Johann Sebastian Bach

Due to the fact that Baroque keyboards generally lack the ability to make crescendos and diminuendos, music played on these instruments sound very boring and straight forward unless elements are added to the performance. For organ and harpsichord, the player cannot change dynamics once the registration is chosen. A decent performance of Baroque music, no matter on a Baroque or a modern day keyboard, relies very much on the variety of touch to sound interesting. I would therefore like to discuss some

In the mid 70s, Reich had steadly expanded his knowledge of different musical systems, studying the form of Balinese Gamelan with I Nyoman Sumandi, who is a Balinese musician in residence at the American Society for Eastern Arts Summer Program at the University of Washington, in Seattle between 1973 and 1974, and learning the technique of traditional Hebrew chanting between 1976 and 1977. Based on these diverse non-western studying, after all, the Reich's ensemble performed and recorded ‘Drumming’

The English composer, Gustav Theodore Holst, was one of the most important people with great contributions to English music.He was born on 21 September 1874 in Cheltenham, England.Inspired the love for music from his musician father, Adolph von Holst, Gustav began playing musical instruments at a very young age.He played both the piano and the violin.However, he was not as interested in playing violin as playing the piano although he was troubled with neuritis.Gustav also took up the trombone due

The troublesome part to clarify is the manner by which Bach created the Toccata’s compelling organ effect. At the point when Bach was in Arnstadt when he was young, the organ commonly did not have a 16-foot register on the keyboard; thus, it sounds an octave lower than the typical 8-foot register. Accordingly, keeping in mind the end goal to make the impact, Bach utilized octave multiplying; thus, he proceeded with the resonating impact of the opening bars; on the other hand, there is no octave multiplying

Claudio Monteverdi is between the Renaissance and the Baroque period. Monteverdi is an epoch-making figure in the history of classical music. His creations are the culmination of this renaissance musical genre, and his opera creation is the foundation of this genre. Opera " L'Orfeo " is the first opera of Monteverdi's life creation, but also the most representative of his opera. The opera, which was completed in 1607 and succeeded in Mantua, is not the earliest opera, but the starting point of modern

This German composer is a pianist, musical conductor, teacher, and of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1826), Italian Symphony (1833), a violin concerto (1844), two piano concerti (1831, 1837), the oratorio Elijah (1846), and several pieces of chamber music are all this composer’s most famous works. Romanticism is this composer initiating key aspects and this composer largely observed Classical models and practices. Moses Mendelssohn

trumpet, trombone/sackbut, and tuba. The percussion includes the Timpani at this time. One of the most well known concerto composed by Vivaldi is The Four Feasons, within this he had written three movements. The first one being fast or another for fast allegro the second movement was slow and the third movement was fast again this would describe the tempo of the movements. In a concerto their is no voices but their are soloists in part of the song. This is when the violinist takes over and plays

Mannheim in its place in musical history. However, during the 18th century one of the most profound and short lived orchestras resided in Mannheim and led by one of the most talented, but also very often forgotten composers and performers of his time in Johann Stamitz. Too often in history the orchestra, the court, and the musicians are overlooked, and merely referenced about making a crescendo and certain small ornamentations in music famous or known to the musical world at that time. However, the little

Project 5 Vivaldi-Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra in B Minor Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra in B Minor bears some similarities and some differences to his work “Winter” from The Four Seasons. The most prominent of these similarities relates to the speed of the movements. The typical concerto from the Baroque period had three movements. These movements often alternated their tempo: the first was fast, the second slow, and the third fast again. In “Winter,” Vivaldi utilizes

In a recent phone interview with Christina Pluhar, founder and director of the early music ensemble L’arpeggiata, tells WOSU Radio that “for Handel, improvisation was extremely important, and for all musicians from that time, as well.” This statement is clear in her new album Handel Goes Wild. Heavily influenced by jazz and latin rhythms, Pluhar takes some of Handel’s famous works and interprets them in a new way with jazz harmonies and improvisations. Treatises from the baroque era attest that