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Classical music essays
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Welcome to CLASSICAL MUSIC ESSAYS.
A selection of informative and interesting essays, written for
students of music and those who are simply interested in classical works.
Essays are based on pieces by composers from four hundred years
of Western music, from Purcell, Vivaldi and Bach, to Mozart and Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Wagner, Stravinsky, Debussy and
Ravel and many many more!
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| Guest Essays
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| HAYDN, Franz Joseph (Classical, 1732 - 1809)
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| BACH, Johann Sebastian (Baroque, 1685 - 1750)
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| BARTÓK, Béla (Modernist, 1881 - 1945)
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| BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (Classical, 1770 - 1827)
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| CHOPIN, Frédéric (Romantic, 1810 - 1849)
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| DEBUSSY, Claude Achille (Impressionist, 1862 - 1918)
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| GERSHWIN, George (Jazz / modernist, 1898 - 1937)
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| HANDEL, George Frideric (Baroque, 1685 - 1759)
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| MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (Classical, 1756 - 1791)
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| PURCELL, Henry (Baroque, 1659 - 1695)
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| STRAVINSKY, Igor (Modernist, 1882 - 1971)
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Using the NAVIGATION BAR on the right of each page, you can access the different parts of this site.
Composers are listed in alphabetical order rather than order of period. However, we have provided dates and styles (eg. 1882
- 1955, Serial and neo classical) for each composer, if you're specifically interested in certain styles and periods.
These essays are simply based around works by these composers, which are found on each composer's page. They are not
intended for use as assignment essays for people to copy, but for background knowledge that may help students with their
own work, with a few of our own ideas thrown in! The essays are also intended for general interest, and for this reason, we
have avoided making them too exhaustive.
Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions we are unable to provide clips of performances. However, the Classical Music
Archives is an excellent website for free MIDI and sound files. You can download 5 files a day free, or pay a small yearly
fee to access several thousand files a month. This site can be found at http://www.classicalarchives.com/. Where possible, we will also provide details of where abouts in a work we are referring too, but it is hard to give exact
times, as different recordings and performances play at different speeds.
We are also looking for essay contibutions by visitors to the site to broaden the collection for other visitors. These
would be placed on a separate page and you will receive full credit for them. Details about how to submit these are given
on the guest essays page.
If you want to contact us at any point, you can email us at cmusicessays@yahoo.co.uk, and we will try to reply as soon as possible.
We hope you enjoy reading the essays, and that you go away thinking about your favourite pieces of music differently
that when you arrived!
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The CLASSICAL MUSIC ESSAYS top 10 list of classical music!
As picked by the creators. COMING SOON: visitors' top ten...
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- "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- "The Messiah" (Oratorio), George Frederick Handel.
- "The Four Seasons" (Concerti), Antonio Vivaldi.
- "Symphony Number 6 (Pastoral)", Ludwig van Beethoven.
- "The Water Music", George Frederick Handel.
- "Piano Concerto In A (K488)", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- "Nocturnes", Frederyk Chopin.
- "Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2 in C# minor", Franz Liszt.
- "Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma Variations)", Edward Elgar.
- "Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches", Edward Elgar.
- "Fantasia on the Theme of Thomas Tallis", Ralph Vaughen Williams.
- "The Rite of Spring", Igor Stravinsky.
- "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta", Bela Bartok.
- "Concerto for Orchestra", Bela Bartok.
- "Suite Bergamasque", Achille Claude Debussy.
AND MANY MORE!
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