Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004, from the year 1717 to 1723. It has been suggested that this partita, and especially its last movement, was conceived as a tombeau in memory of Bach's first wife Maria Barbara Bach (who died in 1720). The partita contains five movements, given in Italian as: Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabanda, Giga and Caccona.

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A Certain Smile - A Teenager's Romance
Among My Soveniers- Anytime Anywhere
April Love - At The Hop
Baby Talk - Bad Motorcycle
Bananna Boat Song - Be My Guest
Beep Beep - Beyond The Sea
Bill Naley and The Comets
Blue Suede Shoes - Blue Berry Hill
Bobby Darin - Bonie Maronie
Book Of Love - Born Too Late
Bossa Nova Cassanoves - Party Doll

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A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first and second violin players (each usually playing different parts), the viola, the cello, and usually, but not always, the double bass.

String orchestras can be of chamber orchestra size ranging from between 12 (4 first violins, 3 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and 1 bass = 12) and 21 musicians (6 first violins, 5 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos and 2 double basses= 21) sometimes performing without a conductor. It could also consist of the entire string section of a large symphony orchestra which could have 60 musicians (16 first violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos and 8 double basses = 6

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Schubert String Quintet

The String Quintet in C major, D. 956 - and often referred to as Op. posth. 163- was Franz Schubert's final chamber work. It is a cello quintet, in the sense that it is scored for a standard string quartet lineup plus an additional cello -with the viola being by far the most common choice. The work has been described as a chamber music masterpiece, and since its public performance in 1850 and its publication in 1853, it has gained status as one of Schubert's finest works.

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Verdi Attila
Sheet MusicGiuseppe VerdiVoice(s) and Piano Attila
Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the 1809 play Attila, König der Hunnen (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner. The opera received its first performance at La Fenice in Venice on 17 March 1846.
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American banjo musician, comedian, actor, songwriter and entertainer who gained fame as a featured member of the Spike Jones Band from 1947 to 1958. Born in New York City and raised in Cleveland Ohio, he went by "Freddy" since childhood. At age of 9, he began playing the ukulele after recovering from a serious accident. He studied banjo with Eddie Connors and at the age of 14, then teamed up with a school mate and fellow banjo enthusiast named Leo Livingston. The pair billed themselves as Morgan and Stone, and struck out for Broadway where they met with success. Morgan and Stone went on a 36-week nationwide tour, then traveled Europe and played the vaudeville circuit. Next, he teamed up with Australian banjoist Wally Hadley to form Morgan and Hadly from which a few recordings were produced in England.

At the outbreak of WWII, he was stranded in Europe, and helped found the European Theater Artists Group, a forerunner to the United Service Organization (USO) to entertain troops abroad. When the war ended, Morgan auditioned for Spike Jones by telephone, spending 35 minutes barking like a dog and imitating Edward G. Robinson during the effort. For 11 years, he performed as a featured banjo player for Spike Jones, bringing laughter to audiences with his bowl haircut, his goofy grin and his absolute comedic personality.

Morgan was always a first-rate player whose spirited performances contributed to a rise in banjo popularity over his lifetime. By the mid to late 1950's, he began branching out, first forming a banjo troup called the Sunnysiders which produced a hit record in 1955 called "Hey, Mr. Banjo", a nickname that stuck with him thereafter in show billings and musical references. A solo recording for Verve records came out in 1957 with his iconic mug gracing the cover. His final year with the City Slickers was in 1958.

He was perpetually busy entertaining in clubs, fairs and concerts to his very last day, a Christmas time performance for veterans at the Oak Knoll Veterans Hospital in Oakland, California, when a heart attack ended his life during his performance. He was 60 years old.

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Carles Trepat is a Spanish classical guitarist. He has won several international prizes, including the "Premio Tárrega" in the "Certamen Internacional Francisco Tárrega de Benicàssim". In July 2014, he was awarded with the "Honorific Prize José Tomás" in Petrer

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Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, was his first comic opera in over 50 years. Verdi and his librettist, Boito, kept the composition secret since Verdi was somewhat less comfortable with comic opera, and he wanted to have the option of canceling the production—even after the dress rehearsal. Boito's libretto has its basis in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor with additional material from Henry VI, parts 1 and 2. The premiere at the Teatro alla Scala was a triumph, but, as always, Verdi continued to make adjustments to the score for both the Rome and Paris premieres; these changes were incorporated into the final version of the score.

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The French Suites, BWV 812–817, are six suites which Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for keyboard between 1722-25. Although suites 1–4 are typically dated to 1722, it is possible that the first was written somewhat earlier. They were later given the name French. Likewise, the English Suites received a later appellation. The name was popularised by Bach's biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who mentioned they were written in the French style. This, however, is inaccurate: like Bach's other suites, they follow a largely Italian convention. There is no surviving definitive manuscript of these suites, and ornamentation varies both in type and in degree across manuscripts. Some of the manuscripts that have come down to us are titled "Suites Pour Le Clavecin", which is what probably lead to the tradition of calling them "French" Suites.

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The Magic Harp (Die Zauberharfe), D.644, is the incidental music composed for the play of the same name by F. Schubert. Written in 1819, premiered in 1820 in Vienna, and first published in 1891, the overture to this work has been long asociated with the Rosamunde incidental music, probably because they were first published together.

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