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decades" than it does with the "Vivaldian string concertos" that were the contemporary trend when Bach penned his dedication to th...
fugue (Machlis 295). However, as Malcolm Boyd points out, the Allegro assai "belongs" primarily to the trumpet (77). The main them...
demonstrated in collection of pieces, "The Well-Tempered Clavier." With this discovery, the stage was set for Baroque music to flo...
In ten pages this research paper examines and compares 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor' by Rachmaninov, 'Piano Concerto No. 21 in...
This paper pertains to the Baroque Concerto and focuses specifically on the ways that Vivaldi influenced Bach. Three pages in le...
Bach considered music to be "a harmonious euphony to the Glory of God" (Machlis, 1970,p. 288). His primary instrument was the org...
endeavors, the first of which involved the organ (Baroque Music [1], 2006). He met Georg B?hm who was an organist, and also a stud...
for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...
period saw one of the most important changes in all of music history-the "transition from the medieval church modes to major-minor...
Marx, but he does not dismiss the idea that the movement has something to do with the Orpheus legend. Rather than Orpheus soothing...
Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...
used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...
of Johann Sebastian Bach clearly represent the elements of inert expression while, at the same time, project a distinct sense of p...
sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...
2, 1714 (Whittaker 146). After examining the scriptural reading for this Sunday lesson, the first question that comes to mind is w...
work of "mystic" poet-composer Philip Nicolai (1556-1608), who composed both the words and music of the hymn of that name (Machlis...
derived inspiration and instruction from them (Smith, 1996). According to Smith, the most significant feature of one of Bachs Inve...
or another Jonathan cannot deny that within himself that wants to fly higher and faster, more perfect than before. Eventually, t...
his era, as his compendium of work transverses boundaries, "fusing the three great national traditions of his time," which are "G...
(or) get together" (Raykoff). These seemingly disparate definitions in actuality "point to the heterogeneous nature commonly attri...
At this point in his life, Rachmaninoff spent his summers with his fathers wealthy sister, Varvara Satins, and he composed a deal ...
for the solo trumpet part in the score.7 To play the clarino properly requires that the performer have "a naturally suitable lip, ...
In seven pages the Chamber Concerto of Ligeti is analyzed in terms of its 13 instrument featuring complex last movement with the e...
what the loss of the deceased means to those who have been left behind, while he simultaneously acknowledges the glory of the afte...
This was not an uncommon practice at the time. Bach did virtually the same thing with some of Vivaldis composition. One commentato...
endlessly variety of moods (Machlis, 1970). Mozarts Music - in general Machlis (1970) comments that there is something of the "m...
that the time had come to do away with what he regarded as the arbitrary distinction between the seven diatonic tones and the five...
provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...
because of the betrayal of her lover. The story of Sarka is supposed to have taken place in the rocky valley near Prague that bea...
a storm in the third segment of this movement. The summer demonstrates Vivaldis propensity for incorporating non-standard format ...