Sonata

Cultural Essay My mother was sitting at the grand piano in the living room. Her fingers gracefully danced across the keys, playing the familiar tune of Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata”. I was about three years old at the time when my mother taught me how to play the piano. It was her passion when she was young and it soon became mine. Since then, music had become a big part of my life. My mother was always successful in school when she was young. She was always in the top five of her grade. My…

I attended the concert in the Singletary Recital Hall in Lexington, KY. Located on the University of Kentucky campus it is the home of an art museum and recital hall. Many music majors spend time in this venue honing their listening and performing skills. The individual who performed today was a member of the University of Kentucky faculty. The hall was a great venue to enjoy classical music. There was plenty of seating available, audience was excellent and they were very respectful to the…

In his (short) lifetime, Mozart had composed hundreds of (hardly simple) works such as sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and operas. All music that was very well connected and marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. His operas at the time held (and still hold) a unique fascination for musicians and music lovers, not in the…

Kala Pickney Mr. Hagberg Orchestra Report 25 March 2016 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria to his parents, Leopold and Anna Maria Pertyl. His father, Leopold, was the author of a famous violin-playing manual and came from a well standing family of bookbinders and architects , while his mother, Anna, was born into the middle class. He also had a sister named Maria Anna or Nannerl for short. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Very…

1. What extracurricular or personal activities, work experiences, personal perspectives, or life experiences have been most meaningful to you? It was the summer of 2010 when I had made a decision that impacted my life considerably, and that decision was to learn how to play the cello. It all started when I had to choose a fine art to pursue in the 6th grade as a part of the mandatory curriculum. As I had prior experience with the piano, I thought that it was logical to choose an instrument…

Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most outstanding melodists amongst 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…

performed, the “Valse Triste” by Johan Julius Christian “Jean” Sibelius; and arranged by M.L. Lake. Both consisted of a constant tempo with a slow sound and a soft beat at the beginning, which gradually got faster and louder towards the end. The third sonata was the “Symphonic Dance No. 3: "Fiesta"” by James Clifton Williams, Jr. which was quite the fête; as its intricate assortments…

"O Fortuna" was a Medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century and is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. In 1935-36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as a part of "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", the opening and closing movement of his cantata Carmina Burana. It starst off with a slow pace having pounding drums and choir that drops quickly into a quiet whisper then builds slowly into a steady crescendo of drums and short string and horn…

the contrasting melody of the main melody, an open solo section where musicians would improvise on their instruments over planned chords, and then “The Head”, again. This is no different than one of the most common forms of classical music, Sonata Form. Sonata Form consists of “ABA” representation. Basically, a main melody, a contrasting melody, and then the main melody again. The use of instruments and orchestration in another essential element. Jazz took a classical string bass, played in…

In Beethoven’s string quartet Op. 18 No. 4, there is the implication that the first movement sonata form has indeed been emancipated from the looming tyranny of the minor key and that the movement will, in fact, end in C major as opposed to C minor. In measure 194, the ESC is presented as a strong C major chord which should indicate the emancipation of the movement; however, this is not the case. As the closing material quickly continues, E-flats are reintroduced signaling that the outcome of…