I would like to tell you about my visit to the one of the most beautiful museums in the world The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is located in the east of Central Park‚ being‚ in fact‚ part of it. The main entrance is the majestic and pathetic. The building has several floors are spacious‚ and each of the gallery halls like immerses the visitor in a parallel world. Whether it’s a bloodthirsty Aztec god figurine‚ rock reliefs by the ancient Sumerians‚ harmoniously ancient statue‚ sarcophagus with
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Transitional sections of the Fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called to help m. Episodes 14.) The main keyboards instruments of the Baroque period were the Organ and the n. Harpsichord 15.) Members of the camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on o. Music of the ancient Greeks 16.) Orpheus goes to Hades in hope of bringing who back to life p. Eurydice 17.) In an opera what happens
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Music in different cultures English from this country has changed a lot over the years‚ mainly due to changes in technology. Starting with cave men making instruments from sticks and rocks‚ having people playing harpsichord to nowadays where people are able to either play music on an instrument themselves or create it on a computer. Due to a slow advance of technology in some places in Africa‚ the tribes over their have kept pretty traditional sticking to music on drums‚ harp like instruments‚ rattles
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taken in by his older step brother/church organist‚ Johann Christoph. Christoph felt the need to provide Bach with musical instruction‚ which led him to enrolling Bach in a local school. In 1703‚ Bach received his first job playing the violin and harpsichord at the court of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar. He was a great performer and he landed many job opportunities as an organist in many churches such as the New Church in Arnstadt. Bach also wrote many famous church cantatas. In 1717 he accepted a position
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trend‚ laid no foundation on which future composers could build‚ but merely perpetuated a dilettante tradition rooted in the past" 2. Even his inventions were obsolete after his generation. A leather or cork pick instead of a quill pick for the harpsichord failed to make a difference in
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Classical Period (1750-1820) • the year Bach died • "Classical" - Greek/Roman antiquity -many enduring creation or accomplishment -Any music that’s not jazz‚ folk‚ rap‚ rock‚ pop‚ etc. What Classical really is: •Clarity‚ Purity‚ Logical •Age/Time of enlightenment •Value of Reason; Reason is the best guide to human conduct •People believed in progress •People attacked the privileges of aristocrats and the clergy Master Composers: 1. Franz Joseph Haydn >Father of Symphonies
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visited by a priest who comes to hear Salieri’s confession‚ and it is this confession that forms the film’s narrative and the root of Salieri’s agony. Before telling his confession‚ Salieri plays for the priest a few of his own musical pieces on the harpsichord. However‚ although years before these musical pieces had been nothing but popular and famous‚ they were now completely unrecognized by the priest. The film puts its focus on Antonio Salieri’s relationship/obsession with Mozart. Salieri‚ the narrator
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music when he was four and he started to write minuets by the age of five. When Mozart was around eight or nine‚ he started to write symphonies. Mozart also played quite a few instruments. When he was three years old he was already playing the harpsichord. He also was very talented on the keyboard and played the violin very well. Mozart was so naturally gifted when it came to music that when he was blindfolded‚ he was able to recognize the played notes. This was said that he had "perfect pitch."
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POULENC-------------------TROIS NOVELETTES POUR PIANO (TIME) (1899-1963) i. NOVELETTE IN C MAJOR‚ NO.1 ii. NOVELETTE IN B-FLAT MINOR‚ NO.2 PROGRAMME NOTES TOCCATA IN E MINOR‚ BWV 914 [c. 1710] Johanne Sebastian Bach’s The Toccata in E minor‚ composed for harpsichord‚ dates from 1707-11. An exploratory prelude first tests the possibilities of a three-note gesture‚ constructed of a small dip down and then a return to the starting note. When a four-voice fugue enters‚ it incorporates that same three-note motive
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body with a flat front that is shaped like a halved egg. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance. What is a harpsichord? Where were these instruments often found? A keyboard instrument with horizontal strings that run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case and are plucked by points of quill‚ leather‚ or plastic operated by depressing the keys. It is
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