“June: Barcarolle” is one of Tchaikovsky's piano suites "The Seasons". In fact, there are 12 pieces in "The Seasons", representing 12 months, so each piece is named "Month + Title". It is obvious that “June - Barcarolle” is a depiction of the Russian landscape in June, which embodies the composer's love for nature and is based on a Russian folk dance or folk song, which is closely linked to the composer's emotions. With a sweet melody and soft harmonies the composer expresses the shimmering and rippling water, recreating scenes of landscape, life episodes and various scenes of social activities. In general, this music uses the triple meter and quadruple meter to imitate the feeling of evenly paddling Russian flat-bottom boats. Compared with most of the boat songs written in compound duple meter.The composer's arrangement is more able to reflect the mood of a light boat. Bars 1 to 2 are the introductory section, which is in the key of G mino...
Introduction The erhu occupies an important place among traditional Chinese musical instruments, and is loved for its melancholy tone, rich musical expression, and infectious musical power. The overall length of the instrument is about 80 cm, and the vibrational length of the strings is around half of that. The soundbox is a tube, and one end of the tube is covered by a membrane of tensioned python skin. So, the production of the erhu requires not only a large amount of high-quality imported wood, but also natural python skin with a certain python age for the vibrating skin surface. After my research and study, I learn that the quality of python skin is decisive for the sound of the erhu. Since this research revolves around ecological sustainability as the theme, I will focus on the problems arising from the python skin of erhu and the significance of artificial skin erhu. The reason for using python skin as material & the production process Making musical instruments with python s...
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. As a patriotic composer, many of his musical compositions are based on the beautiful nature of Norwegian, customs, and countryside scenery. The programmatic music , Morning Mood is one of the most famous pieces. Morning Mood is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt , Op. 23. In this piece, Grieg depicts the beautiful nature of a Norwegian morning. The whole work presents a peaceful and idyllic scene. The music gives the impression of being in a dawn landscape. This work is one of the required pieces in many major recitals and is also well-known as a preferred textbook theme for composition and conducting majors. In the first part (bars 1-20), bars 1-4, the flute lightly reveals the musical theme on the dominant note of E Major. In bars 5-8, the theme is again played on the oboe. The ending s...
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