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Dvorak: Music
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Listening to the quality of sound reproduction with either configuration of the Dvorak is a whole new experience in realism. The sound stage is wide and high. As you close your eyes, you feel transported to the place of recording, each musician forming a vivid image of vibrant, visceral sound.
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Dr. Dvorak is a devoted family man, spending most of his free time with his wife and 12 children. As an avid sportsman, he enjoys spending time in the great outdoors. Passionate about music, Dr. Dvorak is an accomplished composer, piano player and singer.
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Although his music is generally fresh, happy and extrovert, Dvorak ... at times betrayed a melancholy side to his music. As his stature in the music world grew, he took a post as a professor in the Prague Conservatory and later became Director of that establishment. He toured Europe making some fruitful visits to London. He also went to America with his family and took up the director post in the National Conservatory of Music in New York. There he continued his interest in folk music learning about Black American and Native American music traditions. During his stay there he was to produce some of his well-known works including the famous Cello Concerto, a Violin Concerto for Brahms' friend Joachim, the "American Quartet" and his "New World Symphony" which seems to quote four notes from the spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". Dvorak's music for this symphony was originally intended for an opera based on Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" but that project was abandoned.
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Review the work of Days Two and Three, noting that Dvorak composed much music while he was in America, including during his time in Spillville. Introduce the idea that in America he wrote compositions in four different musical forms: a symphony, a cantata, string quartets, and a concerto. Hand out the Musical Forms worksheet. Hand out the Student Vocabulary List, which students are to use to complete the worksheet.
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Throughout his career, Dvorak composed nine symphonies, 16 string quartet and several symphonic poems. Although he was not known for his sense of drama, he ... composed several operas. His music was greatly inspired by the rhythms and sounds of his homeland and the Slavic lands around him. He applied his great talent for incorporating the folk music of different people into his music while in America, mining the rich diversity of the young country to inspire his music. One of his most celebrated symphonies, the ninth (From the New World) was composed and performed in New York in 1893.
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Born and raised a Bohemian peasant, Dvorak never strayed far from his roots. Like the saying goes, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy. He loved simple pleasures, was enthralled by trains and far preferred a chat with manual laborers to learned discourse. This humble man brought Czech music to the world's attention by showcasing its intrinsic appeal. He often is compared to Schubert, with whom he shared effortless melodies, spontaneous harmonies and a relaxed ease, but Schubert's music wafted from Viennese taverns, while in Dvorak's you could feel the fresh rustic breeze and smell the hale country air.
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