Piano

One of my favorite songs is Vienna, by Billy Joel. I like the message of slow down, you have your whole life. After the second verse there is an interesting accordion solo. The piano runs going down keeps it interesting while still building anticipation for the second line of the chorus. The short rests make the rhythm interesting. The vocal flourishes at the end of each verse provide a smooth transition into the chorus or next verse. The instrumentals do a good job of keeping the listener in…

composers, was born at Oneg, near Novgorod, on 20 March 1873 (1 April New Style), into a musical family: his grandfather had been a pupil of John Field and his father, too, played the piano. When Sergei was nine, financial difficulties forced the sale of the family estate and they moved to St Petersburg, where he took piano lessons at the Conservatoire. Rachmaninoff’s cousin, the pianist and conductor Alexander Siloti, had studied in Moscow with the strict Nikolai Zverev, and suggested that…

and as a teenager had aspirations to become an "authoress or poetess". In 1914, Ruth went to Foster's School of Musical Art to study musical art by learning the piano. After she attended the Foster’s School of Musical Art, she began attending the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago to further her education by focusing on the piano, but that is not what happened. Instead of staying for only a year like she had planned she ended up staying for about eight years. This allowed her to become a…

my hands paired with my eyes and moved across the piano as if they were dancing in a powerful synch. Moving forward to the big day I sat down at the piano bench one last time. My eyes looked across the gym seeing my family, friends, teachers and the whole student body looking back at me. I turned to the choir for my que to start the tradition, and all I could see was smiling faces. Combining the choir’s voice with the piano made an aura that left the…

the unimaginable in China, the mother moves to American to start over and gives birth to her daughter, the protagonist of the story. thought-out, the daughter's life, she encounters several things that she necessary didn't want to do. Learning the piano, dealing with high expectations later in life, and then realizing the gift that her mother gave her after the mother had passed away. The main character was to become a prodigy, her mother had it planned out to a T. First the…

named Liszt are known as Hungary’s greatest composers. What I found really cool during my research was that he was musically talented at an early age. He was able to play 40 pieces on the piano at the age of 4. I don't know any 4 year old that can play 40 pieces on the piano, I can't even play 40 pieces on the piano. It’s good that his mother really encouraged him to play music because she was the one that would teach him how to play. Bartok was also a sick child because he suffered from a…

focused on the crowd singing the best they could and putting every emotion into this sole song. As our director signaled as half of the song passed me and the other soloist stepped forward so the harsh intense auditorium lights fell upon us. As the piano led me in I fixed the mic to my height and despite how nervous and scared I was, I began to sing my solo the best I could, I was doing it, it felt as if I didn’t need to know the words it felt as if they were within me and I had always known…

1. Song Title: Maple Leaf Rug (Scott Joplin) Group: Large piano with only one male singer in alone room. Description: It seems that the singer in his right hand was using the piano and in his left hand was the sound of the trombone. I believe the song has a known style. 2. Song Title: Maple Leaf Rug (Jelly Roll Morton) Group: Large piano with only one male singer and also with the long plant of leaf. Description: The singer seems that he was mad and the song was fast. It was clear that in the…

Does changing if a person plays piano or not affect how fast a person can type? If playing the piano affects how fast a person types then pianists will type faster than non-pianists. The procedures for the experiment were; Get participants who are pianists and non-pianists. Prepare a computer for participants to take the typing test. On the computer bring up http://www.freetypinggame.net/. Click on the tab that says test, and choose story number 32 (each participant will type the same story).…

years. Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819 to her mother, Marianne Wieck, and father, Friedrich Wieck. Her mom was a concert pianist and her dad was a piano teacher and music dealer; both had their minds set on her becoming a musician, and almost immediately enrolled her in piano, violin, singing, theory, harmony, composition, and counterpoint training. Schumann’s parents divorced when she was five, but she continued with her musical education while living with…