Sebastian Faulks

Talents vary in all human beings but a small fraction of those talents are noticed and are put into good use, which benefits not only the history of the subject of his or her talent, but also the person's audience. According to Katherine Charlton, “A fugue is based on the polyphonic development of a melody called the subject. J.S. Bach was one of those talented people who was not just a composer, but also composed works in fugue that he is most famous for because of the quality of the works, which

In this interview, Professor Brown explained the English organ issues specifically. Most of the English organs had very few pedals at that time, and sometimes no pedals at all. The pedals had only limited notes and also limited notes of manuals, so it was hard to play Bach’s pieces, because Bach’s pieces have lots of pedals and notes. The English organ, sometimes, had only one manual. Even if it had the second one, it was really soft and didn’t balance well. For example, playing a Bach concerto,

Johann Sebastian Bach is known as the most influential organists of all time. More so, he is considered one of the greatest composers in music history. Born into a family of musicians, he was instructed by his father, Johann Ambrosius, who worked as a musician in Eisenach. Bach already had the thriving urge to take on various musical positions. His family of musicians stretches back as far as seven generations. Johann was born on March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany. Some of his best known compositions

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

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