The piano teacher Anastasia Cucu I sit now quietly in front of a grand piano in my cousin’s living room. My cousin‚ Lana‚ is speaking to me- she had me over for lunch to discuss the family- yet I am distracted by the large instrument that takes up almost half the room. I can only assume the baby grand was once a shiny black‚ though because its keys have been played
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MUS 100 FINAL STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 17: - Fortepiano: early piano‚ named for its range of dynamic levels; it was smaller and less sonorous than the modern instrument. - Classical style: restrained‚ objective style of art. Classical refers to Western music characteristic of the period from 1750-1825. Composers: - Mozart: Invested much of his music with a degree of emotion expression unusual for his time. Never allowed emotion to dominate his art. - Haydn: Wrote pleasant‚ good-natured music throughout
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warmhearted gentle women. There were seven children born into this family‚ only three survived‚ in which Ludwig was the oldest. Johann supplemented his income by teaching piano and violin and so took an interest in teaching Ludwig from a very early age. He began to see Ludwig as prodigy‚ a young “Mozart”. Ludwig gave his first public performance at the age of 7-1/2‚ in Cologne‚ however‚ his father exploited his son‚ announcing that he was only 6. Because of this‚ Beethoven was always
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appeared to rise from his misfortunes and follow his passion. Mr. Beethoven created some of the most wonderful music and is considered one of the greatest musicians of all time. Ludwig‚ at a very young age‚ began his career as a marvelous piano player and composer of piano music. Beethoven continued his work expanding to string quartets and other kinds of chamber music‚ songs‚ two masses‚ an opera‚ and nine symphonies. The German musical genius made amazing new strides at the end of the Classical era and
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Nationality: German • Contemporaries: Haydn‚ Mozart‚ Clementi • Works included: • 32 piano sonatas (including the ’Pathetique’; the ’Moonlight’; the ’Appassionata’); bagatelles‚ 6 sonatinas • 9 symphonies - including the ’Eroica’ (3rd); ’Pastoral’ (6th); the ’Choral’ (9th) • chamber music - including 9 piano trios‚ 5 cello and piano sonatas and 10 violin and piano sonatas • Opera - Fidelio • 5 piano concertos • 1 violin concerto • 1 triple concerto for piano‚ violin and cello Classical Period
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frenzy surrounding the article gave birth to the educational phenomenon of the “Mozart Effect”. The article detailed their research which involved exposing college students to ten minutes of Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448)‚ a relaxation tape‚ or silence‚ then followed by a test on spatial reasoning‚ taken from the Stanford-Binet intelligence test. The results demonstrated that listening to a Mozart sonata subsequently induced
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misery which drags down his fellow men ̈ (Valentin 76). This man‚ Ludwig Van Beethoven‚ was and continues to be world known due to the beautiful pieces of music he had written. Beethoven composed quartets in large numbers as well as beautiful piano sonatas from his childhood to the very day he died. As most musicians do‚ he thought‚ spoke‚ and lived music. It was all that he had and all that he needed after the death of his mother and his father ́s issues with alcoholism (Budden and Knapp)
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It is arguable that some Romantic music made greater demands upon its listeners than did music of previous historical periods. What were those demands? Why did these changes come about? And what strategies can you formulate for listening to this music today? In consideration of the musical changes present in the Romantic era‚ this essay will contend that these changes are very much related to the wider social and technological changes in society around that time. Thus‚ it is important
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Beethoven was the assistant organist in the court chapel. A single year later‚ he advanced to become the harpsichordist in the court orchestra. A talented young man‚ Beethoven was privileged enough to perform for the infamous Mozart at the tender age of seventeen. Mozart too noticed that this young man was unusually gifted‚ commenting to his friends‚ “keep an eye n him- he will make a noise in the world some day”. And that‚ he surely did. Beethoven did do what he had originally set out to do
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to a relaxation test and a moment of silence‚ students’ scores increased 8 to 9 points. The results from the Mozart Effect were quickly published in scientific journals. Although some people disagreed with the results‚ the article was so appealing that many scientists as well as citizens accepted the Mozart Effect as a "universal truth". Even though many people agree with the Mozart Effect‚ there are still those in controversy with the idea. Soon after Rauscher and Shaw completed their project
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