Arts and Culture 2 Mozart vs. Beethoven Paper 3/21/12 Mozart vs. Beethoven In the 18th century‚ the middle class made a lot more money. During the Classical Period‚ the middle class had a tremendous influence on music. They wanted to hear concertos and symphonies. They wanted their children to learn great music and play instruments. The composers began writing music that was geared towards the middle class because they could make a better living if they enjoyed the music being played. They
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Two of history’s greatest figures in the development of Classical style music during the eighteenth century were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn. Both men worked together and were very close friends while living in Vienna. Between the two‚ Joseph Hayden and Amadeus Mozart devoted much of their music for composing symphonies‚ minuets‚ librettos‚ sonatas‚ concertos‚ masses‚ oratorios and operas. While both men achieved popularity and status during their time‚ they also discovered that success
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Music throughout History I personally like classical music because my wife used to sing in many competitions‚ which gave me a whole new appreciation for this type of music. She has sung in many different languages such as Italian‚ German‚ Hebrew‚ Russian‚ English‚ Bohemian‚ Spanish‚ and French. We also used classical music in our wedding by Johann Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major”‚ which is heard very often in weddings. I chose to do my research paper on classical music throughout history
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MUS 103 Music Appreciation D.J. Culp‚ Jr. Graduate Instructor Ph.D. Student in Music Education Office: Practice Room 245C (second floor) Music Building djculpjr@olemiss.edu Text: Listening to Music‚ 7th ed. What does it mean to Appreciate? Appreciate: to value or regard highly; to be grateful or thankful for; to raise in value Is appreciation a requirement of enjoyment? Does appreciation yield enjoyment? What to expect from this course Learn to actively listen by studying musical
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest music composers who ever lived. His name and the word ’genius ’ are often bandied about together by music writers and critics and many would argue rightly so. Mozart had a fantastic ear for writing a catchy melody with perfect orchestral arrangement. His compositions have a rich and distinctive sound; it can be said that in his brief 35 years of life that he wrote a masterpiece in every genre of classical music without much apparent effort. Mozart had
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and in instrumental forms such as the concerto‚ concerto grosso‚ prelude‚ fugue‚ toccata sonata and suite. Vibrant rhythms and expressive dissonances heighten tension in many Baroque works. Much of the Baroque keyboard music written for the harpsichord and clavichord was written in suites comprising separate dance pieces‚ changing in tempo and meter but maintaining key unity throughout. The Dance Movemets such as the allemande‚ courante‚ sarabande‚ gigue and others such as the gavotte‚ musette
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Baroque music From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia • Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia •Jump to: navigation‚ search History of European art music Early Medieval (500 – 1400) Renaissance (1400 – 1600) Common practice Baroque (1600 – 1760) Classical (1730 – 1820) Romantic (1815 – 1910) Modern and contemporary 20th century classical (1900 – 2000) Contemporary classical (1975 – present) Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music
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Unity and VarietyReNoAdmin 2013-07-19T20:09:08Unity and Variety The Concepts of Unity and VarietyLet’s begin by listening to two fundamental concepts that make a piece of music "work"—the concepts of unity and variety. Most people like hearing sounds that they find pleasing‚ memorable‚ and familiar. Within a given composition‚ the feeling of familiarity—fostered by‚ among other things‚ reiterations of a music idea—lends a sense of unity to the music. Whereas unity satisfies the human need for sameness
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Idiophone An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings ormembranes. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon called this group of instruments autophones. Most percussion instruments that are not drums are idiophones. Hornbostel-Sachs divides idiophones into four main sub-categories
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two phrases of equal length‚ making the melody balanced and symmetrical. The second phrase begins like first‚ but ends conclusively. Rather than shifting dynamics abruptly‚ composers made use of crescendo and decrescendo. The piano replaced the harpsichord in order to accomplish the gradual dynamic change; a pianist could play loudly or softly by
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