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. ...
And in Classical music today, endlessly repeated eighth or sixteenth- notes are often played just like they were simple repeated or sixteenth "notes and not in force repeated notes demanding tension and excitement. ... In the late Romanticism music, musicians only played what was written down yet in Mozart's symphony where some basic things were not written down because musicians knew them, only a meaningless stammering will result. ...
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. ...
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...
Bach wrote complex pieces for the keyboard with his compilation of pieces called The Well-Tempered Clavier. The Well-Tempered Clavier not only expanded the repertoire for the keyboard, but it also demonstrated the tremendous advancements that had been made with the mechanisms that were in the keyboard and which also allowed the keyboard player to play at much greater speeds. ... Many musicians have very strong opinions about how certain pieces of the classical repertoire should be played, performed, interpreted etc. A number of musicians form their opinions about how something should be played...
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...
