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In a Western piece, after the first theme is introduced and harmony propels the music forward, it modulates to introduce a second theme in a contrasting musical key. The two themes then interact and the composition grows as an organic creation.
In the 1948 poem “The Pickerel Pond: A Double Pastoral.” Edmund Wilson used the amphisbaenic rhyme to symbolize the mirror reflection of the pond’s environment. [3] The lake lies with never a ripple, A lymph to lave sores from a leper: The sand white as salt in an air That has filtered the tamed every ray; Below limpid water, those lissome
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. This is a list of compositions by Alexander Scriabin.. The list is categorized by Genre, with Piano works organized by style of piece. The list can be sorted by Opus number and WoO number (mostly early works published posthumously) and Anh number (mostly fragmentary works), by clicking on the "Opus" header of the table.
8 pieces; nos. 1 and 4 arranged for string quartet in 1880, B. 105; orchestrated by Jarmil Burghauser: 102: 30: 1880: Dědicové bílé hory: The Heirs of the White Mountain: chorus and orchestra: secular cantata after a poem by Vítězslav Hálek; 1st revision of B. 27 103: 56A: 1880: Čtyři eklogy: 4 Eclogues: piano: 4 pieces; no. 1 used as ...
(Symphonic Poem No.8) orch 1854–56 Orchestral, symphonic poem based on 1st movement of S.690; arr. for pf4h as S.596a, for 2pf as S.642 103 G13 Hungaria (Symphonic Poem No.9) orch 1854 Orchestral, symphonic poem arr. for pf as S.511e, for pf4h as S.596, for 2pf as S.643 104 G22 Hamlet (Symphonic Poem No.10) orch 1858 Orchestral, symphonic poem
Poème électronique (English Translation: "Electronic Poem") is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress.
The poem was included in Pleshcheyev's anthology Snowdrop (Подснeжник; 1878), where it was found by Tchaikovsky. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] When "Legend" is sung by English-speaking choirs, the words used are usually those of Geoffrey Dearmer , who translated Pleshcheyev's Russian text back into English for the English Carol Book (1913).
The tone poems of Richard Strauss are noted as the high point of program music in the latter part of the 19th century, extending its boundaries and taking the concept of realism in music to an unprecedented level. In these works, he widened the expressive range of music while depicting subjects many times thought unsuitable for musical depiction.