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Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
He assigned the first line of each poem as the song title, since Emily Dickinson had not written a title for any of the pieces. The exception is "The Chariot," which was Dickinson's original published title. Each song is dedicated to a composer friend. The sequence, with dedicatees, is: Nature, the Gentlest Mother (David Diamond)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev) Piano Concerto No. 4 (Rachmaninoff) Piano Quintet (Schnittke) Piano Sonata (Dutilleux) Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 30 (Beethoven) Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich) Piano Trio No. 38 (Haydn) Piano Trio No. 40 (Haydn) Piano Variations (Copland) Planos (Revueltas)
All the pieces have a duration of about one or two minutes. Out of all 11 pieces, only three are based on folk tunes: numbers three, six and eight. The rest of the pieces were created in their entirety by Bartók, who used to make a great number of short pieces for piano using folk-like structures and melodies.
The early-twentieth-century British composer Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) is recognized largely for several song cycles, setting texts from a wide selection English poets, including Thomas Traherne, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Robert Bridges and Edmund Blunden.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
For Children (Hungarian: Gyermekeknek) is a set of short piano pieces [1] composed by Béla Bartók in 1908 and 1909; 85 pieces were originally issued in four volumes. Each piece is based on a folk tune: Hungarian in the first two volumes (42 pieces), Slovak in the last two (43 pieces). In 1945, Bartók revised the set, removing six pieces that ...
The premiere of Children's Notebook took place at a children's music concert organized by the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow [17] on December 6, 1945. [9] Galina was to have played the entire work, but managed only to play "March": [17] I played the first piece without a flaw, but I stumbled on ["Waltz"]. I began again and stumbled again.