Calsie Rael Azvsana

I’ve been practicing my piano a lot.  Not like all day but I’m kinda surprised at some of the things I’m playing.  I looked at a lot of my songs and I’m learning or kinda learning.  There is a song I can play right hand of the intro to that has 5 sharps.  And another song I want to learn has 4 sharps.  I got the Michael W. Smith music book and it has some crazy key signatures.  And the music is really hard.  But I can play some of it decently.  I found the music to the March from the Nutcracker and I started playing it.  I played it surprisingly well for sight reading it.  I didn’t know that I could do that. 

 I love Tchaikovsky’s music.  But it’s kinda depressing how he had a rough life and wasn’t really a happy guy.  He wrote a lot of ballets.  The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty.  The music is so pretty and remarkable.  He wrote some great music.  I love the song Arabian Dance from the Nutcracker.  He wrote some depressing music like March Slav.

Edvard Grieg is another good composer.  He isn’t very well know but some of his pieces are.  I didn’t know about him until I did a paper on him in 8th grade.  I was hoping to get Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, or someone sort of well known.  At least someone who had music I recognized.  Edvard Grieg was a Norwegian composer (I love Norway for some reason) He wrote the music for Peer Gynt.  That includes Morning and In the Hall of the Mountain King.  I’m learning In the Hall of the Mountain King on piano.  I know an easier version but I’d rather play the real one. 

Everyone knows Mozart.  And his music is amazing!  It’s amazing the things he did when he was so young.  He started writing music when he was 5.  I didn’t even play piano then.  He has some great music. 

Beethoven is one of my favorites.  Everyone knows that he wrote Fur Elise (I can the 1st part of it),  Moonlight Sonata (One of my favorites) But one of my favorite Beethoven songs is the Appassionata Sonata.  He just has so much good music.  I’m listening to a wind sextet and it sounds so good.  I doubt it has saxophone though.  I doesn’t sound like it.  I love the clarinet part though.  (Saxophones are also not that old.  But it was amazing that someone who was deaf could write music that beautiful and it is also sad that he was never able to really hear his music but only in his head.  But he wrote songs that we can still listen to and enjoy. 

Bach isn’t my favorite but he was still really good.  I don’t really have that much to say about it though.

It is amazing how music written so long ago remains so popular and you can’t seem to get tired of listening to Fur Elise or the music from the Nutcracker.  Today songs will be written and then in a few months, maybe years, they are hardly ever heard and people just don’t like them anymore.  Some songs do last a while but they haven’t lasted hundreds of years.  Classical music is amazing.  Some of my favorite.  I’ll listen to classical music anytime.  It sounds so good.  The composers that I talked  about are still famous long after they die.  Sometimes I wonder in a hundred years who will still be remembered from today.  Will composers who aren’t very famous now be widely know then.  Many of the composers weren’t well known until after their death. 

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