Music Handel Handel's Messiah was composed in 1741. The musical period is baroque. An oratorio is a large musical work that includes an orchestra, choir, soloists, and staging. Operas are musical theater and oratorios are exclusively concert or mu Continue Reading...
Bach's Cantina Recordings Comparison of Bach Cantata Recordings: Richter and Gardiner Just a few generations ago, Bach's Cantatas had seemed to silence; but "since that time, in the intervening four decades, there has been an explosion of interest Continue Reading...
Vienna and Paris in the Decade 1900-1910 Vienna and Paris in the Decade 1900-1910 Europe of 1900 -- 1910 saw the rise of several cultural meccas, including Vienna and Paris. Vienna was a center of literary, cultural and artistic advancement in "m Continue Reading...
Haydn and Mozart Haydn once told Mozart's father that his son was "the greatest composer known to me in person or by name; he has taste and, what is more, the greatest knowledge of composition," (Sadie). The student-teacher relationship between Moza Continue Reading...
Alberto Williams and Nationalism Introduction & Brief History Lesson Generally speaking, the term nationalism is used to describe a sense of identification which individuals within a society or culture share regarding their state of residence. Continue Reading...
Balanchine to Petipa George Balanchine was born in the year 1904. He was invited to come over the United States of America by Lincoln Kirstein, in the year 1933, and subsequently, Balanchine arrived in America in the month of October 1933. One of t Continue Reading...
Richter and Gardiner in Bach's Canata Recordings The Baroque was a style expressed in art, music, architecture and even literature from the Age of Discovery in the 16th century until the early 18th century. Most describe it as more dramatic, florid, Continue Reading...
renaissance -- Baroque Music RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE MUSIC: A COMPARISON The music associated with the Renaissance Period, beginning circa 1450 and ending about 1600, brought about a number of significant changes as compared to its predecessor, Continue Reading...
The geniuses strained the boundaries of the characteristic styles more evidently and more quickly than those of their contemporaries to bring about such seismic changes. Works Cited Baroque: Style." The Essentials of Music. 23 Apr 2008. http://www Continue Reading...
Da Ponte brought a great deal of classical literature in his collaboration with Mozart and even though he did not necessarily had interest in originality, he managed to put it across by adapting a series of classical Italian texts (Zweifel & Zwe Continue Reading...
Guglielmo tries to comfort Ferrando, but he himself is thankful that his lady, Fiordiligi, seems to be strong. In one last attempt to prove both of the ladies fickle, Ferrando threatens suicide, and Fiordiligi gives in to him. Just as a double weddi Continue Reading...
Piave's life was more unruly than the way that Verdi was used to living, but he still knew how to defer to Verdi's wishes. It is believed that Piave had a way of allowing Verdi to "let his hair down" (Berger 2000) as he was often much more uptight a Continue Reading...
CP.E. Bach's Symphony in D. reflects incredible diversity in mood, character and expression, contrasting rhythm, dynamics and articulation. His juxtaposition of strings and winds in "conversation" with each other is entertaining and creates texture Continue Reading...
Minimalist Musical Culture, Techniques, And Composers Minimalist music has its roots in the experimental decade of the 1960's. The musical culture of that time was a relatively avant-garde one. Artistic experimentation and exploring new methods of c Continue Reading...
Music Compare "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky, "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" by Debussy and "Mondestruken" by Schoenberg as to compositional techniques. Why do they sound so different from each other and still from the same time period? N Continue Reading...
This, along with the older Psalter by Strenhold and Hopkins, was the main influence of the Bay Psalm Book printed during 1640 in Massachusetts. This can be compared with the first musical influences on and compositions by Li Jinhui. The traditional Continue Reading...
Music Producers Biographical Introduction: Teo Macero Producers work behind the scenes and are the unsung heroes of music. While some producers receive public notoriety like Brian Eno and George Martin; others like Teo Macero remain known mainly to Continue Reading...
" To call this television show a musical experience, however, might be something of a misnomer, since it is really a personality contest more than an exhibition of fine musical talent. The personality of the singers rather than the music's innovation Continue Reading...
Wolf Schubert Goethe It is often useful to compare artists within certain styles and forms in order to gain a greater understanding of those artists. Judging and comparing art is a beneficial method in determining what is good and acceptable within Continue Reading...
Bach and Frederick The book merely gives a detailed biography and combined interaction of two of the great men of all times. Both the personalities were quite different yet similar at the same time. Johann Sebastian Bach who is the Baroque master of Continue Reading...
Fantasia 1940 1.5 James Algar Samuel Armstrong, Fantasia (1940), Walt Disney Pictures, 120 min. -- ALS • symphony- an extended composition of a full orchestra, with several movements that are distinct from one another. A number of classical mus Continue Reading...
Tori Amos In music, most artists will face a number of challenges. This is because there are struggles they will endure to become successful. At the same time, they have to be able to remain relevant and adapt with the music. This means creating a u Continue Reading...
MLK Martin Luther King penned his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" precisely because his peers in the religious community had criticized his acts of civil disobedience. The letter is a rhetorical argument, rooted in Aristotelian rhetorical strategies. Continue Reading...
aesthetic terms from the days in which the musical accompaniment of a film consisted primarily of a pianist or organist sitting in the theater and taking cues on what to play by watching the silenced action on the screen. And yet, in other and proba Continue Reading...
Music Medieval, Baroque, and Renaissance music share core features and elements in common, while also revealing poignant differences that highlight aesthetic, geographic, social, and technological changes. Religiosity, simplicity of instrumentation, Continue Reading...
Mozart v. Schubert Two of the best-known composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Peter Schubert, shared much in common in terms of their upbringing. Both from present-day Austria, Mozart and Schubert grew up in musical families, wit Continue Reading...
" Here, Burke argued that revolution in general, and the French Revolution in particular, must be matched with reason and a reluctance to completely give up to radical thinking. Rousseau gave in directly to the revolution, arguing that it is a dire Continue Reading...
.. [they mean] absolutely nothing!...Or they means so many things, that they amount to nothing at all!" (Nietzsche, sec. 5). His major problem with the logic of the ascetic ideal seems to be that it rejects everything outside the body as unimportant, Continue Reading...
Civilization and Barbarism and Cruelty The works of Esteban Echeverria's El Matadero/The Slaughterhouse and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Facundo two classic works Argentinean 19th century literature How does one behave like a civilized human being Continue Reading...
Classical Symphony Music, like other forms of art, evolved from numerous traditions that, when taken together, formed a new way of thinking about, and performing, certain types of works. Audiences change over time, and certain musical compositions t Continue Reading...
In other words each music performance is different and the impulsiveness of each performance confirms the concept of indeterminate music. 6) Describe an Indonesian Gamelan. (Textbook p. 282-283) It said that Debussy, when he heard the Indonesian e Continue Reading...
Beethoven uses choral voices in his 9th Symphony to produce a sound that no man-made instrument could produce. Beethoven is attempting to achieve the highest and most joyful sound in the final movement of the symphony and so therefore uses human voi Continue Reading...
Stars today do not have the huge voices of the past. Even Wagnerian sopranos have more delicate tones, and schools try to produce these types of students, because of the demands of the industry. Midgett also points a finger at the schooling of oper Continue Reading...
In this movement he uses antiphonal, or equal bars of forte and equal bars of piano as the movement opens with a six note falling scale motif for this harmony. Finally there is a trio in D major, side by side, taking abrupt leaps and descents and wh Continue Reading...
A certain feeling toward propriety and morality is stamped upon our sex, which does not allow us to appear alone in public, nor without an escort. Thus how can I present my musical work, to the public with anything other than timidity. The work of a Continue Reading...
He is faster in every movement than any other of the above mentioned conductors and yet he scarcely sounds rushed" (Laurson 2008). Even without an extensive knowledge of the history of Brahms symphonic compositions, the modern, 21th century nature Continue Reading...
music of the Twentieth Century. Specifically, it will compare music of the Twentieth Century to the music of a previous period, and include information about the significance of composers in society, the role of music in the societal landscape, and Continue Reading...
Philip Glass Biography Philip Glass is certainly the world's finest identified living serious composer owing to vast amounts of American recording contracts. He has a readily exclusive, if ever controversial, style that is both imitated and parodied Continue Reading...
After chronic stomach trouble in 1799, the composer became progressively hard of hearing, and finally completely deaf by 1816. Despite this, he continued enjoying and composing music, enjoying great success until his death in 1827. In contrast to Mo Continue Reading...
European music: Baroque vs. Romantic and Classical music Any non-contemporary orchestral music is often called 'classical' in a colloquial fashion. However, there are many varieties of music between the eras of the 15th century and our own besides w Continue Reading...
