Archive for March 2011
The Genius Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven, of German origin, was born on December 17, 1770 in the home of Johann was the teacher of violin, piano and voice. From his youth, Beethoven used to sing soprano in the chapel of the elections, where his father was the choir director who taught Beethoven, violin and piano. For 8 years, he studied with many local organizations, even received piano lessons from Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer, where violinist Franz Rovantini present lessons in violin and viola.
Despite a born artist, the musical brilliance of Beethoven, has been associated with Mozart never surpassed primary education. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 where his father died in the same year. Beethoven studied with the best known teacher in Vienna, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. With exercises he learned counterpoint and counterpoint in the free writing, in two of four parts leak in imitation, leakage coral double fugue, double counterpoint in the various intervals, the barrel and triple counterpoint. A born genius
Now, the question arises of how a great composer like Beethoven wrote symphonies 2, 3 and 4 in 1800-1806, which was his first day of deafness? Beethoven loved a woman named Fanny, but never married. Beethoven finished the music through his long life. While the music of Beethoven symphonies with the sonatas for many, his specialty was the piano concertos, sonatas, string quartets and symphonies for piano, which were his favorite too. Beethoven’s compositional career is usually divided into fast (up to 1802), East (1803-1814) and late periods (1815 onwards). Some of his classic pieces from the early days are the first and second symphonies, string quartets 1-6, Piano Concertos 1-3, and the first 20 piano sonatas, including the evergreen “Moonlight” sonata.
He is known for a broad base of music to express the struggle and heroism, the middle period include works for piano concerts to four and five, six symphonies (No. 3-8), the Violin Concerto, the Triple Concerto, the next seven piano sonatas (including Waldstein and Appassionata), five string quartets (No. 7-11) and Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio.
The last term is widely regarded as the Romantic period. Music of this period was marked by his intellectual depth, formal innovations, and intense expression. After his death, each musician in the world, anything at any time of his musical career was inspired by the music of Beethoven. The best example may be cited in the European committee that designed the European flag was adopted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” from his Ninth Symphony in 1972, which became the official anthem of the European Union in 1985.
Elvis Presley; King of Rock & Roll
Who does not love the songs of Elvis Presley? He is the King of Rock & Roll and the king of Gyration. He was shaking his leg, hip thrust, and his irresistible smile that attracted the attention of women in this unforgettable artist.
It was 1956, when Elvis began his famous foot-dragging of the Milton Berle show to the sounds of “Hound Dog”. The next day in the national media, the terms are used such as vulgar and obscene due to the strong suggestive sexual content. Nearly six decades later, one wonders what world these people lived at that time. Television reviews slammed the performance as “appalling” and devoid of any “musical value.”
Sullivan thought Elvis was a handsome and nice boy. Cosmopolitan Magazine wrote in December 1956 that while it was good to his parents, sent money to his family, and has been preserved . He did not have a free ticket to behave like a wild sex in public.
It is estimated that it sold over a billion singles and albums. And according to the RIAA, there were 149 100 first single of his career. Elvis is the only artist known to be inducted into four music halls of fame. Its name can be found in the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Hall of Fame Gospel Music of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.”
Young people today have no idea of ??the strength of this iconic artist. He laid the foundation for much of contemporary artists. And although his image decorates many objects that may interfere with the cultural influence that is. That remains one of the last centuries in the cultural world changers.
Enjoy Instrumental Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic guitar solos are a slice of a musical genre that has disappeared from popular music – instrumental. For instrumentals, the music is composed and performed by a human using musical instruments rather than instrumental techno that can be composed and played the traditional way. I just thought it might be useful for some guitarists to take a quick look at the part of the acoustic guitar played in instrumental music. The classical guitar is the guitar in the original form that is familiar to us. Electric guitar, steel string acoustic, resonator guitars are all descended from the classical guitar with nylon strings. Classical guitar as a genre is simply the classical music played on guitar. It can get quite sophisticated and technically demanding, but there are simple pieces of classical guitar online in musical notation or tabs that any guitarist with a fingerstyle technique base could be very rewarding to play.
You might be surprised to know that the instrument flamenco guitar solo is a relatively new arrival in the music world. Early flamenco guitar players such as Ramon Montoya produced the music that will probably be little interest in modern, non-Spanish public, but you can find video clips from 1950 and ’60 champions’ as Sabicas and Diego the Gastor and modern guitar virtuosos like Paco de Lucia , Serranito, Paco Pena and Vicente Amigo.
















