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At the time of publication the 28-year-old Beethoven regarded the trios as his best compositions. [2] The trios can be seen as a part of the preparation for the upcoming string quartets, which became the leading genre among his chamber music. The musicologist Gerald Abraham has remarked that in terms of their style and aesthetic value the ...
spirito Spirit, con spirito: with spirit, with feeling spiritoso Spirited staccato Making each note brief and detached; the opposite of legato. In musical notation, a small dot under or over the head of the note indicates that it is to be articulated as staccato. stanza A verse of a song stem Vertical line that is directly connected to the ...
1. Slightly less easy than adagio (so slightly faster); 2. a short adagio composition Affrettando: becoming hurried: Accelerating Alla marcia: as a march: In strict tempo at a marching pace (e.g. 120 BPM) Allargando: broadening: Slowing down and broadening; becoming more stately and majestic, possibly louder Allegro: joyful; lively and fast
[2] Prokofiev intended to reconstruct the piece in three movements, going so far as to assign the project the opus number 136, [ 3 ] but the composer died before he could undertake the revisions. The symphony, little-known and rarely performed, remains among the least-played of Prokofiev's works.
In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail.However, dynamics markings require interpretation by the performer depending on the musical context: a specific marking may correspond to a different volume between pieces or even sections of one piece.
Chamber music: 2: 1900: ... Allegro con spirito (B ... The Story of My Heart - Allegro con brio; for orchestra: Chamber music: 119: 1916: 2 Old English Songs.
The work is in four movements and is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns (in E and G), continuo (harpsichord) and strings: [2] Allegro con brio, 4 4; Menuetto e Trio (Trio in E major): Allegretto, 3 4; Adagio in E major, 2 4; Finale: Presto, 2 2; The piece is typical of Haydn's Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) period.
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877, during a visit to Pörtschach am Wörthersee, a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia. Its composition was brief in comparison with the 21 years it took him to complete his First Symphony .