5 STRING BASS GUITAR NOTES

Paris, July 2009
Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise

Frederic Francois Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; surname pronounced /??o?p?n/ in English; French pronunciation: [??p??]; 1 March 1810[1] – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist.[2][3] He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.[4]

Chopin was born in the village of Zelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother and was regarded as a child-prodigy[5][6] pianist. On 2 November 1830, at the age of twenty, he left Warsaw for Austria, intending to go on to Italy. The outbreak of the Polish November Uprising seven days later, and its subsequent suppression by Russia, led to Chopin becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration.[7]

In Paris, Chopin made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. Though an ardent Polish patriot,[8][9] in France he used the French versions of his names and eventually, to avoid having to rely on Imperial Russian documents, became a French citizen.[10][11][12] After some ill-fated romantic involvements with Polish women, from 1837 to 1847 he had a turbulent relationship with the French authoress George Sand. Always in frail health, he died in Paris in 1849, aged thirty-nine, of pulmonary tuberculosis.[13][14]

Frederic Chopin: Prelude Op. 28 n. 4 for Piano
Play sound
Porticodoro / SmartCGArt Media Productions - Steinway Piano
Problems listening to this file? See media help.

Chopin's compositions were written primarily for the piano as solo instrument. Though they are technically demanding,[15] the emphasis in his style is on nuance and expressive depth. Chopin invented musical forms such as the instrumental ballade[16] and was responsible for major innovations in the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, etude, impromptu and prelude.

© Capt Suresh Sharma. All Rights Reserved

He is a member of the Deru Folk Dance and Music Troupe of Haryana State of India. They sing in praise of old warriors and heros. Also, Gugga Pir (snake king). The artist is playing Deru musical instrument, which is bigger than Damru and serves the same purpose.

Haryana is rich in folklore. As noted elsewhere, the region is inhabited by simple, unsophisticated people, with traditions of their own. While of straight and frank disposition, they harbour deep emotions and a sensitive nature which have found expression in a rich body of folk culture.

In a more specific and significant way, folklore will include spontaneous expressions of emotions, song and drama, dance and music and other creative forms of individuals and group life.

Folk dances all over the world have common themes. These may depict seasons, festival, religious rituals, harvesting, hunting etc. Haryana dances come under one or the other category. Broadly, the following dances are common in one area or the other and performed on specific occasions.

Deru is a Dholak type percussive instrument made of a wooden shell and skin mounted on both sides. In fact, it is a large Damru, which is struck with sticks to produce rhythmic beats. Deru is used by folk performers as well as wandering devotees.

<< Arhiva >>