Gwendolyn Richmond Music Appreciation 110 November 11‚ 2014 Large Paper Pyotr ‘Peter’ Tchaikovsky Peter Tchaikovsky was one of the Great Russian composers of the Romantic Period and he created many musical masterpieces. Born in May of 1840‚ he was fascinated with music as young as five years old. His parents supported his dream but eventually directed him into the government. At ten years old‚ he studied at the School of Jurisprudence after he and his family relocated to St. Petersburg. When he
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Frédéric Chopin’s "Raindrop" Prelude‚ Op 28‚ No. 15 Song Analysis/Essay Intro Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer‚ the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910‚ and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved
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In 1833‚ in Germany‚ Johannes Brahms was born. A late Romantic composer‚ he took the forms from the past‚ such as from Beethoven’s time‚ and added to them complex harmonies and his own individual Romantic style. Another composer born around the same time was Antonin Dvorak‚ a Bohemian composer who lived from 1841 to 1904. Dvorak‚ born a peasant‚ infused his compositions with his country’s music. During the lifetimes of both of these composers Nationalism‚ a movement which stresses the importance
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Despite having a relatively short life‚ Franz Schubert managed to compose over 1‚500 works‚ two of them being song cycles. The first of these is titled Die schöne Müllerin‚ which translates to “The Beautiful Maid of the Mill.” This piece‚ which is inspired by Wilhelm Müller’s poem cycle of the same title‚ depicts the story of a young mill hand who‚ while searching for work‚ finds love and meets his death as a result. While the text and music conjure beautiful scenes of a mill by a babbling brook
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During the spring semester of 2015‚ the Sam Houston State University music department conducted a concert that showcased the works of contemporary composer Samuel Adler. Not only was Adler himself in the audience‚ he was a clinician for each of the ensembles and worked with them directly. Adler wrote music for many different types of groups. At this concert alone‚ the Sam Houston State University Chorale‚ Symphony Orchestra‚ and Wind Ensemble were featured. Included in the program of this concert
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In my performance of Mozart’s sonata no. 12 movement II‚ I took inspiration from both Fazil Say and Maria Jao Pires’ performances of the piece. Each performance has different but not dissimilar interpretations and there is a sense of historical accuracy as well as innovation in both. One could argue that Say takes a more innovative approach whereas Pires plays more traditionally in a classical style. The use of pedal‚ tempo‚ dynamics and ornamentation are all major contributing factors to how each
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Othello’s Swan Song In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello‚ the Moor of Venice he presents his character of Othello as having all the great qualities of a true leader‚ but also a man who lacks any type of reasoning power. Othello being the ideal hero has strength‚ prowess‚ and battlefield knowledge. However these ideas of leadership do not translate well into situations in the real world and in this case‚ situations dealing with the heart. The battlefield and senate are where Othello
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is often referred to as the greatest musical genius of all time in Western musical tradition. His creative method was extraordinary: his writings show that he almost always wrote a complete composition mentally before finally writing it on paper. Mozart created 600 works in his short life of 35 years. His works included 16 operas‚ 41 symphonies‚ 27 piano concerti‚ and 5 violin concerti‚ 25 string quartets‚ and 19 masses. Mozart was born on Jan. 27‚ 1756‚ in Salzburg‚ Austria
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According to R. Wagner opera does not mean so much a musical work‚ as a musical‚ poetical‚ and spectacular work all at once; opera is the work par excellence‚ to the production of which all the arts are necessary (Sutherland‚ 1). " Opera starts not with music but with its literary source (story or plot)‚ whether it be history‚ biography‚ fiction‚ or mythology in the form of poem‚ play‚ drama‚ novel‚ or original libretto"(Knapp 6). Opera is a combination of mangled drama‚ the singers‚ the music
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Devein Moore-Eppinger Prof. Tony Jones Music 150-1240 November 5‚ 2012 Music and Personalities of F. J. Haydn and W. A. Mozart The relationship of Haydn and Mozart has been the subject of much comment‚ most of it because Mozartians have always considered Haydn to be a second-rate composer. But contemporary and near-contemporary documents and Mozart ’s own compositions make it clear that Mozart treated the elder composer and his music with loving
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