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    Ad Parnassum is a pointillist painting by Swiss-born artist Paul Klee. The painting is currently in the Kunstmuseum Bern. It was created while Klee was...
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  • The Latin phrase gradus ad Parnassum means "a step towards Parnassus". It is sometimes shortened to gradus. Parnassus is the prominence of a mountain range...
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  • ad Parnassum Problems playing this file? See media help. The title of the first movement alludes to sets of piano exercises of that name (Gradus ad Parnassum...
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    is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrinian...
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    known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum. Nineteenth century enthusiasts lauded Clementi as "the father of the...
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    invertible counterpoint. In 1725 Johann Joseph Fux published Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus), in which he described five species: Note against...
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    18th-century composer and theorist Johann Joseph Fux, published as Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus, 1725). Citing Palestrina as his model, Fux divided...
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  • Gradus ad Parnassum next to the first one by Lorenz Christoph Mizler in 1742. In 1943, Mann made the first real translation of Gradus ad Parnassum into...
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    “Some Preliminaries in Approaching Carlos Seixas’ Keyboard Sonatas.” Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music 7...
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    Switzerland in late 1933. Klee was at the peak of his creative output. His Ad Parnassum (1932) is considered his masterpiece and the best example of his pointillist...
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    (published between 1804 and 1810), early parts of Muzio Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum (1817–26), numerous works by Carl Czerny, Maria Szymanowska's Vingt exercises...
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    In 1826 Clementi completed his collection of keyboard studies, Gradus ad Parnassum, and set off for Paris with the intention of publishing the third volume...
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    spine of the upright book on the far right are the Latin words: Gradus ad Parnassum (German: Klassen zum Parnass), which is either the title of the main...
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  • limited to innovative teaching material. His 24 Etudes and Caprices Gradus ad parnassum Op. 35 and the 24 Exercises Preparatory to the Studies of R. Kreutzer...
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    to students. The most influential text was Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum ("Steps to Parnassus"), which appeared in 1725. This work laid out the...
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    (sixths and thirds in the right hand) [lost?] (c1862-63) Clementi: Gradus ad Parnassum (Op. 44), selection of studies "revised" by Tausig Moniuszko: Réminiscences...
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  • Evening" and possibly "Of a Winter's Evening" Oliver Goldsmith Gradus ad Parnassum Gutnish Thomas Hardy and the poem "Friends Beyond" (for the word "stillicide")...
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    training in harmony and counterpoint was rooted in Johann Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, which Salieri translated during each Latin lesson. As a result, Salieri...
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    worked his way through the counterpoint exercises in the text Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux and carefully studied the work of Carl Philipp Emanuel...
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  • as a means of teaching species counterpoint was the basis of Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux, although the method was first published by Girolamo...
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  • Beethoven was completed. October 31, Muzio Clementi's complete Gradus ad Parnassum (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig...
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    its admirers, and parts of it were included in the celebrated Gradus ad parnassum, a highly influential 1725 treatise by Johann Joseph Fux which was in...
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    movement of Niccolò Paganini's First Violin Concerto, and the "Gradus ad Parnassum" (1894). Sauret was born in Dun-le-Roi in 1852. He began studying violin...
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    Scarlatti, Sonatas Barricades (2020) Melancholy Grace (2021) Gradus ad Parnassum (2023) Sherwin, Adam (7 September 2014). "French prodigy Jean Rondeau...
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    Confucianism are not opposed to each other. Johann Joseph Fux Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), a non-Socratic dialogue on species counterpoint. The conversation...
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    manoscritto. Secondo un esperto di Viotti, il canadese Warwick Lister (Ad Parnassum, XIII, aprile 2015), la firma di Viotti in alto a destra potrebbe essere...
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    Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), composer and music theorist, wrote Gradus ad Parnassum – a composition manual used by Beethoven and Mozart Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall...
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    1905–08; III. composed 1905–09? – – Children's Corner Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum Jimbo's Lullaby Serenade of the Doll The Snow Is Dancing The Little Shepherd...
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  • expanding and fulfilling their musical potential." In “Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum”, the first movement of his Children’s Corner Suite, Debussy exploits...
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    studies for string bass. LCCN 85751475 Simandl, Franz (1957). Gradus ad parnassum : 24 studies for string bass. LCCN 85752065 Simandl, Franz (1968). New...
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