Piano sonata

Mastery Have you ever heard someone comment that another person’s success was due to luck? Perhaps the classic statement that someone’s achievement is due to being born with a silver spoon in their mouth resonates with you. I have heard my father say many times that people like Bill Gates will go to hell, because he has more money than he needs. I have never agreed nor understood such limited thinking. Perhaps there is another way to view success in any area be it physical, mental,…

temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London”(Tan 134). The last endeavor was to make June a pianist, of course June underestimated her ability to do that considering they did not own a piano but Suyuan found a way like she always does. Suyuan “traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano...to practice on everyday”(Tan 136). This woman’s persistency is awe inspiring despite the internal and external doubts she…

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Steinway has held the title of best piano brand for quite some time. They strive for excellence in all areas of piano creation, and do a great job of that. But is Steinway the best piano for everyone? No. For professional pianists, perhaps. But for the average family looking for a highly esteemed piano for their children to become Mozart prodigies, Kawai is the better option. The brand offers more by way of touch, tone and durability for young families than Steinway does. Kawai and Steinway…

his left arm, and so created piano arrangements designed to be played with one hand (Oram). Returning to Reich, he developed the use of repeating patterns in his music after he collaborated with Terry Riley on “In C” (Morrison). It is with this theory of repeating patterns that Reich’s unique musical philosophy developed. Firstly, some argue that Reich’s compositions are sounds rather than music. The…

If you’d asked audiences in 1825 to name the most popular composer of the day, it would not have been Beethoven, it would have been Gioachino Rossini. From the time Tancredi premiered in 1813, Rossini’s operas were the most popular and influential all over Europe, in part because he blended the elements of opera buffa and opera seria into works that appealed to audiences from a wide range of nationalities and class. Rossini was born on Leap Year Day in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy on the Adriatic…

the music of the “blue piano”? The opening stage direction and setting description create a calm and soothing mood of the town. I felt a mood of soothing when the text stated, “You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of banana and coffee. This illustrates how the atmosphere of Elysian fields is pleasant and peaceful due to the river and the scents around town. The effect that is created with the “blue piano” is that it is a…

Ludwig van Beethoven Every era in History has its challenges for society. It is easy to observe what people of their time throughout centuries went through. Whatever an individual faces in life usually gets depicted in a composers work. Whether it is a personal life, tragedy, war, or diseases, each of these factors play a major role in how and using what genre music was composed. Other than such facts, a persons’ surrounding, companions, to be exact, have an immense impact on an individual. One…

Armando Anthony Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on June 12, 1941. Mr. Corea began learning piano at the age of four. Two of his biggest influences were Horace Silver and Bud…

Gravity”. In the song called “No Day but Today”, written by Jonathon Larson and from the Broadway musical “Rent”, you can hear the piano more during this song because it is a piece where it has that sensitive and calm tone to it. The pianist was called Rob Mounsey; he is a famous music director as well as a piano player. When hearing the sounds of Mounsey playing the piano it was very enlightening as well as smooth when following the singer’s voice. Menzel sang the song in a pop way but the…