... 2 There was a wide range of performers, on the night of October 1, 2003, each of which played a different instrument, with the exception of David Heinick, the composer and pianist in every movement. Accompanying the program was a sheet titled "Program Notes," which gave members of the audience a lot of information ... played by Timothy McAllister. McAllister, also dressed in all black attire, was a young man whose affiliation to the college was not mentioned in the program notes, yet I assume that he is a member of the faculty here at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Dynamica...

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... days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and silent and the narrators cat quietly walks up to the piano and strikes one note which lingers on in the narrator's ... i.e the piano tuner through these descriptions we can also see that the tuner is very experienced as even though he is blind he can make out the notes just by touching the strings and knows how to correct them by either tightening or loosening the strings. Although in the beginning he is de...

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... on the front page of Pravda a review condemning him as an unpatriotic intellectual whose work endangered and corrupted the spirit of the soviet people. Over night, he went from being Russia's golden boy composer, to the border lines of being a non-person. Fearing exile to a Gulag prison camp, Shostakovich ... a hesitant and uncertain feel. No matter how the music begins, it comes to a dead end. Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. In the course of this movement, in fact in the entire symphony, the music arrives again and again at the same dead end. The desig...

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... would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply ... in 1854, he began to experience auditory hallucinations of voices and terrifying music. He wrote in a letter to a violinist friend Joachim, "The night is beginning to fall My music is silenced,"" and he would tell of how the dead masters visited him to dictate melodies to him. ... C, and B) after a town to which...

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... would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply ... in 1854, he began to experience auditory hallucinations of voices and terrifying music. He wrote in a letter to a violinist friend Joachim, "The night is beginning to fall My music is silenced,"" and he would tell of how the dead masters visited him to dictate melodies to him. ... C, and B) after a town to which...

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... he was very close with throughout his life. He was a smart child having had learned German and French at the age of 6. While a young Peter was taking piano lessons, at night when he'd go to sleep, and wake up complaining to his parents that the music in his head made it hard to sleep (5 Wiki). This was definitely an unusual thing ... and a crescendo in dynamics. Right around the 2 minute mark this change in tempo is exactly what happens. The tempo becomes moderato while continuing to bounce around as the length of notes are being shortened and increased to add variety to the piece. Inst...

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... , which makes it somewhat difficult to count. For the first four measures of the song, there is no musical accompaniment. In the fifth measure a piano comes in and plays a few notes very softly under the vocals. Also, the meter switches to the standard 4/4, and remains for the rest of the song. The only other sound present is a synthesized swishing sound that ... lasts for about two beats. On the last downbeat of the intro the bass guitar comes in with a whole note, and continues to play whole notes through the bridge. The bridge between the intro and the ballad is one measure of piano t...

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It was a breezy night in November of 1994 at the Center of Performing Arts in San Jose. Inside as the curtain came up we all started to smile with excitement and hope of doing ... and how that it dwindled in comparison to this. Although I knew exactly what I was doing down to the last breath, I still feared that I did not know enough to perform that night. This performance was the first major and professional concert that I had preformed in, all at the young age of 11. We had been learning music and dance routines since August ... us all to do the best that we could do. "To give the audienc...

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... Don Giovanni that your laughter will die before the end of the day'. Don Giovanni believes it is a trick and invites the stone man to the dinner that night. During the feast that night the stone man does arrive, but even faced with the mystical, Don Giovanni refuses to repent and is dragged off to hell by demons in a grand finale of ... key all the way through until surprisingly the harmonic indecision of the second subject resurfaces and the key changes to G major through into C major and finally rests with the final notes being the dominant chord of F major which leaves the Overture w...

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... by the rock scene and punk subculture that was in the United States and United Kingdom. July 12, 1979, there was an anti-disco demonstration, known as "Disco Demonstration Night", in where a crate of disco records was blown up during a baseball game in Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois. When the event was being organized, at least 50,000 people showed ... songs for the piano, Für Elise being one of them.Not much is known about the background of the song due to the only thing left behind was the transcribed notes, with no obvious background information other than that the song title heav...

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... the same thing. Writing is an emotional expression and can change people's mood just like music. Some people sit in silence, listening to the sounds in their minds, writing the notes on paper. Others might sit at the piano and test out chords and phrases as they write, my neighbor told me he does this. I can't do this, because I'm not good ... me really sad is Forever and Always by Parachute, this song makes me sad because her fiancé dies in the hospital when they were supposed to have a date that night. This just shows that this can happen to anybody at any time. Another song that mak...

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... only for a short while, and he reverted back to plucking for the rest of the performance, so I thought it was very interesting. The final group that I stayed to watch this night was Jazz Combo Five, directed by Clayton Cameron. The group comprised of an alto saxophone, a tenor saxophone, a trumpet, a guitar, a piano, a bass, and drums. The first musical piece was an original ... a tenor saxophone solo, piano solo, alto saxophone solo, and back to a piano solo. I was really impressed by the range of the alto saxophone player because he could play really high notes. Overall I enjoyed the ...

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On the night of March 11, 2013, three bands and two vocal groups performed at "The Vocal Jazz and Combos Concert" at Diablo Valley College (DVC). When I went to the concert, I sat in ... player expressed exceptionally sophisticated and beautiful tone, with a perfectly accurate pitch, and rhythms. Having a very good sense of dynamics, he knew when it was necessary to give accents on certain notes and emphasize selective parts. I liked when he performed a bird-like sound in a second piece. The second song was middle tempo, 6/8 meter refreshing song that made me feel like walking in ... ...

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A Senior Recital featuring Jennifer Mulhern I attended an instrumental performance the other night of a violoncello accompanied by the piano. The instrumental performance I attended was an ensemble performed by Jennifer Mulhern on violoncello and Faith DeBow playing the piano. This performance can be described ... , No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Suite in C major for Solo Violoncello, BMV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sonata in D Minor for Violoncello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. The notes of each performer seemed to lean on each other and were rhythmically in sync. I also thought t...

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... perform a REAL CRIME. So new laws were manufactured making it possible for anyone to violate them at any time of the day or night which is on of the reasons why music was eventually made ILLEGAL." ---Frank Zappa, liner notes from Joe's Garage, Acts 2&3 (CBS, 1979) The first Amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: "Congress shall make no law ... ...

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... pieces. This piece in particular illustrates 3 different emotions/environments. The first being quite fast and blissful. The second is somewhat lethargic, as if it were taking a break from the fast notes of the first movement. The third movement then hastens, and becomes even more vigorous than the first. I find the piece profound, as it succeeds in illustrating 3 different atmospheric moods without ... that this piece conforms to all three themes, and therefore has a profound denotation towards the artist. • The function of this piece is mainly just for recreational purposes, not for...

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... . I rode alone." This is my all-time favorite lyric from Davey Havok, their lead singer. I honestly don't know why, maybe it's the way he speaks it in amongst the beautiful notes in the background. Simply listening to their cd for a few minutes will get you hooked to the infectious choruses, and subdued verses of Davey Havok, with accompaniment from the fellow ... AFI fans across the world who voted for them. This topped everything for me. Seeing as how they recognized their fans, in just what might have been their most important night of their lives. Even though they"re largely popular ...

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I believe the concept of Apollo and Dionysus can be best described in a social sense. Apollo would be the part of a person that wants to spend the night alone in his or her apartment curled up next to a fire listening to some Beethoven or Brahms while reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Dionysus on the other hand is the ... in the labeling of one or the other. There is a great distinction in Apollonian music and Dionysian music. For instance an Apollonian scale would be one with easy to remember notes and order. When heard many times the Apollonian scale can become exceedingly predictable and s...

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