Lenin wrote these lines in February 1921 following the end of the Russian revolution. ... At the time that Shostakovich wrote the Fifth Symphony, his work was beginning to take two tacks, the first the melodic style found in his later symphonies and the other is that of a laborious, prolonged style of working out supposedly conflicting but not always obvious ideas. ... Orff never actually belonged to any Nazi party but his work was considered to be some of the greatest examples of Nazi art, and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do w...

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He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts on a six string bass, with help from a friend, Mige, playing the bass parts, and random friends playing on the drums. ... Ville and Mige brought their friends Linde to play guitar, Mika Karpinen to play drums, and Juska Salminen to fill in as keyboards. ... In the verse, where the song is at a calm setting, they change it, and at the end there are polyphony sounds from the guitarist who repeats the same notes that the keyboardist was playing for the chorus, except he wasn't using chords like he was doing in the chorus, and the ke...

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There were signs, books that weren't published, authors who disappeared, theater directors whose plays were cancelled. ... In 1932, Shostakovich wrote the music for the movie "Counterplan"." the film is about a couple who fall in love while working in a turbine factory. ... Instead of writing a piece in the party approved, super simple, ultranationalist style, he wrote a symphony based on the model pioneered by one of the few unforbidden composers, Beethoven. ... All the themes whipped along by the "Tah-Dah"" motif, until the strings and winds burst out with the sad tunes they played at t...

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The Renaissance Period, spanning from 1400-1600, was more than just a movement in the type of music that was playing; it was a movement of ideas in almost every art form of the time. ... The texts wrote about how the music of the time had the "power to evoke emotions and instill character", so composers sought to exemplify the same result. ... Other innovations such as new instruments such as the trombone and the violin came into play as well as new genres including: variations, prelude, fantasia, toccata, ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approache...

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Abstract/Introduction When one thinks of legendary artists, it would come as no surprise that the names of Beethoven and Michael Jackson would arise in conversation. On one hand you have the "King of Pop", who is most widely known for his contributions to contemporary music and ...

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