Sonata

characters as they listen. Both genre are based on telling a story or poem. Although they have these similarities they use different methods of exporting these stories. Program music has several movements (Grandiose) throughout the symphony (played in sonata form) described by programs distributed to the listener as it moves along from movement to movement.…

MacDowell has written two piano concertos, one in the year 1884 and one in 1890. The Second Concerto has managed to keep a steady popularity, however neither of them display the full potential of his ability like his other works do. He wrote four sonatas: the Tragica, the Eroica, the Norse, and the Keltic. It wasn't until the Twelve Virtuoso Studies for piano, written in 1894, did MacDowell display his full competence as a composer. To a Wild Rose and To a Water Lily were his most famous…

In the early 1980, a Staci East German secret police officer, Gerd Wiesler,who is depicted as, a proud, zealous, disciplined , entirely cold-blooded professional, and highly skilled ,with the highest level of monitoring of suspected individuals, is tasked with conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, named Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress).Although at first,wiesler doesn’t believe that Dreyman is as good as…

I will be reviewing the performance of Brianna Blount and Francisco Zabala. On February 20th, they had their junior flute recital in the Bower school of music’s recital hall. They performed a variety of repertoire from the 1600’s to the present both solo and in an ensemble. They played pieces with multiple movements such as Concerto IV by J.B. de Boismortier and pieces without multiple movements such as Canzone by Samuel Barber. I enjoyed the variety of the concert the most because there were…

For my Applied Music 2206 research project I choose to research one of the many great guitarist of the 19th century Ida Presti. She had a very interesting life full of lots of fun and most important to her music. Ida Presti, originally named Yvette Montagnon was born May 31st 1924 in Suresnes, France. Her father Claude Montagnon was French and her mother Olga- Gracia Lo was Sicilian. Ida studied harmony and music theory with guitarist Mario Maccaferri. Ida was a remarkable performer who…

About the film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac Et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) is a story on two teenagers, Luo and Ma, who are sent to be re-educated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. They are sent to a mountain because their doctor parents have been declared enemies of the state by the Communist state. While forced to work in coalmines and with rice crops, they fall in love with the daughter of the local tailor, the Little Seamstress. Originally written in French, the…

When I like a piano piece, I invest a bit of myself into every note I play. I will practice a seven page sonata for hours, one that I'm indifferent about, at best, just for one single soul-saving measure. I am not an emotional person. My nature and nurture lottery seems to have given me perfect pitch, but taken away most of my emotional empathy. I understand…

My fingers and legs persistently trembled after I finished playing Mozart’s “Viennese Sonata.” I stood up from the piano bench, bowed and the audience began to applaud; immediately I left the stage as the crimson curtains closed. I broke into a series of miserable sobs; it felt like my whole world was plummeting before my eyes. The term atrocious would be an understatement to describe the chaos that had occurred. Whether it was the nervousness that I felt as I performed in the presence of my…

On December 16, 1770 one of the world’s greatest pianist and composer was born. Ludwig van Beethoven creative pieces consolidated vocals and instruments, broadening the extent of sonata, orchestra, concerto and group of four. He is the urgent transitional figure interfacing the Classical and Romantic times of Western music. Beethoven's own life was set apart by a battle against deafness, and some of his most vital works were created amid the most recent 10 years of his life, when he was very…

Classical Requiem – The first transformation The symphonic requiem came into existence during the Classical period (1750-1830), an era which was also called the Age of Enlightenment. The time of Classicism differentiates from Baroque music in many aspects; new musical forms came up, a unique style of composing, the new modern orchestra got its shape and worked more detailed with its sound, as well as the evolution of the bel-canto singing technique. It is also significant to mention that…