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Russian Romantic Music And Tchaikovsky
1,589 wordsRussian Romantic Music and Tchaikovsky Russian music bears its own styles and emotions, free from the outside influence of other European countries during the Romantic period. Politics play an indirect role in the development of Russian music, isolating the country both politically and musically. Until the Decembrist revolt in 1825, Russia was under the unrelenting rule of czars. Russia retained the ways of the old -- its caste system, its severity of censorship -- while the rest of Europe had a...
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String Quartets Grew Older
468 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was one of the world's most famous composers. He was born in 1770 and died in 1827. He was born December 16, 1770 in Bonn Germany. His early musical talent was subjected to the discipline of his father a singer in the court chapel. His father was an alcoholic and so the young Beethoven began supporting his family as a court musician. He studied under several famous composers - Christian Need, and Austrian Joseph Haydn. He would have studied under Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but...
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Marriage Of Figaro Opera Seria
4,209 words... r marriage was trying to persuade Leopold of her attributes: "But before I cease to plague you with my chatter, I must make you better acquainted with the character of Constanze. She is not ugly, but at the same time far from beautiful. Her whole beauty consists in two little black eyes and a pretty figure. She has no wit, but she has enough common sense to enable her to fulfil her duties as a wife and mother. It is a downright lie that she is inclined to be extravagant. On the contrary, she...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical Style
568 wordsThe remarkable musician and composer by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. At the early ages of three and four, Wolfgang exhibited extraordinary powers of music memory and ear-sophistication. Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang's father, realized that his son was a true musical prodigy. He also realized that his best work wouldnt be his own, but in his sons future as a musician and composer. At about the age of three, Wolfgang spent hours at the piano discovering con...
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Sir Walter Scott Beauty Of Nature
1,879 wordsThe romantics of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century was the reaction against the Enlightenment and Classical rationality. Unlike the rational and analytical thinking of classical thinkers, romantics allowed their emotions to take over. Painters escaped the rigid form of straight lines and proportions and painted swirling and colorful paintings, novelists and composers broke the rigid forms and essentially produced works that expressed feelings, the awe of nature, and the belief that gain...
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Aunt Ester In Gem Of The Ocean
699 wordsAunt Ester in "Gem of the Ocean" The Gem of the Ocean takes place in 1904 in Pittsburgh. It is the ninth part of August Wilsons cycle of dramas, where he speaks about the struggle of black Americans against slavery. The slavery is exposed not only as a physical slavery, but also as emotional one combined with slavery on a government. It forces people to protect themselves, to defeat their ideas and beliefs. The drama shows us rather the slavery of soul than the slavery of body. The play is a bri...
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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
976 wordsCATCHER IN THE RYE FINAL ESSAY? Loneliness? Ever felt like there needs to be someone there to talk to, cry with, fight with, or just need a hug from? Those feelings dwell from loneliness, something Holden Caulfield knows all about. Holden Caulfield, J. D. Salinger? s main character in the book The Catcher In the Rye, is young man on the verge of having a nervous breakdown. One contributor to this breakdown, is the loneliness that Holden experiences. His loneliness is apparent through many ways i...
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Piano Sonatas String Quartets
1,089 wordsThe son of a wheelwright, he was trained as a choirboy and taken into the choir at St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, where he sang from circa 1740 to circa 1750. He then worked as a freelance musician, playing the violin and keyboard instruments, accompanying for singing lessons given by the composer Porpora, who helped and encouraged him. At this time he wrote some sacred works, music for theatre comedies and chamber music. In circa 1759 he was appointed music director to Count Morning; but he so...
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Concerto In F Minor Concerto In F Chopin
1,216 wordsFrederic Francois Chopin, one of the greatest composers of all time, was born in Zelazowa Will, near Warsaw on February 22, 1810. His father was a Frenchman who had lived in Poland for many years and his mother was Polish and of noble birth. He loved to play music, even as a small child. Before he even knew how to write down his ideas, he started to compose music. He took piano lessons when he was 6 years old from a Czech teacher named Wojceich Zywny, who used to base his teaching on Bach and Mo...
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Published His First George Gershwin
1,284 wordsGeorge Gershwin (1898 - 1937) George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1898, was born the second of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz, Russians who immigrated to New York in 1891. George and his family lived on Manhattans lower east side in a poor Jewish community. After settling down in New York, his father changed the family name to Gershwin. It was George who later altered his last name to Gershwin when he entered the professional world of music. Most of his famil...
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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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Ludwig Von Beethoven Left His Mark Period
588 wordsLudwig von Beethoven One of the greatest musical geniuses of all time didn? t even know his own birthday. Ludwig von Beethoven was born second in his family, behind Ludwig Maria, his older brother, who died very young. This loss may still have stung their parents. Their pain could have overshadowed the second Ludwig? s own early childhood. The brothers shared a name, Ludwig, which probably added to his confusion. A common mistake is the claim that Beethoven was born on December 17, 1770. This is...
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Piano Sonatas Van Beethoven
983 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn to the son of Johann van Beethoven, a tenor in a choir, and his wife, Maria Magdalena. His first music lessons were from his father, an unstable man whose rough temper and desire to make Beethoven into the next Mozart did not destroy Beethoven's talent or his love for music. He studied and performed successfully, despite becoming the main entertainment source of the family by the time he was 18. His fathers increasingly serious alcoholism and the earlier dea...
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Sister Mother
542 wordsIn David Mamet? s essay? The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood? and Amy Tan? s story? Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds, ? the authors describe their personal experiences. The essay and story are based upon the authors? childhood memories. There are many similarities and differences in Mamet? s and Tan? s works. Both authors describe a childhood conflict; however, Mamet does not resolve his conflict whereas Tan does resolve it. The conflict between Tan and her mother occurs because her mother pressures...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Hands And Feet
1,860 wordsFor the past two hundred years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death has been shrouded in mystery. Some say his great rival, Antonio Salieri, or the Freemasons murdered him. Others say he was simply exhausted. And some believe he died from sickness. It has been established that Mozart suffered from various illnesses, which no doubt contributed to his death. But some researchers have concluded that physical and mental exhaustion greatly affected Mozart, and contributed to his early death. These resear...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage Of Figaro
699 wordsThe Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 91) is regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived. He began writing minuets at the age of 5, and by the time he died in 1791 at the age of 35, he had produced 626 cataloged works. Mozart has enriched the concerto form with a larger number of masterpieces than any other composer. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to be the greatest genius in western music history. Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg, Austria January 27, 1...
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Composers Pieces Music
485 wordsMusic App. 9 May 1999 I went to this thinking it was a Musical Event with a Symphony, so I told my daughter about it and talked her into going with me. When we got thread were seated I realized there was no Symphony. On stage there were two black grand pianos facing each other. Then I was curios, so I started to read the program guide and realized the whole concert was going to be about a talented husband and wife combo playing the piano and I knew there was not going to be any singing, dancing,...
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Men And Women Classical Era
1,015 wordsSounds of the Ages If we do not know and understand our history, we are doomed to repeat it. This message is taught to all young people in their history and social studies classes. The quote is very true, because we learn from our mistakes, and even from our accomplishments. Music has been in the world longer than most people think. Way back when cavemen were slamming their clubs in a specific rhythm, that was musical. What this paper will mainly be talking about though is the likenesses and dif...
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State Of The Art John Cage
1,801 wordsNam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20, 1932. He was the fifth and youngest child of a textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he studied piano and composition with two of Koreas foremost composers. The family moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean War. Paik studied music, history, art history, and philosophy at the University of Tokyo from 1953 to 1956. He did his graduate dissertation on Schoenberg. In 1956, he moved to Germany to pursue his interest in ...
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