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    Baroque Music: 1600-1750

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    Baroque  Music   (ca.  1600-­‐1750)   IV! DEADLINE TODAY! DEADLINE TODAY! Henry  Purcell.  “When  I  am  laid”  from  Dido  and  Aeneas.   (also  known  as  Dido’s  Lament)(1689)   hDp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaLviMEJls&feature=related  (starRng  1:00)   Listen:     Ground  bass  -­‐  repeaRng  bass  line  used  throughout  a  work‚   oUen  with  a  disRnct  rhythmic  paDern

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    Fantasy in D minor analysis

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    9 6. Fantasy in D minor‚ mm. 87-107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7. Mozart: Fugue Opening from Fantasy and Fugue in

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    Fuge in C Minor- Bach

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    How Bach has composed his Fugue in C Minor‚ BWV 847. Chelsea Hicks Johann Sebastian Bach’s was born on the 21st of March 1685 and died in 1750. He was a German composer‚ during the Baroque period. His Fugue in C minor was written in the middle years of his life‚ 1722. A fugue is a contrapuntal composition‚ where a subject is developed. It has 3 main parts an Exposition‚ Middle section and the Final Section. The exposition is where the subject/theme of the piece is first announced‚ and is

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    Conferinta EN

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    The Cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues. Modern Interpretations in the Russian Music GABRIELA VLAHOPOL Musicology Department University of Arts “George Enescu” from Iaşi 7-9 Horia Street‚ Iaşi‚ 700126 ROMANIA gabriela­­_vlahopol@yahoo.com Abstract: Although the pair prelude-fugue is naturally associated with Bach ’s Well-tempered clavier‚ modern treatments applied to fugues and to other forms belonging to the Baroque were relatively common in the 1920s and the 1930s. The waning interest for the imitative

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    Prelude

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    writing (usually brief fugues). Outside Germany‚ Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c.1618–c.1701)‚ one of the most important Dutch composers of the period‚ used this model for some of his preludes. Southern and central German composers did not follow the sectional model and their preludes remained improvisational in character with little or no strict counterpoint. During the second half of the 17th century‚ German composers started pairing preludes (or sometimes toccatas) with fugues in the same key; Johann

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    in many of his works. He was a master of contrapuntal arts and helped create the well-tempered tuning system we use to this day. In his lifetime Bach has composed over 1000 musical works. Prelude & Fugue in C minor is a song in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier written in 1722. It contains 24 prelude & fugue which shows the Well-Tempered tuning system that Bach help create. The Well-Tempered tuning is not exact‚ which makes it possible to play all 12 major and minor keys- which was never done before.

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    Kretzschmar‚ a German musicologist‚ has notarized this piece as “unique among all the older fugues” and nicknamed Černohorský as the “Czech Bach”. Černohorský’s fugue ‘Memento Abraham’‚ which represents his musical talent‚ was used in two other works‚ one of which was the motet Precatus est Moyses. Černohorský’s fugue was acknowledged as one of the unique parts of both works. His last work to ever be performed was the fugue‚ Quem

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    Describe briefly the three periods in Beethoven’s life. The Early Period is from 1782 to 1802‚ often divided into 2 sub-periods‚ the Bonn and the Vienna period. In the first sub-period‚ Beethoven wrote music works without opus numbers (WoO). Some significant works includes Variations on a March by Dressler‚ WoO 63 and Three Piano Sonatas in E flat‚ f and D‚ WoO 47. The 2nd movement in f minor‚ a key rarely used as that time gives a passionate mood. CPE Bach‚ whose works were studied by Beethoven

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    Requiem Analysis

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    Mozart’s Requiem‚ in d minor K 626‚ was written in 1791. Franz Sussmayr‚ who was Mozart’s understudy‚ completed it. About half of the Requiem is credited to him‚ however analyzer’s today and of his day question whether he really did complete any of it due to the mastery of the piece. During Mozart’s illness‚ a stranger visited him. This man (who kept his appearance concealed) wanted him to compose a mass for the dead. He was obsessed at this point that he was writing his own Requiem and so although

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    Baroque Period – Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor The Toccata and Fugue in D minor‚ BWV 538‚ is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Like the better-known BWV 565‚ BWV 538 also bears the titleToccata and Fugue in D Minor‚ although it is often referred to by the nickname Dorian — a reference to the fact that the piece is written without a key signature — a notation that is uncommon today and leads one to assume the Dorian mode. However‚ the two pieces are quite different musically‚ it is nearly

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