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‘Almost all of Alkan’s surviving works are written for the piano. The finest of these were completed during the fifteen years fr ...
Hell and redemption culminating in an eight-part (not including doublings) fugue, the argument of which is at once cold and deep ...
The British musical terms are placed first. They are, generally speaking, the terms used in Australia. The American terms opposi ...
Other musical terms alto – male alto or countertenor aural training – ear training bar – measure choral society – glee club, com ...
He was a recognised interpreter of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Liszt. He put technique in the background and emphasised te ...
Chords that are broken up sequentially are called arpeggios. The usual sign, of a wavy line, indicates an upwards arpeggio. The ...
In recognising intervals one should think of the notes as the start of a tune one knows. The traditional version of ‘Away in a M ...
had more similarities with the musical work of the baroque era. Music was regarded as a performance art: the performer was somet ...
to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. Revered for their ...
thematically not chronologically, was compiled by Wolfgang Schmieder and published in The organ works are BWV 525-748 and the o ...
Bach’s keyboard works were written for the pipe organ, harpsichord, pedal harpsichord and clavichord. Bach was not very impresse ...
The Goldberg Variations BWV 988 consists of an aria with thirty variations. The collection has a complex and unconventional stru ...
Liszt’s pupils, his earnestness of purpose, his energy and his unswerving study made up for the comparative want of what Liszt w ...
and the showrooms full of pianos, were seized as enemy property. The hall was sold at auction in 1916 to Debenhams and was re-op ...
Beethoven was an important figure in the transitional period between the classical and romantic eras in Western classical music ...
have suggested a ‘fourth’ period to include Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations and some of the late Bagatelles. Works Piano sonat ...
very mark of his creation and the form of his thought – an inherent form, a natural one. (Edwin Fischer ‘Beethoven’s Piano Sonat ...
C minor opus 37 G major opus 58 E flat major opus 58 ‘Emperor’ Beethoven composed five piano concertos. In addition there are ...
It was Beethoven’s first, and only, concerto in a minor key and it set him on an original, creative path in which his piano styl ...
You cannot refine your touch without refining your ear. One physical constant that is indispensible for producing rich, nuanced ...
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