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Aaron Copland Jazz Musicians
643 wordsNot only was Aaron Copland a great American composer, he was a great composer worldwide. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a very drab neighborhood. He was influenced by jazz musicians and French composers. He made many remarkable contributions to the world of music and worked to make music more enjoyable to the everyday listener. His major works are not only world famous, but world-appreciated. Aaron Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the youngest of all of the children in...
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Due To The Fact Don Juan
964 wordsRichard Strauss was born June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany. The German composer-conductor is best known for his operas and tone poems. His father was Franz Strauss, one of Germany's leading horn players. Strauss's musical career began at the age of 4 when he learned how to play the piano. By the age of 6 he was composing and by the age of 11 he was studying theory and composition [ 5, par. 1870 ]. At the age of 20, he made his conducting debut in Munich. This led him to the Meiningen Court Orches...
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12 Th Century Notre Dame
1,446 wordsThrough my research of Leonin and Perotin I felt like I was conducting a highly magnified genealogy report. A lot of the information I found, went against each other and was estimations. The only reason we know of these two composers were due to a monk from Bury St Edmunds. He signed his writings anonymous roman numeral four. He was an English theorist who was familiar with the Cathedral of Notre Dame in some shape or form. It is not known to anyone his role with the cathedral. Although I found ...
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1,150 wordsThe piano when invented changed the way music was written, and even created new forms of music. Its invention ushered in new eras and gave people a sense of worth. But this change did not take place overnight, it took many years of hard work and labor to achieve what the piano is today. In 1698 a man named Bartolomeo Cristofori began to design an instrument, which would play both loudness and softness and be able to use an excellent range of dynamics unlike the popular instrument of the day the ...
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Berkshire Music Center Stravinsky And Ravel Koussevitzky
506 wordsThe legendary bassist and conductor Serge Koussevitzky was born in Russia in 1874 to a family of musicians. With his brothers, he formed a wind ensemble when still a child, performing at local parties and social events. He journeyed to Moscow at the age of fourteen, winning a scholarship at the Music-Dramatic Institute to study double bass and music theory. He excelled at the bass, joining the Bolshoi Theater orchestra at age twenty and succeeding his teacher as the principal bassist at twenty-s...
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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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Electronic Music Music Today
705 wordsElectronic music comes in all types of forms and speeds. Some forms are Jungle, House, Trance and Techno. Trance music is my personal favorite because of the beautiful melodies and build-ups. Jungle is a form of rap or "break" that has been sped up and mixed with all types of sounds. House and Techno are mostly the same; the only difference being that Techno tends to be harder and have more horn and whistle sounds. All of these forms have to be made or created with some sort of electronic device...
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Liszt Influence Franz Liszt Piano
832 wordsOde to Franz Liszt A prophetic voice, borne on the golden wings of time, Transcends the beat of the human drummer sublime Ancient strategic dots that plot a masterful score Slumber for a century till given life once more Clay digits cascade over ivories, black and white, Summoning reveries that croon and howl in the night More profound than the Pole or diverse than all his peers His rich tapestry of sound soaks in blood, sweat and tears Once Prometheus bound his exhumed spirit now soars Enlighte...
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Johann Sebastian Bach Fugue In G Church
813 wordsBach Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1, 000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue, Brandenburg Concerti, the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord, the Mass in B-Minor, the motets, the Easter and Christmas oratorios, Toccata in F Major, French Suite No 5, Fugue in G Major, Fugue in G Minor (The Great), St. Matthew Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 music...
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Sixteenth Century North German
1,635 wordsEarly History of the Pipe Organ The? king of instruments? has a long history, one which can arguably be traced to the concept of a collection of? fixed-pitched pipes blown by a single player (such as the panpipes)? (Randel 583). The first examples of pipe organs with the basic features of today can be traced to the third century B. C. E. in the Greco-Roman arena; it is said to have been invented by Ktesibios of Alexander and contained? a mechanism to supply air under pressure, a wind-chest to st...
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2,278 wordsMusic has been a great influence in the lives of many people for many years and is constantly changing. Music has been divided into six periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Twentieth Century. The Medieval period was the longest and most distant period of musical history and consists of almost a millennium? s worth of music. To examine the music of this period we must first look at the influences or dominating factors of medieval life. In a political sense, as well as a spiritu...
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1,864 wordsDuke Ellington: An American Legacy Where would music be had it not been for the men that stepped before him. The Motzarts and Beethoven's, who wrote the music that today is known as the classics. These men were naturals in their own right, but these people wrote their music in the 17 th and 18 th century. Many people dont realize all of the changes that music had to go through between that period of music and the present day. One such musician stands alone at the top as one of the movers and inn...
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Kurt Cobain Committed Suicide
435 wordsDougherty, Steve, ? No Way Out. ? People Weekly April 25 1994. Pg. 38 Goulding, Phil G. Classical Music New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992 Rosen, Craig, ? Cobain death spurs rush at retail; biz talk turns to bands unreleased work. ? Billboard April 23 1994. Pg. 9 Schoenberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York, London: WW Norton &# 038; CO. , 1981 Seidenberg, Robert, ? The Day the Demons Won. ? Entertainment Weekly April 7 1995. Pg. 108 Franz Liszt was one of many classical compo...
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Style Of Music Italian Opera
588 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel, certainly one of the founding fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel played the organ, violin, harpsichord, and composed songs. His music influenced that of Mozart and maybe even Beethoven. The other famous composer of Handel's time was Bach. They mad...
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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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2,553 wordsWho was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that? s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920 s. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolute music. George Gersh...
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Handel Operas George Friedrich Handel Opera
634 wordsGeorge Friedrich Handel was one of the most accomplished Baroque composers in his time. Born in Halle, Germany in 1685, he was the son of a wealthy barber who wanted his son to become a lawyer. However, he displayed such musical aptitude with the harpsichord, organ, oboe, counterpoint and fugue, he became an assistant with Friedrich Zachav, organist of the cathedral of Halle. However, Handel entered the University of Halle, but quickly withdrew, and left for the University of Hamburg, to study m...
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1,855 wordsJohann Johann Sebastian Bach Biography Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia. Thuringia is a central province of Germany. He was born into a family that had a history and a future of prominent composers. Johann Ambrosius, a town musician and father to Johann Sebastian, was the first to get Bach interested in music. He learned how to play many instruments at a young age from his father. When his father died he moved to Ohrdruf to live with his brother Johann Chri...
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Opera House Love Interest
963 wordsMusic La Boheme La Boheme Music affects our emotions and has much to do with our everyday lives. Music has always and will be a part of my life. I would have to say that without music there is no life something is missing in our lives without music. If there were no music society we would only have people speaking to each other, and there would be no entertainment. The form of musical entertainment that I attended was the opera, La Boheme, composed by Giacommo Puccini and Libretto by Giuseppe an...
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Reflected The Romantic Sensibility Reflected The Romantic Romanticism
956 wordsWho most accurately reflected the romantic sensibility of the day: the poets, the artists or the musicians? Well first off what exactly is Romanticism? Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, resulting in part, from the ideals of the French Revolution and in part a revolt against classicism and the Enlightenment. It embodies none of which classicism and neoclassicism did which were precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization a...
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