The Well-Tempered Clavier is" one of the world's great musical treasures. Each of its two volumes contains a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key of the chromatic scale." (Tim Smith,1) A fugue is a branch of the well tempered clavier its a put together composition with two or more sounds, built around a common theme, that is introduced at the beginning with a repetition and that occurs frequently throughout the work. Within the fugue stands the counterpoint which is relationship between those sounds. An interesting fugue that stood out to me was; fugue 3 in C-sharp on the piano. Typically when I hear a piano being played I picture its timbre as a nice dark mahogany color that is rich in its warmth. This stood out to me because …show more content…
In the first movement opening with the violins had a deep dark burgundy, mysterious timbre which set the mood of the trembling icy cold. Followed by the soothing rhythm of the violin concertos helps depict the falling of snowflakes. This first movement was by far my favorite in the winter series because the amount of imagery. Another example to show how well Vivaldi brought about this piece through the fast thrill of violinists both showing the dynamics and the story plot line. The fast thrill represented the teeth shattering by the bitter cold..The dynamics on the other hand showed; as the forte increased you could easily pick up on the important theme.
The second movement in winter is the story about a man lying beside heat, whereas others are drenched In the pouring rain. Again this is seen with much imagery, to start of with the beat of plucking violins I can easily picture it starting to rain and with an increase in the dynamics it tells us how its starting to pour. Closing my eyes listening I can actually picture myself resting peacefully up against a nice fireplace, I think this is due to the melody of the violin solo. Within the melody of the soloist it tells us the true delight of the
In “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why?” Edna St. Vincent Millay says that “the summer sang in me” meaning that she was once as bright and lively as the warm summer months. In the winter everyone wants to bundle up and be lazy, but when summer comes along the sunshine tends to take away the limits that the cold once had on us. She uses the metaphor of summer to express the freedom she once felt in her youth, and the winter in contrast to the dull meaningless life she has now. There are many poets that feel a connection with the changing of seasons. In “Odes to the West Wind” Percy Bysshe Shelley describes his hopes and his expectations for the seasons to inspire the world.
For each seasonal section, there is a progression from beginning to end within the season. Each season is compiled in a progressive nature with poetry describing the beginning of a season coming before poetry for the end of the season. This is clear for spring, which starts with, “fallen snow [that] lingers on” and concludes with a poet lamenting that “spring should take its leave” (McCullough 14, 39). The imagery progresses from the end of winter, with snow still lingering around to when the signs of spring are disappearing. Although each poem alone does not show much in terms of the time of the year, when put into the context of other poems a timeline emerges from one season to the next. Each poem is linked to another poem when it comes to the entire anthology. By having each poem put into the context of another, a sense of organization emerges within each section. Every poem contributes to the meaning of a group of poems. The images used are meant to evoke a specific point in each season from the snow to the blossoms to the falling of the blossoms. Since each poem stands alone and has no true plot they lack the significance than if they were put into th...
There are many ways in which “Winter Dreams” is like and unlike a fairytale. “Winter Dreams” had the potential to have a fairy tale ending. Beginning the story, F. Scott Fitzgerald made the story seem predictable. The reader would have predicted a happy ending like a fairytale. An ending where the ambitious young man gets the beautiful girl of his dreams. Sadly, the story doesn’t end that way. The story had many similarities and differences considering the plot, atmosphere, tone and characteristics, to a fairy tale.
Prelude and Fugue No. 17 BMW 862 is part of the book named The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. He grew up in a musical family; his father being the director of the musicians in his hometown and his uncles all skilled musicians. Respectively, his father and brother taught him the violin, harpsichord and clavichord. However, his brother, Johann Christoph Bach, was the one responsible for his introduction to contemporary music. Initially, he landed a position in a school in Luneburg due to his wonderful singing, but later, he switched to focusing on the violin and harpsichord. Throughout his childhood, he often looked up to the local organist, George Bohm, who later became his teacher. Subsequent to his
The pitches in the melody of the b minor fugue are and outline of a b minor triad. This triadic outline is filled with chromatic pitches and consonant pitches. The notes of the triad are repeated twice with its neighbor tone in-between the notes of the triad, for example, B A-sharp, B C-sharp, D C-sharp, D, C-sharp. The answer to the subject is a real answer. The answer is the same intervals as the subject making it a tonal answer. The real answer, in the dominate key F-sharp minor, also provides a minor triad. The tonal center is established by the outline of the b minor triad in the subject of the fugue. The one chromatic note in the subject is the leading tone to B, A-sharp and same in the answer, E-sharp. In the answer a G-sharp appears but that is in the key of f-sharp minor. This subject goes from a 7th to a 6th, almost an octave. This subject has a defined arch structure. It goes up and then comes back down. The highest note of this subject is a G, a...
The 3rd movement: Scene in the Fields. This section represents a tranquil interval. It is a summer evening in the country and he hears two shepherds piping. The tranquil moment of the quiet summer evening alone with the pastoral duet fills his heart with an unfamiliar calm. Suddenly she appears and her appearance causes an emotional response of sorrowful loneliness.
In the third movement comes the fantastic ending of the seventh piano concerto, a cheerful presto. The opening piano/orchestral introduction of the theme is one of the most cheerful examples of concerto writing I have ever heard, and the entire movement alternates between this wonderful melody and some calming moments. The orchestra is often there to emphasize the piano, until together they introduce a climax of the sort that causes one to whistle and think on those few seconds for hours.
“We are in a remote country house, toward evening, a cold blizzard rages.” [Cite] The short, simple, and beautifully written murder mystery play The Blizzard, written by David Ives, begins in a somewhat cliché state. Inside the secluded house in a forest, with the predictably unfavorable weather outside, and no access to technology primarily no external communications. The starting leads to a feeling of unremarkability, that soon the play may become another no name story that hardly leaves a dent in your memory. This dreary beginning in part fits into the themes of the play and in some ways better compliments the more creative middle and end. Ultimately, The Blizzard is a meta play primarily referential to murder mysteries on a whole rather
Listening to Bach’s prelude-fugue in D major the first thing that is noticed is that it is very complex. There are many different notes that are played in the opening part of the composition. Having this many notes gives one immediate feeling of how the music is complex. The time signature of the music ...
...stanza. The alliteration of the "h" sound in lines 7 and 8, "he," "hand," "headpiece," produces an aspirate. The "h" creates the sound of human breath. The reader can almost picture white puffs of breath forming in the frosty winter air. Similar alliteration can be found in the phrase "woven a winter robe" (l. 9), though the effect here draws the reader's eat back to the smooth contemplative sounds of the first stanza.
In the beginning Carver ironically uses the weather as setting to describe the mood and atmosphere. The season used in the story is winter. As winter is season of cold and symbolizes cold, dark and gray. Where color represents happiness, joy and life and darkness represents dullness, sadness and stress. “Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water.”(276). the first sentence gives the reader a hint about something that has happened between the couple in the story and their
The symbol of this story is snow because it is reflecting how becoming an immigrant can be so harsh and hurtful but in the end a beautiful thing as you overcome the struggles. The narrator who shines herself through Yolanda portrays how her life was like when she first became an immigrant. It was a disastrous and hurtful time, b...
Vivaldi incredibly captures the mood of each season and reflects that in each concert in “Four Seasons”. Vivaldi’s Spring Concerto is one of the single-most recognizable concerto produced from any composer in the Baroque Period. Vivaldi paints a picture of the season of spring in a way that had never been heard before. With the fluttering use of violins, he invokes images of birds joyfully flying. The sudden rising and falling played by a solo violin represents streams flowing. Vivaldi was one of the first composers to use ritornello form, and “Four Seasons” was just one of Vivaldi’s hundreds of concertos that used this form, which was characterized by fast movements that began and ended the concerto, separated by a slow movement between. Vivaldi set the bar for other composers using imagery in their music. It would be an understatement to say that many composers have been influenced by Antonio Vivaldi. Some of these composers include Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn. He has also impacted musicians as recently as the 20th century. Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Norwegian Trondheim Soloists have produced throwbacks to Vivaldi’s “Four
The Four Seasons composed by Vivaldi was one of the earliest examples of program music and was also the most famous of all his concertos. Vivaldi wanted to depict the various seasons in the four concerti in Italian. When you listen to the Four Season, you feel as though he has created a whole another atmosphere with its own feelings. He seems to have used only the four major instruments that are usually present in an orchestra, which are the violin, viola, cello and bass, to depict this atmosphere effortlessly.
The long winter begins with, “The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go” (1-5). This demonstrates the power of endurance because in order for the tree to survive the harsh winter, the leaves must hang on. Although the theme is based on destruction and bitterness, there is beauty in this poem because the poet uses nature to describe the scene in a more vivid, visual image. Just like any other problem that is encountered, one must persevere and trudge on, for the troubles of winter will make its way to a promising spring. Although there is great loss during the winter, with perseverance and strength, one can win back whatever was