AMERICAN CULTURE Visual and performing arts 3.Arts and letters The arts‚ more than other features of culture‚ provide avenues for the expression of imagination and personal vision. They offer a range of emotional and intellectual pleasures to consumers of art and are an important way in which a culture represents itself. There has long been a Western tradition distinguishing those arts that appeal to the multitude‚ such as popular music‚ from those—such as classical orchestral music—normally
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Second Listening Assignment MUSC 220 Ludwig van Beethoven‚ 1770-1827. Classical Period Symphony No. 5 in C minor‚ Op. 67 This piece is relatively long compared to the music written in previous periods such as Medieval‚ Renaissance and Baroque. Beethoven is known to have stretched the musical forms of the Classical period‚ which were already different in nature and length to those in previous periods. This piece appears to be more distorted than other symphonies in the same period; even music
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“CLASSICAL PERIOD” (Music IV) Presented by: Kevin Abad‚ Max Lee‚ George Ingram Presented to: Ma’am Chesyl Momin Date: February 9‚ 2012 The Classical Era spanned roughly 80 years in music history and gave us 3 of the most famous composers of all time: Mozart‚ Beethoven and Haydn. The classical era spans roughly 80 years in music history during the 18th and 19th centuries and is often associated with the movement called
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Salieri. Until 1794 he was supported by the Elector at Bonn: but he found patrons among the music-loving Viennese aristocracy and soon enjoyed success as a piano virtuoso‚ playing at private houses or palaces rather than in public. His public début was in 1795; about the same time his first important publications appeared‚ three piano trios and three piano sonatas. As a pianist‚ it was reported‚ he had fire‚ brilliance and fantasy as well as depth of feeling. It is
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these two timeless classics: West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet. These films are each a great literary work that defines the true meaning of life‚ sorrows and love. We all have knowledge of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet. In 1957 Leonard Bernstein created a Broadway Musical with a plot similar to Romeo and Juliet. As well as this film‚ Baz Luhrmann created a film in 1996 using the exact play write from the original Romeo and Juliet set in modern times. Luhrmann entitled his film simple
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(providing the lyrics for the songs Hammerstein wrote)‚ Sondheim was encouraged to try his hand at musical composition as well (Swain 641). Sondheim’s big break‚ however‚ came in 1957 when he teamed up with Jerome Robbins‚ Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein to provide lyrics for West Side Story. Running nearly 800 performances in its original run‚ West Side Story was a bona fide hit and immediately thrust Sondheim to the front of the American stage (Sondheim 7). Over the course of the next 50
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German composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)‚ is widely considered to be the first atonal composer and the inventor of the 12-tone system. Schoenberg himself proclaimed that his music compositions were divided into three periods: Late Romanticism or “expressionist” (1897-1908)‚ Free Atonality (1908-1922)‚ Twelve-tone and tonal works (1922-1951). Schoenberg was not only a composer‚ but theorist‚ writer and teacher. His teaching career spanned five decades that included experiences in Vienna‚ Berlin
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I. Haydn Haydn has a special preference for writing music in a bundle of six. Each of the six pieces has its individuality while sharing many common features at the same time. Haydn’s solo keyboard sonatas show striking diversity in type and style. They often could be categorized by their style periods and each of them reflects a corresponding social background. Sonatas composed from 1773 to 1784 were intended as "public" works from the very beginning‚ with a clear conception of the taste‚ preferences
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setting. In 1949‚ choreographer Jerome Robbins decided to retell Brooke and Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy using song and dance‚ elements of racism and nationalism‚ and a modern vernacular. Robbins called upon the musical talents of composer Leonard Bernstein and the words of Arthur Laurents for the script and book. The love story proved to have universal appeal throughout all artistic forms‚ as it had already been adjusted for opera and ballet. The contemporary adaptation of this timeless classic
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Composer and pianist Ludwig Van Beethoven‚ who is commonly considered the greatest composer of all time‚ was born on or about December 16‚ 1770. He was born in the city of Bonn‚ Germany to the parents of Maria Magdalena van Beethoven and Johann van Beethoven. However‚ his exact date of birth is uncertain‚ Beethoven was baptized on December 17‚ 1770. It was a law that babies be baptized within twenty-four hours of birth‚ however‚ Beethoven believed he was born in 1772 even when provided official
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