New Forms‚ New Colors‚ New Logic: Writing Music in the Romantic Era Music has always been an essential part of the arts‚ with classical music in particular holding a special place. And like most of the arts‚ classical music exemplifies and affects the general worldview of a given period in history. Because of this‚ Western classical music is typically divided into four periods- Baroque‚ Classical‚ Romantic‚ and Contemporary- with each period differing from the others greatly in sound‚ mood‚ and
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Clara Josephine Wieck was born on September 13th‚ 1819 in Leipzig‚ Germany. She was born into music‚ as her whole family growing up played an instrument. Her father Friedrich Wieck made a living as a first-rate piano teacher‚ and it was he who taught Clara and her mother Marianne. He even gave lessons to Clara’s future husband‚ Robert Schumann. After Clara’s parents divorced after eight years of marriage‚ she went to live with her father at the age of five. Friedrich Wieck saw the talent his daughter
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Melissa Morelli Lacroix’s “Variations on a Theme by Clozapine” located in the anthology “A Most Beautiful Deception” is centered on a quote taken from Robert Schumann that explains the reasons for composing. Lacroix takes this quote as inspiration to write a poem that follows the format of Clara Schumann’s Op. 20 “Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann.” The author writes a variation on a Robert Schumann quote for every variation Clara wrote in her piece of music and uses a line of poetry to depict
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Frédéric Chopin’s "Raindrop" Prelude‚ Op 28‚ No. 15 Song Analysis/Essay Intro Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer‚ the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910‚ and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved
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world; work and acquaintances progress along without him‚ and his family shuts him away as if he had never existed. But despite the authorʼs frequent superficial focus on Gregor Samsaʼs physical aspect‚ it is fundamentally the mental breakdown which Franz
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If you were a bug‚ will your family still treat you the same way if you were a human? In the story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ Gregor is turned into a bug his family responds with different extremes of grief which results in a whirlwind of complex treatments‚ such as kindness‚ anger‚ and panic. However‚ throughout the story they grew to resent and neglect Gregor. Throughout the story‚ the mother is worried about Gregor’s well-being and his health‚ toward the end she becomes neglectful. For
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The book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was published in 1915 and is about a traveling salesman who is transformed into a creature. The reason one may consider choosing this book and attempting to convert it into a kids book is how mysterious and open ended some of the aspects of the novel is. The process of creating this book took a fair enough of time‚ planning ‚ and a lot of trial and error in order to get it the way I felt was acceptable The hardest part of creating this kids book was condensing
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among their respective tribes throughout the 14th century. According to the Native Americans’ values of spirituality‚ a butterfly’s sole objective lies in withdrawing and embracing. Much like butterflies‚ humans continuously undergo a cycle of change. Franz Kafka‚ a Bohemian novelist‚ provides his take of human development within his short story; The Metamorphosis. Kafka’s ability to utilize themes of transformation in the story’s plot and the development of his characters allows readers to gain a better
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People have always felt the pressure of conforming to societal norms‚ enough that they feel the need to change their personality. In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ the protagonist Gregor struggles between meeting expectations and coming to terms with the darker side of himself. Through Gregor’s struggles‚ Kafka points out the underlying human weaknesses that cause a metamorphosis in each of us. Even after Gregor realizes that he’s turned into a bug‚ he still feels the need to fulfill the expectations
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on different sets of cultures. The common theme that has been used in the stories is the magical foundations upon which they have been developed which are an old man with wings and a man transforming to a cockroach. In Metamorphosis‚ as written by Franz Kafka‚ is a story of Gregor‚ who experience a physical transformation‚ resulting in him being unable to work and provide for his parents and sister like he used to. He worked himself very hard to the point that converted him to vermin. Before he died
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