This past Sunday I attended one of many classical concerts that the Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society (L.S.M.C.M.S.) hosts. The one I sat in on was their season opener at the San Dieguito United Methodist Church. It featured Michele Zukovsky ( ... enhances the experience and emotion of the entire piece by getting the audience involved; Making them not only see but feel the struggle that the artist has to express the notes on paper. In retrospect, when the L.S.M.C.M.S. has another concert, I will be sure to frequent it and bring a friend too. It was another fabulous time at the "symphony ....

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... a strong parallel with Baroque, but not with the classical period due to its counterpoint and layering. I thought that it would be a mixture of them, but I later found out that each piece performed was a style of its own. It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some ... colors with modern composing techniques. What I could notice from this piece was an exhilarating rhythmic energy and an hallucinatory atmosphere. The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. Another thin...

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... a strong parallel with Baroque, but not with the classical period due to its counterpoint and layering. I thought that it would be a mixture of them, but I later found out that each piece performed was a style of its own. It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some ... colors with modern composing techniques. What I could notice from this piece was an exhilarating rhythmic energy and an hallucinatory atmosphere. The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. Another thin...

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... 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 heavily implied that it was written for Elise, whose identity has not been ... by a well-known introductory tune. The tempo marking of this composition is Molto Grazioso, a very quick but graceful pace. Fur Elise is a very popular classical piece but unlike other pieces, this one is not orchestrated and only consists of one instrument, which is the piano. It begins in ⅜ time wi...

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... not touch the string a second time. Unfortunately, there were a few bad aspects about the Harpsichord. One being that the dynamics of the notes on the keyboard would stay the same no matter how hard or softly they would be played. This problem was counteracted by various techniques and ... methods invented to change the notes volume. After this problem aroused, Harpsichords were soon made with two strings per note instead of one and a row of jacks for each set ... style, which proved to be old fashioned compared to his contemporaries. These people preferred a more homophonic texture to...

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... and noble though while descending down a minor scale seems humbled as the notes become slower and lower until a full cadence. The next phrase begins the third theme with staccato notes played 2 against three creating a jumpy syncopated rhythm. Glances of the melodies prior appear in the notes played legato. Theme one returns this time in octaves played by the piano ... accompanied by the violin playing short staccato notes. Running scales followed played both instruments until the beginning theme returned the same as in the opening. Turning dark, momentum is built and urgency grows. The...

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... struck by hammers like today, the harpsichord was not capable of sustained tones or many dynamic varieties. To make up for the lack of sustained notes, composers added ornaments to their works. One of the most important composers of this time were J.S. Bach. Bach (1685-1750) was a ... Offering, 6 French Suites, 6 English Suites, and The Art of Fugue (Grover). The next type of music was Viennese Classic, which evolved in the Classical Period of music. This period signifies the height of artistic achievement based on the standards of the Greeks and Romans. Piano music of this time has chang...

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On August 18, 2014 Live.com played a Aaron Copland's original Quiet City performed by Christopher Brellochs on their classical music station. Although I only heard the end of this piece, I decided to research the composer of this music. Aaron Copland was born November 14, 1900 to Sarah Mittenthal and Harris ... age, he created his first notated melody that he called Zonatello. From 1913-1917, Aaron began to study and take lessons from for Leopold Wolfsohn. Leopold focused his teaching on classical fare which lead to Aaron's first concert attendance and his initial public performance at a Wan...

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