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    Music: The Romantic Era

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    The Romantic Era was truly discovered by Beethoven. He paved the way for the up and coming composers of music by starting to introduce new instruments to the and taking far more risks that anyone of his time or prior to it. The Romantic Era also brought back the use of vocals to accompany music‚ although the use of the piano was still more common than any other single instrument. This Era featured several famous composers that are still to this day important to our culture‚ yet some of these musicians

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    University of Phoenix Material Romantic Composer Comparison For each of the following categories‚ write six to eight bullet points. Romantic composer Modern-day musician Life story Clara Wieck Shumann Pianist Vocalist Passion for art/performing Robert Shuman Composer Amy Lee Classical piano Unique image Mezzo-soprano Beautiful voice Create shows/videos Favorite composition Romance in E Flat Minor‚ Op. 11 No.1 Hello by Lee‚ Moody‚ and Hodges Common themes or stories used in the musical work

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    Christie? And what is she famous for? Childhood Agatha Christie is a famous detective fiction writer who was born on 15 september 1890 in England. Agatha was a really good singer and pianist but she was too shy to performer in front of people. If she haven’t been so shy maybe she would have been famous singer and pianist instead of being a famous writer. Agatha had always loved to read. She learnd herself to read when she where five years old. Even if Agathas sister got to go to school Agathas mother

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    William "Count" Basie was a famous pianist‚ composer‚ arranger‚ and band leader. He was one of the biggest influences of the swing era with his big band style. Basie was respected as much by musicians as audiences. He learned to play piano from his mother as a child. He later ventured away from home to study along fats Waller a student of Harlem Stride School. He made his professional debut as an accompanist for vaudeville acts and replaced Waller in an act called Katie Crippen and her Kids. He toured

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    fundamental for your understanding of keys. If someone says a Piano Sonata by the composer and pianist Franz Shubert is played in A Major this means that it are depending on the A scale as well. It’s also common that piano pieces are named like A Minor – this accordingly refers to a minor scale as also are explained on the site.’ It seems to me that piano scales put a basis to keyboard skills of the pianist and understanding of music. Mastering with musical scales on a piano not only will help you to

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    Personal Statement I was first presented to the piano by my neighbor who had an old player piano in her basement. I was very young and was so highly amused by this instrument and started to play on it. Immediately‚ I liked the touch and the sounds that came out and was attracted to the piano. My first teacher in Louisiana was Iva Gunness. She introduced me to piano instructions during my kindergarten and 1st grade years. She was really strict on me‚ and the most vivid memory I have of her is

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    Gould School Concerto Competition‚ the 5th Knigge Music Competition and the 2010 TD Elora Competition‚ he was also the 2nd prize winner at the 40th William C. Byrd International Competition and winner of the Mary Winston Smail Memorial Award for Best Pianist at the 2011 WAMSO Minnesota Competition‚ the London Kiwanis Festival’s Rose Bowl‚ UWO London Music Scholarship Foundation‚ as well as the Grand Prize at the Rotary Music Festival in Burlington. This past season he was the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s

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    to be considered a ‘holocaust film‚’ a few things need to be changed. I think that the film needs to be more serious‚ since the holocaust is nothing to joke about. A better example of a holocaust film would be The Pianist‚ by Roman Polanski. In this film‚ Szpilman‚ a Polish Jewish pianist‚ escapes getting taken to the concentration camps and the plot is about his journey hiding in Warsaw to escape deportation. This film is actually realistic and shows what it may have been like for an individual to

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    Music Appreciation This was my first time in the McCray hall theater‚ the organ is a very nice addition to the hall the gold leaf was a perfect choice. The general attire of the audience was casual among the younger attendees where the older attendees were more formal where I wore kaki cargos and a black french cuffed shirt. there were a lot of ties stock button ups was the main shirt worn‚ very few informal outfits that evening. The age range of the audience was possibly around age 15 to age

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    Stephanie Minton Music 1030-W12 Frederic Chopin and Billy Joel Nearly two centuries separate two of the greatest pianists of all times; yet Frederic Chopin and Billy Joel have many similarities in their composure of music. The biggest connection among the two is their love for the piano. Not only did they both enjoy playing the piano‚ it was a way of life for both Chopin and Joel. Chopin‚ a half-Polish and half-French composer from the Romantic era is known to some as the “prince of the

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