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Moses Und Aron Twelve Tone Technique Schoenberg
761 wordsArnold Schoenberg was born on September 13, 1874, to a Jewish family in Vienna. He taught himself composition, with help in counterpoint from the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky, and in 1899 produced his first major work, the tone poem Verklrte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet. In 1901 he married Zemlinsky's sister Mathilde, with whom he had two children. The couple moved to Berlin, where for two years Schoenberg earned a living by orchestrating operettas and directing a cabare...
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Heavy Metal Music Suicide Attempts
2,061 wordsThe Causes can be Prevented Introduction The phenomenon of suicide cannot be easily addressed, because psychologists do not agree on its exact causes. One thing is clear though this issue is very complex and the effective suicide prevention program must be based on specifics of every individual case. Nevertheless, there are certain factors that are believed to be universally applicable, when it comes to explaining what causes suicide. In this paper we will discuss social attractors of suicide, s...
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Paradise Island Bahamas World
443 wordsThe Bahamas: A Land of Beauty The Bahamas: this name is associated with roar of the waves, turquoise lagoons, warmth of the sand and palm trees touching the water. The Bahamas are situated at West Indies and consist of thirty bigger islands and approximately seven hundreds of small circular coral reefs and strings of coral islets. The natural beauty of the Bahamas is unique. Their relative isolation, blossoming tropic nature, and mild climate attract the tourists from the remotest corners of the...
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Ringo Starr George Harrison
1,607 wordsBehind Sad Eyes: The Life of George Harrison When a celebrity passes away, that passing seems to serve as permission for some biographers to write about the dark side of the dearly departed. Marc Shapiro carries on this dubious tradition in BEHIND SAD EYES: The Life of George Harrison. As fans of the Fab Four will recall, Harrison was considered the quiet Beatle, the spiritual one who kept to himself, and was content to stay in the background. Just like his fellow Beatles, Harrison grew up amid ...
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Eric Clapton Blues Singers
641 wordsSome blues ologists claim (rather dubiously), that the first blues song that was ever written down was Dallas Blues, published in 1912 by Hart Wand, a white violinist from Oklahoma City. (Tanner 40) The blues form was first popularized about 1911 - 14 by the black composer W. C. Handy (1873 - 1958). However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's Memphis Blues (1912) and St. Louis Blues (1914). (Kamien 518)...
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Rock N Roll Bob Dylan
748 wordsBob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24 th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his father became ill with polio and lost his job. The family then moved to Hibbing, Minnesota, where they slept in the living room of his fathers parents house for about two years. As a boy he started listening to late night rhythm and blues stations from Chicago. He pestered the lo...
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Catch A Fire Quot And Quot
1,935 wordsJamaica has produced an artist who has touched all categories, classes, and creeds through innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic who introduced reggae to European and American fans still may prove to be the most significant musical artist of the twentieth century. Bob Marley gave the world brilliant music and established reggae as major forces in music that is comparable with the blues and rock& rolls. His work stretched across nearly two decades and still remain...
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Avant Garde Big Band
624 wordsBreakthroughs in American Jazz The backdrop was New Orleans in the late 19 th century, a growing port city with a diverse population of African Americans, whites, displaced French settlers, and immigrants from the West Indies and South America. This hodgepodge of cultures mixed European influenced popular music, such as ragtime, with tradition African music creating the hybrid musical style known as jazz. Jazz, bold and beautiful, in its purest sense demands high instrumentation mastery, creativ...
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Late 19 Th Century Rhyme Scheme
1,276 wordsA une passage, taken from Baudelaire s major work Les Fleurs du Mal appeared in 1857. In Baudelaire s work, symbolist poetry found its origins. Although his poems at that time were found to be decadent, the symbolist movement was the main literary stream until well into the 1890 s. The symbolist stream was founded in the late 19 th century in France. This literary stream encouraged writers to express their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct state...
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Rave Scene Record Companies
2,332 wordsComputers and Music Over centuries past, music has seen leaps and bounds in the enhancement of theory, instruments, and recording arts. The first major leap was the invention of the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19 th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were introduced ...
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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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Musical Theatre National Endowment
1,493 wordsTheatre in Wyoming There you are sitting in a theatre watching a play. You say to yourself, this play could be so much better if they would do that different. Of course the designers could do things differently, they might have even considered the same things that you have, the only thing wrong with that is that type of stuff takes money. What most people dont realize is that the theatres in Wyoming are very under funded. Theatres in Wyoming are not able to support themselves alone they need out...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
1,243 wordsMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
1,237 wordsMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people...
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20 Th Century Rite Of Spring
448 wordsQuestion 1 Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was one of the greatest composers of the 20 th century. The son of a famous bass singer at the Imperial Opera, Stravinsky showed little inclination to pursue a musical career, but while pursuing law studies in 1902, Stravinsky met Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who advised him to study music instead. Stravinsky began studying with the famous Russian composer in 1903, and after Rimskys death in 1908, never had another teacher. Stravinsky's early works caught the im...
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Interview With Steve Pond Interview With Steve Janet
774 wordsJanet Jackson was born in Gary Indiana on May 16, 1966. She is a member of the Jackson Family musical dynasty. Her most famous family members include Jermaine, Stephen, Jackie, Tito, Marlon, and Michael whom were all part of the musical group the Jackson 5. The most famous of the brothers is Michael whom helped Janet begin her musical career. Like many of the women in show business today, Janet has been faced with many obstacles in her life. Despite all of the problems, Janet has overcome most o...
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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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Johann Sebastian Bach Bach Cantatas Music
657 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685, in Eisnach, East Germany. Unfortunately, Bach was declared an orphan at the young age of ten. He moved in with his oldest brother, Johann Christoph who lived in Ohrdruf. At age 15, he enrolled in Saint Michaels Church, where he sang in the choir. He stayed there for two years. Soon after he left the school, he became an organist at Saint Boniface Church, then at Saint Blasius Church. In 1717 he was employed as a court organist,...
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Sally Patton Pg High Classic Style Beethoven
769 wordsThe rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the rank of history s greatest composers was paralleled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair (Internet. 1). Beethoven s family was of the Flemish origin. His mother, Maria Magdalena, died after a long illness when Beethoven was only 17. He was not the only child in this family though. He had 2 brothers and 1 sister, both to which were disorganized and unruly. His family was always in constant need of funds. (The World 196...
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