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    Johann Sebastian Bach, a German composer, was born in 1685 in Eisenach. He has been said to be one of the greatest masters of music composition of all time (notes). The only person who wouldn’t know that would have been Sebastian Bach himself. His fame did not arise until almost a century after his death, in 1750. This might have been because in the time when he was writing, people thought his music was “difficult and uncompromising, lacking popular qualities and tunefulness...” (Erickson).…

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    In the “Department of Music presents: CSUN Symphony Orchestra” concert, my favorite piece that was played was “Premier Rhapsody” by Claude Debussy. In terms of meter in this piece, I noticed that it would switch a lot between Duple meter and Triple meter. When I would have trouble trying to figure out what meter it was in, I would look at the hand motions of the conductor. The timbre of the music would also change a lot as well because at specific times of the piece, I would feel as if a…

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    Beethoven Symphony 8

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    Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was born into a family of musicians on 16 December 1770, Bonn, Germany. Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. His works are recognized for its dark and intense character which poses much challenge to the performer. Nevertheless, there are also sweet and lyrical pieces such as Sonata Op. 14 No. 2. This sonata was composed in 1798-1799 and consists of 3 movements. It is the only sonata to conclude with a movement titled Scherzo and…

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    during his tenure as the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for which he stayed in that position for 35 years. He is best known for his interpretations of the works ranging from composers such as Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Gaetano Donizetti, and Richard Strauss. In his time many critics have noted attention was on the sound of perfection – note-to-note tonal quality and grand expressions of sheer beauty and expressiveness. His…

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    German lieder is an art form that seeks to bring beautiful music and beautiful poetry together. When these lieder are collected they are called song cycles. Not only do these cycles help to convey a message through the text and music, but the lives of the composer and poet can be seen through the work along with their personal sentiments whether it may be joy, love, hate, or sadness. Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) uses imagery of light and darkness along with…

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    Beethoven Biography Essay

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    Beethoven was beaten, isolated in closets and sleep deprived from a young age as his father forced him into music. He wanted his son to be a prodigy. His father had a goal for Ludwig to be a great musician by the time he was 6 years old just like Mozart was. Beethoven was an average student at best when it came to school work. So Ludwig dropped out of school to do what he liked to do best which was music. When Beethoven’s father could no longer work due to his alcoholism. Beethoven became the…

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    Alban Berg was famous for his developing variation techniques, which was reflected to be his prime compositional tool. He was inspired by the Schoenberg education, and incorporated every musical idea to stem from an original core that usually occurs in even the first few measures of most of his pieces (for example, the famous Piano Sonata Op. 1, in which I played for my audition). In this Violin Concerto, one can easily see Berg’s definitive developing variation technique beginning in the first…

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    Concert Review Essay

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    This past week I had the pleasure of attending the West Circle Series: Prokofiev, A Russian Giant at Fairchild Theatre inside MSU’s auditorium. The concert featured a multitude of pieces all by Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Sergei Prokofiev. The first half of the concert featured both a piano-flute basso-continuo and a small chamber ensemble consisting of members of MSU’s faculty. The second half of the concert was preformed by the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra. All…

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    Violin History

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    A Lesson in Violin History “The violin, held horizontally with one end tucked under the player’s chin, is twenty-three inches long and is pitched the highest of any instrument in the [string] family.” (You and Music A Guide to Listening 13) The first violin was created sometime in the early 16th century in Northern Italy. Although no one knows exactly who it was that invented the violin, scholars have given the credit to Andrea Amati as the first ever violin creator because of documents found…

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    On Sunday, April 15th, 2018, I attended a live “Beethoven and Mozart” concert that was being held in Dolan Performance Hall at The College of Saint Elizabeth at 3:00 P.M. It featured the award-winning Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey (BONJ), which was conducted by Dr. Robert W. Butts, best known for being New Jersey’s most wide-ranging conductor. Along with the orchestra came two soloists who performed as a duo, Agnes Kwasniewska on violin and Olga Terlitsky on viola. The BONJ presented the…

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