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One Sees Long Time
1,321 wordsArt, according to Websters Dictionary, is a human skill of expression of other objects by painting, drawing, and sculpture. People have used art as a form of expression for a long time. From the Mesopotamian era to the Classical Greeks and the present. Art is expressed in many different ways and styles, and is rapidly changing, one style replacing another. Impressionism and Cubism broke away from the traditional style of painting. They were both looking for a new way to express everyday life. Ti...
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Russian Romantic Music And Tchaikovsky
1,581 words... es influenced by Russian folk-melodies, and evoked the bleak Russian countryside in the grips of winter. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 was performed in 1868 with Anton Rubenstein conducting. In the same year, Tchaikovsky met My Balakirev, who had succeeded Anton Rubenstein as head of the Conservatory at St. Petersburg. Unfortunately, Balakirev was driven out from his post because his opponents had despised his controversial ideas. He settled in Moscow, where he met Tchaikovsky. He suggested t...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Seria
1,351 wordsA remarkable musician and composer, whose legend continues to grow more than two centuries after his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right) decided to sign young Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. Almost from day one, the boy's reputation as an unexampled musical prodigy gr...
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Red Violin Showed Red Violin Life
717 wordsThe Red Violin offers some interesting messages about the universality of the language of music. The acting and sets are spectacular, and the actors through the eras do very credible jobs of playing the magical violin. Lastly, the secret of the red violin's color turns out to be an apt symbol for the level of commitment that true musical devotion demands. "The Red Violin" takes its audience on a journey spanning five countries and three centuries. As the violin passes into five principal lives, ...
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Guarneri Del Gesu Del Gesu Paganini's
1,174 wordsThis benefit concert marks only the second time in history that the legendary violin, made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (pronounced "Gesu") (1705? - 1744) in 1743, which belonged to Nicole Paganini (October 27, 1782 - May 27, 1840) will be played in a full recital on the American continent. Eugene Fodor will perform. The first time it was heard in the U. S. was in 1982, in New York, as part of Paganini's bicentennial celebration, when his 24 Caprices for unaccompanied violin were played on it. Pa...
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Double And Multiple Stopping Passages In Double And Multiple Violin
1,079 words... Paganini's artistry in composition and performance were tinted by "rose-colored memories." There is nothing "rose-colored" in the genius of such contemporaries of Paganini as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Berlioz and others, whose reports claim his total mastery as a composer and genius as a performer in absolute terms. It is important to understand Paganini's music in the context of his cultural heritage and his enthusiastic adherence to traditional compositional values. H...
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Man Ray Violon D'ingres
2,518 wordsMan Ray's "Violon d'Ingres" The Violin In the middle of darkness, A soft light suffuses the place: There is a violin. But this violin is not a violin, It is a woman, naked, Turning her back to the lens. Her face is seen in profile, Her hair hidden in a scarf, Her body undressed, showing her forms: Round, soft and pure, As those of the violin, Which bears two symbols, Like the woman on her back. The womans beauty and, The softness of the music, blending In the same picture, Are a magic illusion. ...
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Maged Saleh Professor Ferguson Jazz Maged Saleh Professor Ferguson Piece
492 wordsDon? t worry, be happy Don? t worry, be happy was by Played by Bobby Mcferrin in the seventies. The in this piece the texture changes a lot as the work progresses. Every time the music would take a slower beat the texture would become thicker and the dynamic or the volume becomes lower. When the dynamic slows, one instrument would only be playing, and all at once when the tempo picks up more, and than three or more instrument would be playing. It seemed that when there are more than one instrume...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Les Mis
1,419 wordsClassical Concert Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. He was born to an overbearing and ambitious father, Leopold, who was more than anxious to exploit his sons extraordinary musical gifts. Mozart began composing at an early age, and he began touring around the same time. Throughout his life, Mozart made many enemies, many his own fault, through his naive arrogance and harsh critique of his musical contemporaries. He worked feverishly, composing symphonies...
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Dave Matthews Band Boston Globe
2,498 wordsSenior Project Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, Le Roi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter Beauford, provide a blend of influences that create this originality. It s an interracial music group compromising of three blacks, and two white, and an age difference of over 20 years b...
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Dave Matthews Band Carpe Diem
3,791 wordsImagine standing on a stage, overlooking 69 tiered rows in what is possibly the most beautiful amphitheater in the world. As Dave Matthews and his fellow band mates walk on stage, the crowd cheers wildly. They do this throughout the opening song, Seek Up, and, for the most part, through the whole show. Recorded on August 15, 1995, this was at the height of the bands musical talent and at the bottom step of their climb to fame. It was shows like this that left fans mesmerized by the funky, jazz-i...
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Mother Post Modern
1,435 wordsPost Modern Indigo Amber Hutchison Post Modern Fiction Indigo February 23, 2000 People are born with passion. The irony is that most people spend all their lives searching for that passion without looking inside that soul to the heart of the passion. The trick to discovering that passion is to find what makes us happy. For Indigo the main character of Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by her passion lies in the music she creates from her soul while using her violin as her tool. From a modern literar...
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Left Hand Long Time
1,105 wordsInstruments of the Orchestra Strings: The viola is an important member of the orchestra, but is not often heard by itself. Because it is bigger than the violin, with longer strings, it makes a rich, warm sound that is lower in pitch. In contrast to the viola the violin is the smallest member of the string family. Because its strings are the shortest, it produces the highest sound. The viola is a little heavier, and its shape is slightly different, too. But it is still played on the violist? s le...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart
2,138 words" The classical period produced more instrumental than vocal music, a wealth of serious and comic operas as well as vocal religious music also appeared during this time" (Ferris, 231). One of the best composer of this time was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this paper I will go through his childhood, his friends and family, and of course his music. Enjoy! ! ! Child of the Enlightenment The world that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered ceremoniously in 1756 was brimming in change. Historians ...
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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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2,135 words? The classical Mozart Julien Rouleau? The classical period produced more instrumental than vocal music, a wealth of serious and comic operas as well as vocal religious music also appeared during this time? (Ferris, 231). One of the best composer of this time was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this paper I will go through his childhood, his friends and family, and of course his music. Enjoy! ! ! Child of the Enlightenment The world that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered ceremoniously in 1756 was brim...
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1,135 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. He was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. The son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Part. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. At the age of three, Wolfgang showed signs of remarkable musical talent. He learned to play the harpsichord, a keyboard instrument related to the piano, at the age of four. Wolfgang began composing minuets ...
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Women In General Time Period
970 wordsMan Ray s Violin D Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American, born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American photography. Europe lacked the American ideals about what strait photography should be. While American schools of photography believed that an art photograph should only be made with a large negative with m...
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3,080 wordsPreface from Lowells Men, Women, and Ghosts (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917) vii-xii. This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purely lyrical poems. But the word " stories" has been stretched to its fullest application. It includes both narrative poems, properly so called tales divided into scenes; and a few pieces of less obvious story telling import in which one might say that the dramatis personae are air, clouds, trees, houses, streets, and such like things...
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Romantic Poet Romantic Movement
1,695 wordsMusic Romantic Virtuosity Romantic Virtuosity Music Class As the many socio-political revolutions of the late eighteenth-century established new social orders and new ways of life and thought; composers of the time period broke new musical ground by adding a new emotional depth to the prevailing classical forms. This period is known as the Romantic period. It accused approximately from 1820 to 1920. Artists became intent in expressing their subjective, personal emotions. Romanticism derives its ...
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