Kasey Chambers

Robert Schumann composed orchestral music, including four symphonies and one piano concerto. He also composed chamber music, including three string quartets, one piano quintet, one piano quartet, piano trios, and sonatas. In the emotional abandonment of his music, Schumann is the true Romantic. His piano pieces are filled with impassioned melody, unique changes of harmony, and driving rhythms. His music was often had literacy, meaning and was connected by a literary theme or musical motto.…

Johannes Brahms composed his Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, in 1877, while visiting a rural town in Austria. This composition is typical of Brahms’ works in that it is a mixture of classical form and more modern ideas. The first movement, Allegro non troppo, is in sonata-allegro form and in triple simple meter, this movement is filled with contradictions in mood and contrasting sections. The numerous contrasts between the different sections make the transitional material especially important…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born in 1756 is one of history’s greatest composers and became a protégé at a young age. When he died in 1791 he had already composed numerous classical pieces that are still considered masterpieces today. In 1979, Peter Shaffer performed his play Amadeus that he fashioned after Alexander Pushkin short play called Mozart and Salieri. The film version came out in the 1980’s. The film is an adaptation of Mozart life and all his struggles as a prodigy, and the man who people…

1. What were Mozart’s fetishes? What about his wigs? a. One of the main fetishes of Mozart was poop. He would talk about it with anyone around him and sometimes he would mention it in the letters he wrote to his family. Which in a way made him sound crazy around all the composers and royalty since they were very formal and educated people. b. Mozart never wore a wig. He mostly wore a wig for official occasions. The movie Amadeus over exaggerates with the party-joke wigs. There are even rumors…

This last Tuesday, September 20th the Fry Street Quartet performed at the Caine Performance Hall. I was in attendance at this even and my feelings about it are varied. I chose this performance for a few reasons, first was that despite it not really fitting into the rock or pop categories whatsoever I was curious to see if any type of message could be spread by a quartet playing classical music. It is a different type of music for the subject and as the performance went on it became clear it was…

While cheerful and bright melodies are used to represent Mozart’s early years in his short lives, the prelude of the opera “Don Giovanni” composed by Mozart after the death of Leopold Mozart – Mozart’s father – indicates the relationship between Mozart and Leopold and shows the process how Salieri set his scheme foreshadowing the death of Mozart. First of all, the opera “Don Giovanni” suggests the abnormal relationship between Mozart and his father. In the film, Mozart is illustrated as a…

In the article, “Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky”, the author, Alexander Poznansky, informs readers about the life of the famous musical composer, Peter Tchaikovsky. The article begins with Peter’s early life which helps readers understand how he became utterly fascinated with Italian music, especially Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovonni. With a music passion already instituted, the article goes to explain how Peter became one of the most famous composers in history by discussing many of his…

Throughout this Music History course we studied a wide variety of music ranging from 12th century Gregorian chant all the way to modern day pop music. In addition to the structure of each piece we studied, we also examined the historical context surrounding each piece in comparison to other time periods. For instance, when we studied the classical period we discussed the similarities and differences between the classical period and the Baroque era. In order to apply my understanding of the…

Giuseppe Verdi's Early Life And Childhood Verdi was born to Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole in the Parma region of Italy, near Busseto, on 10 October 1813. Carlo Verdi was an innkeeper and owned a small farm. Verdi’s parents decided to move to Bussetto and Verdi was brought up and educated there. Verdi had a younger sister, Giuseppa, who died at 17 years of age in 1833. Verdi went to Milan when he was twenty years old, where he continued his studies. Personal Life After…

We believe that sports should be cut from the school budget. They are bad for the students by the pressure they can bring,the possibility of a concussion, which causes kids -to miss school, and it can rob a kid of his childhood memories. The students are able to get a scholarship by playing sports. Only two percent of kid’s become professional athletes (Business Insider). That means out of all the football players at MTMS only eight percent may be offered a scholarship. It is even less than…