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Stravinsky's Composition Of Ballet
1,280 wordsIGOR STRAVINSKY Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father practicing his opera ...
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Their Nations Folksongs And Music
1,818 wordsMusic has been a powerful force throughout history. Its power has affected all aspects of peoples lives. The ideas and attitudes people have toward their country can easily be seen in their music. While music in the early part of the modern era (1400-1900) served to promote patriotism and nationalism, musics role in the late 20th century seems a reversal and has been a deconstructive force challenging nationalistic feelings. The origin of all music is cultural (Nettl 940). Folk songs tell a stor...
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Known About Haydn's Piano Sonatas
1,564 wordsThe 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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Music Style During The Baroque Era
2,132 wordsMusic has evolved too many different forms that we recognize today. We trace this development throughout time. Beginning in the middle ages, we have seen advancement from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events, politics, religion, technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better understanding can be reached to ...
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Unusual Musical Talent At An Early Age
1,102 wordsInfluenced by the literature and painting of the era, 19th-century music was, marked by intensely personal expressions of emotion. In order to state their individuality with greater freedom, composers disregarded the limits of set forms. They enjoyed writing music that was more pictorial than earlier works and often attempted to imitate nature. The new compositions often lacked the cheerfulness of the classical era. In the search for self-expression, composers of the Romantic period were aroused...
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Leading Figures Of Soviet Music Including Shostakovich
1,541 wordsDmitri 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 International Competition for Pianists...
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Public Awareness Of Chopin's Music
2,464 wordsThe 1830's have been called "the decade of the piano" because during that period the piano and the music written for it played a dominant role in European musical culture. The piano had, of course, already been popular for more than half a century, but by the third decade of the nineteenth century, changes in the instrument and its audience transformed the piano's role in musical life. As the Industrial Revolution hit its stride, piano manufacturers developed methods for building many more piano...
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Royal Academy Of Music And Handel
1,254 wordsHandel, George Frideric b. Feb. 23, 1685, Halle, Saxony [Germany] d. April 14, 1759, London, Eng. German (UNTIL 1715) GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL, OR HANDEL German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, the Messiah (1741), and is also known for such occasional pieces as Water Music (1717) and Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749). Life. The son of a barber-surgeon, Handel sho...
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Erik The French Composer Erik Satie
369 wordsSatie, Erik The French composer Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866, and died on July 1, 1925, was the son of an English mother and a Parisian music publisher. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1879 but failed to benefit from academic education, which he embarked on again only in his 40th year, when he enrolled as a pupil of Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel at the Schol a Cantor um. Long before that, however, he had composed a number of short piano pieces, whose eccentric titles and unfashio...
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Russian Composer
1,842 wordsRussian composers are often mentioned in history as the most influential in the world. With style unlike any other, Russians are able to capture mood through a unique ability to capture exactly what they feel. Exactly how the Russians are able to do this is unknown, though through this, the greatest composers have turned out to be Russian. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich are all able to write and portray the most detailed feelings and moods, and it is to them that we owe the advanceme...
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Aforementioned String Quartet And Symphony
952 wordsThe Spirit of the Classical Era: The Classical Era saw the convergence of two opposing schools of thought in society. The first was the leftover from the Baroque Era, which said that the nobility had absolute power of society. The second was from the middle class, who said that the nobility had gone too far with their power and should give some of their power over to the middle class. The result of this was many opportunities for composers. Not only could they have their traditional occupations ...
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Charles Ives Charles Ives
1,396 wordsCharles Ives Charles Ives is known in our day as the "Father of American Music", but in his day, he was known just like everyone else- an ordinary man living his life. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1894 (Stanley 1) to his mother, Sarah Hotchkiss Wilcox Ives and father, George White Ives (A Life With Music, Swafford 4). His father was renowned for being the Union's youngest bandmaster and having the best band in the Army (The Man His Life, Swafford 1). Little Charles was infl...
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Claude Debussy
2,323 words"Even though he grew up in France being a painter was more accepted than being a composer. His father thought that he would become a sailor. He had all the tools for a painter but he was said to have, having a musical ear, but of Debussy it could be said that he had the finest 'musical eye' of any composer" (Brown 16). Claude Debussy is one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, loved by many people of different musical tastes. From his early childhood many people recognized...
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Gamelan Music
2,864 wordsOf all of the worlds' non-western music, none seems to be as familiar and at the same time as alien as Indonesian gamelan. Gamelan utilizes it's own, highly intricate, notation system under the context of large group orchestration much like a lot of western music. This fact makes gamelan easily dissect ible and imitable for western scholars and composers. It is also the main reason for such a high level of ethno musicological study done in Indonesia. Be that as it may, it is the other worldly so...
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Messiaen
316 wordsIn 1967, when Olivier Messiaen agreed to collaborate on a book of conversations, the composer of the evocative and grandly scaled Turangalila-symphonie was already considered one of the masters of twentieth-century music. Yet outside professional circles and a small but enthusiastic public, his works remained little known; he was perhaps most famous as the influential teacher of avant-garde composers Pierre Boulez, Karl heinz Stockhausen, and I annis Xenakis. Nearly three decades later, the dist...
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Later Composed Music
402 wordsWilly B. Cruz wanted to become a pianist. He is the grandnephew of pianist Francisco Buen camino, who was a pupil of the great composer Marcelo Adonai and who later composed music for zarzuela's, "Ya yang", motion pictures, "Ang I bong Adana" and other famous works like the "Mayon Concerto" and "Ang Lara wan". Willy took lessons under his aunt Rosario Licad, the mother of pianist Cecile Licad and under Marcelino Carlsen. Somewhere between the piano and school work at the Ateneo University, Willy...
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Eastman Jazz Ensemble And Studio Orchestra
480 wordsFred Sturm directs the internationally acclaimed Eastman Jazz Ensemble, conducts the 70-piece Eastman Studio Orchestra, and coordinates the Eastman jazz composition and arranging program. He serves as guest conductor of the Hessischer Rund funk (Frankfurt Radio Orchestra) in Germany, the Kluvers Big Band in Denmark, and American university jazz ensembles; as director of high school all-state jazz bands throughout the U.S. ; as clinician at national educational conferences and festivals; and as c...
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Classical And Romantic Periods Composers
1,574 wordsThere is no distinct transition between the romantic and 20th century music periods. They were both musical movements that broke away from many of the previous traditional ideals. Both stressed emotion and depth, and focussed on the composer's individual feelings and interpretations. For simplicity the 20th century style music is generally regarded as starting in the decade preceding the First World War. This was a time when composers began trying to experiment with the usage of the musical lang...
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Hindemith's Music
1,226 wordsPaul Hindemith was revolutionary and a musical genius. Many people who lived around the same time saw him as nothing more than an untalented noisemaker. Granted, these people didn? t have all of the various forms of music that we have today, but untalented would not be a word I would use to describe Paul Hindemith. He helped begin the last great change in classical music from the Romantic Era, which was very tonal and diatonic, to 20th Century Modern Music, which is extremely atonal. Diatonic me...
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Bach
396 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach has had a family full of musicians. In what seems like an odd family tradition, he started himself in writing and composing music and did it well, although he did not always receive the respect he deserved in his own life-time. He spent his earlier career principally as an organist, mainly at the court of one of the two ruling Grand Dukes of Weimar. In 1717 he moved to C? then as Court Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold and in 1723 made his final move to Leipzig, whe...
