The Arkansas Philanthropic Orchestra (APO): APO was founded in 2008 by a group of people who have been inspired by music and have a great love for it. Miles Fish was the leading pioneer in the founding of this Orchestra. Their goal in establishing the Orchestra was to provide professional performance opportunities for musicians‚ educational concerts for younger people and provide an after-school string program. Steven Byess is currently running the Orchestra and strives to build the community with
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15 January 2011 Concert Report: Mozart Symphony No. 40 The western classical concert that I have chosen to review is A Tale of Two Symphonies. This concert is performed in the Avery Fisher hall within the Lincoln Center in New York City. It was performed on July 29‚ 2008. The orchestra that is performing is the 42nd Mostly Mozart Orchestra. The conductor is Louis Langrée. The two pieces being performed in this concert is Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
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MUSC 220 Ludwig van Beethoven‚ 1770-1827. Classical Period Symphony No. 5 in C minor‚ Op. 67 This piece is relatively long compared to the music written in previous periods such as Medieval‚ Renaissance and Baroque. Beethoven is known to have stretched the musical forms of the Classical period‚ which were already different in nature and length to those in previous periods. This piece appears to be more distorted than other symphonies in the same period; even music in the previous periods almost
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almost every major genre‚ including symphonies‚ few operas‚ many concertos‚ and chamber pieces that included string quartets. All of these musical genres are not new; however‚ these concertos were made more mainstream by Mozart. Mozart composed numerous amounts of religious music and many other forms of entertainment. For La Chevalier‚ he did not just compose musical pieces. He conducted most of his work. We have the record of eight violin concertos and four symphonies concertos that La Chevalier created
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Leslie. The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP‚ 2005. Print. Hosler‚ Bellamy. Changing Aesthetic Views of Instrumental Music in 18th Century Germany. Ann Arbor‚ MI: UMI Research‚ 1981 Landon‚ H. C. Robbins‚ and Joseph Haydn. The Symphonies of Joseph Haydn. London: Universal Edition‚ 1955 Schulenberg‚ David. The Music of J.S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation. Lincoln: U of Nebraska‚ 1999
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recognition he needed to be commissioned to try and create a national style for another nation‚ the United States. He was given a job in New York where he composed his 9th Symphony‚ the New World Symphony‚ his most popular work. This paper will discuss the events in Dvorak’s life got him the job and influenced the New World Symphony. Antonin Dvorak was born in 1841 in Bohemia‚ which then was
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Firebird” being performed by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in 2011. This performance can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd1xYKGnOEw. This piece begins with a deep melody of woodwinds that seems to just set the base of the introduction for the other instruments in the orchestra to build upon. At about one minute into this performance the texture of the piece changes with sharp notes that seem to let you know that the piece is about to change (YouTube Symphony Orchestra). After this change‚
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Module 4 – Music of the Classical Period Unit Summary (20 points) 1. Name two important visual artists (not musicians) from the Classical Period. (1 point) Jean-Honoré Fragonard Jacques-Louis David 2. Name two important writers of literature (not musicians) from the Classical Period. ( 1 point) Voltaire Denis Diderot Jane Austen 3. Discuss the political events and sociological factors that made the Classical Period such a time of violent upheaval. (1 point) The years 1750 to 1820 were
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of aristocrats and the clergy Master Composers: 1. Franz Joseph Haydn >Father of Symphonies >100+symphonies >Skilled servant >Financially stable 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart >Child prodigy >41 symphonies >Austrian >Died in financial need >Had sickness @ 35 >Lived in a pauper’s grave >tried his luck as a free-lancer 3. Ludwig Van Beethoven >9 symphonies >9th symphony ~> choral symphony >Able to work independently >German >Perfect pitch >’Goes against the grain’ attitude
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Individual Assignment no. 2 Schubert’s Symphony no.8 in B minor‚ also called the Unfinished Symphony‚ deviates from the typical first movement of a Classical symphony in various aspects. Similar to other Classical symphonies‚ the first movement of unfinished symphony adapted sonata form as the skeleton. Despite the use of symphonic sonata form‚ Schubert begins the piece by an 8-bar quiet solo Preface theme which is played by the cellos and double basses in unison. The low registers and softly
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