When the story of a horrific tragedy is reported on the news, Americans may feel remorseful, but only temporarily. The thought is pushed quickly out of the mind as they are consumed with other, less important things. Rather than donating to charity, volunteering, or giving aid to the homeless, humanity looks on. This is not a recent development; Americans have been immune to tragedies since before World War II. Elie Wiesel, a man who has become a human’s rights activist after spending two years in Buchenwald and Auschwitz at age fifteen, spoke at the White House about The Perils of Indifference during the 1999 Millennium Lecture series.
Autumn First movement of Rocking Mirror Day break, Toru Takemitsu The piece includes many elements makes it sounds mysterious, elements such as timbre, dynamics, tempo change, and short silences, however, the opening theme which is the primary theme of this movement appears throughout the movement and holds it together. In addition, Taksemitsu used subsets derived from octatonic scale, and due to the nature of the octatonic scale, any transition or inversion of this sets might leads to other octatonic scales, so the three octatonic scales also holds the piece together. Form: Autumn has three sections ABC followed by coda. The first section mm. 1-20 included three phrases, followed by 5 measures transition phrase mm.21-25, in the transition
In this section of the book, when Juliek plays Beethoven on his violin, there is a sense of hope that spreads over everyone. This hope is the hope of resurgence; the hope that they will find enough strength within themselves to fight through the pain. This hope is brought about by Juliek, a Jewish man, playing Beethoven, a German composer. The importance of this is because Jews were banned from play German music, so when he deliberately plays German music, it's as if he's standing up against the Nazi's. Elie Wiesel mentions this in his story when he recalls, " 'Father, are you there?'
This summary contains two videos that will be analyzed in the next section: In the first video the composer Hector Berlioz is mentioned as well as his Symphony Fantastique. The symphony was inspired on the legend of Faust; it tells the story of a man that sold his soul to the devil in return for both knowledge and earthly pleasure. At the 7:00 mark “La traviata” is mentioned, which was an opera that talked about a love affair climaxing in a tragic death. The composer of this piece was Giuseppe Verdi, but it was not the only opera he composed, in fact they were 28 operas starting with Nabucco (1842) and ending up with Falstaff (1893) a half a century later.
9 in D minor opus 125, represents the height of Beethoven’s creativity and intelligence and in a sense can be regarded as a culmination of the trauma he endured because of his loss of hearing. Furthermore, the work is a very powerful force and especially if it is experienced live. One understands and appreciates the sheer genius that was Ludwig van Beethoven and this work, even though it is over 190 years old, is still able to resonate with audiences all over the world. The last movement is one of my favourite pieces of music to listen to and analyse because of the emotional, creative and intellectual thinking it entails. The recording I listened to was the Folsom Symphony and Sacramento Master Singers "Glorious Beethoven" March 25, 2012.
After seven years of playing the violin, I can proudly say that music has become a part of me. Throughout my experience with playing the violin, there has been one individual who has helped shape the person I am. Providing the enduring teachings that will shape me into a greater human being, this person deserves the utmost respect for establishing my interest in the violin and in music. For the sake of this story, he will be referred to as Maestro Johnson. If I had a ticket that could take me anywhere, I would use it to go back in time to the time when Maestro Johnson was my musical advisor.
I chose to write about Symphony No.40, first movement by Mozart because of the unusual two extreme emotions that the piece invokes. The opening with the violin is very dark, fast-pace and thrilling yet it is joyful and soothing to the ears every time the theme repeats. The symphony’s mood is captivating by showing the struggle between agony and happiness, which are two extreme ways of looking at the musical piece. The first movement of the symphony, as in all symphonies is in sonata form.
DRRE 1 RUNNING HEADER: DRRE Death, Rebirth, Reformation, and Exploration Lisa Ambriz World History DRRE 2 Death, Rebirth, Reformation, and Exploration Here is a quick summary of what I will be writing about. Plague, Renaissance, Reformation, Exploration, and the New World. The plague was a deadly disease. The renaissance was a time when people got smarter and started getting more technology. The reformation was when Martin Luther pinned the 95 Theses on the Catholic Church.
There are many differences and similarities between the fourth movement of Beethven’s Fifth symphony and the fourth movement of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, whether it is the orchestrastion of the pieces, the dynamics, form and period. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most well known Classical composers in music history, born into a family of musicians and was seen by his father as a profitable prodigy and had several of his piano compositions published by the age of twelve. He was the first successful freelance composer and changed the way music was composed and performed as he composed pieces that defied the standard ways of composing during the Classical era by using an expanded form structure, larger orchestra, dramatic themes and replaced minuet and trio with scherzo and trio making the third movements of his symphonies faster than traditionally performed. He also treated instruments as individuals instead of grouping them together such as the bass instruments which originally formed the Basso continuo. Beethoven experimented with the ways an instrument could be played , creating new sounds, and would have large pitch ranges between instruments which aided in the expressiveness and drama of his pieces.
The Fifth Symphony was in development for a long time. The first sketches are from 1804 following the completion of the third symphony. However, Beethoven interrupted the progress on the 5th symphony repeatedly to prepare other compositions, including the first version of Fidelio, the Appassionata piano sonata, the three Razumovsky string quartets, the Violin Concerto, the Fourth Piano Concerto and the fourth symphony. Beethoven added the final touches to the Fifth Symphony, which took place in 1807–1808, was being written at the same time as the Sixth Symphony, which premiered at the same concert.
Shortly after George Gershwin’s premier of his iconic Rhapsody in Blue in 1924, a conductor named Walter Damrosch commissioned Gershwin to write a piano concerto that was based on a Classical concerto with orchestration. Like it’s rhapsodic cousin, this piece is a unique fusion of Classical and Jazz styles and is great fun to both play and listen to. Like the traditional concerto model from the 18th Century, this concerto was written in three movements in this order: fast, slow, fast. Another flashback to the past that is unconventionally evident in this concerto is “organicism,” which in music, means that all of the movements of a piece are thematically related.
Serenades enjoyed great popularity in south-central Europe, particularly in Vienna, where Mozart spent the last decade of his life. At that time, it was customary for ensembles to perform serenades in Vienna’s parks and gardens, and the creation of such pieces became a lucrative source of income for composers” (Schwarm, 2015). A movement that is worth looking into is the second movement of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. The second movement is shorter compared to most Romantic era pieces, it has a slow tempo with section A (which it opens with) being prominent and pieces of section B appearing. The first violin carries out a fast tempo which makes the transition to section B, which is more rhythmic.
Beethoven 's 9th Symphony "Ode to Joy" Movement IV belongs to the Classical period of music. The visual aspect plays a major part in the video and draws the viewer in. The set-up of the instruments consists of ; cellos, double bass, violins, violas,contrabassoon,piccolos,flutes,clarinets,horns,trumpets,trombones,timpani,bass drum,triangle,cymbals. The Symphony also features a choir. The emotion and body language of the conductor sets the mood for the scene.
Grand Duo Concertante for Clarinet and Piano op. 48 J204 1st Movement in Allegro con fuoco German composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) was an influential icon in the Romantic Era, a period between the 18th and 19th century in which personal expression, literary ideas and emotions reached its apogee. Weber was a composer, conductor and an expert pianist and was renowned for his works in opera, compositions for piano and compositions for woodwind instruments. His clarinet compositions which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet, variations on a theme and a duo concertante, are performed even today.
3 and Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 4 to demonstrate the development of his innovative style, and compare them with Sarcasms in aspects of harmony, rhythm, piano devices, and texture to show the innovations Prokofiev applied in the
