Sonata

Before we can even begin to speak on a powerful figure of the Baroque period, such as Arcangelo Corelli, we must first get an understanding of what the Baroque period even is. The word Baroque is derived from the ancient Portuguese word borroco, which stands for “The Misshapen Pearl”. Now to compare such vibrant and spectacular music such as Pachelbel’s Canon and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to a misshapen pearl sounds ludicrous but bear with me. You will understand before I finish explaining. It…

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There were six pieces presented in the Student Concert Series. I want to talk about five of them. The first piece was Duo Sonata. It was composed by Gregory Wanamaker in 2002. Its style is modern and its genre is a duo sonata. Sonata is a piece that is composed for a small number of instruments. This piece is for two instrument to play, so it is called duo sonata. It was performed by two students. Reese Burgan played saxophone and Courtney White played clarinet. The piece is not so long and…

Thus, causing a conflict with new and old ideas within the world 's society. People began to realize that music was meant to be enjoyed not for just the wealthy and during a religious mass. New styles of music began to evolve such as the concerto, sonata and the symphony, these new styles were created to dazzle and impress the audience. The Classical Era was dominated by the unbelievable talents of three composers. Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, each…

After his visit to the United States, he became more creative and started composing more melodic passages in his works. In piano sonata no.1, Ginastera uses scales were not used very frequently in his other pieces. Ginastera starts out the first movement of piano sonata no.1 in an aeolian mode with A as its tonal centre. He also uses the 12-tone scale in the second movement which was made prominent by Arnold Schoenberg. This is quite different from…

musicians were the church, courts, and the towns. The function of harmony, major and minor based on thirds becomes the main theoretical structure, and modulations to closely related keys. The development of sonata form is taken from the Sonata Da Chiesa, J.C. Bach develops new themes in his sonatas rather than its regular development of the main theme. Rondo form derives from the baroque concerto or ritornello, where the ritornello had different keys but unlike the Rondo it occurred in the same…

of his most important and admired pieces because they contained intellectual depth and intensity on his personal life. Some of these pieces include the Ninth Symphony ("Choral"), the "Missa Solemnis", and his last six quartets and last five piano sonatas (Rodman sec. 3). Beethoven reflected all of the dark personal problems going on in his life into his music, which often depicted struggle followed by triumph. This description is…

Arcangelo Corelli is an impressionable Italian composer and violinist who exercised a wide influence on his musical peers and on the succeeding generation of composers. Arcangelo Corelli is the 5th child of very prosperous landowners. He was born on February 17 1653 in Fusignano near Bologna, Italy to Santa Raffini who was recent left a widow after his father died just five weeks before his birth. His mother named him after his deceased father Arcangelo. His first teacher is thought to be the…

relates to the tempo change, extremes of register ascending and descending sequences the cello and double bass therefore, creating syncopated rhythms. Overall the rhythm is driving and can be unpredictable in places, for example. Adding to this, the sonata form is uneasy as it seems the actual second theme appears in the development section instead of the exposition section as the first motif sounds as if it is being repeated and the recapitulation is just a repetition of the…

the lights went dark. This was the moment I had been waiting for. My adrenaline went through the roof. The time had finally come that I would get to see and hear my first live orchestra concert. The first piece played was Johannes Brahms’ Violin Sonata in D Minor, Opius 108. The program informed me that there were going to be four movements: Allegro, Adagio, Un poco presto e con sentiment, and Presto…