Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 5

The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring" sonata, and was published in 1801. Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.


The work is in four movements:


Allegro


Adagio molto espressivo


Scherzo: Allegro molto


Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo


The Scherzo and its trio are particularly brief (and as pointed out here the scherzo is canonic).

~Wikipedia
 
To you music people out there, this probably makes sense.  But not everybody is a music people, I will explain.
 
Basically what the previous quote means is that Beethoven's 5th violin sonata is a sonata (duh) with four totally awesome movements.  It really is sweet sounding.
 
To show you how awesome it actually is, I have imbedded videos of all four movements.
 








 
By the way, I have a recital coming up in about a week and I'm planning on learning this after it.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKf043MXTYA
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLMxTWxcIQ&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrRX5iyqS7g&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LKYLP-zvHA&feature=related

Gladiator: The Score

I have recently been listening to the score for the movie Gladiator.  It was written by Hans Zimmer so naturally, it's amazing.  One of my personal favorites.  I love how he uses a lot of sweeping and flowing melodies in comparison with many of his other scores.

Here are three of my favorite songs from the soundtrack.







http://www.youtube.com/user/ShabahSaz02#p/u/67/ZAOTSO9ioZk

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShabahSaz02#p/u/56/naovSOqgkJE

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShabahSaz02#p/u/55/vHAvjaHtlMA

My mouth hurts . . .

Ack!  I can't stop laughing!  I found this video on another guys blog I was reading.  He couldn't stop laughing either.  I feel crazy now . . .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRcI-mFr6aQ&feature=player_embedded

Drawings Old and New

I am very interested in art.  Art has always been a great inspiration for me in many ways including music composition.  Some of the great composers wrote whole symphonies based off of paintings.  Whenever I see a good painting or drawing I always find myself wanting to get out my pencil and paper and create a masterpiece.  Although I may not be an amazing artist, I enjoy drawing.

I haven't been drawing very much recently but am starting to back into it.  Anyhow, I decided that I would let you, yes you, the reader, witness some drawings from my past (and present).  They are shown in order of date - oldest ones being at the top and newest ones being at the bottom.  Note: You must know before viewing these as a critic that I have never had a single art lesson in my life.

2006

2007

2008

2009

And last of all is a prelimenary scetch of some friends daughters.  I hope to do the final sometime :~).

Also I'm going to get some picture of some drawings from 2010 on here soon.

New site look.

I like this new customizeable template option for blogger.  What do you think of the new look I set set up with it?

Two Compositions

So, I recently finished up two of my compositions (see title). 

The first composition was one I had started back in November.  It had really been a kind of exercise I had set up for myself to get my crative juices flowing again after being in a session of dryness in composing.  Anyhow I had put it on hold for awhile (my creative juices had got flowin' so well from my exercise I couldn't stay on one project) and just recently finished it up.  Here is A Short Scene of the Mountains.

The next composition was also a sort of exercise, but more recent.  I guess when you're kind of green in composition anything new is an exercise :).  I had never composed much action/suspense music and wanted to try my hand at it.  So here is Flight to the Mountains (what is it with me and and my songs including the word "mountain"?).

Enjoy.

All Music ©Daniel White Music 2009

Charlie Byers

Okay, where to start?

My little brother Benjamin is into to yo-yoing and has been so for about a year now. Benjamin also has a friend named Charlie Byers who is also a yo-er and is Benjamin's so called "yoyo teacher" (Charlie is the same age as my little brother). The thing is both Benjamin and Charlie started yo-yoing at the same time. It's an interesting story how they got all into spinning wheels attached to the ends of strings, but that's another story I don't have time to tell right now. As you can tell Charlie either spends all day yo-yoing or has some serious talent. Anyhow, what's the point of having an awesome story about a child prodigy if I don't have any evidence or some sort of proof to impress you with? Well, keep reading and you'll get just that.

Around this time last year Charlie headed down to Florida to see if he could place in the Florida State Yoyo Competition. At that time he had only been yo-yoing for a few months. Unfortunately he didn't place anything but was sure to try again next year. Try again he did . . . and placed third. Now, just in case you're wondering, he wasn't competing with guys his age, he was facing professional adult yo-ers. Pretty awesome. And now for the proof: below is a video his mom took of him doing his performance.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZhrqFnnuM