Nocturne

He excelled with his characteristic tenderness and subtlety with use of vivid text painting. He composed over 100 vocal pieces, 13 nocturnes, 13, barcaroles, 5 Ballade for piano and orchestra, 2 cello and piano sonatas, and many other chamber pieces. Faure is set apart by his distinct style. He was charmed by audacious harmonic progression and abrupt modulation, unvaryingly executed

concert audiences at all, Chopin was soon employed in the great parlors of Paris as a recitalist and a teacher. His raise in earnings allowed him to live well and during this time, he composed pieces like Ballade in G Minor, Fantaisie Impromptu, Nocturnes of

The modern era was brought about in the mid-nineteenth century by the industrial revolution in Western Europe. New technologies and the advancement of comfort amenities would change the way that people lived daily lives. Many individuals would move from agricultural areas into cities, changing from simple lives focused on family and farming into the dense lifestyles of city life. With such drastic changes, artists (specifically painters) were drawn to a different type of landscape paintings, which

I vividly recall being asked what my dream job was on a sunny day during our physical education class in third grade. The first thing that flashed through my mind was architecture as I observed my surroundings, feeling a sense of belonging and deficiency. I’ve always been keen towards drawing and painting. I have an incline to attribute my surroundings, the world, through a tale; a tale behind every landscape, edifice, and object. I don’t perceive a building as a background for a setting made of

historical contexts (hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp). `His music has been described as ‘the epitome of the very soul of the piano’, ‘the piano brought to life’, ‘winged keys’. Indeed, Frédéric Chopin is usually associated with his piano ballades and nocturnes, mazurkas and polonaises, études and preludes, sonatas and scherzos. And yet, alongside that great road, there was a small path, modest but noteworthy: his songs both great and small

Music’s power is usually described as being able to instill an emotion in its listeners. But music comes to mean even more in The Power of One. It represents someone’s spirit - Doc’s. The music he creates is a metonym for his thoughts and inner spirit. Music, especially Doc’s piano, is a physical representation of his life and spirit, revealing music to be the force that Doc uses to communicate and connect with the rest of the world. Doc loves music, but this love extends from mere enjoyment

The four survivors in Clark’s tale rely on an old, hand-cranked phonograph to provide them with comfort and hope. The four men listen to the strains of the nocturne in "an attitude of worship", all but the musician recalling their pasts (Roberts 263). In a world that has been destroyed by man’s mechanical ingenuity, this phonograph, a mechanical device on its own, provides three of the men with an escape from

Coda by Dorothy Parker has a negative connotation on the view of life. It is accurate to describe this as someone who is very pessimistic, or even a little bit depressed. Therefore I made the tone of my melody very dark and not inspiring to reflect the personality of the poem. In each subsequent bar I decrease the initial note down by a note to represent how the author believes that there is no reason or motivation for living life. It is seen in each bar that I begin an upward trend with each initial

On September 12th, 2017, I attended a piano concert by Jeffrey Jacobs that consisted of some various 20th century repertoire composed by Ian Dicke, Béla Bartok, George Crumb, and Dr. Takuma Itoh. All of these pieces were extremely fascinating to listen to, and I enjoyed every minute of it. The first two pieces on the program, entitled “Intermezzo” and “Soliloquy,” were both written by Dr. Itoh. Both works contain contrasting differences in themes, difficulty, and structure.

MEDIEVAL Medieval music period was around the 1940s.The music era was influenced by troubadours, Trouveres , and minstrels who musicians that were poetical too.They created their songs around peace,myths , legends and Nobel characters like knights and princes but in society, everything wasn't good it was bad because they lived in unhygienic places etc.Thomas tallis is a mediaeval composer he was born in 1505 in England and died 1585 and on 23rd of November in Kent Greenwich and was buried St alfeges