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Romantic Music The Ideals Of Instrumental
860 wordsAt one point in the study of the Romantic period of music, we come upon the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts to grasp the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19 th century. This opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art, why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony, the highest form of instrumental music, were not Romantic composers, but were the Classical com...
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Helpful Book For Music Practicing
763 wordsHelpful Book for Music Practicing I like to listen to music of Schumann and I was wondering how to perform it better. I had found the book that I needed for this purpose. It is Harald Krebs new book, Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann, where the author has put his finger on the pulse of Schumann's rhythm, sensitizing us to a world of rhythmic sensations that theorists normally ignore. And what brings his ideas even more to life is the extraordinary style of prese...
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Pieces For Solo Piano Pieces For Solo Clara
329 wordsClara Wieck Schumann Clara Schumann was born in Liepzig Germany on September 13, 1819 and died on May 20, 1896. Clara's parents were Friedrich Wieck, a music teacher who married one of his students, a soprano named Marianne. Clara's father made claims before she was even born that she would be a great musician and child prodigy. Her first public appearance was at age nine, and her first piano recital, age eleven. She performed and studied piano, voice, violin, instrumentation, score reading, cou...
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Clara Schumann Life Account Of Clara Schumann Life One
838 wordsMusic and silence Clara by Janice Galloway 425 pp, Cape Pianos are not pleasant objects not if youve ever tried playing one. Pianos are infuriating brutes, heavy as thunderclouds: torture mechanisms designed to measure your inadequacy against some unattainable idea of perfection. Clara Schumann's life was a perpetual torment of pianos. She was born into a family which dealt, taught and traded in pianos. She married a man who was one of the greatest composers for the instrument. And she herself w...
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Romantic Poet Romantic Movement
1,695 wordsMusic Romantic Virtuosity Romantic Virtuosity Music Class As the many socio-political revolutions of the late eighteenth-century established new social orders and new ways of life and thought; composers of the time period broke new musical ground by adding a new emotional depth to the prevailing classical forms. This period is known as the Romantic period. It accused approximately from 1820 to 1920. Artists became intent in expressing their subjective, personal emotions. Romanticism derives its ...
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Baron Von Fricken Arrived In Leipzig Robert
1,289 wordsRobert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of Zwickau, Saxony, in 1810. The youngest of five children, Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable, middle-class respectability. As a child, he apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities. At the age of six, Robert was sent to the local preparatory school, run by Archdeacon Done. He had in fact already begun his education, with the young tutor who gave lessons in exchange for board and lodging at the Schumann home. At the age...
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