Concerto grosso

The History of Ludwig Van Beethoven One of the world’s most fascinating classical German music composers, Ludwig Van Beethoven was more than just a man playing on the piano. Famous for more than just writing the piece Für Elise that most of us all know. He composed many songs with a force that not just every musician has; musical emotion. Each of his pieces captured and held a story about Beethoven. Did you know Beethoven was deaf? How could a composer, a musician, a musical genius, lack such an

Dvorak 's Cello Concerto represents one of the most important repertoires in cello literature. It requires the performers to have control over their technical ability and limitless of imagination in musicality in orders to do a successful performance. Dvorak 's cello concerto have always been one of the concertos that every cellist want to play during their studies, and have the knowledge and background for this particular piece will definitely help me a lot to have a better understanding of this

The Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Opus 26 is one of the most famous violin concertos over the musical history. It is also considered to be the most renowned work by the German composer Max Bruch. I will begin with a short explanation of why I choose to analyse this piece followed by what makes this piece so remarkable. I will then present the musical context – German Romantic period – in which this piece was composed and discuss how it is representative of this period. Also, I will present briefly

On Monday, September 18th, 2017, I visited the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke theater which is an intimate, yet charming venue fixed in the heart of downtown Honolulu. That night, I was in for a unique experience of the traditional mixed with the contemporary, featuring Dr. Thomas Yee, harpsichord, and a Tresemble which contained two violins, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, and bassoon performers. Dr. Thomas Yee, who is a professor of music at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Emmanuel Krivine conducted the performance, with featured soloists Joshua Bell (Vieuxtemps violin concerto) and Stewart Goodyear (Mozart piano concerto). A full orchestra performed the symphonies. Overall, the Mostly Mozart Festival was a tremendously enjoyable experience. The qualities that define the works of Mozart are often the same as those that are used to describe those

From Bach to Green Day: A Comparison I have always enjoyed the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, so I chose to listen to Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major (BWV 1048). This piece was composed in 1721 as a part of a six piece collection (Brandenburg Concertos). The rendition that I found is “performed on original instruments by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music (Voices of Music). I chose this rendition in large part due to the faithfulness of the performance to the original manuscript. Here

I had attended in several symphony concerts at the big concert hall, so this time, I decided to go to a small concert at a church. The concert I went to is “The Cary Classical Concerts – The second concert: A Night of Dvorak”, which took place at Saint Francis United Methodist Church. The concert is a debut of trio Anthony Lee – piano, Cortney Baker – violin, and Nathan Leyland – cello. Also, there is a special guest come to the concert is tenor Kang Noh Park and organ Scott Baker. The whole program

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academics, Mr. Martinez is a Violinist and is a part of the violin section in the Chamber Orchestra of Laredo, and receives insightful teachings from his professor, Dr. Yu-Mei Huang. Moreover, Adrian has been acknowledged as a fond participant in the Concerto Competition held by TAMIU. Upon correlating the University Honor’s Program with the Music Program Adrian strives in pursuing his professional career as a musician. Thus, after completing his Bachelor’s degree at TAMIU, his ambition is to pursue a

In the early seventeenth century, the word sonata was a vague label that referred to any piece of music that was meant to be played rather than sung. This type of musical composition is, in ways, reminiscent of the canzona though definitely influenced by that genre. Prominent composers not only aided in the growth of the sonata, but also continued to develop the style that would help evolve music of upcoming generations. The canzona is a songlike, polyphonic, instrumental piece. A type of canzona