Many times the concerto was played by the violin. ... Vivaldi Venice wrote Four Seasons in 1725 which consisted of 4 concertos of 3 movements a piece. He incorporated the technique of ritornello, or the act of returning to a tune after playing something else. Johann Sebastian Bach, probably the most recognized composer of the Baroque era wrote approximately 60 cantatas a year. ... All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." ...

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It all started when his family purchased an upright piano and Gershwin quickly learned to play it. ... Gershwin moved to California and wrote several film scores. ... Gershwin wrote many great works of art. ... Gershwin wrote this piece primarily for its production by Paul Whiteman and his jazz band. ... Gershwin wrote on his greatest operas in 1922, called Blue Monday. ...

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He wrote his music in order to inspire a deep feeling or hidden emotion. ... He only wrote one opera but its intricate melodies and harmonies set it aside from the rest of the operas at that time. It was a version of a medieval play by Maurice Maeterlinck. ... Of all the musical masterpieces Debussy wrote, the opera was his least favorite, but he still mastered the art and made it his own unique style. ... Debussy wrote many other orchestral pieces including, three movements of Nocturnes - Nuages, Fetes, and Sirenes. ...

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He wrote his first song at the young age of 4 and went on to write his first opera at the age of 12. He played for people who were very important, like high priests. ... While other children were playing in the streets, Mozart was either practicing or playing in front of people. ... The people he used to play for, started to think he was a spoiled brat and immature. ... I think that he should of took his gift more seriously and not be so big headed, he should be greatful that he can play like that and compose music as well as he could. ...

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As a child, Beethoven started to play music and was taught by Christian Neefe. ... Beethoven wrote a lot of music but compared to other great composers, he wrote very little. ... Oddly enough, these were the years that he wrote and performed his finest music. ...

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Most of the music that was being played was in or affiliated with the church. Music has always played an important role in religious celebrations such as weddings and funerals. ... Sources have also suggested he wrote and composed many of the melodies. ...

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The ensemble played excellent and sounded excellent. ... A few of the horn players in the front played with quit exuberance, they were really into what they were playing. This was excellent because when the people playing the music are really getting into it, it makes you want to really get involved. ... Another interesting aspect that was worthy of note was the peace that was played by the horns upon which a student wrote. ... As well there was another performer with a pony tail that played very well, not only did he play well but he was also played two different instruments and getting a lot...

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He was one of the few composers who wrote operatic scores that included a part for the fife, a small flute capable only of playing tones form the diatonic scale. ... In Siciliana the timing is in twelfth eight meaning there is twelfth quaver pulses or four dotted crotchet beats and the piece should be played around forty four crochet beats per minute. ... In the forth movement Giga the timing is in the same timing as the third movement Siciliana and the piece should be played around a hundred and eight crochets per minute. This piece is to be played in a dancey, bright and colourful feeling...

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He was a bundle of energy; a school dropout at fifteen whose wrote the enormously successful Swanee at nineteen. ... He loved nothing more than parties where he could, and did, monopolize the evening at the piano, playing and singing his own works for the friends who adored him. ... This all changed when he became interested in music, and began playing the piano. ... As soon as it was moved in George sat down and began to play. ... They had no idea he was interested in music or where he learned how to play the piano. ...

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This makes playing his music quite challenging. ... He was greatly inspired by abstract impressionistic paintings and wrote incredibly long pieces. ... There is not much to say about Nancarrow except that his music was quite literally impossible to play with any exactness. ...

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It was not until the start of the 20th century concert music began to play a huge part in the rapidly maturing United States. ... He wrote for larger instrumentation's and composed several film scores. ... He wrote his first concert piece, "Half-Mast Inhibition," when he was seventeen years old; it was not recorded until twenty years later by a 22-piece orchestra with Gunther Schuller conducting. ...

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In music the Italians also dominated the field with composers like Corelli, known for his concerti grossi, Monteverdi, who wrote many operas, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, the composer of many sacred works for the Catholic Church; but the Germans quickly assimilated the style with Bach, and Pachelbel becoming prominent in Germany and Handel becoming popular in both Germany and England, while Couperin was a French Baroque composer. A common element of baroque music is counterpoint, the writing of separate melodies played against each other by different groups of instruments in the same orchest...

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Have you ever wondered why no one has been able to convincingly recreate a good sounding guitar or piano playing program into a computer to be endlessly manipulated and used by technology? The answer is simple, because they can't, there is no possible way for a computer program that can recreate the compassion and feeling needed to play an instrument. ... There have been many a time when I am recording an instrument for someone's beat and the engineer will tell me to record in segments, meaning I play the same riff on a loop until there is enough recorded so he can cut and paste the...

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She played keyboard pieces from 20th century for this concert. ... Rotterling, mainly composed of Korean drums played the music in different tunes. ... From what I learned from class, Mozart famously disliked the flute, despite the two exquisite concertos he wrote for the instrument. ... The musicians' flute playing bristled with life, and Elle Fearing's piano is a wonderful complement to the flute. ...

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As second orchestra sat and toned in and ready to play Bach's piece "Actus tragicus: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit-, I couldn't be more excited, just like I was waiting to see a blockbuster movie in theater. ... His unfinished Requiem is very mysterious and valuable piece, which he wrote before his death. ...

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Unlike Jimmy Buffet, Sting began his career in the light of the music-video television generation and has maintained a steam locomotive's momentum throughout the years of video and radio play with both his early band, the Police, and his success as a solo artist. ... One of his favorite lines is from a song he wrote with the Police. ... When it comes time to record it he conveys his written music to his musicians of the moment while he plays it for them either on the guitar or piano. ...

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The last movement was generally a rondo in which the soloist played a recurring refrain. ... It was for this basset clarinet and player, Mozart wrote the concerto for. ... The recapitulation resembles the solo exposition with the subject being played twice. The restatement of the second subject is played in the clarinet. ... The rondo form of the last movement was also typical of the era and allows the soloist to repeat themes or play a recurring refrain. ...

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Lenin wrote these lines in February 1921 following the end of the Russian revolution. ... At the time that Shostakovich wrote the Fifth Symphony, his work was beginning to take two tacks, the first the melodic style found in his later symphonies and the other is that of a laborious, prolonged style of working out supposedly conflicting but not always obvious ideas. ... Orff never actually belonged to any Nazi party but his work was considered to be some of the greatest examples of Nazi art, and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do w...

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He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts on a six string bass, with help from a friend, Mige, playing the bass parts, and random friends playing on the drums. ... Ville and Mige brought their friends Linde to play guitar, Mika Karpinen to play drums, and Juska Salminen to fill in as keyboards. ... In the verse, where the song is at a calm setting, they change it, and at the end there are polyphony sounds from the guitarist who repeats the same notes that the keyboardist was playing for the chorus, except he wasn't using chords like he was doing in the chorus, and the ke...

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There were signs, books that weren't published, authors who disappeared, theater directors whose plays were cancelled. ... In 1932, Shostakovich wrote the music for the movie "Counterplan"." the film is about a couple who fall in love while working in a turbine factory. ... Instead of writing a piece in the party approved, super simple, ultranationalist style, he wrote a symphony based on the model pioneered by one of the few unforbidden composers, Beethoven. ... All the themes whipped along by the "Tah-Dah"" motif, until the strings and winds burst out with the sad tunes they played at t...

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The Renaissance Period, spanning from 1400-1600, was more than just a movement in the type of music that was playing; it was a movement of ideas in almost every art form of the time. ... The texts wrote about how the music of the time had the "power to evoke emotions and instill character", so composers sought to exemplify the same result. ... Other innovations such as new instruments such as the trombone and the violin came into play as well as new genres including: variations, prelude, fantasia, toccata, ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approache...

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In the footsteps of the most influential contemporary composer Richard Wagner, Modest Mussorsgy wrote both the music and the libretto to his opera. ... For example, from the very start of the opera the bassoons play the beginning theme which is a small simple melody. ... Much traditional folk music follows this patter as one simple melody can be played over and over in slightly different ways with different instruments and continue to be both interesting and enjoyable. ...

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He wrote not a composition replicating how he wished he'd feel or wanted to feel, but one where no matter how negative the emotions were, it would incorporated into the very writing. ... The symphony when played can take from 45-50 minutes (4 Wiki). ... Then in the fourth minute there occurs a part where the only instrument playing is a violin. ... Much longer notes are being played here and it much less jumpy and sudden. ... With all instruments playing hard here the tempo is allegro with a matching forte dynamic. ...

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It was obvious to have Mozart's music playing throughout the movie, and I believe that is the main reason the movie was so captivating. ... Salieri doesn't think he is anything special until he hears him play that first day, and wonders how someone so vulgar can be God's doing of a very talented musician. ... 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. ...

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Jazz has been an influence in many artist's work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920's and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were i...

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