... at different times, wound up sounding good together.? The one I chose to describe is the first prelude and fugue from Bach's second book, in the key of C major. This piece includes a harpsichord, an ancestor to the piano. It begins with a pedal note, the low note that keeps ringing while others are playedaround it?. In this case, the pedal note is a low C and ... piece feel momentous. It'sas if Bach were throwing open the big doors to some enormous building.? As the song progresses, you can hear the counterpoint, including low and high notes. Once the prelude ends, there is a pause, and...

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... arias, a solo voice with an orchestral accompaniment in an opera (Forney and Machlis, A-6). She used melodies, rhythms, chord progressions, and the placement of trills carefully. By doing this she presented each character in the opera in his or her own unique way. Caccini's talented work proved that in the ... , much like other pieces of the impressionistic period. Boulanger made her music dreamy and fairy-light in many ways, using different instrumentation. Some examples are as follows: in the piece "D'un soir triste,"" she used a muted tam-tam crash, bass drums, off-beat notes on a har...

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... arias, a solo voice with an orchestral accompaniment in an opera (Forney and Machlis, A-6). She used melodies, rhythms, chord progressions, and the placement of trills carefully. By doing this she presented each character in the opera in his or her own unique way. Caccini's talented work proved that in the ... , much like other pieces of the impressionistic period. Boulanger made her music dreamy and fairy-light in many ways, using different instrumentation. Some examples are as follows: in the piece "D'un soir triste,"" she used a muted tam-tam crash, bass drums, off-beat notes on a har...

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... pieces and this brought about a change in musical dynamics. Instead of using the old terraced dynamics of the Baroque era, music now rose from loud to soft and vice versa in rising crescendos and falling decrescendos. The want for more of this eventually led to the widespread use of a new keyboard instrument, the piano, which was able to perform these dynamic changes simply by varying ... the pressure placed on the keys by the player. By the end of the Classical, nearly all composers were composing for the piano rather than the harpsichord, clavichord or organ. The Classical period was ...

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... . In this era, instrumental technology developed and instruments were improved to have equal temperament, to play any key and a new key order system, which resulted in the compositions of keyboard music. The viol, which was the primary string instrument before this era was replaced with the violin, which was further modified to be used as a solo instrument. ... the Baroque era. It articulated a smoother, more synchronized form with flexibility in rhythm, contrast and mood to express more than one emotion. It introduced a balance of musical notes and melodies, which developed the piano th...

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... therefore I find a deeper admiration while listening to the piece. I also like the piece because my cousin and I often play the piece in a duet. (Me on guitar, my cousin on the piano or synthesized harpsichord) • I give the piece a profundity value of 8 out of 10, as I believe that all renowned classical music deserves a high profundity rating. This is due to the tremendous amount ... 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...

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... I enjoyed his music and his amazing talent. It was astonishing, for one, that he could simply hear music being played and than recite it onto a piano. It is also neat how he heard and wrote his music in his head, and also how he hardly ever made a mistake on his compositions. He ... did everything perfectly in his mind, never settling for mediocrity. Even when the Emperor told him that there was too many notes in his opera, in Mozart's mind it was perfect. Salieri was a jealous man, and it is hard to find any sympathy for a man like that ... believe society back then wasn't fair to mos...

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