... a person is not very intelligent, a simple tune can easily be learned. In addition to being a key factor in almost all western music styles, the piano has had a rich and eventful history. The piano can be directly linked to two instruments of centuries past. The first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce ... notes and pitches. The clavichord could be manipulated to produce different chords, but even at it's best, could barely be heard by anyone other than the ... chief string instrument, England was the destination...

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... a person is not very intelligent, a simple tune can easily be learned. In addition to being a key factor in almost all western music styles, the piano has had a rich and eventful history. The piano can be directly linked to two instruments of centuries past. The first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce ... notes and pitches. The clavichord could be manipulated to produce different chords, but even at it's best, could barely be heard by anyone other than the ... chief string instrument, England was the destination...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in the opposite direction. Romantic melodies tended to be more lyrical and expressive and could be repeated many times throughout an entire piece. Other melody trends were the use of one single unbroken rhythmic pattern. The obvious trends in Rhythm were freedom and flexibility. Cross rhythms were popular as well as simple subdivisions against irregular subdivisions (duplets against ... triplets and so on). Chopin often used this technique in his piano music with the numerous notes for the right-hand against a steady accompaniment for the left-hand. Rhythms were generally "Stylized dance...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in the opposite direction. Romantic melodies tended to be more lyrical and expressive and could be repeated many times throughout an entire piece. Other melody trends were the use of one single unbroken rhythmic pattern. The obvious trends in Rhythm were freedom and flexibility. Cross rhythms were popular as well as simple subdivisions against irregular subdivisions (duplets against ... triplets and so on). Chopin often used this technique in his piano music with the numerous notes for the right-hand against a steady accompaniment for the left-hand. Rhythms were generally "Stylized dance...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." The key word here is "or," for it denotes the ... imprecision of the speaker's understanding. What the blues articulates is the simultaneous presence of the "tragic and comic aspects of the human conditions." Thus, the blues in the poem ... is not the conventional "eith...

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... by worn out threads. Concentrating fully on the one-finger notes of "Rudolph", I look as though I am pondering the meaning of life.. Saddened for the loss of my precious child-like innocence, I divertingly lower my plain brown eyes with the memorable piano picture back into the book of memories- the book of feelings. Playing the piano had always been a personal expression as well as a ... my multi-sided personality. Playing Forte, I am bursting with anger, repression, outspokenness, pride, and stubbornness. Piano-I shyly circumscribe my every thought to avoid the conflicts, to ease the t...

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... " when it is heard. It has as many incarnations as performers and performances, each one distinctly different. A responsible performer must intimately understand each piece he will perform, not only the notes on the page, but its historical background. Several things must be understood before one can perform a piece successfully. First, a performer must analyze the piece, determine its form and harmonic ... in memorization, the analysis will give the performer direction. By identifying the form and harmonic structure of a piece, a performer can find those moments of tension and release. ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate