the Aztec Renaissance because of his ability to incorporate components of Indian culture in his music. The final chapter is focused on the american composer Aaron Copland. Copland and Chavez had a close friendship with one another that also impacted their music. Copland is known as one of the early forgers of an American style of music. Copland had traveled to Mexico for the first time with Chavez and immediately fell in love with the land. He describes it as a colorful atmosphere and went on to be
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by Aaron Copland‚ there are four elements of music: rhythm‚ melody‚ harmony‚ and tone color. Each of these elements are not heard by themselves but are heard together as one sound. Each part of music has a special and unique way wherewith we interpret and react to it. Rhythm comes first in the musical elements because many historians say that music started with a beating of a rhythm. Whether it was the cavemen with branches or another group rhythm was the first element of music found (Copland‚ 33)
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head and are easy to remember. 2. My favorite composer I have learned about this year in class is Aaron Copland. Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn and had four other siblings. He was an American composer and some refer to him as the dean of American Composer. Throughout Copland’s life he was a composer‚ composition teacher‚ writer‚ and also a conductor. My favorite piece of work by Copland is Appalachian Spring. This work premiered in 1944. At first the work was titled Ballet for Martha‚
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that every culture has their “own way [to] musically mirror cherishable aspects of human consciousness‚” allowing us to feel deep emotions‚ happiness‚ or even a stronger sense of connection to others when we know that they are listening as well (Copland‚ 29). Even with more modern music‚ we have songs that may hold a personal significance or celebrate individual moments in our lives‚ of which listening to them can bring up memories and happy emotions. In the visual arts‚ individuals can celebrate
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follow each other 2. What are the families of instruments? Give an example of 1 instrument from each family. Strings- Violin Woodwind- Oboe Brass- Trombone Percussion- Cymbals 3. What are the three panes of listening to music as described by Aaron Copland? On which plane do YOU normally listen to music? 1. Sensuous 2. Expressive 3. Purely Musical I listen to music in a purely musical way. 4. Give 3 examples of ideas or aspects of music from Ancient Greece that are still used today in one form
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leading the Longshoremen’s Union. Just as important as the plot of the film is the music; the original score by Leonard Bernstein greatly influenced how other composers would approach film scoring. Bernstein combined the “American” characteristics of Aaron Copland’s music (disjunct melodies‚ wide intervals‚ small but colorful ensembles) with the dark and somewhat disturbing elements of modernism. Bernstein did not shy away from dissonance‚ and he also incorporated jazz elements (such as brass and rhythmic
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Kimberly Kraft Mrs. Besel Debate 14 December 2013 Music Essay In this essay I think Aaron Copland’s essay how we listen to music is better because it gives examples and feelings of why and reasons that people listen to music. In Copland’s essay he says there are different planes of music the first one is the sensuous plane‚ the second is the expressive plane‚ and the third is the sheerly musical plane and in Reagon says there are also different types of music but he describes it as one the
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choreographer. De Mille began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre (then called the Ballet Theatre) in 1939‚ but her first significant work‚ Rodeo (1942) with the score by Aaron Copland‚ was staged for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Although de Mille continued to choreograph nearly up to the time of her death—her final ballet‚ The Other‚ was completed in 1992—most of her
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By the turn of the century and for the next few decades‚ artists of all nationalities were searching for exciting and different modes of expression. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg explored unusual and unorthodox harmonies and tonal schemes. French composer Claude Debussy was fascinated by Eastern music and the whole-tone scale‚ and created a style of music named after the movement in French painting called Impressionism. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók continued in the traditions
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early twentieth-century music? How did they approach form? Chapter 36‚ p. 312 1. What elements made Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring shocking to its first audiences? Is it still shocking today? Chapter 39‚ p. 339 2. What qualities in the music of Aaron Copland are particularly American? Chapter 41‚ p. 362 1. How did George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein both straddle the worlds of Classical and popular music? 2. What is the literary basis for Porgy and Bess? How does this story differ from other musicals
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