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Pianist And Composer Beethoven
516 wordsI. Education in general and in music Beethoven came from a musical family, and his early musical training was under his father's guidance. His father taught him piano and violin. His general education was not continued beyond the elementary school. He was practically illiterate in math. As a youth of 19, in 1789, Beethoven took legal steps to have himself placed at the head of his family. He petitioned for half his father's salary to support his brothers. This act of self-assertion is an indicat...
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Time And Place Part Of The Play
1,085 wordsTheater is an extremely involved and complex production. It encompasses play writing, directing, acting, costume, makeup, scenery, lighting properties, theater architecture, machinery, special effects, management, audiences, and criticism (Brockett-b xi). What this statement fails to include is the element of sound design as a major theatrical consideration. The aspect of sound in the past and present entails so many technical aspects, that it must not be over-looked in any production. This is r...
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Cycles Per Second Sound Waves
739 wordsResonance and Sound Physics and Music Since sound is the medium of music, most of the physics of music is the physics of sound. It's important to remember that sound waves are compression waves. You can imitate a compression wave by stretching out a slinky (you do have a slinky, don't you? ) and flicking your finger against a coil at the end. Sound waves are not like the waves on the ocean or the waves you get by waving a stretched-out rope. Take a tuning fork (you do have a tuning fork, don't y...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven Greatest Composers
1,123 wordsWe have witnessed and had the chance to hear many pieces from both classical and modern composers. Numerous composers have tried to match the style of one of the most prominent composers of the nineteenth century, but few have come close. We are speaking of the ever-famous Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven is one of the most famous composers of all times and always will be considered to be among the best. The rise of Beethoven into the ranks of history's greatest composers was paralleled and in so...
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Three Or Four Fifteenth Century
358 wordsThe strongest composers of the fifteenth century were primarily located in the north. So the best musicians tended to come from countries like France, England, and Germany. Since Florence was an "international headquarters" it had strong commercial links with the north. This made it very easy to trade ideas and because of this a new musical expression made its way to Italy. The frottola was a popular form of music that was primarily developed in Florence. It was a setting of an entertaining or s...
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The Development Of Harmony In Renaissance
386 wordsThe Development of Harmony in the Renaissance The development of harmony in the Renaissance came from John Dunstable, Josquin des Prez and Adriaan Willaert. John Dunstable significant contribution to the theory and practice of composition was the introduction of more melodic music and outlining chords as a part of the melody. This incorporated a more tonal center in his works and in the music as a whole. This also introduced leaps of a third or even the sixth as consonant and pleasing sounds to ...
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The Celtic Voice In Walter Scotts Waverley
1,128 wordsThe Celtic Voice in Walter Scott's 'Waverley' One aspect of this novel which may not have received its due attention is Scott's emphasis on the strength and vitality of traditional Scottish culture, especially folk poetry and music. The presence of such an element is hardly surprising, in as much as Scott's first important literary work was an edition of Scottish folk ballads ('Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', 1803). The Celtic cultural aspect of 'Waverley' is scarcely mentioned by the author...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Marshall Mathers Lp
1,402 wordsMy words are like a dagger with a jagged edge, and Ill stab you in the head whether youre a fag, or les (Eminem Criminal). Rap music today is becoming more offensive and more violent than ever before. Musicians are not only rapping about violent acts, but they are now committing them. They are on radio and television promoting violence, and people are indulging in their music. Musicians are considered role models to many people. They have fancy cars, big houses, and enormous amounts of money. Th...
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Rap Artists Hip Hop
676 wordsControversy has always been a prominent characteristic of popular music throughout the twentieth century. Whether it be the controversy surrounding Elvis's winging hips, the Doors's uggestive lyrics, or Alice Cooper's stage antics, this controversy always seems to be followed by undue criticism from the media. One form of musical expression that has been in the news recently because of its negative attention is hip-hop. Rap, a relatively new form of musical exposition, has been criticized for it...
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Returned To New York Coleman Hawkins Jazz
1,070 words"I think he was the most interesting jazz musician I've ever seen in my life. He just looked so authoritative... I said, 'Well, that's what I want to do when I grow up. '" (Deveaux, 35) Cannonball Adderley said these words when he first saw Coleman Hawkins with the Fletcher Henderson band at the City Auditorium in Tampa, Florida. Just as Hawkins influenced one of the greatest alto players in history, he has influenced many people to become phenomenal saxophone players. Lester Young and Sonny Rol...
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1 000 Population Roman Catholic
1,513 wordsDESTINATION: La Paz, BOLIVIA Facts at a Glance Full country name: Republic of Bolivia Area: 1, 098, 580 sq km (428, 446 sq mi) Population: 7, 826, 350 Capital city: La Paz (pop 1, 000, 000) and Sucre (pop 100, 000) People: 30 % Quechua Indian, approx 28 % mestizo, 25 % Aymar Indian, approx 10 % European (principally Spanish) Language: Spanish but most Indians speak either Quechua or Aymar; composite dialects of Spanish-Aymar and Spanish-Quechua are also widely spoken Religion: 95 % Roman Catholi...
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Mozart Composed G Minor
903 wordsProbably the greatest genius in Western musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Part. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Wolfgang began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9. When he was 6, he and his older sister, Maria Anna, performed a series of concerts to Europe's courts and major cities. Both children played the keybo...
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Louis Armstrong Big Band
563 wordsLOUIS ARMSTRONG TIMELINE Louis Armstrong's was born Aug. 4, 1901. He grew up in New Orleans and received his first music instruction in 1913 in a children's home. By 1915 he was sitting in with local bands. He went to Chicago to join King Oliver in 1922 and made his first records with Oliver the the next April ("Chimes Blues"). Though Chicago would be his base for the next 12 years, he went to New York for the first time in September 1924 to join Fletcher Henderson's band and record with various...
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Beethoven Movement Mozart's
386 wordsOut of all musical artists known today, Ludwig Van Beethoven is right at the top of popularity and stardom. Though his life didnt start this way, as did Mozart's, Beethoven increased in knowledge and musical ability as he was taught by some of the best composers of his time. Beethoven's child life was not a very happy one in many circumstances. His father, Johann, even though being a singer in the Electoral Chapel in Bonn, Germany, where Beethoven was born, had a negative effect on Beethoven's l...
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Hip Hop Grandmaster Flash
914 wordsRahzel M. Brown was born in Queens, New York and recalls that not having was never an excuse for not doing. Just as in its most organic state the essence of hip hop is making something out of nothing, Rahzel learned how to feed his need to be creative. We didnt have the turntables inside the locker room and we couldnt bring our boom box in there. Either we were banging on the locker, or somebody was (making music) with their mouth. I was the one who made the beats with my mouth. I worked hard so...
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Meaning Of Life Modern Era
1,763 wordsMerwin comes forward to rescue human and humanity with his barrier breaking voice that has been hurled against the harsh walls of reality. He dives into the wreck of himself and the world and creates a new dimension where the resurrection of a modern era appears with a new tone of Nature and harmony. The revivification is based on the new visions in the old songs, formation of the abandoned, antiestablishment, the marginalized prophet who has some new prophecy, a new interpretation for nature an...
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Glyndebourne Festival Production 1977 Glyndebourne Festival Production Don
855 wordsMozart's Don Giovanni Amadeus Mozart conceals some very complicated techniques of musical emotion in his music for the stage. Among these is his ability to convey not mixed emotions, but separate, conflicting emotions and events involving multiple characters in one scene. An example of this genius is found in his opera "Don Giovanni. " I chose the 1977 Glyndebourne Festival Production. I will be analyzing the finale of Act I, score measures 415 to 457. I think it most effective to not skip aroun...
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Jacques Louis David Chamber Music
668 wordsJacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David is a French painter, one of the brightest leading representatives of Neoclassicism. Sometimes he is called as art dominator of his times, because his talent and genius influenced not only on development of painting, but also on fashion in decoration, interior design and even public political and ethical philosophy. David received his first esteem and recognition with his work The Oath of the Horatio, demonstrated at the Salon of 1784. It his early works he...
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Radio And Television Founding Fathers
970 wordsCensorship in music is a topic that has brought about much controversy in the past two decades. There have been many different arguments on the topic, however the question still remains as if it should be censored or it should not be censored. Before one can form an opinion on this, one must hear both sides of the argument. Some believe that music should be censored so all audiences can hear it without it containing any controversial lyrics. Others believe it should not be censored and musical a...
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Rock And Roll Punk Rock
900 wordsA Crazy Little Thing Called Punk Sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the rallying cry for a movement that changed American culture forever. Rock and roll first startled the American scene in the mid- 1950, but no one then could have predicted the remarkable vitality and staying power of this new music. The early tradition of rock has gone through many transitions. Provocative and outlandish stage attire and behavior have been an important resource since the birth of rock and roll. Decades followin...
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