Musical form

Contemporary scholars debate a wide range of topics ranging from the purpose of Fantasie to the formal structures of the movements. Fantasie in C major, Op. 17, encapsulates Schumann’s values. Opus 17 is an artistic statement: through structural form Schumann challenges the rigidity of traditional structures. However, he demonstrates reverence for the progenitating composers through experimentation. Further, Fantasie expresses Schumann’s romance with Clara. Schumann’s yearning pervades the…

in the sonata allegro form. There is another contrast between this and the third movement. When one listens to it, it sounds bizarre, foreign, and yet pastoral. It is considered the character piece, as well as being dubbed “The Donkey”. This string quartet, as well as Op. 76 as a whole, exemplifies the seamless yet dramatic, severe give-and-take of themes between instruments to convey an enthralling tale. The experimentation and innovation Haydn showed throughout his musical career proved to…

pose gender as an intriguing dimension. The title Suburban Sonnet already provokes attention form the reader, as the suburbs would already be perceived as dull or boring, which can outline the life ahead for the speaker. Suburban Sonnet is the story of women who has been trapped within the life of a suburban housewife and mother. Not only is she trapped within this life, but she also remises of her past musical passion and the possible successful career she may have had. Written in the third…

By reading the lyrics of “The Letters” by Leonard Cohen as a piece of poetry, i.e. with no musical accompaniment, without the song itself, we are able to picture an unsuccessful love story through its verses. “The Letters” seems to be a tale about unreciprocated sentiments, in which the lover’s expectations reach the point when all chances are lost and it is too late for amendments (“I said there's nothing left / I hoped that you would come”). The impression it leaves is of abandonment and…

planned the piece in 1838 and finished the first version in 1849. In 1853 and 1859 he revised it before finally publishing it in 1865. Hans von Bülow, to whom Liszt dedicated the work, was the soloist in the April 15, 1865, premiere with the Diligentia Musical Society of The Hague, conducted by Johannes Verhulst. Along with solo piano, the work has pairs of woodwinds, horns and trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, gong and strings. The genesis of the piece comes from…

When people listen to Tchaikovsky’s repertoire they would say his music exudes passion, energy, and depth. The first movement of the Piano Concerto No.1 in B-Flat Minor by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky exhibits elements of true orchestral genius utilizing its range to the fullest in combination with the complex and intricate yet powerful fingerings of the solo pianist. What perplexes yet entertains the audience is the contrast from the beginning of the piece where the introduction is lyrical,…

the video declared it to be as influential as they claimed. Music has always been a large part of my life and I am interested in exploring such an obscure section of it. My research has yielded many sources which provide different perspectives and musical concepts. I will…

Sundiata selects and arranges words in ways that develop rhythm which contributes to the audience’s understanding of the theme of racism by criticizing it as a form of injustice. The poet develops the rhythm using long and short words with stressed and unstressed syllables. The long and short words also pace the poem differently in different sections. For instance, the first few lines, the poem has a fast rhythm because most of the words are short. For example, the first three lines read, “I was…

found in the musical poetry of Amiri Baraka's poem "Wailers" and Todd Rundgren's "Wailing Wall". Both poetry and song are literary poems that deal with the emotions of a particular individual, regarding a particular instance or situation. Therefore, poetry verses and the lines of a song often follow a rhyming, expression, and creativity, giving a sense of melody to the verses, even when the lines are merely recited. Amiri Baraka’s poem the “Wailers”, the sounds of music to create a new form of…

power shifted from the nobility and the church to the middle class. The classical music period contained contrasting moods with rhythmic variety. The classical period was homophonic in texture. The three main forms in the classical period are sonata form, theme and variations, and rondo. Sonata form is single movements that consist of three parts; the exposition, the development, the recapitulation, and the ending concluding section called the coda. In the exposition the themes are present,…