Related GCSE Music essays

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   Music Appraisal - Classical Waltzes

   Different musical aspects are included to help build up to the central key change then, in the original key, fading or dying away at the end. Piece 2 - Waltz in C# Minor J. BRAHMS, Op. 39, NO.7 Similarly to the first waltz this piece has a time signature of

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   Composition Brief and Appraisal

   And also what fits into my composition and what sounds right and wrong. Some of the techniques that I used in my piece included trills - which I also stated in my brief that I would use. I feel that not only is it important to the style, but it

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   Indian Instruments

   the sitar is usually made of teak, with a resonating chamber originally made from a seasoned gourd but in modern forms typically of jackwood. The straight neck supports a wide fingerboard with 16-20 slightly curved, movable frets of brass or silver, which are positioned by the player according to the requirements of the raga to be performed.

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   The history of Music

   prominent part in the urbanisation of the blues, was here often relegated to an accompanying role - listen to Charles Brown records for example and you'll hear virtually all the solos played by Brown at the piano. This is not always the case of course, some of the greatest "jump

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   Beethoven & the Symphonic Genre

   Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in d minor, Op. 125, Choral (1824), is just as unique and innovative as the Eroica. First of all, like the Eroica, the piece was unique because of its massive length. The first three movements take about half an hour to perform, as long as most classical (Haydn & Mozart)

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   Ludwig van Beethoven, his life story and music from the Bonn peroid.

   In any event, this suggests that Beethoven completed hardly anything new under Haydn's immediate supervision, though he seems to have revised and polished several of the later Bonn works. When Haydn left for England in 1794, he passed Beethoven on to another tutor, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, the Kapellmeister at the Stephansdom and the best-known teacher of counterpoint in Vienna.

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   The Blues - socio-political context & influence on culture

   He headed for Fannin Street in Shreveport, a town of shoddy wooden buildings, warehouses, brothels and barrelhouses, drunkards, transients and whores. The aggressiveness of the society demanded heavy, loud, aggressive music. Huddie's guitar style was influenced by the barrelhouse piano players, and featured bass heavy strums, he played with power and aggression, and sang in a hollering, unmelodious voice.

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   A Brief History of the Blues

   Handy (1873-1958) first popularized the blues form about 1911-14. However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's "Memphis Blues" (1912) and "St. Louis Blues" (1914). Instrumental blues had been recorded as early as 1913. Mamie Smith recorded the first vocal blues song, 'Crazy Blues' in 1920.