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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 ...
A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello: little return: A recurring passage in a piece of Baroque ...
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[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.
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 ...
Movement 1 - Allegro con brio. While the movement initially sounds like ritornello form, it is actually in sonata form. Exposition: 1st Subject - bars 1-20 2nd Subject - bars 33-67. Development: The development section occurs between bars 68 to 128. Recapitulation: Both subjects are heard again, now both based in A. Coda; bars 194-232
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 .
All three of Beethoven's Op. 2 piano sonatas contain four movements, an unusual length at the time, which seems to show that Beethoven was aspiring towards composing a symphony. [2] It is both the weightiest and longest of the three Op. 2 sonatas, and it presents many difficulties for the performer, including difficult trills, awkward hand ...