Johann Hari

Solo Pour la Flûte Traversière BW 1013 (1717-1723) J.S. Bach While a specific date for the piece’s composition is unknown, it has been suggested that J.S. Bach wrote the work during his tenure as music director at the Calvinist court of Cöthen, under the patronage of Prince Leopold of Andhalt. During this period, Bach produced many secular chamber works, such as the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier and other instrumental suites, sonatas, and partitas. This focused output was due in part to

The opera Rinaldo by George Fredric Handel is one of Handel’s earliest most successful works. This case study aims at discovering more about the different contexts of the opera, the structure, and the performances of Rinaldo. The context around Rinaldo is important as it can examine the environment around the time of the composition and the relationship that Handel had with the patrons, performers, librettists, audiences, and publishers. The compositional elements that Handel used in Rinaldo as well

Both Vivaldi and Bach were incredibly talented, and both have a distinct sound that is fairly simple to notice. If a teacher were to play one of Vivaldi’s works that had never been heard before, and a work of Bach that had never been heard before, the students could probably tell immediately the composer of each one. Why would it be so easy o tell? Vivaldi had a habit of being more melodic, and focused on shifting rhythms. His main works were concertos, a few choral works, some operas, and a few

The Lord of the Rings - Music as emotional guide Not only the actors' performances and the director's cleverly adapted screenplay are important to create certain emotions in a movie, but also the music is an essential key that guides your emotions – more than most viewers realize. This is certainly the case with the score of the monumental epic blockbuster: The Lord of the Rings! The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring, written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), first published

Music Comparison Task: Prokofiev, Mvt 3, Yellow River, Mvt 2 The Yellow River’s 2nd movement begins with the conjunct rise and fall of the cello melody in the upbeat to the first bar, the Classical Symphony’s 3rd movement melody begins after the 4 bar intro with a heavy ‘rustic’ ie. pastoral-like themed in its whimsicality. This melody in the upper strings descends sequentially and modulates to chord 6 in B minor after the first two bars of figure 1. The chord progression in bar 7 moves from

Mozart the brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ,One the most controversial composers of his time the world-famous Austrian composer represents one of the greatest peaks in the history of music, a musician of remarkable talent and music memory that became apparent from his early childhood. Many argue that Mozart’s brilliance lied within his DNA others say that his music was a natural expression of his feelings of love or loss .nevertheless it’s clear that he both innovated and transformed music of

Concerning the writer of The Pickup , indeed, having chosen apartheid as her major concern throughout her writing career, Gordimer faced a puzzling situation when this racist thought partially lost its mysterious trace in the early 1990s. Apparently, despite the expected loss of a thematic sound background ,24 Gordimer's The Pickup shows that she is still flexible enough to look for new horizon g the present 'New South Africa' as its point of departure, The Pickup continues to deal with problems

For my EPQ I have done an artefact, which is a composition physically showing how music has developed and changed over the years. I have chosen the five main musical eras, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century, to feature within the composition. I have researched the key features of these eras and what makes each era different from the others, and what allows them to be easily identified. I have then found the music for 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams (Pluta, 2014) and have copied

the cello; and Robert Wolinsky who played the harpsichord. The first performer was Krista Bennion Feeney, she played Gigue from Fantasia No. 12 for Solo Violin by George Philipp Telemann. The next performance was Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1039 by Johann Sebastian Bach, which included four movements: Adagio, Allegro ma non presto, Adagio e piano, and Presto. This was performed by two violinists, a cello player and

Sistine Chapel Choir The Sistine Chapel Choir was established in the late 1400’s which makes it one of the oldest choirs in the world. The choir consisted of twenty -four men in total. Six men in soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Today the choir is made of twenty men who make up the tenor and bass section; meanwhile, the soprano and alto is made up by thirty boy choristers. Before the use of boys in the choir, men were castrated to keep their voices high. The choir members also had to be celibate