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Duke Ellington Was Born Ellington Was Born Music
872 wordsDuke Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington on April 28, 1899 in Washington, D. C. to Daisy and James Ellington. They served as the ideal role models for young Duke and taught him everything from table manners to the power of music. He was eight when he got his first piano lessons. By the age of fourteen, he was sneaking into Frank Holliday's poolroom. He learned from his experiences in the poolroom how to appreciate the value of mixing with a wide rage of people. He attended the Armstrong ...
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Brave New World Huxley Creates
587 wordsCommunity, Identity, and Stability. This motto seems to appropriately state the nature of the hatchery, as well as the nature of the world that Huxley creates. The center strives for community, identity, and stability as it literally creates the people of the world. The motto helps Huxley use setting in three different situations. When describing community, Huxley creates the Infant Nurseries and the Neo-Pavlovion Condition Rooms to show setting. Huxley uses the Decanting Room to symbolize the s...
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Johann Sebastian Instrumental Music
806 wordsRegarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician. The youngest of eight children born to musical parents, Johann Sebastian was destined to become a musician. While still young, he had mastered the organ and violin, and was also an excellent singer. At the age of ten, both of his parents died within a year of each other. Young Sebastian was fortunate to be taken in by an older brother, Johann Christop...
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King George Prime Example
1,183 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel's Water Music George Frideric Handel's Water Music Not only is George Frideric Handel's Water Music extraordinarily beautiful, it also helped to establish the orchestral suite as a legitimate art form. Written to be performed outside instead of in a theater, it remains one of the most outstanding compositions in Handel's catalogue. Even though it is somewhat overplayed, the Water Music continues to be a very popular work of art. By nature of the venue this great work was t...
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Important Works Music Includes Bach
277 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach Born: March 21, 1685 Died: July 28, 1750 Birthplace: Eisanach, Germany Age at Death: 65 Biography Born at Eisenach, in Thuringia, he came of a distinguished musical family. At 15 he became a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt. Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and Anhalt-Kosher, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas s choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick t...
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Important Works Music Includes Musical
272 wordsBorn: March 21, 1685 Died: July 28, 1750 Birthplace: Eisanach, Germany Age at Death: 65 Biography Born at Eisenach, in Thuringia, he came of a distinguished musical family. At 15 he became a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt. Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and Anhalt-Kosher, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1...
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