The piece Bourree is a movement from the Suite in E minor originally written for Lute which is one of seven suites. The Bourree comes after the sarabande and before the gigue. The definition of Bourree itself is a fast and lively French dance that is used in a suite along with around 6 other movements. J.S. Bach wrote many Bourrees in his time as well as other composers such as Handel.
Analysis and Comparison of the Clarinet and Viola Versions of the Two Sonatas by Brahms Name Institution Introduction Johannes Brahms, a romantic composer, did two clarinet sonatas Op. 120, 1 and 2 in 1894. Brahmas wrote the two works for clarinet and piano, and dedicated them to his clarinetist friend Richard Mühlfeld (Musgrave, 1985; Swafford, 1997). The clarinet sonata was largely underdeveloped with regards to its form until the completion of the two sonatas, when the combination of piano and clarinet was used in the subsequent works. The two composition are significant among Brahms other works as they stem from a period in Brahms life when he just embraced the beauty of color and sound of the clarinet.
It appeared late in what scholars define as the first period of Beethoven's career, just a year or two before the crisis brought about by his gradual loss of hearing. By the mid-1790s, Beethoven had tried most of the important instrumental genres, save for symphony and string quartet. Those were the pieces in which his teacher Haydn had made his greatest mark and enjoyed his most significant successes. When Beethoven did come forward with his first symphonies, he built on the achievements of Haydn and Mozart while not hiding his debt to them. Contemporaries reacted to the work of Beethoven by using the word "masterpiece" repeatedly and praising its "originality."
I would need my résumé ready because, I would be required to show all of my former job experiences. Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, he had a many famous ancestors who were also musicians. Then, he had many different organist positions during the early 18th century, also known as the 1700s, creating famous pieces such as the "Toccata and Fugue in D minor." Some of his best-known pieces are the "Mass in B Minor," the "Brandenburg Concertos", and "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, on July 28, 1750.
A court musician is an individual that plays for hire. Court musicians usually shared their abilities off during banquets, weddings, and other events. Mozart was among one of the most versatile composers of his time. During his early travels, “he became a master of opera undermining other musicians with his supreme abilities to coordinate music and stage routines” (Music 179). “From 1762 to 1791, Mozart traveled to other countries and nations such as London, Berlin, Munich, and
The French court ballets used fancy costumes and scenery to establish a loosely linked dance sequences. Royal Dance Moves King Louis XIV founded the Academie Royale de Danse in 1661 and performed for nearly ten years. He commissioned Jean Baptiste Lully, a composer, and choreographer Pierre Beauchamp to devise his company's performances. Here, the history of ballet vocabulary was introduced, and dancers dared to try spectacular jumps and acrobatics with ballet's realm. Early ballet featured only male performers.
Les Misérables & Phantom of the Opera Musical theatre is a type of theatre that aims to entertain through a combination of dramatic script, acting and spoken dialogue with music, singing, and dancing, along with scenery, costumes and spectacle. Two musical theatres that show contrasts and similarities are Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and Phantom of the Opera composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Both these musical theatre productions have a story line which will be showcased as well as one piece from each musical will be analysed. The story is set in Digne, France, 1815. Jean Valjean is released after 19 years as he was convicted for stealing bread.
Prelude No. 15 in Db Major - F Chopin Fredric Chopin was born in Poland in 1810 which influenced his music to use polish folk tunes and dance rhythms, he died in Paris in 1849. He did more than composing by performing and teaching music, he also composed a lot of piano music and had a reputation as a ‘tragic’ romantic composer, because he was ill a lot and died young. It is often referred to as the ‘raindrop’ prelude because of the repeated quavers, the pedal note, and the falling melodic phrases. This piece comes from a set of 24 preludes that Chopin composed, one in each of the 12 major and 12 minor keys, This Prelude was written in 1839 USE OF THE PIANO Throughout most of the prelude, Chopin uses the middle to the lower ranges of the piano, with only occasional phrases played with the higher range of keys.
Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi was born on May 15, 1567, in Cremona Italy, Monteverdi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and the Early Baroque, and is known as the first great composer of the operas. Monteverdi is often view as a composer of the Renaissance and of the Baroque, there is a similar pattern in that is continuous that is often viewed through his work in both styles. Monteverdi often was known as a dramatic composer, while bringing a tremendous meaning from the text he set that often turned each of his pieces into a believable musical and also produced a dramatic statement. It was an early age when Monteverdi’s career began, he then published his first pieces, and this was based on as a collection of three-voice motets, at the age of fifteen. It was by 1591, when he went to Mantua as a musician for the Gonzaga court, by then he had already published books of “spiritual madrigals” in 1583, then another canzonettas in 1584, by 1587 and 1590 he published his first two books of “madrigals.” It was in Mantua he continued writing madrigals, and then in 1607 he produced his first work in the new genre of opera, the setting was of Orfeo.
Although his mother was a piano teacher, Arnold was self-taught; when he was eight years old he started to learn the violin and soon after began composing violin duets. The only lessons he took were from the composer Alexander Zemlinsky, and he gave him instructions on composition. At the age of 25, he produced his first major piece of work, the tone poem Verkarte Nacht for string sextet, which translates to Transfigured Night. In 1901 at the age of 27 he married Alexander Zemlinsky’s sister, Mathilde, with whom he had two children. The couple moved to Berlin and lived there for two years while he orchestrated operettas and directed a cabaret orchestra.