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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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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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Bach And Handel Beethoven
936 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel were two of the most important composers of the Baroque Period. Compare and contrast their lives and sacred musical works studied in class. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel are two of the most important composers of the Baroque period. Born only one month apart both in Germany. Handel lived nine more years than Bach. Coming from the same period the two composers have many qualities that are alike and some unlike. These qualities ...
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Tells The Story Symphony Orchestra
1,694 wordsMetallica has not always been the talented group of rock musicians that they are today. It took many years and many albums to bring the band to its current standing as the kings of rock. Metallica has undergone changes in its lineup and its musical writing style. Comparing and contrasting the musical and lyrical content of each Metallica album shows exactly how much they have changed from the early 1980 s to 2000. Metallica was founded in the early 1980 s when a young man from Denmark named Lars...
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19 Th Century Symphony Orchestra
527 wordsThe string bass, also known as the double bass and bass violin, is widely used in a symphony orchestra in the left and / or right back rows. The string basis strings are four notes apart like most other music instruments and unlike the five notes apart that some other odd instruments are. The string bass belongs to the string family. Most stringed instruments are found in orchestras. The string bass is also the largest instrument in the string family. It is a lot like a larger version of the vio...
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19 Th Century String Quartets
479 wordsBeethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827), German composer, generally considered one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition. Born in Bonn, Beethoven went to Vienna in 1792 to study under Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. In Vienna, he dazzled the aristocracy with his piano improvisations and became a successful freelance composer. In the first decade of the 19 th century Beethoven expanded the musical language bequeathed by Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and revealed his complete assimila...
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Romantic Music The Ideals Of Instrumental
860 wordsAt one point in the study of the Romantic period of music, we come upon the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts to grasp the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19 th century. This opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art, why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony, the highest form of instrumental music, were not Romantic composers, but were the Classical com...
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Back To Vienna Ninth Symphony Beethoven
582 wordsBEETHOVEN Ludwig van Beethoven was born 1770 in Bonn Germany. His mother was a singer in the service; his father was a court musician that had little motivation and a drinking problem. His father noticed that Beethoven had a gift at a young age, and began teaching him piano and violin. But Beethoven was a hard learner, he was self-involved and impatient. This probably led to why he was a loner and why he only went to academic school for three years. Beethoven's father wasn't the only one who saw...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony Pg 2 Years
493 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart as found on the World Wide Web Of all the great composers throughout the years, possibly the most famous ever would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Few composers ever have led such a remarkable life of left such a remarkable lasting legacy of music in such a short span of life. Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was the second survivor of six born to an accomplished musician named Leopold (The Symphony pg. 1). Mozart was a child prodigy when he began playing the...
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One Of The Greatest Taj Mahal
458 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was one of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700 - 1750) and, during his lifetime, perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. Handel was born February 24, 1685, in Halle, Germany, to a family of no musical background. His own musical talent, however, began to show before his tenth birthday. He received lessons from a local organist, the only musical instruction he would ever have. His first job was as church organist ...
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York City Ballet School Of American Ballet Balanchine
948 wordsGeorge Balanchine, or originally Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, a Russian-born choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet. George was among a generation of dancers who spent the years of World War 1 at the Imperial school of ballet at the Mariinsky theatre. George was the son of a composer, and he also studied music from 1921 to 1924 at the Petrograd Conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a student Balanchine had already tried choreography. His fi...
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Idee Fixe Reappears Idee Fixe Movement
309 wordsHector Berlioz wrote the Symphonie fantast ique at the age of 27. He based the program on his own impassioned life and transferred his memoirs into his best- known program symphony. The story is about a love sick, depressed young artist, while in his despair poisons himself with opium. His beloved is represented throughout the symphony by the symbolic idee fixe. There are five movements throughout symphony. The program begins with the 1 st movement: Reveries, Passions symbolizing the artists lif...
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Late 19 Th Century 20 Th Century
1,771 wordsUpon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a lifelong study of Jazz or Classical...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Archbishop Of Salzburg
1,979 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was born in Salzburg in Austria, the son of Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five; minuets from this period show remarkable understanding of form. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna (best known as Nannerl) was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich...
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Pulitzer Prize Grass Roots
2,197 wordsBook Reports: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943 In their books: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943, Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis give a detailed account of the life of one of America? s most influential composers. The books are arranged similarly to the Shostakovich biography that our class reviewed earlier this semester. That is, through personal accounts by Copland himself along with accounts of Copland? s friends and acquaintances, the authors manage to pai...
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Compose Music Beethoven Time
326 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. He studied in Vienna under Mozart and Hayden. In Vienna he first made his reputation as a pianist and teacher, and he became famous quickly. At this time he composed many of his most popular works such as the Fifth symphony, the Emperor Concerto, the Eric and Pastoral symphonies, and his only opera Fidelio. Beethoven developed a completely original style of music, reflecting his sufferings and joys. His work forms a peak in the development of tonal...
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Wind Symphony Symphonic Band Piece
235 wordsTonight I went to my first concert. I saw the Duquesne University Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. Robert C. Cameron conducted both the Symphony and Band. The Wind Symphony began the night by playing the Dedication Overture and then proceeded on to what was my favorite piece of the concert, Old American Country Set. This set consisted of five parts, my favorite being the last. It was called Cornhuskin? Hornpipe. I felt this piece was wonderfully played. I h...
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19 Th Century Role In The Development
1,411 wordsRomanticism was a European cultural revolt against authority, tradition, and Classical order (the Enlightenment); this movement permeated Western Civilization over a period that approximately dated from the late 18 th to the mid- 19 th century. In general, Romanticism is that attitude or state of mind that focuses on the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the creative, and the emotional. These characteristics of Romanticism most often took form in subject matters such as history, nation...
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Nineteenth Century Live Forever
1,090 wordsRomanticism was one of the strongest movements to ever have hit the music scene. Romanticism lasted a large portion of the nineteenth century and it = s music reflected that of the world that was rapidly changing during those years. One of these massive changes taking place was the Industrial Revolution. In Britain, science was being applied to already existing manufacturing processes. This meant that, with better systems in place rather than those of hard back breaking labour, more goods could ...
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