String theory

I started playing violin when I was 5 years old. The first time I ever picked up a violin and plucked a string, I fell in love. I nearly pulled the string away from the fingerboard and the sound was loud and obnoxious, but I loved it. I took 2 lessons a week with a private instructor that cost way more than my family could afford, and eventually, I could play complex and beautiful pieces. I’ve gone through so many instruments and bows that by the time I was old enough to have a job, I was…

Planning past tomorrow was the first session I attended. It was very similar to the one I went to my freshman year. But with more information. What I learned from this session was planning is essential if you want to have success in the classroom. The meticulous way Tom Michalek plans is amazing. It goes from yearly to weekly to daily plans. All of it is in one excel sheet on his computer which means if he needs to check or revise or change anything he can do it really efficiently. The yearly…

The unity of music is related to the music structures. People followed the musical structures and expected the direction or message of the music. In the 18th century, the most of the music had almost same musical structures and forms. Most of music in this period progressed to the same ways and the structures and forms had conventional elements. Historically, the music became less conventional after the French revolution and the composers had been interested in their own identities for their…

Nicolo Paganini was born in Genoa Italy on october 27, 1782. He died in 1840. His parents names were Teresa and Antonio Paganini. Nicolo started learning music when he was only five years old. When he was seven his father taught him how to play the violin. He attended violin classes with famous violinists. He composed his first sonata in 1790. In 1795 he went to parma but was told that they could not teach him anything. He often played 15 hours a day. in 1797 he started his concert tours. From…

December 9th 2016 with a couple friends from the music class. There were three main performances within the Takets Quartet. There was the String Quartet in G Minor, String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 9, and String Quartet in B-flat Major. The atmosphere was full of anticipation and excitement waiting for the symphony to start. The first one piece that was played was the String Quartet in G Minor composed Claude Debussy composed during the Romantic period. The overall arching theme of this piece is joyous…

Antonin leopold Dvorak Keyboard creator Antonin Dvorak was born on september eighth in 1841. Dvorak had eight other siblings and he was the first of the nine children. Dvorak was a composer for years before him and his brother invented the keyboard. First his work was the polka in music. He came to america in 1892 and found many things to find fun in but soon he missed his country and returned to it in 1895. When Dvorak and his brother invented the Dvorak keyboard They found…

Van taught Beethoven through brutal beatings, if he didn't get it right his father would hit him until it was to his pleasing. Despite the fact that Johann Van's teaching methods were wrong, Beethoven became a prodigiously talented child from his earliest days which allowed him to reach farther than any composer's before or since. With his reputation already beginnning to flurish, Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 where he began to study with Joseph Haydn (Budden sec. 1). He started to become…

A young boy named Tim was running away from home on a cold night because he wanted to see what life would be like at a young age like him. Without his parents even noticing he jumped out of the window and ran into the woods and he walked into these big cities and towns. Keep on reading and you will hear the whole story. Tim was born on July 21,1861. When he was 4 years old his dad told him how to run,play baseball,and told him how to walk. When his dad told him all of these things,Tim told…

sometimes beat differently than regular hearts. According to the website, “http://www.hearingreview.com/2015/01/beethovens-health- affected-music-study-says/,” it says “As examples, the researchers point to the final movement “Cavatina” in Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Opus 130. In the middle of the quartet, the key suddenly changes to C-flat major, involving an unbalanced rhythm that evokes dark emotion, disorientation, and what has even been described as a “shortness of breath.”…

“Earth’s Song” is a two movement suite for piano, violin, and viola. Each movement is inspired by some beautiful aspect of nature, and seeks to paint a picture of nature’s masterpieces through music. The first movement, titled “Morning Lake,” depicts a young couple rowing a boat on a calm lake. The couple sets up their rowboat right before a sunrise. At the very beginning of the movement is a calm, beautiful section, which is meant to depict how peaceful, calming, and relaxing it is to float on…