Kris Heller 8/1/05 Music History: Beethoven An Interpretation of Beethoven ’s Music in the Film "A Clockwork Orange" "A Clockwork Orange" is the story of a young and disturbed man who‚ in order to avoid his prison sentence‚ subjects himself to a controversial new treatment to correct his unlawful behavior. Stanley Kubrick‚ the film ’s creator‚ uses Beethoven ’s music to penetrate the complexity of the main character ’s actions and emotions. Beethoven ’s music acts as his salvation‚ providing
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Why would a composer use the musical style of the Romantic period for a scientific‚ futuristic film that features weird western style characters? The score to the Star Wars movie broke all the traditional rules to writing music for sci-fi films. The Star Wars Main Title‚ introduces the idea of using the Romantic style instead of modernistic music for films. This choice reflects the composer’s influences from that musical period and features key musical elements that are easily remembered by audiences
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significant‚ valuable and lasting contributions to society‚ Ludwig Van Beethoven is an especially remarkable figure worthy of special note because he embraced and devoted his whole life to music. Born to a drunkard father and an unhappy mother‚ the young Beethoven was exposed to a brutal training in music at the hands of his father‚ who hoped that the young boy would prove to be another prodigy like Mozart. Ludwig Van Beethoven’s music set the 18th century Traditions and were shaped and molded because
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The wonders of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven started his musical career at an early age and although he was deaf he became known as the most famous and influential composers in the world of classical music. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music‚ he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best known compositions include 9 symphonies‚ 5 concertos for piano‚ 32 piano sonatas‚ and 16 string quartets. He also composed
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one and she chose to play this piece of music for the family. I remember thinking that it matched her personality well‚ the music sounded strict and serious. The dramatic tone in this piece can be explained by the composer’s personal struggles as he attempts to come to terms with his hearing loss. The famous tune that begins the exposition is in a minor key which gives me a feeling of dread. As those four beats are repeated and a harmony is added the music accelerates and crescendos to a fortissimo
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Romantic and Modern Composers As social and political views changed throughout history‚ a revolution in the art world followed. Artists use their pieces to explain their point of view‚ this includes writers‚ painters‚ and especially musicians. The end of the French Revolution inspired hope and visions for the future‚ which musicians responded by entering the Romantic period. In order to compare musicians in the Romantic period and those in the modern era‚ we must look into the stylistic choices
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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” -Alphonse de Lamartine It is no small fact that during the Romantic Period emotion‚ sentiment‚ and sensation were center-stage. The people wanted freedom from the age of reason and yearned to express themselves. This newfound ideal soon drifted from everyday life into the arts. Romantic writers and painters loved to tell stories and express moods with their art‚ and musicians were eager to join the trend. The ideal for the
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Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the well-known music composer and pianist. He was born on December 17‚ 1770 in Bonn. Beethoven received his early training from his father and other musicians‚ as he carried out his earliest concert accompanying a young singer at the age of eight. Later on‚ he began to attend music lessons with a court organist teacher‚ Van Den Eden‚ unfortunately it did not last long. In 1779‚ Tobias Pfeiffer taught him and he began to attend in classes with a musician called
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Romantic Music: The Ideals of Instrumental Music At one point in the study of the Romantic period of music‚ we come upon the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts to grasp the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19th century. This opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art‚ why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony‚ the highest form of instrumental music
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Ludwig vans Beethoven‚ who as one of the greatest composers of all time wrote most of his music while he was deaf! It seems impossible‚ but what a genius he was. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn‚ Germany on December 16‚ 1770. His mother died while he was a teenager and his father was very abusive and a crazy alcoholic. Beethoven came from a very musical family. His grandfather became a conductor and his father played and taught piano and violin. From a very young age‚ Beethoven was a perfectionist
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