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American Cemetery, where the film's opening and closing scenes are set. Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in France during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller ( Tom Hanks ), on their mission to locate Private James ...
Beethoven's multi-movement works in C minor tended to have a slow movement in a contrasting major key, nearly always the subdominant of C minor's relative key ( E ♭ major ): A ♭ major, providing "a comfortingly cool shadow or short-lived respite", [9] but also the relative key ( E ♭ major, Op. 1/3), the tonic major ( C major, Opp. 9/3, 18 ...
One of the manuscript copies of BWV 582, first page. Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582) is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach.Presumably composed early in Bach's career, it is one of his most important and well-known works, and an important influence on 19th- and 20th-century passacaglias: Robert Schumann described the variations of the passacaglia as "intertwined so ingeniously ...
Battles/wars. Battle of the Wilderness. William Chester Minor (also known as W. C. Minor; 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920) was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher. After serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Minor moved to England. Affected by delusions, he shot a man who he ...
The Rondo in C minor, Op. 1, for solo piano is Chopin 's first published work, published in 1825, [1] and dedicated to "Madame de Linde", the wife of the headmaster of the Lyceum at which Chopin was studying. [2] The piece contains an "unorthodox (but entirely logical) tonal scheme". [1]
Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach. The English Suites, BWV 806–811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord (or clavichord) and generally thought to be the earliest of his 19 suites for keyboard (discounting several less well-known earlier suites), the others being the six French Suites (BWV 812–817), the six Partitas (BWV 825-830) and ...
The scale-degree chords of C major are: Tonic – C major; Supertonic – D minor; Mediant – E minor; Subdominant – F major; Dominant – G major; Submediant – A minor; Leading-tone – B diminished; Compositions. Twenty of Joseph Haydn's 106 symphonies are in C major, making it his second most-used key, second to D major.
