Violin

It's my pleasure to attend piano recital on the Friday evening, February Twenty-Third at Recital Hall. The performer, Gregory Wang, who was a senior of Jacobs school of music, and this was his graduation recital. And also, Gregory Wang, he is my teacher of my Beginning Piano Class I (P110). He performed two pieces of music, which were Sonata No.2 in D Major, Op. 94a by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943 and Trio in E-Flat Major, Op.40 by Johannes Brahmas. By the way, Sonata No.2 in D Major, Op. 94a has…

Persi Warren Diaconis was famous for being a mathematician. Diaconis did this in a special way though, he added his magic skills. He gave lessons, invented tricks, is an author, speaker, and he collected books on magic. The unusual work is part math textbook, part magic primer, and part history book, tracing how magic and math have long traveled under the same concept. Diaconis thought people wouldn't take him seriously when he said he wanted to mix magic and math together to try to solve…

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…

Jessica Liu MUSI 2361 Paper One: Jiangnan sizhu The term sizhu is a musical term that has been used all throughout history in East Asian countries especially Taiwan and China, which describes what the instruments in the genre are made of. Si meaning silk, which is what the strings are made up of in string instruments, and zhu meaning bamboo, which is what the wind instruments in Jiangnan sizhu, are made of. Despite the fact that sizhu is used in different countries, Jiangnan is a “geographical…

recognized and appreciated for the amount of works he produced and the unique characteristic style he infused into his music. In this particular genre he is most often known for the group of violin concerti collectively called “The Seasons.” In the roughly 300 solo concertos he wrote, of which about 230 are for violin, he became the first composer to commit an entire published opus to flute concerti. This concerto is part of that collection published around 1728, and unfortunately for us, this…

Jefferson’s Sons is a historical fiction novel based on the true events of Thomas Jefferson’s life. Jefferson’s Sons describes the lives of Beverly, Harriet, Maddy, and Eston. These are the illegitimate children of Thomas Jefferson, or as he is called in the book: Master Jefferson. These four children were the sons and daughter of Sally Hemings, a slave on the plantation of Monticello. Sally Hemings is the sister of Martha Wayles, which makes Sally Thomas Jefferson’s sister-in-law. Sally and…

Here I sit, staring at the beaming light of my family's computer writing an essay at the nineteenth hour of the day. I’m not complaining after all It’s quite relaxing, with a bit of music as well as pure silence amidst the remainder of my parent’s residency. Considering myself a great writer is something I’ve never done, nonetheless I enjoy it. I have been a Texan all my life, having been to a few parts of the country it remains my favourite state. Austin, Texas is my birthplace I lived…

The Pahkola people have two leaders for their ceremonies on that is in charge of leading the deer dances and one that is in charge of the pahkolam. Both leaders are call Moro, and the leader of the deer dance wears a black mask, but the other dancers were their created masks for the dance. The mask are commonly worn on the back or left side of the head and when a Pahkola person dies the mask is also places on the top of Pahkola person’s head when they are buried, along with a note. These mask…

Furthermore, both artists portrayed self-portraits that alluded to a strong sense of feminism once again. First, Artemisia Gentileschi portrays herself in Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (1630s). Note, this a very different approach because Gentileschi not only shows herself painting, but also shows herself as the very allegory of painting. An allegory can be defined as a figure that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, and acts like a personification. In this instance,…

of composing ragtime music that all loved. Because his family was musically talented, some would say that he was born with a little something extra when composing his music. His mother sang for a banjo singer and player and his father played the violin. Scott Joplin had a way of putting together classical music with the music of his time like no other. His music made the people of his time dance in way that cause excitement and laughter. I can remember watching older movies with…