Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Study of Études-Tableaux Op.33 Mike Mayrand Music of the Early Twentieth Century MUS 244 Prof. F. Gaudette April 14‚ 2006 Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was born April 1st‚ 1873 in Semyonovo‚ Russia and can be classified as a Russian-American composer‚ pianist and conductor. While his reputation as a composer only came later in life‚ Rachmaninoff ’s skill as pianist was well-known and highly respected. He was one of the greatest pianists of his generation‚ having
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again to its modular moorings. Prelude‚ Trio‚ and Fugue in G Major‚ BWV 541- Johann Sebastian Bach (1705) The Prelude and Fugue in G Major‚ BMV 541 is one of Bach’s most extravagant free works. The prelude consolidates the toccata figuration of the North German stylus phantasticus with the cadenced drive of the Vivaldian concerto. The rehashed note fugue subject‚ a genuinely normal device in German praeludia‚ bears a specific similitude to other Bach fugues‚ however the G-real fugue has its own identity
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The very first preludes were lute compositions of the Renaissance era. They were free improvisations and served as brief introductions to larger pieces of music or particular larger and more complex movements; lutenists also used them to test the instrument or the acoustics of the room before performing. Keyboard preludes started appearing in the 17th century in France: unmeasured preludes‚ in which the duration of each note is left to the performer‚ were used as introductory movements in harpsichord
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T.S Eliot’s Preludes‚ is one of his most prominent poems because it presents his view of society at that time using concrete objects and images to metaphorically explore the nature of life and society. In this poem‚ we discover society as corrupt and desolate going through a cycle of meaningless routine where people bare a false hope of a divine source overlooking and protecting humanity. The title itself holds significant meaning. A prelude in general and particularly in a musical sense characterizes
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Bach in Time The musical composition‚ “Fugue in G Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach reflects the conflict riddled throughout the story of 1984 by George Orwell. The fugue presents the musical theme as what Big Brother’s ideologies are. The different aspects of the fugue represent Winston Smith‚ society‚ and Big Brother’s interactions throughout the book. In the story‚ Winston goes through an internal and external struggle of rebellion against Big Brother. The constant movement in the music and the
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Preludes (1917) is an early poem of Eliot that deals with the characteristic Modernist trope of urban absurdity‚ monotony and squalor. The poem is divided into 4 parts and in a ’montage’-like fashion‚ creates an associative framework of images that describe a banal urban life‚ disconnected‚ solitary and full of alienation and meaninglessness. The first part sets the tone in minutely describing a winter evening in the city--from the smells of meat to the grimy scraps to the abrupt rain or the lonely
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Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff was born on April 1st‚ 1873 in Semyonovo‚ Russia on an estate owned by his grandparents that bordered Lak Ilmen. Sergei was born into an experienced military family. His grandmother‚ Arkady‚ was a retired army general and a cadet school teacher‚ his father‚ Vasily‚ a retired army officer‚ and his mother‚ Lubov‚ the daughter of an army general. Sergei also had two sisters‚ Yelena and Sofia. Both of Sergei’s parents were amateur pianists‚ and at a young age it was his
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242 Dr. Lynn Little 08 November 2013 Bach’s Fugue in G Minor‚ WTC Book I 1. Bach was a piano teacher‚ and often approached his music as a teaching tool. To display how easily moving from one key to the next could be‚ he utilized the Well Tempered Clavier and the book can often be thought of from this standpoint. According to Sigland Bruhn‚ “ It aims to help you‚ its reader‚ achieve a creative understanding and interpretation of Bach’s preludes and fugues by encouraging you to think for yourself
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