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    Stupid Fucking Title for Stupid Fucking Paper Liz Rutter Liz Rutter As public music became common in the eighteenth century‚ the concept of musical taste began its literal development. There were new ideas that music should be universal and appeal to all tastes‚ connoisseur or untutored. These ideas represent the Enlightenment; a time when people favored a more natural take on art however‚ the idea of musical taste was not brand new in the eighteenth century. Though musical taste

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    Classical Music

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    Introduction Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become

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    Cello Suites

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    Question 3 Bach’s unaccompanied suites for cello are amongst the composer’s most celebrated and important works. What are the reasons for the suite’s enduring popularity? Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites are highly celebrated works in the modern era. They have been used successfully in advertising campaigns and proven to be popular in classical music consumer’s playlists. However when they were originally written the pieces were not as well appreciated as they are today. Why was this the

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    condition that Vivaldi inherited‚ took away his ability to play any wind instruments. This turned his attention to the violin in which he prospered and he found concordance in‚ not only playing the violin‚ but also composing music. Giovanni Legrenzi‚ a Baroque composer‚ gave Antonio his first lesson in composing music. His career went to new heights with his acquisition of Maesto Di Violino at Ospedale Della Pieta‚ a women ’s orphanage for aspiring musicians. There‚ Vivaldi taught music to young females

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    Music Research Paper

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    Music Affects Mood Mary Beth Kelly Music 110 Professor Cloer April ‚ 2012 Music is any form of sound in a synchronized pattern that affects the brainwaves. Together with many instruments‚ an emotional harmony is created that can single-handedly manipulate human emotion. When music manipulates emotion to an extreme degree‚ the practice can become an addiction. There are many causes for being a music addict. It provides an artificial sanctuary‚ bringing out the emotion

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    Middle Ages Plainchant

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    After careful listening‚ the first piece the piece was showed traits typically found in the Middle Ages. More specifically‚ the piece seemed to be a mass. One of the obvious signs of the period and genre was found in the style the piece was based around. The piece utilized the conventions of plainchant. From the beginning of the piece to the very end‚ one vocal soloist performs the music in its entirety. Therefore‚ the piece was monophonic; as no accompaniment was utilized. Another aspect of Middle

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    Opera

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    Brittany Pacheco Writing 3: Opera Opera‚ starting out the Baroque period‚ stemmed from Humanism in the Renaissance era. Opera went back to wanting to make people have a emotional response to the music they were listening to through the musical devices that they used to write the music. They were becoming obsessed again with the Greek style of music however‚ they wanted to make it better and so they came up with some of their own new developments for example‚ one device they used was the stile

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    Rigadoon

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    RIGAUDON The Rigaudon originated as a Baroque folk dance in southern France between 1600 and 1750. Rigaudon‚ Rigodone‚ Rigolone‚ Rigodón and Rigadoon are common alternative spellings for the dance named after a dance master from Marseille named Rigaud. Traditionally‚ the folkdance was associated with the provinces of Vavarais‚ Languedoc‚ Dauphiné‚ and Provence in southern France and it became popular as a court dance during the reign of Louis XIV. The popularity of the dance spread quickly from

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    Music History Guide

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    “art music” or “serious music” or sometimes “old music” ;o) whereas‚ technically the term only refers to a short period of time spanning the 18th to the 19th century. This series of articles will cover these periods of music:      Medieval Baroque Classical Romantic Modern and will explain to you how you can identify music from each period‚ using clues from:     the instruments the texture of sounds the harmony the structure This series will be of benefit to anyone studying music theory

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    Comparing Handel And Bach

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    Two amazing composers of the Baroque period of music were Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Although both produced much well-loved and well-played music‚ and although both were born in Germany‚ they were very different people. United by their faith‚ they still differ in many areas. Their lives‚ careers‚ and styles will now be compared‚ and their similarities and differences brought out. Both Handel and Bach were Germans‚ and were both born relatively close to the same time. However

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