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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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Five Pieces Of Bach's Work
1,269 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach was born into a musically gifted family and was devoted to music throughput his childhood and adult years. He was taught by his father and later by his brother Johann Christoph, and was a boy soprano in Lundberg. His education was acquired largely through independent studies. In 1703 he became a violinist in the private orchestra of the prince of Weimar but left within a year to become an organist at Arn stadt. Bach went to Muhlhausen as an organist in 1707. There he marrie...
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Gershwin's Rhapsody
839 wordsThe American Standard of Gershwin George Gershwin is an American icon of the hustling early twentieth century when America was wakening to its potential and power in the arts, industry, business, and many changing faces that defined the American style. Of his 600 plus compositional works, Rhapsody in Blue is the piece that perhaps best captured his creative genius, and is the work that brought on immediate fame and signaled the arrival of a major composer. The unique Gershwin sound is rooted in ...
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Music Of Tchaikovsky
1,753 wordsPeter Ilynich Tchaikovsky is the author of six symphonies and the finest and most popular operas in the Russian repertory. Tchaikovsky was also one of the founders of the school of Russian music. He was a brilliant composer with a creative imagination that helped his career throughout many years. He was completely attached to his art. His life and art were inseparably woven together. "I literally cannot live without working", Tchaikovsky once wrote, "for as soon as one piece of work is finished ...
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Major Vehicle For Music As Composers
4,116 wordsMusic is the most intangible art form. You cannot grasp or hold it, as you can other art forms. It is there for a minute, and it vanishes as soon as the last chord fades away. The great works of music are timeless. They remain with us after all the instruments have been packed away and the players have all gone home, in our heads, playing over and over. We hear them everywhere from shopping malls to commercials, even after their composers have been dead for hundreds of years. However, as technol...
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Piece Of Music
1,091 wordsComparison Between Piano Concert by Barbara Wieman and Sacramento ChamberOrchestraFebruary 20, 1997 William Strang On Feb 20, 1997, I attended a piano concert that was performed by Barbara Wieman. The performance was held at the American River College Music Department choir room. The choir room holds about 100 people and every seat was taken and students were seated on the floor. The audience was dressed casual as everyone was students trying to do their concert papers. Barbara We iman was also ...
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Frank Ticheli Publisher
701 wordsKarl L. King Karl L. King's distinguished career as a bandmaster, prolific composer and musician made him a legend in his own lifetime. All who knew him remember his quick wit and sense of humor. Karl joined Robinson's Famous Circus at the age of 19 as a baritone player. He joined the circus world at a time when the acts were in great need of a special music since the standard music did not fit. Karl King was a master at writing music to match the rhythm of the acts. He quickly rose to leadershi...
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Very Important Piece Of The Orchestra
1,363 wordsOn Sunday, December 07, 2003, I attended the Mozart and The Height of Classicism concert that was held in the Lincoln Theater of the New World Symphony orchestral academy. Conducted by Nicholas McGegan featuring pianist Robert Levin. There were two pieces of music during this concert, one of the movements was performed by the pianist alone as a solo, Mr. Robert Levin. The program's title was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chaconne from Idomeneo. The first piece was Concerto No. 24 in C minor for Piano...
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Very Unique Technique And Many Other Companies
389 wordsI went to see the Parsons Dance Company on Tuesday April 9th. It was a very interesting show. There were actually many different techniques that I observed in this performance. This company uses many different forms of dance all into one technique, which makes them a unique company. One characteristic of technique that I noticed in most of the pieces performed was fast paced movement. Every piece was very upbeat and synchronized with the music. All their movements were done to the accents in the...
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Faur's Pieces
1,150 wordsGabriel Faur and Franz Schubert, although very culturally and musically different, share the same adoration and appreciation for the human voice. Albeit the two composers were skilled musicians, especially talented chamber performers, neither had much experience in opera music. Even so, both Faur and Schubert managed to compose amazingly difficult voice music. Because there are so few notes, the performer is not allowed the usual leniency, and in turn, and blunders are effortlessly noticed. It i...
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Concert With The Mix Of Pieces
1,834 wordsConcert Analysis: Songs Around the Word Offer Thee by Allen Rid out 1. Gregorian chant consists of a single-lined melody and is monophonic in texture. This piece also consists of these basic structures as well as not having any harmony or counterpoint. This piece performed by U of I faculty member Steven Rickards, is sung a cap pella. 2. This piece differs from the traditional Gregorian chant of the Middle ages because of the jumps and leaps presented in the piece, which show that the piece was ...
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Copland's Music
851 wordsAaron Copland Aaron Warner Aaron Copland was the embodiment of what a composer can hope to become. Copland was very much in touch not only with himself and his feelings, but with the audience he intended to reach. Very few composers have a concrete idea of what 'types' of people they wish their music to reach. Copland was one of these few. The 'Common Man' was the central part of much of his volumes of to reach. Copland felt that, '... everyone should have a chance to seething's through this mus...
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Break Between The Last Two Pieces
484 wordsOn June seventh at eight o'clock pm I attended a concert at Bene roya Hall. The concert was part of the Masterpiece series, performed by the Seattle Symphony and conducted by Hermann Michael; also including a special performance by the pianist H'el " ene Grimaud. The performance included four pieces, two by Ludwig Van Beethoven, one by Maurice Ravel, and the last was by Richard Strauss. The two pieces by Beethoven were; Overture to The Construction of The House, and piano Concerto No. 4 in g maj...
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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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Third Piece In The Schubert Section
1,154 wordsApril 13, 2000 Music 100 Megan Miskill: Junior Recital On April 4th, I made my way to the music building to see Megan Miskill perform her Junior Music recital. Her concert was shared with a violin player, Trevor Cornelius en, but for this paper, I will only discuss Megan performance. She sang three sets of pieces: Schubert, Faure and Mozart. Each set was contrasting, yet featured her lyric soprano voice beautifully. Nick Williams was her accompanist. The first section of her concert was the Fran...
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Dave Matthews Concert
973 wordsDave Matthews and the Raging Animal in the Cage On August 10, I went to a Dave Matthews Concert which was held in F ( ^^ ( ^ ) ) (& ^n. I estimate, that the audience outnumbered at least 10,000 people. Unlike in a small concert where the audience gathers up in front before the band, this concert was densely populated in the front as well as in the back and even behind the band. The spectators were overwhelmingly 15 to 19 year old teenagers although I could spot several middle aged spread across ...
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Johann Pachelbel And Canon
460 wordsAt weddings, on commercials, and even on cell phone ring tones, Pachelbel's "Canon in D" is everywhere in today's world. Johann Pachelbel was born in Nuremberg, Germany, on September 1st, 1653, and died there on March 3rd, 1706. An organist and composer, he became one of the greatest organists in Germany. "Studying at the Universities of Altdorf and Ratisbon, Johann moved to Vienna in 1671 where he became a student and organist at the Imperial Chapel". (Sojurn). "In addition to school, he had tw...
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Interpretive Moves Of The Listener This Piece
2,358 wordsMusical Performance 5 Chris Irvine O Fortuna from Carmine Burana (Orff) - Seiji Ozawa / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra The dialects of the sound object: When listening to this piece the immediate and obvious associations I have are completely directed by external associations. This is unfortunate because I will not experience the piece for the first time, therefore the encounter will not have its initial impact as a separate entity. The concept that I have built through countless listening experi...
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20th Century Russian Composer
311 wordsShostakovich was a 20th Century composer, who wrote three fantastic dances. The second dance is an ethereal waltz, and it is both graceful and mysterious, with unexpected harmonies creating tension. The Russian composer Tchaikovsky wrote several nocturnes. A nocturne is a 'night piece', and they often encompass what could be interpreted as the cold, melancholic mood of a winter night, and all the warmth and richness of a summer night. The 20th Century Russian Composer, Alexander Tcherepnin wrote...
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Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky
290 wordsIgor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Igor Stravinsky was the son of a leading bass at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, . He began two of the major strains of contemporary music. His early work, like the Symphony No. 1, was influenced by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Later he inclined toward the music of the French impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, represented in pieces like Fireworks, The Faun, the Shepherdess, and the major ballet Firebird. Firebird's success led to two more ba...
