Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mackenzie Gates Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27‚ 1756. At the age of four he could learn a piece of music in half an hour. At five he was playing the clavier incredibly well. At six he began composing‚ writing his first symphonies at the age of eight. He was constantly traveling all over Europe with his father‚ Leopold Mozart‚ a violinist‚ minor composer and Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. The musical feats and tricks of young
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MUSI 1306 Study Guide-Twentieth-Century & Non-Western Music The section on twentieth-century music will involve chapters 1-8‚ 15-17. Chapters 1-3 will be utilized for the discussion of Non-Western music. It will be necessary to study these chapters‚ as well as the listening examples contained within‚ to achieve full comprehension of these sections. Twentieth-Century Overview (Chapter 1) Within the music of the twentieth century can be seen influences of folk and popular music‚ Asian
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“Oh my‚” said Frost‚ “Are you a firebird?” Flare nodded. “Phila‚ could I speak with you” said Frost. Then she turned to Flare‚ “Please excuse us for a moment.” Frost and Philamena stepped out of the room. “Phila‚” said Frost‚ “You know that you shouldn’t be friends with a firebird. How many times have I told you this?” “You never told me anything about that‚” answered Philamena. Frost paused then said‚ “I told you this
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Knowledge of music is and always has been a vast part of a proper education. Fine arts in any sense help shape our society and us but it has not always been available to middle and lower classes. This is due to music being considered a more advanced level of education that only wealthy and upper classes could afford to have. Two time periods that reflect these views are the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The Renaissance‚ the period of rebirth. It is also the period in which there was a dominant
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Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century‚ he opened a seminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers‚ and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such major contemporaries as W. B. Yeats‚ Robert Frost‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Marianne Moore‚ H. D.‚ James Joyce‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and especially T. S. Eliot. His own significant
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Extra Credit Jon George Mrs. Dvorak College Success December 1st 2011 Babe Ruth – The homerun king for ages was Babe Ruth. He played for the New York Yankees. In his earlier years he was a right handed pitcher in the MLB but switched to a hitter. He is now 3rd on the all time homerun list behind Hank Aaron who is second and Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth was born in Pigtown‚ Baltimore. Michael Jordan – In the eyes of many people Michael Jordan was the best basketball player in the world. He
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after a while. Stravinsky music was unpredictable. It was as if he created a box around him and said‚ "This is what I am going to play‚ and you can either like or dislike‚ because I do not care and will play it." Stravinsky broke away from the romantic period and any other period. He created his own period. The Romantic period had a wide range of emotions of love‚ war‚ sadness‚ hurt‚ pain‚ sorrow‚ vengeances‚ scorn‚ betrayal‚ and a variety of other feelings and expressions. Stravinsky and Ravels music
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The brand Chanel has long had its reputation in the world of fashion‚ but few people know that it was Coco Chanel‚ who gave women bathing suits‚ pants‚ slacks‚ costume jewelry‚ and of course‚ Chanel No.5 .Her influence on the 20th century fashion was so great that she was the only person in the courtier field to be named in Time 100.The Most Important People of the Century. (Nikitine) While Coco Chanel gained world recognition her early years‚ however‚ were anything but glamorous .Gabrielle “Coco”
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in London on April 8‚ 1950. The Rite of Spring was performed by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes on May 29th‚ 1913 at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris. It was later remade by the Joffrey Ballet in Los Angeles on September 30‚ 1987. Igor Stravinsky was the composer for The Rite of Spring. In his works for the Rite there was a significant basis of Russian and Lithuanian folk music. His music has influenced many of the 20th century composers and the idea that the Rite portrayed was inspired
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responsibility for the origination in competition with Stravinsky himself. Often considered to be a masterpiece of internationalist‚ cosmopolitan modernist composition‚ there have long been conflicting arguments with the
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