Biography Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born in Salzburg, January 27, 1756 - died in Vienna, Austria, December 5, 1791 at age 35 years) was a composer. He is regarded as one of the composers of European classical music is the most important and most famous in history. His works (about 700 songs) includes compositions which are widely recognized as the pinnacle work of symphonic music, chamber music, piano music, opera music, and choral music. Examples of his work is the opera Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte. Many of the works of Mozart considered a standard repertoire of classical concerts and music recognized as masterpieces of antiquity. His works are listed in Kochel-Verzeichnis catalog.

Mozart, who is known to have an absolute tuning capability (to know the exact tone without the aid of a tool), know the music from birth. His father, Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was an important composer of his time, one of his most important work is Kindersinfonie ("Symphony Kids"). Wolfgang was the youngest of seven children who died prematurely. Only he and Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl") who survive to adulthood. When she was four years old, Mozart was able to play the harpsichord and improvise on musical works of its predecessors. He even wrote the first composition at the age of five years. His works include Violin Sonata, and some of the Minuet. Leopold collected all of this without the knowledge of his compositions. So it is with Nannerl, he also is a very reliable keyboard player. Leopold who discovered her talent both felt "compelled" to showcase them to the rest of Europe.

Mozart was then taken to play the piano in front of the king of Bayern Munich. In September 1762, Leopold took a sabbatical from his position to promote his son to the kings. They then went to Vienna. There Mozart playing the piano in front of the Empress Maria Theresia who dazzled expertise will play Mozart and Nannerl. After this concert, Mozart must follow a long concert for three years, namely Paris (1763, 1765) and London (1764-1765). In these places, Mozart concerts in front of kings and also tested by them. Among others, by improvising themes given by the examiner with her eyes closed piece of cloth. Mozart as a child prodigy was welcomed everywhere. In London, he also met with the son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christian Bach is often invoked as the English Bach. Mozart piano sonata in four hands in her lap while sitting Bach.

Biography Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori was born in Italy on the 4th of May 1655. Life not much is known of his childhood. Cristofori people call as the first person who discovered the piano. A source said only that Cristofori was educated in a way "to serve" in Nikolo Amati, a famous violin maker at that time. At the age of 33 years or more precisely in 1688, Cristofori was recruited by Prince Ferdinando de Medici. Ferdinando music lover is someone who is heir to Cosimo III, one of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

At that time a royal autonomous kecl Tuscany in Italy. Cristofori's tenacious and diligent work by making Ferdinando amazed and delighted him and gave a higher fee than originally agreed. In 1700, for the first time Cristofori make a musical instrument later known as the piano. These findings musical Cristofori has 4 octave voice. A journalist named Scipione Maffei described the instrument as gravecembalo col piano e forte, which means the harpsichord with soft keyboard is loud. This instrument was originally called the pianoforte, but in the end is better known by the name of the piano.

Tips to learn piano

The country's most successful musicians in the music industry is a self-taught. While the academic musicians are very rarely seen. Is it true that the issue is academic self-taught vs black vs white issue? Of course not that simple. But the issue will be discussed next time. But the reality is that people who claim self-taught actually use academic science even without realizing it.

The issue of academic self-taught, which is the first issue of the chicken-egg. So let's get rid of before the debate about the "chicken-egg" is. The more important this time is how to be a successful self-taught? (Of course the word success here does not mean material success but success got the science of Javanese dance).

The main requirement for a self-taught is willpower. Because to get a self-taught man of science must "find himself". In contrast to conditions in an educational institution. What should be learned to stage the material has been drawn up should be studied systematically (although many music education institutions that did not have a teaching system. It's bad, see here also sell bed linen). But the actual material to be learned by self-taught and academically is the same. So the key is to understand first the "maps" in order not to get lost. If learning with books, books that give Distinguish between science as an "instant" with a book that addresses an issue of subject matter. This is almost the same as saying: do not just give a fish hook. With a deep-rooted knowledge of many issues makes it far easier to solve. In contrast to the instantaneous nature of knowledge that only gives one answer to one question.

History of Piano

Piano is a musical instrument familiar to us who played with the fingers of the hand. The player piano called a pianist.

At the beginning created, not as loud as the sound piano piano's twentieth century, such as the piano made by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655 - 1731) made in 1720. Because the piano string tension when it is not as strong now. Now the piano is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Although the inventor who first piano, which was originally dubbed gravecembalo col piano e forte (harpsichord with soft keyboard and speak out loud), is still being debated, many people recognize, Bartolomeo Cristofori as its creator. Piano is also not the first musical instrument that uses a keyboard and work with a hit. The working principle of musical instruments like the piano has been around since 1440.

Piano himself was born of a desire to combine beauty with strength harpsichord clavichord tone. Desire that pushed Marius of Paris (1716), Schröter of Saxony (1717), and Christofori (1720) from Padua, Italy, to make the piano. However, whole and complete results are shown only Bartolomeo Christofori. Creation of the piano and harpsichord keepers Spinet (small harpsichord) in the Florentine Palace - the residence of Prince Ferdinand de 'Medici - this is the modern piano roots.

In the mid-seventeenth century the piano was made with some form. Initially, there is a design resembling a harpsichord, with soaring strings. Piano will be lower after John Isaac Hawkins modify the location to be parallel to the floor. Then, with a demand made musical instruments are lighter, less expensive, and with a lighter touch, German piano-makers respond with a square piano. Up to 1860 square piano dominates the use of the piano at home.

Story of Piano

This story happened in Russia. A father who has a son who was about 5 years old, entering his son to school to learn piano music. He longs to see his son would become a famous pianist. A short time later, the city came a very famous pianist. Because of his fame, in a very short concert tickets have sold out. The father bought 2 pieces of tickets, for herself and her child. On the day of the show, one hour before the concert began, the chair is fully charged, the father and son sitting right on his side. Like a small child, even this can not stand sitting still for too long, without the knowledge of his father, he slipped away.

When the building began in the dim light, the father was surprised to realize that his son was not there beside him. He was even more surprised when she saw her son was close to the stage and was walking over to the piano to be played the pianist. Driven by curiosity, without any fear of the child is seated at the piano and began playing a song, the song is simple, Twinkle2 Little Star.

Spotlight operator, who was surprised to hear the piano sound to think that the concert had begun without first aba2, and he shined the light directly at the stage. The whole audience was shocked, to see who was on stage was not a pianist, but it was just a kid. The pianist was also surprised, rushed up onto the stage. Seeing the child, the pianist did not get angry, he smiled and said, "Keep playing", and the child who gets a license, to continue the game.

The pianist and sat beside him, and began playing the game compensate for the boy, he filled all the weaknesses of the child's game, and finally created a game that is very beautiful composition. Even though they are united in piano playing.

When they were finished, the entire audience with a rousing welcome, bouquets thrown ketengah stage. The children become GR, he thought "Holy shit, a new study alone is a great month". He forgets that the audience cheered on by the pianist who was sitting next to him, filling all the shortcomings and make the perfect game.

Teman2, what are the implications in our lives? Sometimes we are proud of all the great plans we make, big perbuatan2 we have done, but we forget ... that all happened because the Lord is beside us. We are the little children, with no God beside us, WE ARE FUTILE. but if the Lord is beside us .... we do anything as simple as it would be a great and good, not only for ourselves but also good for those around us.

May we never forget that there is a God beside us. Amin.

The Virtuosa - Pianist

part 1
preparatory exercises for the acquirement of Agility, Independence, Strenght and Perfect Evenness in the Fingers.

No.1

Stretch between the fifth and fourth fingers of the left hand in ascending, and the fifth and fourth fingers of the right hand in descending.
for studying the 20 exercises in this First Part, begin with the metronome set at 60, gradually increasing the speed up to 108; this is the meaning of the doble metronome - mark at the head of each exercise.
lift the fingers high and with precision, playing each note very distinctly.

THE MEANING OF THE EXPRESSION MARKS USED IN THIS PIECE

1.       MODERATO = at a moderate of speed or tempo

2.       LEGATO = bound together, play smoothly and connected

3.       Mf (Mezzo forte) = Half or moderately loud

4.       P (Piano) = Softly

5.       f (forte) = Luod

6.       pp (pianissimo) = Very Soft

7.       mp (mezzo piano) = Half or moderately soft

8.       Rit (ritard) = Gradual slowing up of tempo

Swans On the Lake

TEMPO

TEMPO means TIME. A steady, even TEMPO is necessary to preserve the rhythmical swing. This means that there is no time to stop and hunt for notes or fingers. After a piece has been learned is should be reviewed until be reviewed until it can be played fluently and easily without stops or hesitation.

TONAL SHADING : As painter creates beautiful pictures by lights and shadow so in music do we add color to our musical pictures by means of means of TONAL SHADING. A MELODY LINE should constantly change in “thickness”. This may be accomplished by adding MORE or LESS intensity to the tone. Everythink possible should be done to make our music “flow”. This applies equally to Melody, Rhythm and harmony. “Contrast is the first law of all art.”

PATTERNS

Musical Form

Because it is built up of  many well ordered PATTERNS, music has often been compared to architecture. We have in music, Melody pattern, Rhythmical Pattern, Harmony Pattern and (in piano music) Finger Pattern. The ability to recognize PATTERNS is very important it makes for easier Sight-Reading, quacker Memorizing and more intelegent Interpretation.

THE MELODY PATTERN

Fix in your mind the above melody pattern in the right hand and note that the tones move THREE STEPS upward and ONE SKIP downward

The same PATTERN one while key heigher.

Note now that this design is repeated is repeated over and over throughout the little composition. Each design starting ONE TONE higher than the preceding pattern.

RHYTHM and ACCENTS

RHYTHM and ACCENTS

RHYTHM has been called the soul of music. Rhythnical “swing” give life to any composition. The first step in setting the RHYTHM is by means of the ACCENT. An ACCENT is a special emphasis placed upon ONE of the beats in a measure. RUN_AWAY RIVER is written in THREE-FOUR rhythm, which means ONE count to each quarter-note and THREE counts to each measure.

Always accent the first beat of each measure in three-four rhythm. TWO – FOUR rhythm means ONE count to each quarter-note and TWO counts to each measure. Accents the FIRST note of each measure.

COUNT : | ONE two | etc.  

JOHN THOMPSON’S

MODERN COURSE FOR THE PIANO

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Symbol Musik

On books or sheet music piano, you'll find lots of piano symbols, words or abbreviations. Composer makes it easy for you to know how to play the song. many who do not know the meaning of terms of music.

dynamic signs to determine how slow or hard at play

pp

Pianissimo = very soft


P
piano = soft


MP
mezzo piano = half or moerately soft

MF
mezzo forte = half or moerately loud

F
forte = loud

ff
fortissimo = very loud









sometimes written, abbreviated cresc, or written as a sign of hard play











Diminuendo : sometimes written, abbreviated decresc, or written as a sign of a more gentle play.

Partitur Musik Klasik

kinds of musical signs

There are many signs on the songs, maybe we've never heard of them. signs will be discussed here that we rarely hear.

A tempo
a tempo : play the same speed when you start playing the song


Coda
coda : the final phrase of a song

D.S. al coda 
should continue to the end of the song, back in       marker, play up    
From there, go to Coda, without any lag when moving around in the songs.

 Fermata : last longer than usual. A silly but easy way to keep in mind that Fermata make a note which will be held approximately twice as long as usual.

   

legato : 

itself has several different meanings, one based on the flow of Italian music and the other based on the flow of German music. On the flow of Italian, singing legato means a combination of several successive notes at a time, while the German school to sing legato means as quickly as possible from one note to the next tone without interruption at a time.

Oktaf, or 8va: play an octave higher or lower.

Poco

Poco : written before the words mean little.

Rit. 

Ritardando : Often abbreviated as rit, played and gradually slows down.

Sforzando : play the notes of a sudden, very loud and clear.

Staccato :  means to make a slow and separate records.

Tenuto mark : tap into the note, giving full value. Give emphasis additional notes by simply emphasizing the value of the count.

 

Tremolo : play the notes back and forth as fast as you can

Tempo On Piano

Tempo is usually marked at the top of the piano song, before you start, sometimes the song will change the tempo in the middle of the song. The composer will write when to change speeds. There is no special sign for the tempo simply written as follows :

Adagio

Adagio: slowly

Andante

Andante: walking speed

Moderato

Moderato: moderate tempo

Allegretto

Allegretto: rather fast

Allegro

Allegro: fast and lively, cheerfully

Vivace

Vivace: very fast