Did you know that each time period has its own name called an era? The violin has come quite a long way since the beggining of its time. Music through the centuries has been changed time and time again‚ each era sacred to its particular style of music. The music aswell‚ as the people‚ welcome everyone to join in its beaty. Music is an open door for interpretation‚ some people find the camouflaged beauty in song. Music isn’t just a bunch of notes and lyrics written on a piece of paper‚ it’s stories
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2. 3. 4. 5. bel canto gesamtkunstwerk lieder natural selection leitmotiv Times to Know: 1. Beginning of the French Revolution (1792) 2. American Civil War (1861-1865) Names to Know: 1. Louis Pasteur 2. Charles Darwin 3. Ludwig van Beethoven 4. Jacques-Louis David 5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6. Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats (started Romantic poetry in England) 7. Charles Dickens 8. Edgar Allan Poe 9. Emerson‚ Thoreau‚ Dickinson (American poets) 10. Hawthorne‚ Thoreau‚ and
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Music has evolved too many different forms that we recognize today. We trace this development throughout time. Beginning in the middle ages‚ we have seen advancement from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events‚ politics‚ religion‚ technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages‚ renaissance‚ baroque‚ classical‚ romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better understanding can be reached
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The Life and Story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart better known as just Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptised January 27‚ 1756 in Salzburg on Getreidegasse street in the ninth house‚ which at the time was a part of the Holy Roman Empire but is now Austria. He was born to Leopold and Anne Maria Pertl Mozart in the same house he lived in until he was 17 with his mother‚ father and his big sister Maria Anne‚ she was his only sibling to survive infancy
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The antecedent years of the Classical Symphony moulded and defined the typical outline and structure that became established by the early 18th Century. By the 1720s in particular‚ the framework comprised of a dramatic‚ fast movement followed by a second slow‚ lyrical movement and ended with a fast dance-like third movement. It is known‚ between the years of 1720-1820‚ 16‚558 symphonies had been written. By the beginning of the 19th Century‚ the symphony had generally maintained the same principle
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Introduction Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become
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Sonata No. 8 in C minor‚ Op. 13‚ II. “Adagio cantabile” March 19‚ 2013 Form and Analysis Many consider Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor‚ Op. 13 as his first major musical accomplishment‚ more commonly known as Sonata Pathetique. Written at the age of 27 in 1798‚ the young composer had gained instant fame and his work was published only a year later. Beethoven‚ being one of the first significant musicians to work for them selves‚ is said to have given it the title. This
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operatic repertoire. Composers of the romantic period continued to use the musical forms of the preceding classical era. The emotional intensity associated with romanticism was already present in the work of Mozart and particularly in that of Beethoven‚ who greatly influenced composers after him. The romantic preference for expressive‚ songlike melody also grew out of the classical style. Nonetheless‚ there are many differences between romantic and classical music. Romantic works tend to have
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George Frederick Handel George Frederick Handel was born on February 24‚ 1685 in Halle‚ Germany. One of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700-50) and‚ during his lifetime‚ perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. Handel was born February 24‚ 1685‚ in Halle‚ Germany‚ to a family of no musical distinction. His own musical talent‚ however‚ expressed itself so clearly that before his tenth birthday he began to receive‚ from a local organist‚ the only formal musical
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He was one of four children‚ Fanny‚ Rebekah‚ and Paul were his siblings. He showed off his talent at a young age by playing the piano‚ violin‚ painting and gifted in many languages. When he moved to Berlin‚ Felix studied piano and composition under Ludwig Berger and Karl F. Zelter. Zelter took his 12 year old student to visit Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‚ a German poet. Goethe was very fascinated by the young man and later heard his B minor pianoforte quartet and showed such appreciation that Mendelssohn
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