Barber finished writing this in 1936 The way it is written makes it feel like you are slowing climbing upwards Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition This piece has 10 movements It was written for piano ID: 1018161
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1. Barber – Adagio for StringsBarber finished writing this in 1936.The way it is written makes it feel like you are slowing climbing upwards.
2. Mussorgsky – Pictures at an ExhibitionThis piece has 10 movements.It was written for piano.It is about taking a trip to a museum and looking at the paintings.
3. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5This is one of Beethoven’s best known compositions.It begins with a distinctive four note ‘short-short-short-long’ motif.
4. Beethoven – Fur EliseBeethoven wrote lots of music even though he went deaf.This piece was not found until 40 years after he died.
5. Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 21, AndanteThis piece has muted string instruments.It has a ‘dreamlike’ melody.
6. Mozart – Eine Kleine NachtmusikThis is called ‘a little night music’.It is written for a small group of string instruments.It has 2 violins, viola and cello.
7. Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker SuiteA ballet about a family at Christmas. In the night all of the toys and the ‘Nutcracker Soldier’ come to life.
8. Tchaikovsky – Swan LakeA ballet about swans.In the ballet there is a good, white swan and an evil, black swan.
9. Mozart – The Marriage of FigaroThis piece is an opera.It is about life in a palace in Spain. People trick each other and get married.
10. Dvorak – Symphony No.9, 2nd Movement, LargoKnown as the New World Symphony.Neil Armstrong took a recording of this symphony to the moon.
11. Vivalidi – The Four Seasons, SummerThis is part of a piece about each of the seasons.There is a thunderstorm at the end of Summer.
12. Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring: The Augurs of SpringThis part is about the celebration of spring in the hills. An old lady comes and starts to tell the future.
13. Ravel - BoleroThis is Ravel’s most famous musical composition.It was first composed as a ballet.It has a constant, unchanging ostinato.
14. Prokofiev – Peter and the WolfA musical story featuring different instruments to represent different animals.
15. George Frederic Handel - Messiah
16. Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli
17. Debussy – Clair De Lune
18. Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
19. Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture
20. Johann Sebastian Bach – The Goldberg Variations
21. Beethoven Symphony No.4, Last Movement
22. Bizet - CarmenThis is an opera.It tells us about the life of a soldier and a lady he likes.
23. Britten – A Young Person’s Guide to the OrchestraIt tries to show us what all of the different instruments in the orchestra can do.