Selasa, 24 April 2012
Maple Leaf Rag Piano Sheet
It's a difficult song and you have to work hard to master it... I still learn this song. Hope can master it... This song is very nice ^_^
Maple Leaf Rag
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The "Maple Leaf Rag" (copyright registered 18 September 1899) is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. As a result Joplin was called the "King of Ragtime". The piece gave Joplin a steady if unspectacular income for the rest of his life.
Despite ragtime's decline after Joplin's death in 1917, the "Maple Leaf Rag" continued to be recorded by many well-known artists. The Ragtime revival of the 1970s brought it back to mainstream public notice once again.
The "Maple Leaf Rag" is associated with the city of Sedalia, Missouri, though there is no record of Joplin having a permanent residence there before 1904. Joplin arrived in Sedalia in 1894 as a touring musician and stayed with the family of Arthur Marshall, who later became one of Joplin's students and a ragtime composer in his own right. Joplin performed as a solo musician at dances
Minggu, 15 April 2012
Sight Reading x_x
Sight reading again, again, and again! I'm bored with this thing... But I have to practice it again and again. Because I'll join royal exams in August... It will be my first royal exams. I'll join the third grade. It's really difficult actually but I need a lot of hardwork to prepare it.
Specially for the sight reading and aural test x_x. Actually I'm good enough in sight reading but not in aural... I can read a piano sheet fast and play it even though it's not fluent. But my weakness is in aural test. I'm not good in hearing. I can't sing a minor pitch. So horrible... Hope I can fix it in this 3 months. I have to give my best...
If you have tips for hearing practice, please tell me... I really need it ^^
Thanks all...
Selasa, 03 April 2012
The Entertainer
The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin.
One of the classics of ragtime, it returned to top international prominence as part of the ragtime revival in the 1970s, when it was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting. Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached number three on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at number one on the easy listening chart in 1974. The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the mistaken impression that ragtime music was popular at that time.
The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its "Songs of the Century" list.
"The Entertainer" is sub-titled "A rag time two step", which was a form of dance popular until about 1911, and a style which was common among ragswritten at the time.
Its structure is: Intro AA BB A CC Intro2 DD.
Minggu, 01 April 2012
Canon Rock!
"Canon Rock" is a neo-classical metal arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D major by the Taiwanese musician and composer Jerry Chang (JerryC). The composition contains a variety of melodic lines showing Jerry's style of phrasing his fingers. The piece became popular on the internet after a video of JerryC was posted on Google Videos. The rendition has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and television shows. The re-arrangement was composed within two weeks.
Minor Chord
In music theory, a minor chord is a chord having a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth. When a chord has these three notes alone, it is called a minor triad. Some minor triads with additional notes, such as the minor seventh chord, may also be called minor chords.
A minor triad can also be described as a minor third interval with a major third interval on top or as a root note, a note 3 semitones higher than the root, and a note 7 semitones higher than the root. Hence it can be represented by the integer notation {0, 3, 7}.
A major chord differs from a minor chord in having a major third above the root instead of a minor third. It can also be described as a major third with a minor third on top, in contrast to a minor chord, which has a minor third with a major third on top.
Macdowell Biography
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches," "Sea Pieces," and "New England Idylls." "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose." In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Edward MacDowell was born in New York City. He received his first piano lessons from Juan Buitrago, a Colombian violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time. He later received lessons from friends of Buitrago, including Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist.
His family later moved to Paris, France, where in 1877 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. He then continued his education at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany where he studied piano with Carl Heymann and composition with Joachim Raff. When Franz Liszt visited the conservatory in 1879 and attended a recital of student compositions,