Chaccone in G Minor “Violin lessons are over. Now it’s time to learn how to play music‚” announced my violin teacher of nine years last January. He told me that I had acquired technical mastery over my instrument‚ now it was time to move beyond being a violinist and learn how to be a musician. The transition he proposed came at a time when I was secretly losing my commitment to music. Like most children‚ it had been my parent’s choice that I should take music lessons‚ not mine. Now that I was becoming
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Vivaldi: An Almost Forgotten Genius In the 20th century several scholars of the famous Johann Sebastian Bach noticed a composer who kept popping up in their findings. It seemed as if this composer left an impeccable impression on Bach. Who is this guy? Thus the great search for Vivaldi begun. For centuries Vivaldi was forgotten‚ smothered by the fast growing Baroque artist and the dramatic change of the world’s taste in music. Regardless of that fact‚ Vivaldi’s name broke out of the grave and was
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J. S. Bach and the Second Brandenburg Concerto In December 1917‚ Johann Sebastian Bach began working as Prince Leopold of Cothen’s Kappelmeister (German: “chapel master‚” director of music)‚ tasked with composing for celebrations and holidays. A lover of music‚ the prince held Bach in high esteem; paying Bach more than twice the salary of his predecessor. Restricted by the chapel’s low-quality organ‚ Bach negotiated for new instruments in Carlsbad and Berlin‚ traveling with the prince throughout
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Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most influential composers of the Baroque period. He‚ along with many other composers‚ created some of the earliest European music familiar to us today (What is Baroque Music?). The Baroque period can best be described as using the power of music to communicate (What is Baroque Music?). The composers used a single voice that was accompanied by instruments‚ as well as specifying the instruments used‚ to capture the importance of the relationship between tonic and dominant
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The Piano Concerto The development of keyboard music reached staggering new heights at the turn of the 18th century. It was during this time that the idea of the concerto became a very innovative and popular style of music which combined a large symphony setting and a virtuoso. With the growing popularity of the piano‚ the end of the 18th century saw a new and more innovative genre of piano concertos. However this concerto received a great deal of criticism due to its lack of proper form and
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Antonio Vivaldi Giovanni Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio gave birth to Antonio Vivaldi on March 4‚ 1678. Little did they know‚ their oldest son of nine would generate a life of music and talent‚ to not only contribute‚ but also leave footprints‚ in the world of music; never to be forgotten. Beginning in the early 1730 ’s‚ Antonio was on a pursuit to re-captivate his career. He had gained much deserved popularity all throughout Europe‚ but sure enough‚ his fame was short lived. He died in a home
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earlier masters were neglected. Two of these talented musicians were Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. Both Italian artists were distinguished violinists as well as accomplished composers. "Corelli was the greatest violinist-composer of the Baroque and arguably its second most influential Italian composer after Monteverdi." Corelli ’s works consist entirely of string music apart from one sonata for trumpet‚ two violins‚ and continuo. The popularity of Corelli grew through the publications of forty-eight
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Webern took the last poem he set to music in his Op. 4 from Traurige Tänze (Mournful Dances)‚ the third and final section of Das Jahr der Seele. Most of the cycle’s thirty-two poems were written around March 1895 in Munich. Schultz (2005) remarks on their simple expressiveness‚ metric variety and rhythmic musicality. She writes “The themes of seasons and hours play loosely throughout‚ and despite his grief the lyrical “I” and his companion(s) continue to roam the landscape.” Friedrich Gundolf‚ a
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The Red Violin presents some interesting ideas about the qualities of an instrument. The varnish on the violin contains the blood of Bussotti’s wife‚ from just after she died. It seemed as if the wife lived on within the violin‚ implying that violins can have personality‚ which can be seen as true. Each violin has different tendencies‚ sound‚ different distances between notes‚ differing amounts of reverberation. This is what makes some violins sound so unique and what makes some valued so much more
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