Alice Huang 6th Period First Semester Concert Report On Monday‚ 18 November 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in Evergreen Presbyterian Church the Rhodes College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble performed the Baroque-N Christmas. The event was open to the public‚ to share their joy for the upcoming holiday. The program included the Palladio‚ the Suite for Strings‚ the Chasing Sheep is Best Left for Shepherds‚ the Alleluia‚ the Variants on a Mediaeval Tune‚ and the Concerto Grosso in G Minor‚ Op.6‚ No.8. I was very
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more than two and a half centuries after his death. Mozart was a musical child-prodigy‚ writing his first minuet at the age of five. At the age of six‚ he began composing complicated and serious musical works and in the same year gave his first harpsichord concert. His first symphony was written when he was only eight years old and his first opera when he was twelve. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg‚ Austria in January of 1756 to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold Mozart was a respected
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Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1‚000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue‚ Brandenburg Concerti‚ the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord‚ the Mass in B-Minor‚ the motets‚ the Easter and Christmas oratorios‚ Toccata in F Major‚ French Suite No 5‚ Fugue in G Major‚ Fugue in G Minor ("The Great")‚ St. Matthew Passion‚ and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians
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Period: Block of time connected with music and chord progressions leading to a PAC; usually an antecedent phrase (ending with an HAC) and consequent phrase (ending with a PAC) once you get to the end of a period‚ the PAC offers a sense of completion Periodicity: Difference between Baroque and Classical music (In Baroque compositions‚ the melody always continues and in Classical compositions‚ the melody will be a set number of measures and will have individual phrases following Empfindsam Style:
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working on an "arcicembal che fa il piano e il forte" ("harpsichord that plays both softly and loudly") as early as 1698. All of his surviving instruments date from the 1720s. Cristofori built only about 20 pianofortes before he died at age 75 in 1731‚ roughly 21 years after he invented the first pianoforte. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations. In particular‚ it benefited from centuries of work on the harpsichord‚ which had shown the most effective ways to construct the
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French Horn v.s. Piano - Maxwell Miller The french horn and the piano were invented long ago and since then changes have been made to further improve the instruments and make them more suitable for playing music. These instruments are used very differently from each other in music while they both hold key roles. Both instruments are a challenge to learn and to master‚ and both have unique characteristics that make them difficult to play. The Horn was invented for the purpose of hunting
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MUAR 211 Concert Report 1 McGill Baroque Orchestra and McGill Cappella Antica I attended the concert of McGill Baroque Orchestra and McGill Cappella Antica on Wednesday‚ February 19‚ 2014‚ at 7:30 p.m. What special about this concert was the guest conductor and solo violinist Adrian Butterfield. The performed pieces were Welcome to all the pleasures‚ Leclair’s Violin Concerto in A major‚ Locatelli’s Introduzione teatrale in G major‚ C. P. E. Bach’s Sinfonia in C major and My heart is inditing
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Guide to Music History Part 1 – Introduction Whether you need to brush up on your knowledge of musical styles for your grade six music theory exam (or higher)‚ or are just keen to learn more about our rich heritage of “classical” music‚ I hope this new series of articles about the history of classical music will offer you something of interest. Here’s a quick introduction to the new series! Each article will take a brief look at one of the main eras that “classical” music is divided into. I’m using
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<http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/lute.htm>. 6. "The Lute Society of America — Home — What’s New?" Welcome to the Dartmouth Computer Science Department. Web. 24 Sept. 2010. <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/index.html>. 7. "The LUTE-HARPSICHORD: A Forgotten Instrument." BAROQUE MUSIC PAGE: Biogs‚ Pictures‚ Music Samples. Web. 24 Sept. 2010. <http://www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html>.
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Purcell’s ‘Dido & Aeneas’ Summarise the paragraphs in the square boxes and write your own ideas in the thought bubbles. Highlight any new information you come across‚ and summarise that in bullet points at the end. You could also add post-it notes with related points about Acis and Galathea around the outside. BACKGROUND This set work comes from the Baroque Era (c.1600-1750) This period in history witnessed a new exploration of ideas and innovations in the arts‚ literature and philosophy. Italy
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