... 1994 and is based on an older play for guitar and strings. It comprises five moves, dedicated to some of the greatest baroques music composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, Georg Friedrich Handel and George Phillip Telemann. It contains subtle references ... every one of these personalities, as small areas from the play are filled with notes of their specific creations, easily recognizable by any person with a decent level of knowledge in the history of music. The second play of the program, "Midnight Fantasy for Orchestra ", was ... the fir...

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... started the ongoing ripple of music. The romantic period had created more sensitive music. To achieve this the music was composed to be slower. The slower tempo gave a more romantic feeling. Also, the musicians could put more feeling into the music. The articulation of the music also contributed to romanticism. The music was played softly and long. With the longer notes the music could grow with intensity. The ... romantic period is one of the highlights of the history of music. Modern rock is a mixture of all previous forms of music. Many rock composers used medleys from classical comp...

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... paid singer and lead composer for her fiancée's court, the Medici's (Salm, 1). Francesca Caccini made a huge impact on the world of music, which still stands today. Although Caccini was a prominent individual at this time, none of her works were published until her father died in ... this style are unresolved dissonance, parallelism, indistinct rhythms, and dreamlike feelings. She was even influenced by Debussy, a well-known composer of impressionistic music (Lace, 2). One of her famous pieces is "Clairieres dans le ciel,"" which translates as Rifts in the Sky. This song demonstrates a...

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... in a duet. (Me on guitar, my cousin on the piano or synthesized harpsichord) • I give the piece a profundity value of 8 out of 10, as I believe that all renowned classical music deserves a high profundity rating. This is due to the tremendous amount of effort and brilliance that is involved in the composition of such pieces. This piece in particular illustrates 3 different ... emotions/environments. The first being quite fast and blissful. The second is somewhat lethargic, as if it were taking a break from the fast notes of the first movement. The third movement then hastens, and beco...

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... , in a profound sense bring it into being," (Plantinga 279). As an aural art, music only "lives" when it is heard. It has as many incarnations as performers and performances, each one distinctly different. A responsible performer must intimately understand each piece he will perform, not only the notes on the page, but its historical background. Several things must be understood before one ... , the piano became a purely virtuosic instrument in concertos. Beethoven wrote his first two concertos in an eighteenth century style, but the third, Op. 37 sits more with nineteenth century music. ...

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... to be a "model" citizen of the government. The main character, Alex, is a frightfully sadistic 15 year old "droog" who oddly finds solace in classical music such as Beethoven and Handel while he and his juvenile delinquents enjoy terrorizing the streets at night. They mug, rob, and assault anyone and anything at a moments ... procedure which, by physical pain, removes any desire or even subliminal attempt at violence. As a side effect of the procedure, Alex has the same reaction to music. He is then released into a world where he no longer has the will to do anything he desires. His loss...

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... lived from 1756-1791, during the classical era. Mozart is famous for homophony, which is melody and accompaniment. Mozart's early career consisted of more sacred music, and later, much more secular. Mozart's native language was German, but he wrote many secular works in Italian, which was considered to be a more ... beautiful language. He composed many sacred vocal works in Latin. Mozart died young, but his contributions to music were enormous. Ludwig van Beethoven lived from 1770-1827, right on the cusp of the Romantic era. Beethoven was a piano virtuoso, and a true revolutionary ... co...

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... by eighteenth-century art critics to describe the art and architecture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, came to be applied also to the music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries." "The term has in the past, and to some extent in the present, carried implications of ... intimate audience in a small room and usually included solo songs and vocal cantatas. Most new style changes began to have an influence on church music. Both the Protestant and Catholic Churches eventually accepted the changes. The Catholic Church was slower to accept such changes in their ma...

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... Bach, mathematics became a useful tool in the violin concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In his sonorous melodies and subtle modulations of phrasing, Mozart embodied the use of patterns in his music. The Fibonacci pattern mentioned earlier is very prominent in Mozart, and is thought to be one of the causes behind the alleged Mozart effect. The influential melodies of Mozart are ... seen in the works of many American composers from Randall Thompson to the sing-songiness of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide-. Beethoven, as a bridge between Classical and Romantic music, composed the Fifth Sym...

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... to present religious text to an illiterate congregation. The Renaissance period signaled the beginning of polyphony and the beginning of music for entertainment. The sacred music was referred to as motets or masses and the secular music was referred to as madrigals; most of the music was a cappella, but there were some instrumental parts. Servants to the church or royalty composed most of the ... the Baroque period was polyphonic (with some homophony), had unity of mood, and tonality existed. The various forms of music in this period were the baroque suite, oratorio, opera, concerto, fugu...

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Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most instantly recognizable names in classical music, was a hailed virtuoso pianist in addition to conductor. Beethoven was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment and by the growing Romanticism in Europe. ... was his use of "source-motives," which recurred in many different compositions and lent some unity to his life's work. He made innovations in almost every form of music he touched. For example, he diversified even the well-crystallized form of the rondo, making it more elastic and spacious, which brought it closer to sonata form" ... " to the ra...

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... fugue for every major and minor key. Twenty years later, he produced a second volume that was just like the first [in format]. Bach's polyphonic music is full of counterpoint, the combining of two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole. He perfected the art of the fugue, a complex composition ... if Bach were throwing open the big doors to some enormous building.? As the song progresses, you can hear the counterpoint, including low and high notes. Once the prelude ends, there is a pause, and the fugue begins. The fugue begins with the first melody, with no accompaniment. As the ...

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... such as Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Schubert, Handel, Berlioz, and Beethoven. Each artist carried with them their own sense of style when creating their music. These decisions were a reflection of the musical period in which they were categorized. The two works I chose to analyze in this paper are: Beethoven ... notes. This theme contrasts the beginning theme in that it has a smooth contour compared to the expressive and accented rhythm of the first theme. In this movement we hear a simple melody that will be heard and developed throughout the entire movement. In actuality the first theme rhyth...

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... paid singer and lead composer for her fiancée's court, the Medici's (Salm, 1). Francesca Caccini made a huge impact on the world of music, which still stands today. Although Caccini was a prominent individual at this time, none of her works were published until her father died in ... this style are unresolved dissonance, parallelism, indistinct rhythms, and dreamlike feelings. She was even influenced by Debussy, a well-known composer of impressionistic music (Lace, 2). One of her famous pieces is "Clairieres dans le ciel,"" which translates as Rifts in the Sky. This song demonstrates a...

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... other then his father, this was the hardest thing for him to overcome but he eventually did. Beethoven didn't miss a beat in his music writing and despite his deafness produced many more symphonies and quartets. Some of which are his most complex and best pieces. After later research of ... Beethoven's work was respected and loved for many reasons. The first being that before Beethoven artists followed strict guidelines for their category or style of music. Beethoven was very flamboyant I guess you could say in his writing. Musical themes jump around and mood changes constantly. One minu...

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... in C major for Solo Violoncello, BMV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sonata in D Minor for Violoncello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. The notes of each performer seemed to lean on each other and were rhythmically in sync. I also thought the performers did a good job with the texture of the ... on a great performance through their skill, appearance, and actions. Now let me talk about the diversity of the music. The tone of the music started out jubilant with Beethoven's piece and then the music moved into a sort of dramatic and depressing tone with Bach. The performance ended with...

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... supporting his family, this task caused him to mature very rapidly. In the next couple of years, Beethoven would continue to travel and through his music he made many friends. In 1792, Haydn came through Bonn, Germany and heard Beethoven play and made an offer to teach him if he would ... treated him. He decided that he would not enter into the occupation of working for patrons. Beethoven would also find love for something else besides music in his life. He would fall in love many times but was never married. It is known that he wrote a letter to one of his ... is noted that if you loo...

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... supporting his family, this task caused him to mature very rapidly. In the next couple of years, Beethoven would continue to travel and through his music he made many friends. In 1792, Haydn came through Bonn, Germany and heard Beethoven play and made an offer to teach him if he would ... treated him. He decided that he would not enter into the occupation of working for patrons. Beethoven would also find love for something else besides music in his life. He would fall in love many times but was never married. It is known that he wrote a letter to one of his ... is noted that if you loo...

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... tonic major and opens with 4 main motifs to be used throughout the exposition. Motif (a) being the first 4 note legato motif; (b) being the scalic quaver rise of a fifth; (c) being the staccato notes all playing the same with an appoggiatura on the last note; and (d) being the descending four note fall following that.The rise of a fifth between (b) and (c) gives link back to ... sub-dominant chords alternating between them on each bar at bar 36. The brass section play a tonic pedal note throughout the first bit before playing a tonic fanfare when the music changes. As the music changes ...

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... 1792, he was given a grant from the electoral prince of Bonn to travel to Vienna. In Vienna, Haydn, Salieri, and Forster instructed him in music composition and theory. In 1798, his symptoms of deafness worsened and from 1819 on, he was having such a hard time, he had trouble making himself ... feel, just hearing the opening measures of this piece will give me a feeling of peace. It is amazing to me that Beethoven could make the notes flow together so wonderfully, producing such a pleasing piece. The first movement begins very simply, drawing the listener in and gradually increases in c...

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... and all that we get is a confusing story of Mozart's later works and his complicated relationship with his wife and the generic love/hate relationship with his overbearing father. The music itself also plays a very important role in the film, and I'd have to applaud the filmmakers for being able to synchronize it as well as they did. The only problem is ... the first act that perfectly symbolizes my view of "Amadeus." After Emperor Joseph II has watched his first Mozart opera, he says he liked it, but there were "too many notes." I'd have to say the same to Shaffer, Zaentz, and Forman: ...

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This past Sunday I attended one of many classical concerts that the Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society (L.S.M.C.M.S.) hosts. The one I sat in on was their season opener at the San Dieguito United Methodist Church. It featured Michele Zukovsky (clarinet), Daniel Rothmuller ("cello), and Joanne Pearce Martin ( ... enhances the experience and emotion of the entire piece by getting the audience involved; Making them not only see but feel the struggle that the artist has to express the notes on paper. In retrospect, when the L.S.M.C.M.S. has another concert, I will be sure to frequent it and br...

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... became much more important as an individual. An example of one of these progressions occurring mainly during the Romantic period was when composers and audiences alike started turning towards program music. Program music is "the term for a nonvocal music that is associated with a poem, a story, or some other literary source; the literary text itself is the program. This new style of ... intertwined. The people did not see a need for it since each field was considered a separate entity of itself. Bent 2 During the romantic period, the general feeling began to surface that music could be ...

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... them, which I dare say will be acknowledged when I name them: The First ViolinHAYDN." (Rice, pg. 211) Haydn was one of these music enthusiasts and he wrote many quartets with the expectation that his pieces would be played and executed by professional musicians. This passion and enthusiasm was the basis ... biggest difference between the two would be the intended audience. The string quartet piece was to be heard privately by people who sincerely enjoy music whereas the symphony piece was meant to target the general audience such as the nobility. The "Emperor" piece was to be ... betwee...

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... and singing his own works for the friends who adored him. This vivacious man broke the mold and took the elements of music, the music industry, and American appreciation of music to a whole new level. The son of immigrant parents, George became one of America's first premier composers and his compositions are ... George is the most well known of the family, his brother Ira was also a successful lyricist. In fact, if it weren't for Ira's interest in music, George's parents would not have purchased the family's first piano. Gershwin's childhood is much like Aaron Copland's was. Gershwin g...

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