Music - Performance Appraisal.
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Angela Conway - GCSE Music June 2005. Performance Appraisal. All three pieces were written in the Romantic Period of music, at the end of the nineteenth to the start of the early twentieth century. By this time, the pianoforte was a well established instrument. The piece I performed is Etude in F by Stephen Heller, which is the most contrasting piece I studied. As such, it requires a wide range of dynamics - the whole piece is made up of very similar phrases, which sometimes only vary by dynamics, such as the melody in bars one and two which is piano and the same melodic phrase of three notes which is played sounding mezzo forte in bars nine and ten. Lied by Lévy, also explores the dynamics of the piano as it ranges from piano to forte. Whereas Chant de L'alouette by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky only ranges from pianissimo to piano using a...


