Being famous is subjective to what the people want and what they people understand and/or know. I gathered eleven surveys and averaged out their numbers to get the most famous composers. They are in order from 1st to 5th. As the first-most famous composer‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was consistently first place in online surveys. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer who lived from 1685-1750‚ part of the Baroque Period. Bach wrote hundreds of pieces for organ‚ choir‚ as well as many other instruments
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known to be violent at times. His grandfather was a prosperous musician and a role model for young Beethoven. Beethoven wrote many popular Sonatas‚ Symphonies‚ Concertos‚ and other pieces for piano and orchestra. As Beethoven grew older‚ he became deaf‚ but still wrote music while growing deaf. Some of Beethoven’s most famous pieces include Moonlight Sonata or Quasi una fantasia‚ Fur Elise‚ Symphony no. 9 or Ode to Joy‚ and the very popular‚ Symphony no.5. Beethoven lived partly in the Classical
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The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time‚ ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While‚ Western music first emerged from Europe. Western music has developed
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The form of this piece is called the classical sonata form. Sonata form contains three main sections. The first section is called the exposition‚ the second section is called the development and the third section is called the recapitulation. The exposition starts with d minor‚ with a feeling of melancholy. The cello starts the main melody and then violin repeats the melody. The first part of the exposition starts from mm.1-mm.117. On mm.38 the piano plays an arppeggiated diminished seventh chord
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many composers works. The music gives a sense of drama and urgency is incorporated into in vocal forms such as the cantata‚ mass‚ opera‚ oratorio and passion‚ 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
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He wrote masterpieces in his time * Beethoven- classical/ Symphony no. 5/ influenced composers throughout the 19th century * Vivaldi- baroque/ The Four Seasons/ he was a violin teacher for a school for orphaned or illegitimate girls * Haydn- classical/ The creation/ he played a big role in improving the string quartet and symphony * Machaut- medieval/ Puis qu’en oubli/ first important composers whose works survived * J.S. Bach – baroque/ Concerto in No. 5 in D Major/ gave the harpsichord
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Musical Analysis The first piece I chose was Frédéric Chopin’s Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no. 4). It was performed by Aldona Dvarionaite (2009). Chopin was a composer in the Romantic period. This is a sad piano piece. Chopin wrote primarily for the piano. The piece range was almost monotone in nature. The sound was in scale rising and lowering using the same melody throughout the piece. The tones were kept uniform repeating over and over again. I found this piece of music one dimensional.
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Music of any period reflects‚ in its own way‚ some of the same influences‚ tendencies‚ and generative impulses that are found in the other arts of that time (Donna‚ 2005). Thus the word "baroque‚" usually used despairingly by eighteenth-century art critics to describe the art and architecture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‚ came to be applied also to the music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After some years after the death of Johann
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Erkonig by Franz Schubert performed by soloist Ian Martin‚ “Il est doux‚ il es bon” from Herodiade by Jules Massenet performed by soprano Amanda M. Williams ‚ Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn‚Op. 56a by Johannes Brahms and Te Deum by Zoltan Kodaly. The Symphony Orchestra included such instruments as piano‚ violins‚ cellos‚ flutes. Performers were prepared very well. Ovidiu Marinescu was the conductor for all the musical pieces except Variations on the Theme‚ which was conducted by Joseph Gehring
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major In my introduction to music class we were assigned to listen and evaluate a particular piece of music in order to reflect on our unique individuality. For my project I chose Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 and his work of the piano concerto No. 23 in A Major specifically the second movement that was created in 1786. In addition to listening‚ the piece must be broken down and organized into themes or motives. By the end of the project we should be able
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