Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31st 1685‚ in Eisenach Germany. He was a composer and‚ a performer who was extremely skilled at his craft. Bach was credited with over 1000 different compositions; including his most important‚ “The Saint Johns Passion”(Hanford). Originally Bach intended that the St John Passion would be first performed in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig‚ but due to a last-minute change by the music council‚ it was first performed on Good Friday of 1724 in the St. Nicholas
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Shep Spivey Gendelman How Music Reflects Society 7/17/13 Bach Chorale During the baroque period‚ music had certain characteristics that are specific to the time period. For example‚ Contrast is an important characteristic in a baroque drama. The differences between loud and soft‚ solo and ensemble‚ different instruments and timbres all play an important role in many baroque compositions. In previous musical eras‚ a piece of music tended to consist of a single melody‚ perhaps with several melodies
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Era‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21‚ 1685 in Eisenach. Bach‚ the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ and Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt came from a family of organists and composers including his father Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ who was organist of the Lutheran Church in Eisenach‚ and his older brother Christopher whom took over the care of Sebastian at the age of ten when their parents passed away. Although taught a little from his father and brother Christopher‚ Bach learned most of his
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach Germany in 1685. Bach could sing very well and studied Latin‚ Greek and theology in St. Michael’s School. He played organ in a church at Arnstadt when he was 18. The church didn’t really like him because of his improvisational style of the songs. So he walked to Lubeck to study with a famous organist Buxtehude. Buxtehude liked Bach so much that he offered to give him a job if he married his daughter‚ in which Bach declined. Some of his career moves include
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Baroque Music (ca. 1600-‐1750) IV! DEADLINE TODAY! DEADLINE TODAY! Henry Purcell. “When I am laid” from Dido and Aeneas. (also known as Dido’s Lament)(1689) hDp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaLviMEJls&feature=related (starRng 1:00) Listen: Ground bass -‐ repeaRng bass line used throughout a work‚ oUen with a disRnct rhythmic paDern
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seem strange to us today‚ but to the nineteenth century critics who applied the term‚ the music of Bach and Handel’s era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated (Hosler‚ 27). A magnificent classical composer‚ Johann Sebastian Bach is revered through the ages for his work ’s musical complexities and stylistic innovations. Born on March 21‚ 1685‚ in Eisenach‚ Thuringia‚ Germany‚ Johann Sebastian Bach had a prestigious musical lineage and took on various organist positions during the early 18th century
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creativity‚ and style as Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was a German organist and composer of the Baroque era. Bach revealed his feelings and his insights in his pieces. Bach ’s mastery of all the major forms of baroque music (except opera) resulted not only from his genius talent‚ but also from his life long quest for knowledge. In some parts of Germany‚ the name‚ "Bach" became a synonymous with the word‚ "musician." Extremely talented in the art of Baroque composition‚ Bach placed his heart‚ soul‚ and ingenuity
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I. INTRODUCTION Film is a story which shown in moving picture‚ shown at the cinema or on television. There are several kinds of genres in film. For example‚ thrilling‚ drama‚ science fiction‚ action‚ comedy‚ and animation. The type of genre that this group would like to analyze is documentary film. Documentary is a type of film that gives facts about a real situation or real people. The film entitled “The Iron Lady” is a 2011 British biographical film based on the life of Margaret Thatcher‚ the
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The composer of this song is Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach). He was born on March 12‚ 1685 in Eisenach‚ Saxe-Eisenach‚ Germany. His first experience with a musical instrument is when his uncle‚ Johann Cristoph Bach (1645-1693)‚ introduced him to his first organ. He learned how to play the organ. His mother died in 1694 and his father died 8 months later. He was ten when this happened so he moved in with his eldest brother‚ Johann Cristoph Bach (1671–1721)‚ who was the organist at the Michaeliskirche
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Theology in The St. John Passion Eric T. Chafe writes that “music scholarship has recognized that the structure of the (St. John) Passion...was carefully designed with a great deal of musico-theological intent.” That is to say‚ Bach was very purposeful in his efforts to portray John’s theological message through his music. This differs from his approach in the St. Matthew Passion‚ where a more Lutheran theology is presented. This is intriguing to note because “in the seventeenth and early eighteenth
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