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Edgar Allan Poe Tom Walker
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In the nineteenth century, the foundation of American literature had a profound change. This was called from Reason to Romance or Romanticism. With many contributions of famous writers such as Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Poe composed the stories and poems which all of them had a great value in the American literature. What is the Romanticism and how dies it effect to the American literature? By taking some compositions from these writers, there will be good answers for those questions. According...
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Notre Dame Maurice De
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... el organum. Free organum was a style of note against note. There were many notes per syllable between the two voices. It is syllabic in each voice as its own. The phrases ended in unison or in the octave. The voices were independent within the phrases. Organum was usually a nematic and metastatic chant section sang by the choir at the beginning and the end of a piece. The number of voices greatly classified organum. As in if there were two voices it would be organum duplex. If there were thr...
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Piano Sonata In The Classical Era
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The Piano Sonata in the Classical Period The piano sonata was an important part of music during the Classical period. It characterizes the Classical era's new trend of musical form. Originally, the sonata was made up of several dance movements, but then in the Classical era, it changed to a fast-slow movement style, each of the movements being composed in one of the forms popular during the Classical period. These consisted of sonata-allegro, ternary, rondo, and theme and variations. Down throug...
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Early Works Eight Years
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Portrait of Chopin by Engine Delacroix (1838) In this bibliography, I will discuss Chopin, his life span and nationality, and the historical period of his performance. I will address his types of major works and titles and discuss his major contributions to music. Additionally, I will touch upon his early works, his dedications and his teachings. Frdric Francois Chopin, (1810 - 1849), Polish composer and pianist of the romantic era, regarded by some as the greatest of all composers of music for ...
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Td Tr Tr Td Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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... monyDiatonic chords: tonics, subdominants etc. Harpsichord plays chords and a supportive basso continuo. RhythmClear cut, fragments of syncopation. Pulsing, very regular and straight. DynamicsGreat contrasts of loud and soft, use of crescendo and diminuendo, echo effects. Terraced dynamics. StructureConcerto, sonata form. Call and answer within melody. Scale passages linkin...
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Claude Monet Industrial Revolution
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"The Impressionists were subjective painters, who looked at nature in their own individual ways. The results were, hardly surprisingly, very different, when we consider the divergent styles of say Monet, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Seurat. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Impressionism was to capture the effect of real sunlight on canvas. It is possibly this that made their pictures the most popular, and the most expensive, of the 20 th century. " Impressionism began in the late 1800 s in Fra...
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Guarneri Del Gesu Del Gesu Paganini's
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This benefit concert marks only the second time in history that the legendary violin, made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (pronounced "Gesu") (1705? - 1744) in 1743, which belonged to Nicole Paganini (October 27, 1782 - May 27, 1840) will be played in a full recital on the American continent. Eugene Fodor will perform. The first time it was heard in the U. S. was in 1982, in New York, as part of Paganini's bicentennial celebration, when his 24 Caprices for unaccompanied violin were played on it. Pa...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven One Of The Greatest
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Joseph 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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Oudry Painted Menagerie The Getty Museum
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Oudry's Painted Menagerie; The Getty Museum Introduction The exhibition Oudry's Painted Menagerie (May 1 - September 2, 2007) at the Getty Center is the mutual project of curators, conservators and art historians. Oudry's Painted Menagerie features twelve paintings. Originally, the project was initiated in 2001 (Schwerin, Germany) in result of the reemergence of two Oudry's canvases, one depicting a rhinoceros and the other a lion. The paintings were not available to the public for more than 150...
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The Rise And Fall Of Ars Subtilior
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The Rise and Fall of Ars Subtilior Ars Subtilior (or more subtle art) is the term traditionally used to describe the musical style of the late fourteenth century. This musical style is characterized by its notational and rhythmic complexity. It was widespread in the Avignon and Paris areas in Southern France and in some areas of the northern Spain and Cyprus. Ars Subtilior virtually divided the music of the Middle Ages and the epoque of Renaissance. Ars Subtilior is often discussed in connection...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven Wikipedia N D
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University: Lecturer: Course: Date: Napoleon and the 19 th century's influence on Beethoven Outline of content Content Page Abstract 3 Beethoven's Early Years 3 Napoleon Bonaparte 4 Beethoven's loss of hearing 6 From Classicism to Romanticism 7 Beethoven and Romanticism 8 Lord Byron 9 Conclusion 10 Works cited 12 Abstract Beethoven is widely recognized as one of the greatest music composers to ever walk the earth. He lived an exemplary life, left a legend, and still lives on the hearts and minds...
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Period Of Time George Gershwin
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George Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young and could not realize many of their plans and ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant: he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for theater and cinema, and became an author of many popular songs, which are still being played in our times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a family of...
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Piece Of Art Early In The Morning
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In 1841 an American artist John Rand invented collapsible metal tubes for oil paints. For impressionists, who often painted out-of-doors, this new convenience was indispensable. Before the invention of tubes, painters would have carried bladders (see image below left) to store the paint that they would have made in their studio. The bladders would have been made from pig membrane and tied at the top with strong twine to exclude air. About the same time, railway expansion was making the countrysi...
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Twentieth Century Sunday Morning
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Edward Hopper Edward Hopper is American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings. He strongly influenced the Pop art and New Realist painters of the 1960 s and 1970 s. Hopper was initially trained as an illustrator, but, between 1901 and 1906, he studied painting under Robert Henri, a member of a group of painters called the Ashcan School. Hopper traveled to Europe three times between 1906 and 1910, ...
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Han Zheng Music Music Of China Chinese
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Music 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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Piano Sonatas Classical Era
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The Sonata Christian Core 10 / 6 / 96 In the late 1700 s and early 1800 s the Baroque period gave way to the classical era, introducing many revolutionary new scientific discoveries and theories. This drastically changed the peoples social views and brought on the age of enlightenment. With this change in social philosophy came changes in musical trends. One of the most important new trends of the time was a more common use of the sonata. During the Classical era, the sonata evolved into a more ...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
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Most 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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12 Th Century 13 Th Century
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Leonin and Perotin Through 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...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. He was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. The son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Part. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. At the age of three, Wolfgang showed signs of remarkable musical talent. He learned to play the harpsichord, a keyboard instrument related to the piano, at the age of four. Wolfgang began composing minuets ...
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Blessed Virgin Santa Maria
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina The greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, born at Palestrina (ancient Praeneste) in 1514 or 1515, according to Being, Riemann, and others, according to Haberl, in 1526; died at Rome, 2 February, 1594. His early history is practically unknown. Giusseppi Ottawa Pittoni (1657 - 1743), in notizie dei maestro di cappella si di Rome che altramontani, 1600 - 1700, a manuscript in the Vatican, relates that young Pierluigi sang in the streets of Rome while of...
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