Although Beethoven could sit down and compose easily,his really great compositions did notcome easily at all.They cost him a great deal of hard work and he always found it hard to satisfyhimself.When he was 28,he began to notice a strange noise in his ears.As it grew worse,hewent to ...
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a music critic — who likened the slow, dramatic arpeggios of the first movement to flickering moonlight. Rellstab’s nickname for the piece has stuck ever since, but originally, both sonatas in Beethoven’s Op. 27 bore the subtitle “quasi una fantasia” (“in the ...
Articulation in Music | Definition, Symbol & Types from Chapter 13 / Lesson 2 80K Learn the definition of articulation in music and see how different types of articulation are used by composers. Study articulation symbols for notes and phrases. Related...
Composers love to do this kind of thing. I learned this long ago. The first music lesson I can remember having (I was 6), was given to me by my Grandfather Whitehouse at our dining room table (we didn’t own a piano), and it revealed music to me as an art of secrets. Grandpa...
I’m excited about comics right now, as you can probably gather, because it seems to me that they bring together so many types of communication – and they do itwell. Inmy last postI talked about the connection between comics and music, which I’ve been thinking about a lot thanks to...
somebody for whom the only thing he knew how to do was to relate to the world through music. And then, I think he was able to continue to compose only because he could play the music in his head. It was after Beethoven went deaf that he composed the Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy....
Did I mention “rest stops” – very important on long trips when you’ve been hydrating, especially important for us older types whose bladders are not suited for long trips. We learn to pay attention to the signs that say, “Next rest stop 52 miles”. The rest stops themselves vary ...
There are far more options for what you can do with a music degree than you probably realize. Performing and teaching are the two most common careers in music, but those alone don’t begin to cover what music majors can pursue once they graduate. We’ve linked several of the careers in...
I freaking love that our Friendly Five play and sing for real, in the course of our show, and on a regular basis too! What did we do to deserve this awesomeness, because I’d like us to do it again. 😍 I will admit that the music in this show didn’t exactly linger with me ...