny was a romantic composer and‚ though only few were published in her life‚ she composed over 500 works including lieder and piano pieces (Stanton‚ 1984). Fanny was the oldest of four children and the sister of the well-known composer Felix Mendelssohn‚ with whom she was very close to (Estrella‚ 2011). Her grandfather was Moses Mendelssohn
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HUMORESQUE Music Score Analysis: Humoresque is composed by Antonín Dvořák(September 8‚ 1941 - May 1‚ 1904‚ born in Bohemia)‚ a czech composer of the romantic period. He was engaged in major music works comprising of chamber music‚ orchestral music‚ piano music‚ operas and songs(or vocal). A. Dvořák wrote a total of 8 Humoresque short classical pieces and this particular piece(Poco lento e grazioso) is the most popular one which has been produced for various musical arrangements. This
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Music 110 Concert Report 18 Nov. 2010 Nov. 18: Strauss and Brahms Intro The concert that I attended at Yale University on November eighteenth was called Symphonie Fantastique. During the concert‚ the band played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4‚ William Tell Overture‚ and Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. The music was excellent and played with much expertise. Each piece was performed well. I enjoyed listening to the extravagant music with very few mistakes. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4
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