Periods-- and listen to excerpts from the course for the listening questions below to be well-prepared for the Proctored Final Exam. Give yourself plenty of time to listen and to study. 1. Who was Anicius Boethius? 2. Who is the “Father of the Symphony?” 3. What musical technique replaced tonality in the 20th Century? 4. What is tonality? 5. What is secular music? 6. What is sacred music? 7. Who created plainsong? 8. What are the features of Medieval music? 9. Identify by ear monophonic
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The famous composers of the Baroque period include Moteverdi‚ Purcell‚ Barbara Strozzi‚ Vivaldi‚ Handel‚ Mouret‚ Bach‚ etc. While the major composers in Classical period are Haydn‚ Mozart‚ Beethoven‚ Schubert and so on. Baroque is an older style of music‚ and it lots of times has all the instruments playing the same melody‚ while classical has various interchanging parts and melody’s. The melody in Baroque period is repeated‚ although it is distinct but it is not lyrical. In Baroque music‚ the phrasing
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1. Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves. 2. Martin Luther King- Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. 3. Confucius- Confucius was a Chinese teacher‚ editor
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mathematical transposition. After this‚ a second melodic theme is created. Returning to the initial theme‚ Mozart spirals the melody through a number of pitch changes‚ and returns the listener to the original pitch that began their journey. "Mozart’s comprehension of mathematics and melody is inequitable to other composers. This is clearly evident in one of his most famous works‚ his symphony number forty in G-minor" (Ferrara‚ 1991). Without the structure of musical relationship these aforementioned
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He was vigorous and blunt with rhythmic configurations. Some of his most famous music‚ such as the first movements of the Third‚ Fifth and Ninth symphonies‚ are mostly non-melodic rhythmic music entailing of notes of a single cord. The melody of the last movements of the Third and Seventh symphonies could be portrayed as rhythms other than melodies. Rhythms were more harmonized to the vigorous and bluntness in his music since it can be taken through a series of various
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Programme Note: DipABRSM | Date: 1st June 2009 | | Word Count: 1‚085 words | | | | | Partita for solo violin no.3 in E‚ BWV 1006 J.S Bach (b. 21 March 1685 in Eisenach;d. 28 July 1750 in Leipzig) Bach was the son of Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ court trumpeter for the Duke of Eisenach and director of musicians of the town of Eisenach in Thuringia. It is probably from his father that he learned the fundamentals of music. The Bach family throughout Thuringia had held positions
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Due to this‚ the Americans anticipated Dvorak to help “pave the way” for an “American” musical style. Taking this change to heart‚ this initiated Dvorak’s “American” phase‚ which created his Ninth Symphony "From the New World‚" the String Quartet #12‚ the cantata The American Flag‚ and the String Quintet in Eb. His first performance was the premiere of Te Deum‚ produced in Carnegie Hall. Homesickness in Dvorak’s soul‚ however‚ collided with financial
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entire grade. The first test‚ which is scheduled for Tuesday‚ February 26‚ will cover The Iliad‚ The Odyssey‚ The Aeneid‚ and Pindar’s odes. The second‚ scheduled for Thursday‚ April 4‚ will cover lectures on the heroic in art‚ Beethoven’s Third Symphony (the Eroica)‚ and Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground. The final will cover all remaining works. It is scheduled for Monday‚ May 20‚ from 5:30-8:00 p.m. Please note the following: Make-up exams will be granted for reasons of illness only
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MUSI4813 5/20/09 Music History Synopsis Ancient Greece Major Political events- Much of the written compositions made in this time were destroyed or went missing as the Christian church got rid of pagan influences. Rome was overthrown and Europe went into turmoil and people focused less on music and more on survival. Historical perspective- Aristotle and Plato wrote about music which they believed to have moral and ethical properties essential to the complete education of young students.
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success. The means of which they go about this have changed. The “Mozart Effect” is one of the new techniques used to try to get children to achieve that “genius” status. In the past many parents thought only things like reading‚ and solving mathematical equations would help children ’s intelligence‚ but they are now discovering that is not true; there are many other ways of helping children achieve their maximum potential‚ like the Mozart Effect. Many parents have followed this theory‚ and companies
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