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Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8, 1725). The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
Spring Fire: 1913: Mixture of a symphony and a symphonic poem Alan Bush: 2: G major: The Nottingham Symphony: 1949: 3: The Byron Symphony: 1959-60: 4: Lascaux Symphony: 1982-83: Mikis Theodorakis: 1: Proti Simfonia: 1948-54: 2: Song of the Earth: 1980-82: 4: Of the Choral Odes: 1986-87: 5: Spring Symphony: 1978-84: Borys Lyatoshynsky: 1: B ...
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
Symphony No. 1 in D major, third movement (p. 91 of the UE score) first violins, divisi a 3, play col legno tratto, stroking the strings with the wood of their bows (Piston 1955, 22). Symphony No. 2 in C minor , first movement, bars 304–306, all the strings play col legno (some of the strings continue through 307), striking the wood of their ...
Spring Symphony is a choral symphony by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 44. The work is scored for soprano , alto and tenor soloists, mixed choir, boys' choir and orchestra. [ 1 ] Britten used texts of several poems related to spring, mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries and also one by W. H. Auden . [ 2 ]
John Adams (born 1947), American composer who has used the term 'Symphony' to describe a number of works, including the Chamber Symphony (1992) and its sequel Son of Chamber Symphony (2007), the Dr. Atomic Symphony (2007), drawn from his opera of the same name, and Scheherazade.2, a "dramatic symphony" for violin and orchestra.
Originally published as Op. 53. The symphony's form and instrumentation diverged considerably from the descriptions he gave to the press. He had related that it would be a massive symphony for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Lenin. [91] Suite on Finnish Themes: Soloists, chorus, chamber orchestra, piano ...
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.