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Years Of His Life Contributed Greatly
1,072 words"Not only did I have the encouragement of constant approval, but as the conductor of the orchestra I could experiment, find out what made a good effect and what weakened it, so I was free to alter, improve, add or omit and be as bold as I pleased. Cut off from the rest of the world I had no one to bother me and I was forced to become original. " The above quote was said by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) during the later years of his life and it refers to the time he spent in Eszterhaza. Haydn ...
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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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Peer Gynt Suite Piano Dynamic Level Grieg
1,363 wordsWhen one thinks of the Romantic composers, the names Beethoven, Wagner, Chopin, or Liszt come to mind. Looking even further into the period one sees the names of nationalist composers like Glinka, Tchaikovsky, and Smetana. Unfortunately, there are still many composers of the Romantic era whose music is known, but for some reason there names have grown apart from there music. Edvard Grieg, a Norwegian nationalist composer, is one of these men. Many people would know Grieg's work In the Hall of th...
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End Of Time Prisoner Of War
1,223 wordsan account of the technical and interpretative challenges presented to performers in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) played a significant part in the evolution of twentieth-century music, influencing a number of other composers with his innovative compositional techniques. The Quartet for the End of Time, is not one of Messiaen's typical works due to the circumstances in which it was composed (his main outputs were organ, orchestral and choral works), but i...
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19 Th Century Role In The Development
1,396 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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Financial Problems Great Deal
1,110 words... l different kinds of harmonies until the superintendent stopped him (Vallas 19). He was a good rebel not always looking for the negative, but sometimes doing something that would spark a new idea or interest. Sometimes his rebelliousness would get him into trouble resulting in long-term conflicts even in court appearances. Debussy composed the music for an opera called Palleas. After hearing the opera a few times, was dissatisfied with the music played and the parts it was played in so he wa...
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The Similarities Between Classical Music And Ellington Jazz
1,217 words... have to be used to describe this, the Jazz age. Since I think Jazz is serious thing, I must be serious in my choice of song titles. 9 Thus one can see the purpose of Ellington's music is to describe the era in which he lives in, very similar to the Classical era composers and the Romantic era composers. In response to the enjoyably of Ellington's music, I admit that Ellington's music has melody in which patrons danced to, but the dance-ability of the music is not inherent but rather an inter...
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Nineteenth Century Folk Music
1,008 words... interested in the education of the common people, and in 1739 the first Education Act was passed, relating to rural schools. One of the basic principles of Norwegian educational policy is that all children and young people have an equal right to education and training irrespective of domicile, sex, social or cultural background and aptitude. All state education is free. Education and the development of skills have high political priority. The objective is an education system that combines th...
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Duke Ellington An American Legacy
1,872 wordsWhere 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 don't 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 innovators of the 20 th century. He i...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven One Of The Greatest
1,847 wordsJoseph Haydn is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the classical period. He is often called the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, and he founded what is known as the Viennese classical school, which consisted of himself, his friend, Wolfgang Mozart, and his pupil, Ludwig van Beethoven. During his lifetime, he produced a mind-boggling amount of music. He lived from the end of the baroque period to the beginning of the romantic period, and presided over the transition b...
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Martin Luther Sound Recording
865 wordsJosquin's music influenced many people. Adriaan Petit Coclicus, who was one of Josquin's students, published a method in 1552 entitled Compendium music, based on Josquin's teachings. He referred to Josquin as "princeps musi corum" which means "main writer of music. " Another person which Josquin influenced was the German reformer Martin Luther. Mr. Luther had his own views on music and how it relates to education. He believed that music could influence behavior. He also believed that there is a ...
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Han Zheng Music Music Of China Chinese
1,123 wordsMusic of China The music of China enriches the listeners life both immediately and over the long time. It gives the basis for creativity and the opportunity of self-expression. The music of Chiba transmits cultural values and contributes to intellectual and moral development of the people who listen to this music. Its gentle sounds extracts the deep feelings, at the same time, making a listener relax and enjoy its calm and peaceful atmosphere. More than that, listening to music of China has shor...
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Avant Garde Lady Macbeth
1,557 wordsDmitri Dimitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin Internatio...
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Master Symphonist Music Beethoven
678 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an Olympian figure in the history of classical music. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled; while general a member of the Classicist fold, he was in fact the first Romantic, and pre-figured virtually all music that followed the Romantic era as well. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such exhilarating power and expressiveness; certainly no other composer did so against greater odds. Beethoven was born in Bonn in ...
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Johann Sebastian Classical Music
875 wordsOne of the most profoundly inspired and masterful composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Thuringia until recently part of East Germany. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of string-playing; another relation, the organist at Eisenachs most important church, instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695, Johann Sebastian was orphaned; he went to live with his older brother, Johann Christ...
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Publishers New York String Quartets
1,577 wordsLuigi Boccherini was a prolific composer, particularly of chamber music with a distinctive and highly wrought style, and he is the chief representative of Latin instrumental music during the Viennese Classical period. Boccherini was also an exceptional cellist. Luigi Boccherini (his baptismal first name Rudalfo was never used) was the son of a cello or double bass player, Leopoldo Boccherini. Luigi was born in Lucca, Italy in February 19, 1743. The Boccherini family had considerable artistic gif...
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Madrigal Was Being Experimented Music Pg 463 Voices
392 wordsMichael Karnes Madrigal During the Renaissance era, secular vocal music became more and more popular. Throughout Europe, music was being set to poems. This was especially true in Italy, where the madrigal began. Madrigal is defined as a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem (Music an Appreciation pg. 85). The poems usually had two or three stanzas of three lines and the form was aba bcb dd, abb cdd ee etc. (The New Harvard Music pg. 462). The higher voices were the more decorated and...
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Musical Composition Key Points
1,386 wordsModern Music Composition Student: 0135761 Teacher Composition has been an ever-changing entity in our society. Music composition is also a very alternating subject of study. You have to keep up to date when you wish to compose a piece of music. This is strictly due to the progression of music in this day in age. If you fail to study, the music you are writing may, very well, upset the music community with old or potentially outdated material. The only way to stay up to date with composition is t...
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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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