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Pianist And Composer Beethoven
516 wordsI. Education in general and in music Beethoven came from a musical family, and his early musical training was under his father's guidance. His father taught him piano and violin. His general education was not continued beyond the elementary school. He was practically illiterate in math. As a youth of 19, in 1789, Beethoven took legal steps to have himself placed at the head of his family. He petitioned for half his father's salary to support his brothers. This act of self-assertion is an indicat...
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End Of The Movie James Bond
874 wordsAll men desire and aspire to be something more then they are, whether it is, stronger, better looking, or more intelligent. One character that has it all is a British Secret service agent. He is good with a gun, excellent with the women, and seems to have knowledge about everything. There is not a situation too complex, problem too small, or villain too evil for this man. He stays cool in hot situations and does everything with style and grace. The different parts of James Bonds characteristics ...
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Avant Garde Brings Forth
1,700 wordsAmong the influential composers of classical music, there have been few who have contributed so much in both talent, creativity, and style as Joseph Haydn and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Both extremely talented in the art of classical composition, Haydn and Beethoven placed their heart, soul and ingenuity in their music as is clearly illustrated in Haydn's The Creation and Beethoven's The Creatures of Prometheus. Both composers display sheer genius in their very effective ways of displaying complex th...
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Frame Of Mind End Of Time
1,242 words... vers, when practising. Messiaen also used poly rhythmic structures and rhythmic pedals and they form the basis to the cello and piano parts in movement 1 of the Quatuor, Liturgie de Crystal. The separation of pitches and rhythms is a noteworthy feature of the music and was to form an important idea in the development of some styles of twentieth-century composition. If a rhythmic pattern does not reoccur with the same pitch pattern as before, the piece technically becomes difficult to play. I...
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Fell In Love Anna Sergeyevna
845 wordsIn the novel Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Arcady plays a major role both in his own life and the lives of others. Arcady, despite the shield he surrounds himself with, is not a true Nihilist like his friend Bazarov through his thoughts and actions we see his change. To begin, Arcady shows signs of Romanticism Early on in the novel despite the announcement of his Nihilist beliefs. For example, Bazarov and Arcady were walking one afternoon in the garden and overheard Nicholas playing his cel...
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Admissions Officers Left Hand
710 wordsNote: The below essays were not edited by Essay Edge Editors. They appear as they were initially reviewed by admissions officers.
SAMPLE ESSAY 1: Columbia, Musician (cello) For some reason, my parents felt the necessity to inundate me at a young age with extracurricular activities. After school, I was always being driven from tennis to violin to swimming to cello to baseball to piano to karate to near craziness! I could have been called the worlds busiest kid at the time. From two ...
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Michael And Marion Lack Of Understanding Play
945 wordsAmidst the hustle and bustle of Greenwich Village, New York, is Abingdon Square where the story of Marion's teenage immaturity turns into an adult drama. When Juster, a fifty year old man, and Marion, a fifteen year old girl, decide to unite in matrimony under the face of love, the play begins. They live together with Michael, Juster's son from a previous marriage. Michael and Marion are the same age. As one would expect, this unusual family's existence set in motion a rather morbid series event...
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Piece Played Was Trio Played Was Trio Movement
651 wordsThe performing group was the Astral Trio, Nicolas Kendall on the Violin, Clancy Newman on the Cello, and Anna Polonsky on the Piano. They performed on Monday, November 5, 2001 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. The Cerritos Center is exceptionally stylish and classy or maybe I think like this because it was my first time in a musical concert. In fact, I was nervous since I didn? t know where to walk but the center was well coordinated plus I was helped all the way to my seat. My sea...
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L S M S
378 wordsThis 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 (clarinet), Daniel Rothmuller (cello), and Joanne Pearce Martin (piano) as they performed an all-Brahms program. The musicians presented three pieces by Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F major for Cello and Piano, Op. 99, Sonata in F minor for Clarinet ...
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Densely Populated Dave Matthews
935 wordsDave Matthews and the Raging Animal in the Cage On August 10, I went to a Dave Matthews Concert which was held in F ( ^^ ( ^ ) ) (&# 038; ^n. I estimate, that the audience outnumbered at least 10, 000 people. Unlike in a small concert where the audience gathers up in front before the band, this concert was densely populated in the front as well as in the back and even behind the band. The spectators were overwhelmingly 15 to 19 year old teenagers although I could spot several middle aged spread ...
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Concerto In F Minor Concerto In F Chopin
1,216 wordsFrederic Francois Chopin, one of the greatest composers of all time, was born in Zelazowa Will, near Warsaw on February 22, 1810. His father was a Frenchman who had lived in Poland for many years and his mother was Polish and of noble birth. He loved to play music, even as a small child. Before he even knew how to write down his ideas, he started to compose music. He took piano lessons when he was 6 years old from a Czech teacher named Wojceich Zywny, who used to base his teaching on Bach and Mo...
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Late 17 Th Early 18 17 Th Early 18 Aria
278 wordsThe aria: Are, deh, per pieta from the opera Giulio Cesare is in many ways typical of late 17 th, early 18 th century writing. First of all it is notated for a small string ensemble and Bassi meaning cello plus harpsichord. The cello plays the written line while the harpsichord plays the written line in the left hand and improvises the right hand using the chords indicated by the figured bass. The aria is also written in Italian despite the fact that Handel? s first language was not Italian, thi...
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Publishers New York String Quartets
1,577 wordsLuigi Boccherini was a prolific composer, particularly of chamber music with a distinctive and highly wrought style, and he is the chief representative of Latin instrumental music during the Viennese Classical period. Boccherini was also an exceptional cellist. Luigi Boccherini (his baptismal first name Rudalfo was never used) was the son of a cello or double bass player, Leopoldo Boccherini. Luigi was born in Lucca, Italy in February 19, 1743. The Boccherini family had considerable artistic gif...
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