MUS G101 10/8/2013 Video Review 1 (The Soloist) This film was watched on October 4th‚ 2013. It is directed by Joe Wright‚ and the main characters are Steve Lopez (a Journalist for the LA Times) who is portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. and Nathaniel Anthony Ayres Jr. (a mentally ill homeless musician) portrayed by Jamie Foxx. This film follows Steve Lopez a journalist working for the LA times and while looking for a good story to write stubbles upon a street musician who is playing a violin
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established by Hellaby § Introduction and Literature Review This essay aims to discuss interpretations of‚ The Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC) II‚ through analysis of recordings made on the piano by three pianists whose names have been closely associated with Bach performance. The analysis is based on an approach established by Julian Hellaby. In his book ‘Reading Musical Interpretation: Case Studies in Solo Piano performance’‚ Hellaby introduces a conceptual framework of analysing the interpretation of a musical
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Humanities 101: Exam 4 June 11‚ 2012 1. Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) is considered to be the father of music for many reasons. He was the greatest Baroque composer‚ arguably the greatest composer of all times. He developed the modern piano lessons we use today‚ and developed helping book to strengthen both hands equally to play the piano. He wrote thousands of compositions‚ and simplified the way we compose music. He is the reason the piano became popular over the harpsichord. He was brilliant
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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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Word Count: 1‚085 words | | | | | Partita for solo violin no.3 in E‚ BWV 1006 J.S Bach (b. 21 March 1685 in Eisenach;d. 28 July 1750 in Leipzig) Bach was the son of Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. It is probably from his father that he learned the fundamentals of music. The Bach family throughout Thuringia had held positions such as organists‚ town instrumentalists‚ or Cantors‚ for
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Over the centuries‚ people have tried to manipulate and harness the power of numbers‚ hoping that somehow this will enable them to understand and explain the mysteries behind both the human psyche‚ and the path each individual is destined to follow in life. It is because of this that numbers make an appearance in many of the esoteric arts of divination‚ in particular those of astrology due to the central role they play in the calculations regarding date and time of birth. Numbers are used in an
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ATCL Recital (Piano) Kwan Liang Hao (Candidate ID number) Date ‚ Time Exam Venue CONTENTS I. JOHANNE SEBASTIAN BACH---------------TOCCATA IN E MINOR‚ BWV 914 (1685-1750) (TIME) II. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN---------------SONATA IN C MINOR‚ OP.13 NO.8 – (1770-1827) ‘PATHETIQUE’ (TIME) i. GRAVE : ALLEGRO DI MOLTE E CON BRIO ii. ADAGIO CANTABILE iii. RONDO : ALLEGRO III. FREDERIC CHOPIN------------------------IMPROMPTU IN C-SHARP MINOR‚
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event which earned 1600 this enviable distinction‚ as far as I can tell‚ was the simple fact that it has two zeros stuck on the end of it‚ thus making it fairly easy to remember. In contrast‚ the end of the Baroque Era was definitively set by Johann Sebastian Bach‚ the Grand-Poobah of Baroque music‚ who had the good foresight to die in a year also ending with a zero‚ thus giving historians another easy to remember date; 1750. For some Baroque zealots Bach’s death was truly the day that music died at
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Walls‚ Peter‚ ed. Baroque Music‚ The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice‚ series editor Mary Cyr. Farnham‚ Surry‚ UK‚ and Burlington‚ VT‚ USA: Ashgate‚ 2011. ISBN 978-0-7546-2882-8. David Schulenberg Copyright 2012 © Claremont Graduate University In the sciences‚ there are foundational articles on which entire disciplines are founded. Physicists today rarely read the papers in which Einstein demonstrated the principles of the theory of relativity‚ but thousands of papers based
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famous and influential as a virtuoso h. Violinist 9.) Improvisation is i. Music created at the same time as it’s performed 10.) The two giants of Baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and j. Johan Sebastian Bach 11.) A large court during the Baroque period might employ about ___ performers k. 80 12.) The position of the composer during the Baroque period was that of l. A high class servant with few personal rights 13
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