Music is an art form and a cultural activity whose medium is sound organized over time. There are few activities in life that use the brain and music is one of them. As a matter of fact, it is scientifically proven that listening to music while studying can improve how your brain retains information and how well it retains it. I mean, how lucky are we that in 1000 AD Guido D'Arezzo made improvements in music theory allowing society the great benefits of music. I think my group chose these two songs because they were very well composed and elegant. The piano plays a very important role in bringing these two pieces together, but in both pieces it is used in a different context. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay The first piece I will talk about is the Piano Concerto no. 4 (full 13 minute version) by Wolfgang Mozart that my group made our decision. The composer of this piece's name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart was used as a child prodigy and was forced to play the piano, in light of the fact that his parents were great musicians who left their musical mark on him. Mozart soon showed signs of excellence in his learning in an early composition at the age of five and demonstrated his exceptional skill on the harpsichord and violin and soon after learned to play the organ and viola. Some of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most important works include "The Marriage of Figaro", "Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K 581", "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" and hundreds of other pieces. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was also a fraud. He was able to perform musical party tricks by playing the piano with a cloth over the keys. It is no surprise that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been named one of the greatest composers of Western music... Unlike any other composer in the history of music, he wrote all the musical genres of his time and excelled in each of them. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote 25 concertos during his instrumental period on piano and orchestra between 1773 and 1791. Although composers such as Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Brahms are generally held most responsible for the dramatic changes in the piano concerto form, Mozart laid important basis for changes. that would happen later. Mozart put into his work the clues and underlying emotions he was experiencing. One idea that Mozart consistently used in his piano concertos was the idea that the soloist and the orchestra were there to work together and not against each other. In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto (13-minute full version), it is written for string instruments such as; piano (or harpsichord) and pairs of horns and flutes. The work title of this piece is Piano Concerto No.4. It was composed in the year 1767 in the month of July. In light of the fact that this piece was composed in the year 1767, the composer's era is classified as classical, just as the style of the piece is classified as classical. The instrumentation you can use includes soloist: piano, orchestra: two flutes, two horns and strings. The movements of this piece come in three forms; I. Allegro, II. Andante (G minor) and III. Very cheerful. The Allegro is counted in a ¾ bar, the andante (G minor) is counted in a 2/4 bar, and the very allegro is also counted in a ¾ bar. Like most of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concerts, his Concerto forpiano no. 4 (13-minute full version) is in G major or G minor. This concerto is in a technical musical term relating to the tonal structure of multi-movement compositions, otherwise known as homotonal. Believe it or not, only four other piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are written in the minor key of the slow movement. This concerto opens with a triple beat, an unusual feature for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to use in his 27 Piano Concertos. Only K.41, K.413, K.482 and K.449 open in three meters. The first and third movements are based on those by Honauer and the middle movement is based on one by Raupach. When listening to this song, the strings start very loudly and sharply, this feature creates a little aspect of suspense. At the beginning of the piece the flutes and strings take turns playing, the loudest part being the strings, and the quietest part being the flute solo. Then the piece goes into a piano solo with string inserts. Subsequently the piece returns to playing woodwinds and strings. The song continues with piano, horns and strings playing different parts and sometimes together. The other piece we chose was A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. Vanessa Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Vanessa Carlton was born on August 16, 1980. (Fun fact: It's my brother's birthday!!) She got married in 2013 to her husband, John Joseph McCauley III, and later had a son. After high school, she decided to continue her studies at the School of American Ballet, then attended Columbia University and finished her studies at a professional school for children. Vanessa has been writing and performing her own songs since 2001, a couple of months later in 2002, she released a hit single called A Thousand Miles. In an interview with Elle.com Vanessa stated that she started writing this song at the age of 16. It started as an instrumental piece that she had always had around, after a year of reflection Vanessa had only composed a small riff. part that everyone knows and a couple of other parts, but they didn't really fit into the structure of a complete song. When she finally finished the song, thanks to the motivation of a friend, Vanessa was 17 years old. Then the song reached the top five of the Billboard Top 100 in 2002. Although this song was a big hit, Vanessa never outgrew it. or popular in pop culture, unlike Mozart who was very popular for his time. Vanessa's song, A Thousand Miles, has a large piano part throughout the song. The piano part of this song is so prominent that in the music video Vanessa herself rides the piano around the city while performing the song. A Thousand Miles is played with piano, guitar and vocal ranges G#3-B4. It was originally published in B major. A Thousand Miles describes the feelings of anyone who has lost someone they truly loved and would do anything to be with that person, and I think that's the message Vanessa was trying to get at when she wrote A Thousand Miles. As I just said, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was very popular for his time. In fact, so popular that he was even allowed to answer to royalty. Vanessa Carlton is the exact opposite of Mozart, in light of the fact that she was an early 21st century musician who was only successful with a couple of her songs. In the two pieces I analyzed I noticed how great the piano was in bringing the two songs together. While the use of the piano in both was significant, it was used in a different context for different reasons throughout the music. Just like Mozart who began composing at the age of just 5, Vanessa Carlton began learning to play "It's a Small World" at.4.