Music

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Jovan Stosic May 29, 2019

The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (Russian: Рапсодия на тему Паганини, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini) is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is written for solo piano and symphony orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, albeit in a single movement. The work was written at his summer home, the Villa Senar in Switzerland, according to the score, from July 3 to August 18, 1934. Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the solo piano part at the piece’s premiere at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 7, 1934 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Rachmaninoff, Stokowski, and the Philadelphia Orchestra made the first recording, on December 24, 1934, at RCA Victor‘s Trinity Church Studio in Camden, New Jersey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_on_a_Theme_of_Paganini

Codetta – Definition

Jovan Stosic May 25, 2019

A passage within a composition of sonata form which resembles a coda, but occurs at the end of the exposition rather than at the end of the composition.In a fugue, a codetta is the linking passage between the entries of the subject or theme. a small coda, but usually applied to a passage appended to a section of a movement, not to a whole movement.

https://musicterms.artopium.com/c/Codetta.htm

Arpeggio

Jovan Stosic May 25, 2019

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes. A broken chord may repeat some of the notes from the chord and span one or more octaves.

An arpeggio (Italian: [arˈpeddʒo]) is a type of broken chord, in which the notes that compose a chord are played or sung in a rising or descending order. An arpeggio may also span more than one octave.

The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare, which means to play on a harp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio