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The music begins in emphatic fashion: a pickup G, which is then followed by a C that jumps up to an F ♯ (a tritone). A chromatic 3-note sequence follows. The low instruments then begin playing a theme that would perpetuate the rest of the piece. The music evolves into a dance, played by the violins and the woodwinds.
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements completed in October 1940 by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is his final major composition, and his only piece written in its entirety while living in the United States. The work allowed him to indulge in a nostalgia for the Russia he had known, as much as he had done ...
A number of composers, especially Bohemian and Russian, followed in Liszt's footsteps to develop the symphonic poem further. [67] Added to this was the Russian love of story-telling, for which the genre seemed expressly tailored. [68] Tchaikovsky wrote a symphonic poem, Fatum, after he had finished his First Symphony and first opera, The ...
Dante Symphony No. 4, Purgatory, from choreo-symphonic cycle Beatrice, by Boris Tishchenko (2003) Symphony No. 7, Toltec, by Philip Glass (2005) * Symphony No. 8, Songs of Transitoriness, by Krzysztof Penderecki (2005) Symphony No. 2, Festinemus amare homines, by Pawel Lukaszewski (2005) Symphony No. 3, Planet Earth, by Johan de Meij (2006)
Sep. 6—The Greater Huntington Symphonic and Jazz Bands will perform their annual free pops concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Paul T. Billups Park Amphitheater in Ceredo, West Virginia. The jazz ...
Choral symphony. Hector Berlioz was the first to use the term "choral symphony" for a musical composition—his Roméo et Juliette. A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, and sometimes solo vocalists that, in its internal workings and overall musical architecture, adheres broadly to symphonic musical form. [1]
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The symphonic poems of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt are a series of 13 orchestral works, numbered S.95–107. [1] The first 12 were composed between 1848 and 1858 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave), followed in 1882. These works helped establish the genre of ...