music is beautiful, it has different emotions. Joy, sorrow, love, and pain for example. Music gives me joy. I can sit for hours listening to different pieces. I love the classical era. Tchaikovsky is an amazing composer, i'm in love with his 1812 Overture and how he wrote for canons to be fired a total of 16 times. That is so cool! I've played the viola for 4 years now, and while it wasn't my choice to start, I love playing it immensly. There are times when I can't play a piece the way I would like to that I just want to set Xander, my current viola, in a corner and never play again. I eventually force myself to resume practicing even if it might be a few days later. There are always the ups and downs of music; the excitment of first …show more content…
Over the years I have, thankfully, improved; I learned to love my instrument insteading wishing I was never made to play the weird piece of wood with animal guts strung across. There is just something about playing music, feeling the music and putting emotion into a page filled with dots and lines; learning to shift for the first time and the excitement that brought, feeling like you were at least at an intermediate level now only to realize months later that it was still beginner and you are now intermediate. I was excited for learning vibrato, I just knew that my playing would sound amazing with it; when my teacher, Mr. Lee, first taught me, I was so excited but when I tried, it was harder than I expected. How was I ever going to hold Precious, the first viola, without it sitting on my wrist. How could I play while only supporting it with one part of my hand WHILE moving my hand back and forth at such a rapid pace! He told me to try it while playing in orchestra but I didn't want people to see my hand shaking all over the place. Against my brain telling me not to, I followed my teachers advice and it helped me immensly; I got so much better at vibrato in short time. Orchestra is awesome! One day, Hannah, my best friend, asked me if I was going to be in our orchestra for the upcoming year; I was actually shocked that she would ask me that because it had
Like almost every other 3rd grader in my elementary school, when the enrichment program came to talk about joining the orchestra and band, I was fascinated. I admired the kids, not much older than me, who could play their instruments flawlessly and effortlessly. Immediately I knew that orchestra was for me, and I rushed home with a paper in hand begging my mom to let me take lessons at my school. Originally, I wanted to play the cello and pleaded with my mom to let me play one; I loved the deep, rich sounds of the strings. Instead, my mom convinced me to play the violin, a less expensive instrument and much easier to carry around than a cello.
From this semesters listing list my favorite piece that we learned about was definitely Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Reed Pipes” form The Nutcracker suite. This was my favorite for two main reasons: it is a piece from the famous ballet The Nutcracker and it has simple, interesting, and recognizable melody. I have always loved going to the ballet, especially when I was a little girl, and The Nutcracker is a classic ballet that I have seen multiple times before. This piece of music from the ballet is the song that I have always been able to recognize and connect with this certain ballet. The “Dance of the Reed Pipes” is organized in three-part (trinary) form. The main form or statement of this piece is the three flutes playing a staccato melody that is repeated multiple times.
During senior year of high school, I decided to learn the violin. I have always loved the timbre of the instrument and I longed to develop a talent that I could call my own. However, my progress was slow. My arms and fingers always tensed up when I began playing a piece. Yet, my violin instructor never let me give up. Every time I put my violin down he would urge me to continue. “Don’t hesitate,” he would tell me. “Be confident in what you play even if you make a mistake.”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the author of six symphonies and the finest and most popular operas in the Russian repertory. Tchaikovsky was also one of the founders of the school of Russian music. He was a brilliant composer with a creative imagination that helped his career throughout many years. He was completely attached to his art. His life and art were inseparably woven together. "I literally cannot live without working," Tchaikovsky once wrote, "for as soon as one piece of work is finished and one would wish to relax, I desire to tackle some new work without delay." The purpose of this paper is to give you a background concerning Tchaikovsky's biography, as well as to discuss his various works of
Even though my makeshift cardboard violin didn’t make any sound, I still carried it with me everywhere, always eager to show people mow much I had learned.I have been playing for twelve years now and even though I have enjoyed most of it, it has not always been so easy. There have been more late nights, crying in frustration over something I just could not get, but I made it through. Playing the violin has given me the nations determined attitude to set my mind on something and to not stop until I reach my goals. Being a musician also has also made me hyper-aware in relation to anything musical.I tend to pick up things that the average person doesn’t. You can hear the subtle nuances that might blow over many people. Most people might only hear the different emotions, but I can tell you what made it so sad and what instruments were used at what time to convey such emotion. I love playing the violin, I look at it as an opportunity to express my true emotions. Each piece of music that I play is an uncolored painting that I paint with emotions. I have to take every piece of music, interpreted it and make it my
In the first grade, I picked up a clarinet. It was my sister’s, collecting dust while waiting for me to play it. From the moment I produced my first sound, an ear-piercing squeal that frightened my dog, the path of my life took a turn for the better. I began teaching myself for the following three years, along with learning from my sister how to properly play the beautiful instrument. The music pushed me out of my comfort zone: concerts that forced me onstage, tests that made me play difficult songs, and teachers that pushed me to be an exceptional player. From the shy elementary school student I used to be to the outgoing band member I take joy in being today, music has shaped my everyday life.
Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky.
Once being presented with this opportunity to write this paper I found it as a wonderful opportunity to express my opinion on two different musical greats. The one that I decided to choose for the old would have to be Tchaikovsky, and for the new by far my favorite choice would be the beetles. The selection of these two specific artist was almost a no brainer for me, they embody the perfect blend of inspirational music that delivers a specific, yet powerful message, both artist belong to different genres one from a classical genre and one from a more modern form of music.Also, both these artists viewed music regardless of the genre as a form of communicating a message to the masses, in the beetles era war was occurring in the world and in terms of Tchaikovsky he was one of the best ballet composers of his
Freshman Ella. It’s a scary thought, but for this story we have to go back to March of my freshman year at an event called Chamber Festival, which is basically when you play in small groups instead of large orchestras. In our school orchestra I was second chair viola which, me only being a freshman, was a very big deal. At least it was for me. Many of my other friends in orchestra already had their own instruments, and I felt like it was time to get one of my own. So for months I begged my parents. I insisted that I wouldn’t give up playing in a year or two, that I really would stick with it long enough for the investment to make sense. Finally, in the beginning of 2015, they agreed to get me a viola. Now was the hard part, agreeing
Playing the violin is one of my best talents. First, I had to practice a numerous amount of minutes to make it to where I am. Second, it’s a great way to meet new people. Lastly, I couldn’t have done it without my Mom. Playing the violin is one of my skills, I worked hard, became more social, and got supported by my Mom.
In sixth grade I decided to join band at the middle school. This made a difference in my life because it would decide which friends I would have in middle school. So every Thursday and Friday after school I would ride the bus to the middle school just to play band. The instrument I played was the trumpet because it looks easy to play I mean come on it only has three buttons. The first day of playing it I got one very unsteady note out. I wanted to get better so I practised at home mostly everyday to sound better.
Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Vyatka region of Votkinsk, Russia on May 7, 1840. He had five siblings (four brothers and a sister) and was the second of six children. Ilya Tchaikovsky, Peter’s father, was of Ukrainian and Polish descent and was a mining business executive in Votkinsk. His mother, Aleksandra Assier, was of French and Russian heritage. Tchaikovsky musical experience began at the age of 5 when he began to take up the piano from his mother, whose playing and singing Tchaikovsky enjoyed very much. When his mother died of cholera in 1854, Tchaikovsky, being an emotionally sensitive child, became deeply traumatized and depressed. It was after his mother’s passing that he was sent to a boarding school in St. Petersburg.
I grew up going to Wichita schools until the sixth grade, and from there onto high school I went to Eureka, which is a little over an hour northeast of Wichita. This is my fourth and last semester here at Butler, and I will be attending WSU come spring time. I’ve been working as a server at Red Lobster for over three years now.
ATchaikovsky=s music is not only one of the cornerstones of Russian musical society and world music . . . It is at the same time a creative and technical encyclopedia to which every Russian composer has reference in the course of his own work,@ commented Dimitri Shostakovich.1 This was a typical view held by Tchaikovsky=s contemporaries. He was well known and well respected, especially in his later years. In addition, Tchaikovsky was recognized as the most expressive Romantic composer in Russia.2 He was often idolized and put on a pedestal, particularly during his tour of the United States in 1891 when he conducted concerts of his own works in some of the leading concert halls. Tchaikovsky brought national attention to
Peter Tchaikovsky was a famous Composer from the 19th Century. He is known as the most famous Russian composer in history (“Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Biography”). Some historians think that he was Russia’s first truly professional composer ("Tchaikovsky Music's – Famous”). His music was performed during the late 1800s. He created many musical works throughout this time as a composer and many of these works are still listened to today.