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Archbishop Of Salzburg Leopold Mozart
1,755 wordsthe son of Leopold Mozart, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and much the reason behind's Wolfgang's education. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich. Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour, including two weeks at...
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What Makes A Great Film
1,069 wordsWith movies, you are able to travel back in time and explore unknown eras. If you rather race ahead of your century, they can also hurl you into the future. You can easily become indulged in a mystery, fall in love in a romance, test your fright in a horror, or make the scientific impossible possible in a science fiction. Movies are movies. They provide entertainment by immersing people into an imaginary world. However, these movies or films need to have certain qualities in order to provide thi...
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Ol Man River Voices Of The Performers Show
672 wordsThis paper is a critique of a production of Show Boat, a musical classic with compositions by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was performed and produced by NETworks Presentations LLC at Even Auditorium on the 14 th of February 2001. Clayton Phillips, the director of the production, attempted to test the waters of racial discrimination by exploring controversial themes such as prejudice and interracial relationships. Show Boat takes an enlightened approach to ethnic controve...
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Mise En Scene Early 1900
1,886 wordsThe hit musical "Singin' in the Rain" may possibly be one of if not the greatest musicals of all time. With it's tale of the film world of the mid 1920 's and its creative underlining love story between Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), it provokes the interest of someone who would not generally be attracted to a musical. It is a classic masterpiece that set the standards that musical films of today will be judged by. It is a classic performance by the great Gene Kell...
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Elvis Presley Vs Whitney Huston
701 wordsElvis Presley vs. Whitney Huston Elvis Presley was born in 1935 in Memphis, Tennessee, in a poor family. He had a twin brother, who died at birth. He started playing guitar at the age of 11. In 1953 he recorded his first songs at Sun Records and soon musical producers recognized the talent of Presley. He started with performing of covers of popular ballads and within the time he created his own special image and style of a romantic and cute dandy with his trade-mark smile and famous movements of...
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Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow Laws
3,520 wordsSarah Anne Stevenson Dave Stock English Language and Comprehension 20 November 1999 Blues Music and its influence on integration From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history: West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains and sailors-carrying muskets, swords, and shackles-landed on the coast, walked up ...
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Pentatonic Scale Child Learns
1,672 wordsCarl Orff's philosophies in Music Education While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20 th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10 th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His fathers regiment band would often play through some of the young Orffsfirst att...
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Pentatonic Scale Child Learns
1,692 wordsWhile Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20 th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10 th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His fathers regiment band would often play through some of the young Orff's first attempts at composing. Although Orff was adam...
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Musical Career Four Years
1,461 wordsCharles Charles Ives Charles Ives Charles Ives is known in our day as the Father of American Music, but in his day, he was known just like everyone else- an ordinary man living his life. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1894 (Stanley 1) to his mother, Sarah Hotchkiss Wilcox Ives and father, George White Ives (A Life With Music, Swafford 4). His father was renowned for being the Unions youngest bandmaster and having the best band in the Army (The Man His Life, Swafford 1). Littl...
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Johann Sebastian Bach One Of The Greatest
1,348 wordsJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia, Germany where he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses, he was confined to a very limited geographical space, as was his career. This greatly affected his, in that his music was not as wide known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life of Bach many have referred to him as? one o...
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Avant Garde Lady Macbeth
1,557 wordsDmitri Dimitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin Internatio...
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Compact Disc Previously Mentioned
3,904 wordsMany of the products we buy today are no more than large collections of zeroes and ones. High-priced software, high-quality music, and valuable reference material such as computerized databases or CD-Rom encyclopedias are commercial products like any other, but the media of their transmission makes them different in at least one aspect: it is possible to copy them freely, or at least extremely cheaply. A compact disc of Elvis Costello and the Attractions is different from, say, a ham and swiss s...
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730 wordsWhen we see a movie it is difficult to notice the work and effort that the cast puts in. The same applies to a TV show, or music video. This is because hundreds of hours have been put into editing, cutting, and buffing clips and scenes of the film. As a result, the finish product is flawless to the audience. However, when we step through the doors a stage theatre, all that begins to change. We are no longer in a world of cameras and computers; we enter a world of live entertainment. One of the m...
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Rhythm And Blues Rock And Roll
2,300 wordsPaul Whiteman (1890 - 1967) = a classically trained violinist and violist who adored jazz but lacked the gift to emulate the uninhibited improvisations of the jazz musicians he admired, formed a dance band in the early twenties that played jazzy arrangements of popular and even classical melodies. Blues = a black vocal folk music, began as vocal (largely instrumental). Classical blues = based on 3 lines of text. Wild wame don? t do the blues. Urban Blues = blues pieces written for publication an...
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12 Th Century 13 Th Century
2,894 wordsLeonin and Perotin Through my research of Leonin and Perotin I felt like I was conducting a highly magnified genealogy report. A lot of the information I found, went against each other and was estimations. The only reason we know of these two composers were due to a monk from Bury St Edmunds. He signed his writings anonymous roman numeral four. He was an English theorist who was familiar with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in some shape or form. It is not known to anyone his role with the cathedral...
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Musical Composition Key Points
1,386 wordsModern Music Composition Student: 0135761 Teacher Composition has been an ever-changing entity in our society. Music composition is also a very alternating subject of study. You have to keep up to date when you wish to compose a piece of music. This is strictly due to the progression of music in this day in age. If you fail to study, the music you are writing may, very well, upset the music community with old or potentially outdated material. The only way to stay up to date with composition is t...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leopold Mozart
2,537 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Early Years European Tours (1756 176 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as he is generally known, was baptized in a Salzburg Cathedral on the day after his birth as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus. The first and last given names come from his godfather Joannes Theophilus Pergmayr, although Mozart preferred the Latin form of this last name, Amadeus, more often And, or the Italiano Amadeo, and occasionally the Deutsch Gottlieb. Whatever the case may be, he rarely if ever us...
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Song Of Roland Neo Nazis
1,914 wordsMusic has been a powerful force throughout history. Its power has affected all aspects of people? s lives. The ideas and attitudes people have toward their country can easily be seen in their music. While music in the early part of the modern era (1400 - 1900) served to promote patriotism and nationalism, music? s role in the late 20 th century seems a reversal and has been a deconstructive force challenging nationalistic feelings. The origin of all music is cultural (Nettl 940). Folk songs tell...
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Type Of Music Leonard Bernstein
955 wordsThere are many different musical genres ranging from the soft sounds of classical music, to the loud bangs of punk and rock, to the upbeat energetic notes of dance music. There is a type of music for everybody. No one could every say there is not any type of music that they would enjoy listening to. The musical event that this paper will be written on involves one of the oldest forms of music, classical music. Classical music is music written basically for opera, ballet, religious services and o...
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Hip Hop Culture Men And Women
988 wordsRunning Head: MUSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RAP Musical Characteristics of Rap Paper 1 Jesse Lipscomb e Morehouse College Musical Characteristics of Rap Hip-hop culture, once confined to the streets has broken into the commercial realm with force. Hip hop records top the charts week after week, rap videos have taken control of MTV, BET and the BOX, and there are dozens of hip hop magazines on the newsstands. A stroll on any city street in the United States reveals the proliferation of hip-hop style...
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