The Piano Lesson

Introduction One of the most remarkable composers of the nineteenth century, Chopin composed exclusively for the piano and his music is innovative with a particular repertoire of technical and expressive devices. His musical style can be described as unique because of his variety and complexity of compositional techniques. The Piano Sonata Op.35 No.2 is an illustration of Chopin’s musical style where he explores several elements found in the nineteenth century music such as the “idea of…

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…

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).…

Cherubini. He composed over 230 works, which were mainly piano pieces. Ever since his childhood, he was destined for greatness. When Chopin was six months old, his family moved to Warsaw, where his father was employed teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum. Both of his parents played instruments, and his mother gave piano lessons. They lived in the Chopin Family Parlor, which housed many male students. He and his sister Ludwika took piano lessons with Wojciech Zwyny, and it was becoming clear he…

“The Piano,” directed by James Campion, talked about a woman name Ada McGrath, who was a mute since she was six years old. Her daughter and herself were sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner. However, she soon fell in love with a local worker on the planation and his name was George. Within the psychological disorder, from the moment I watched the film, it talked about how Ada, who has a disability with speech impairment. By expressing to others she plays on…

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…

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere,” is a quote from Frank A. Clark that Ludwig van Beethoven can most likely agree to. Throughout his life, Beethoven wasn’t dealt the easiest hand and he was able to overcome this in order to become the success he is known as today. In turn, some may claim that Beethoven would have made it “farther” in life if it wasn’t for these “distractions”; however, without these “distractions, or obstacles, Beethoven wouldn’t have…

potential as a musician and began piano lessons at eight years old. When he was fifteen he was taken by his mother to go study in Paris. He was a pupil of Antoine François Marmontel. In 1877 the Paris Conservatory awarded him a scholarship. However, after two years his interest in the conservatory faded and he left for Germany. MacDowell was a student at the Stuttgart Conservatory for a while, and then went off to the Frankfurt Conservatory where he studied piano and composition under Karl…

The author tries to meet her mother’s expectations at first. She decides not to respond to her attempt of finding her prodigy after seeing her mother being disappointed with her poor performance at her piano recital (Tan, 391). There is a moment where she has a shouting match between her and her mother when she cries out “Why don’t you like me the way I am? (…)” and it is implied that she doesn’t feel that her mother likes her (Tan, 389). It very well could be that she has a very deep fear in…

Music of Changes, relies heavily on the lessons that he learned from the I-Ching. In the early 1950s, Cage made departures from musical traditions, which even included his own. While Cage was an instructor at Black Mountain College, we composed two of his most famous works, Imaginary Landscape No. 4 and 4’33”. Imaginary Landscape No. 4 used 24 men turning dials on 12 radios. 4’33” is an entire piece that has a pianist sitting in front of a piano and marking the beginning and end of…