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Aaron Copland A Great American Composer
691 wordsAaron Copland By: Anna McGuffin Not 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 yo...
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Later Became Arrow Music Press
534 wordsBorn in Brooklyn on November 14, 1900, Aaron Copland was the youngest of five children. American music had no internationally recognized voice of its own when Copland was growing up. His destiny was to supply one. He was the son of Jewish immigrants. Early music training came from an older sister Laurin e. He soon turned to other teachers, and began attending symphonic concerts, soaking up the music of the standard symphonic repertoire. While in high school, he studied harmony, counterpoint, and...
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Copland's Music
926 wordsMelinda Davidson Period 6 Aaron Copland (November 14) was an American composer of modern tonal music as well as film music. Copland's music achieved a difficult balance between simple and effective composition. His often slow harmonies were near motionless recalling the vast American landscape. He incorporated percussive orchestration For the use of the term 'orchestration' in computer science, see orchestration (computers) Outside of composing, Copland often served as a teacher and lecturer. Du...
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Early Piano Sonatas Of Beethoven
940 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an influential figure in the history of classical music. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such inspiring power and expressiveness. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. His father, a music enthusiast, dreamed of molding his son into the next Mozart. Beethoven never showed the impressive characteristics of Mozart, but he was unusually talented, learning the piano, org...
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Bachs Music
2,566 wordsApril Robinson Dr. Robbins Exposition & Report Writing 620: 015 21 February 2000 Bach: Life and Music He was a musical genius with thousands of musical compositions written in his lifetime. He spent his life in Germany, primarily Leipzig, and worked at a school for the city. He is considered to be one of the greatest musical composers, and composed till the day he died. An unruly youth who greatly disliked authority, he had a strong will and mind of his own. Well liked with many friends, yet no ...
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Expansion Of Music In The 20th Century
3,550 wordsBaroque Composers Still Being Played Frequently Monteverdi Lully Corelli Pachelbel Scarlatti Purcell Couperin Albino ni Vivaldi Telemann Rameau Bach Handel Gluck Baroque and Classical Orchestras DifferencesBaroque Orchestras Classical Orchestras String section and basso continuo central to the orchestra. Other instruments are occasional additions. Standard group of four sections: strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Different instruments treated individually. Fairly small; generally 10- 40 ...
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Handel's Greatest Operas
1,007 wordsHandel, George Frideric (1685-1759), one of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700-50) 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 distinction. His own musical talent, however, manifested itself so clearly that before his tenth birthday he began to receive, from a local organist, the only formal musical instruction he would ever have. Although his first job, be...
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Bach's Music For Solo Instruments
834 wordsRegarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician. The youngest of eight children born to musical parents, Johann Sebastian was destined to become a musician. While still young, he had mastered the organ and violin, and was also an excellent singer. At the age of ten, both of his parents died within a year of each other. Young Sebastian was fortunate to be taken in by an older brother, Johann Christop...
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Contemporary As Dvorak
686 wordsDvorak Antonin Dvorak was born in Nelahozeves on September 8, 1841. Dvorak was one of the greatest of the Czech composers. He grew up with an appreciation of local folk songs and demonstrated a talent for music at an early age. His first experience with music was of a violinist and violist. He got the attention of Johannes Brahms with his Moravian Duets and soon won a competition in Vienna that he would have never won if it had not been for the insistence of Brahms. Since his patriotic compositi...
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Georg Friedrich Handel
672 wordsGerman-English composer, George Frederick Handel, is one of the greatest composers of the Baroque period if not of all time. His work, Messiah, is one of the most famous and beloved works of music in the world. During his career in music, Handel composed Italian cantatas, oratorios (like Messiah), Latin Church Music, and several operas. Handel moved around from country to country writing, composing, and producing music for royalty such as Queen Anne and George of Hanover. In his life, Handel mas...
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Boccherini's Catalogue Of Music
1,657 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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Aaron Copland School Of Music
1,237 wordsInspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness-I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Only one man could claim the title as probably the greatest composer in American history for writing so many unforgettable works: Aaron Copland. He lived a life inspired by many things as well as inspiring people all across the nation, and it really led to the opposite of being drawn into himself, as he described in the quote above. He was bo...
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Twelve Tone Music
974 wordsDefinition: Serialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them. The elements thus controlled may be the pitch of the notes, their length, their dynamics, their accents, or virtually any other musical quantity, which, in serial terms is called a parameter. More generally, serialism is any music which uses any ordered sets applied to any musical element. Whilst researching se...
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Jazz On Copland's Music
2,266 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 paint...
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Musical Instruments In An Orchestra
2,351 wordsIn the early nineteenth century everyone used power looms and seed drills, the entire world was becoming industrialized. During the Enlightenment years before, people wanted to use reason in order to justify why things occurred; however, during the industrialization era, a few select traditionalists wanted to incorporate feeling, nature, emotion and instinct into art. (Maz our 535-536) In many forms of art, the change from rationalization to using feeling began the romantic era. Beethoven, the m...
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Back To The Royal College Of Music
255 wordsDr. Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in Down Amp ney, England on October 12th 1872. From 1887 to 1890 he went to a school called Charterhouse, he then spent two years at The Royal College of Music and then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1894 and the Bachelor of Arts in 1895. Vaughn Williams then went back to The Royal College of music and studied composition under Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Stanford and studied the organ under Sir Walter Parr...
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Handel S Music Work
596 wordsThe term! (R) baroque! is used to describe the European era that began approximately in the mid-1600's and ended in the mid-1700's. It was a time of ornate and emotional art and music. Much of its music is characterized by its virtuosity and liveliness. Although the compositions may sound fairly calm and serene today, it was considered highly emotional during the Baroque era. One of the most well-known composers of this era was George Frideric Handel. George Frideric Handel (HEN-dle) was born in...
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Great Composers
655 wordsMUSICS ROMANCE COMPOSERS Remy Ireland My study covers Frederic Chopin, Giuseppe Verdi, Johannes Brahms, Bedrich Smetana, and Giacomo Puccini. All great composers in their own right. These gentlemen are some of the greatest composers of all time. Frederic Chopin was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wol a near Warsaw Poland. His parents came from completely different cultures his father was French and his mother was Polish. Chopin have his first concert at age eight and began touring in 1828. Between 1829...
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Church Music
697 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach is probably one of the greatest composers of his time, as well as our time. As a boy he had a fantastic soprano singing voice and always took the lead roles in the church and school choirs. He started composing fairly early on in his life and his first main works, including the Preludes and Variations for the organ, were composed between the ages of 17 and 20. Bach loved church music and was regarded as one of the finest organists of his day. Since he was raised up with str...
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Two Of Handel's Best Known Italian Operas
1,194 wordsPart 1: Music of the Late Baroque (1700-1750) Italian opera was composed all over Europe. Metastasis was a famous librettist who supplied Italian opera stories to composers of the late baroque and classic periods. Two of Handel's best-known Italian operas are Giulio Cesare and Rode linda. The Italian city to the south of Rome that became the trend-setting center of opera was Naples. Two famous composers that worked there were Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo. When Handel came to Italy he worked p...
