Nicolas played the flute and the violin and Justyna played the piano. ... He learned how to play piano very well, even before writing music. ... In notes to his pupils Chopin wrote, "Listen to great singers. ... He played different notes, or transposed the music into a different key. ... "[A] stray note, pointless when considered only on paper, becomes pure poetry when realized on the piano.""21 Chopin wrote for himself, and wrote using common techniques, the musical currency of the period. ...

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The ensemble played Sonata in D major for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 102, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Suite in C major for Solo Violoncello, BMV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sonata in D Minor for Violoncello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. The notes of each performer seemed to lean on each other and were rhythmically in sync. ... Debow (piano) being in the back. ... Debow put a lot of feeling into her playing because she was moving her whole body with every note. ... The music started out at a medium tempo and ended with a fast paced melodic trade off betw...

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Robert Levin had the piano setup in the middle of the orchestra, between the strings and the winds. ... Also, that the piano did not have a lid, it was fully exposed. ... Before the movement began he played a sample piece of C minor and D major, which is a symbolic note for the wind instruments like he said. ... The first movement was a piano concerto, which is the solo I had mentioned earlier. ... I"m not saying that this piano concerto was horrible but I just didn't enjoy as much the piano's performance in those two movements. ...

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Through his teachings Beethoven produced three piano sonatas by the young age of eleven. ... Even though he was a small child he amazed audiences with his wonderful talents when it came to the piano. Not only by playing the piano but by composing as well. ... It is noted that if you looked back at Beethoven's composition notebooks that " he would return time and time again to some simple little melodies, change the notes, modify rhythms, and eventually produce on of the striking themes that are part of his famous symphonies (Samachson 109)." ... Beethoven in his musical career wrote nine...

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Handel's Sonatas written for flute and piano. ... In the second two last bars in the third movement there is an appoggiatura meaning that a leaning note. ... On the last note of each movement there is a fermata, which indicates that the note should be held for longer than its natural duration. ...

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I chose to write about Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, the Moonlight Sonata, or the Sonata quasi una fantasia. ... The first movement of this sonata, played adagio sostenuto, is fairly widely known and is taught often in piano lessons. ... It is amazing to me that Beethoven could make the notes flow together so wonderfully, producing such a pleasing piece. ...

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Written in A minor for solo piano, Für Elise is classified as a bagatelle. These are short pieces of music, typically for the piano, and usually light and mellow in character. ... This piece of music can be described as a Bagatelle, a short piece for a piano. ... Due to this increase, the style of bagatelle was common among newly written songs for the piano, Für Elise being one of them.Not much is known about the background of the song due to the only thing left behind was the transcribed notes, with no obvious background information other than that the song title heavily implied that it was...

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Most concertos where written for violin or piano. ... He includes dramatic three-octave melodic descents and additional demonstration of range against a thick but piano wind chord. ... Recapitulation The recapitulation begins with a clarinet rising scale which leads to a held solo note above a lead in, played by upper strings and bassoon. ...

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Some examples are as follows: in the piece "D'un soir triste,"" she used a muted tam-tam crash, bass drums, off-beat notes on a harp, and several percussion; in the piece "D'un matin de printemps,"" she used orchestrations such as lightly tapped and brushed snare drums (Lace, 3). ... Her mother was her piano teacher and her encouragement. ... Amy was a child prodigy; she composed piano music and performed before the age of seven (Scheader, 131). ...

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(Me on guitar, my cousin on the piano or synthesized harpsichord) • I give the piece a profundity value of 8 out of 10, as I believe that all renowned classical music deserves a high profundity rating. ... The second is somewhat lethargic, as if it were taking a break from the fast notes of the first movement. ...

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That is why Mozart could state after the first night that somehow or other a few of the notes "had fallen under the desks-. ... Bars 5-15, the introductory fourth step of the Commendatore motif is followed by a dotted quarter-note rhythm, succeeded by a string motif marked by an ascending second. ... They are arranged in such a way that a forceful crescendo is prescribed for the ascent, the pitch then gives way to the piano, which is followed by a harmonically slightly altered descent. ... The closing group, containing a further subject, is rich in contrasts: 2 bars in forte, unisono which...

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While a young Peter was taking piano lessons, at night when he'd go to sleep, and wake up complaining to his parents that the music in his head made it hard to sleep (5 Wiki). ... The property of the piece that stands out to most who study music is the fact that he closed the piece on a bad "note" (1 Dick). ... The tempo becomes moderato while continuing to bounce around as the length of notes are being shortened and increased to add variety to the piece. ... Much longer notes are being played here and it much less jumpy and sudden. ...

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It was astonishing, for one, that he could simply hear music being played and than recite it onto a piano. ... Even when the Emperor told him that there was too many notes in his opera, in Mozart's mind it was perfect. ...

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