Deploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem While listening to this song, I noticed that it was a motet. Each new line of the text begins a new point of imitation, while the voice that leads, the others ... rather than rise. I did not really notice a pattern because it does not seem to repeat very much, however the last stanza, stanza 5 does repeat. The music follows a certain scale in a major but then descends toward a minor key. ...

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... different sources and influences. Perhaps the two key influences for Debussey could not be anymore opposite. Chopin and Wagner were on opposite ends of the musical spectrum. Chopin was truly a major influence in the development Debussey's original style but perhaps Wagner was the most interesting influence Debussey had. Debussey on many occasions denounced and expressed his distaste for Wagner's style and ... piano lessons to her children and being an accompanist in vocal and instrumental recitals at the house. Debussy's piano experience exceeds any other composer or musician of his tim...

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... Apollon musagete (1928) Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929) Symphony of Psalms (1930) Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra (1931) Perséphone (1934) Jeu de cartes (1936) Concerto in Eb "Dumbarton Oaks" (1937) Symphony in C (1939-40) Symphony in Three Movements (1945) Mass (1944-48) Orpheus (1947) ... pieces by Tchaikovsky, now established as his chosen ancestor, to make the ballet Le baiser de la fée, and in 1926 he rejoined the Orthodox Church. The Symphony of Psalms was the first major work in which his ritual music engaged with the ! Christian tradition. The other important wo...

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... Venice. He became quite rich from his compositions and died a wealthy man in Passy, France in 1868. The next piece was "Concerto in B-flat Major, op.4 no.6." by G.F. Handel. George Friederich Handel was born in Halle, Prussia (Germany) in 1685. In 1703 he intended to study law, but ... opera and became blind in 1751. He died in 1759 in London and is buried in Westminster Abbey. The third composition was "Adagio" from "Concierto de Aranjuez" originally written for guitar by J. Rodrigo. Joaquin Rodrigo, who became blind at the age of three due to diphtheria, was born on November ... saint ...

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... Grateful Dead became enveloped in the mass youth-culture movement that embraced an anti-war, pro-love, pro-narcotic stance. Hell, if not for two major world wars, we wouldn't have jazz. I don't need to elaborate on this... if you don't know about the direct effect war had ... a cultural revolution? How would it change popular music as we know it? Below are presented several different scenarios as to what could possibly happen should a MAJOR (not a quickie like the Gulf War) hypothetical armed conflict rage once again. 1) Corporations start pumping out more and more pre-fabricated pop act...

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... and an important contribution to the Colonial Music of Latin America in soly sombra. The two-hour program opened with Santiago de Murcia's Jota. The whole program is as following. Program listing [1] Jota- Santiago de Murcia, Spain/ Mexico (c. 1739) [2] Los imposibles- de Murcia [3] Cannarios- Gaspar Sanz (c.1679-1704) [4] Scotch Tune- Solomon Eccles (c 1640-1710) [5] John come Kiss- Davis Mell (1604-1662) [6] Ritornello Primo ... Tulloch- Traditional, arr. C. Norman [12] Solo percussion set [13] Sonata IX- Johann H. Schmelzer (1620/23-1680) [14] Recercada Primera, Recercada Segunda- Di...

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... piece. Every other measure, each vocal section transitions from a mezzoforte to a forte, giving the piece a very distinct voice as if we are "singing angels". Instrumentals prove to be a major factor of the piece "Gloria" as sections of their own are dedicated to instruments from the Woodwind Family. While both the vocals and instruments bring out this piece ... ae vocal dynamics. Vocal dynamics are the variations of soft and loud singing in a given song. This proves to be true as both pieces contain a section of each section either de-crescendoing, or crescendoing. Compared to "Gloria"...

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... the Renaissance, there are particular aspects of this new music that were so monumental that it is impossible to deny the rebirth of music around the 1400s. Guillaume de Machaut's mass, "La Messe de Nostre Dame " (Mass of Our Lady), is a polyphonic mass written in the setting of the ordinary mass. Machaut uses numerical symbols relating to the bible, which could only ... ...

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... succeed. In the beginning of his career, Berlioz gave music lessons and sang in a theater chorus to make ends meet. His first break came when he was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1830. This allowed him to live and work in Italy. The same year, he composed the symphony fantastic. Upon his return to from Rome, he fell madly in ... Paris Conservatory at the age of eleven, stunning professors with bizarre harmonies that defied all the rules of the time. At the age of twenty-two, he won the Prix de Rome. Like Berlioz, he too was more comfortable to stay in his home country backed by its cafes ...

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... female legend. In spite of her poor health and short life she managed to accomplish another first in history for women. She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, for her musical compositions (Krull and Hewitt, 79). Boulanger was born into a French family in 1893. She, like Caccini, was born into a musically talented family. Her sister was Nadia ... are as follows: in the piece "D'un soir triste,"" she used a muted tam-tam crash, bass drums, off-beat notes on a harp, and several percussion; in the piece "D'un matin de printemps,"" she used orchestrations such as lightly tapped and...

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... architectural wonders built during that age. Last, but not the very least, I would have liked to experience and read, first-hand, the literary works of such authors as Dante, Christine de Pisan, and Boccaccio. Starting in the 13th century, art was beginning to accelerate to a much higher level of in terms of quality and craft. Artists during medieval times were not ... significance of life. I would engage in philosophical conversation with Chaucer "or at least try to. I would ask Boccaccio to describe his experience with the plague and listen to Christine de Pisan talk to me about her l...

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... have influenced the language and spirit of Latino culture. In the early 16th century a famous Spanish composer and priest by the name of Juan del Encina composed his famous Cancionero de Palacio, a songbook of containing courtly love-songs. Some of his pieces were for occasional use, and some intended to be sung at theatrical productions. By uniting popular and artistic elements ... the Renaissance. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, the Muslim influence in Spain added a new flavor to the music. Organ music began to become popular through such composers as Aguilera de Heredia. Juan Hi...

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Music holds a significant purpose in our everyday lives. It is a form of entertainment and plays a major role in activities, such as dances and ceremonies. Sound is an important characteristic of music. Its four properties include pitch, duration, tone, and volume. Highness or lowness describes pitch, while ... in monastery choirs were adding a second line to Gregorian chant. Organum is the combination of Gregorian chant and an additional line. Organum transformed into polyphonic during 900 and 1200. Guillaume de Machaut, a famous musician and poet, is world-renowned for his polyphonic sacre...

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... altered or left "bad stuff"out and replaced them with something they thought was more appropriate. Many others think that some musicians have a bad influence on teenagers and children. One major one was when Kurt Cobain, the singer of the band Nirvana. When Kurt committed suicide, three teenagers in Canada committed suicide in he same week. Some people felt it was ... was elastic and was being stretched out by the man's hand. A more recent incident was with the group, Jane's Addiction, in the mid 90's who released there cd called, "Ritual De Lo Habitual." The original cd cover was a pic...

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... female legend. In spite of her poor health and short life she managed to accomplish another first in history for women. She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, for her musical compositions (Krull and Hewitt, 79). Boulanger was born into a French family in 1893. She, like Caccini, was born into a musically talented family. Her sister was Nadia ... are as follows: in the piece "D'un soir triste,"" she used a muted tam-tam crash, bass drums, off-beat notes on a harp, and several percussion; in the piece "D'un matin de printemps,"" she used orchestrations such as lightly tapped and...

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... the Canaries to Hispaniola in 1493." ( 51 ) Rum is made from sugarcane, which didn't exist in the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus first voyage to the Islands. Historians believe that Ponce de Leon introduced the drink to Puerto Rico in the early 1500's during his governorship. As sugarcane plantations began to form around the Island, rum production began. Today people use rum ... Salsa in New York City" "Salsa is a Latin American music that originated in New York as a result of the mixture of afro caribbean music brought by the Latinos." Salsa is a major type of music coming out o...

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... Renaissance there was a new form of music called ars nova, or "new art". It consisted of drinking song and secular music. Ars antiqua, or "old art" was sacred music. Philippe de Vitry was one of the people who started ars nova music. Another important composer of ars nova was a Frenchman by the name of Guillaume ... ...

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... famous holidays such as Three Kings Day it's on January 6th, we celebrate that day, because it honors the arrival of the three kings bearin gifts to baby Jesus. Cinco de Mayo is a rich celebration in history. It dates back to May 5th, 1862. When a poorly equipped Mexican Army defeated a strong French invasion. 16 ... de Septiembre is a holiday were Mexicans celebrate their independence on September 1st the same day in 1810 when a battle cry sparked a revolution that would change history. Being my age you're ... ...

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... a mini cyclone in the middle of the town square. And the statue of Auguste Rene Christophe Reynaud looks down upon the village. As if it were reminding them, reminding Comte de Reynaud of how the village should be ran. It was a very organized town, nothing was to be out of place, and the Comte made sure of that. It was if ... upon the village, the roofs are radiating a bright cheery red, like most of Vianne's attire. As if she had branched out throughout the whole village. Even the statue of Comte de Auguste Rene Christophe Reynaud is holding a red balloon in his hand, and the sunlight ...

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... and appreciates the narrator's wife's piano skills as he smiles and departs from the household. From "Stardust" the wife moves onto the "Chopin nocturnes", "Claire de Lune" and "Papa Haydn's dead and gone, gently down the stream." Observing the pieces she plays that she is an intermediate level piano player as all the ... ...

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... performing the piece as the tuning (Pythagorean intonation) was such that thirds and sixths were dissonant because of the ratios used in developing the tuning ratios. In 1482, Bartolome Ramis de Pareia, a Spanish mathmetician and theorist, created a system that produced perfectly tuned thirds and sixths. This had its challenges as well as it meant that a fourth, a fifth and a third would be ... ...

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... 's middle and lower ranges and was held at a largo tempo. "Good News" was colorful within its timbre that constantly switched dynamic markings and tempo indications. "Round about de Mountain" felt like it was in a duple meter and it sounded like the work was minor as there was always a tense feeling within the words Mr. Packer sung. It ... ...

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... the songs "African Romances", the "African Suite" for piano, and "Five Choral Ballads", a setting of poems on slavery by Longfellow, which include influences from native African music. The Petite Suite de concert (1910) was another of his famous piano arrangements. In the United States Coleridge-Taylor's music and work inspired the establishment of the Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. This was a choral ... ...

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... roots, more improvised than written down. The word larynx is in honor of the ability to play full-throated. The painting also praises memorable scatting with the words ooh shoo de obee. An art historian once suggested that the symbol soap alludes to being "clean" in black argot, being, in other words, aesthetically impeccable. Basquiat was very involved in his own ... ...

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Grappelli, Stephane Grappelli, Stephane (1908-1997), French violinist, one of the few musicians to adapt the violin successfully to jazz. Grappelli was born in Paris. He studied classical music at the Paris Conservatoire, but after hearing American improvisational jazz recordings, he dropped out of school and began playing in that style. By the 1930s Grappelli was giving concerts and recording with the great Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt as part of the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Their quintet was one of the most popular attractions in France, occasionally performing with Joseph...

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