Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina ranks with Lassus and Byrd as one of the greatest Renaissance masters. As a prolific composer of masses‚ motets and other sacred works‚ as well as madrigals‚ he was (unlike Lassus) basically conservative. He has had a lasting influence on the development of church music‚ and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina’s
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Baroque Period as we know it today. Johann Sebastian Bach‚ born in the year 1685‚ was a German born composer‚ virtuoso organist and keyboard player‚ a violinist‚ and a violist. His career includes over 1100 known compositions including 224 Cantatas‚ 7 motets‚ 24 large scale works including passions‚ 274 chorales‚ 223 organ works‚ and numerous cannons‚ fugues‚ chamber music‚ and lute pieces. Most famous for being an organist‚ Bach used many German styles. Perhaps one of his most famous works‚ Bach’s “Well-Tempered
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was a time of great productivity. He composed a great deal of music‚ including some of his most admired works: the opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)‚ his final piano concerto‚ the clarinet concerto in A major‚ a series of string quintets‚ the motet Ave Verum Corpus‚ and the unfinished Requiem mass. Mozart’s financial situation then began to improve‚ he no longer borrowed money and he began paying off his debts. His recently written works were bringing Mozart a lot of success. Mozart fell ill
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musicologist‚ has notarized this piece as “unique among all the older fugues” and nicknamed Černohorský as the “Czech Bach”. Černohorský’s fugue ‘Memento Abraham’‚ which represents his musical talent‚ was used in two other works‚ one of which was the motet Precatus est Moyses. Černohorský’s fugue was acknowledged as one of the unique parts of both works. His last work to ever be performed was the fugue‚ Quem
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tone. Others include the Serpent‚ which was the earlier form of the tuba‚ meant to recreate and blend with low men’s voices‚ and the Racket‚ which has a warm‚ rich tone. In the renaissance there were different types of music such as mass‚ motet‚ laude‚ Shakespearean songs‚ dance/ instrumental‚ and madrigal. Madrigal music is a one stanza
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Nature &Development of the English language: The English language‚ and indeed most European languages‚ traces it original roots back to a Neolithic (late Stone Age) people known as the Indo-Europeans or Proto-Indo-Europeans‚ who lived in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from some time after 5000 BC (different hypotheses suggest various different dates anywhere between the 7th and the 3rd millennium BC) The exact nature of the original Indo-European language was not known as no writings exist from
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Johann Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn was baptized on September 14‚ 1737‚ in Rohrau‚ Lower Austria‚ the exact date of his birth is unknown... Five years after his famous brother Joseph‚ their parents being a wheelwright and a cook. Michael Haydn left home around 1745 to attend the choir school at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna‚ where he received instruction in singing‚ keyboard and violin. It was at St. Stephen’s that Haydn gained a reputation for his unusually clear and beautiful voice
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Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. More than 1‚000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the Art of Fugue‚ Brandenburg Concerti‚ the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord‚ the Mass in B-Minor‚ the motets‚ the Easter and Christmas oratorios‚ Toccata in F Major‚ French Suite No 5‚ Fugue in G Major‚ Fugue in G Minor ("The Great")‚ St. Matthew Passion‚ and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his
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MUSI4813 5/20/09 Music History Synopsis Ancient Greece Major Political events- Much of the written compositions made in this time were destroyed or went missing as the Christian church got rid of pagan influences. Rome was overthrown and Europe went into turmoil and people focused less on music and more on survival. Historical perspective- Aristotle and Plato wrote about music which they believed to have moral and ethical properties essential to the complete education of young students.
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Guillaume Du Fay Missa Se la face ay pale: Gloria Justin Van Groningen Music History 2180B Thursday October 25 2012 The fifteenth century marked a time in human history where art‚ philosophy and science were making major advancements; out of these three‚ the arts were where the spirit of the Renaissance achieved its sharpest formulation. It was considered a form of knowledge and valuable in its own right‚ used to explore human consciousness and thought through expression in all
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