distinctly American. Copland was very interested in jazz‚ but started getting more interested in folk music. In 1935 he composed El Salon Mexico‚ this was the beginning of his popular composer years. One of his very popular films was Our Town. Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg influenced a lot of his pieces. For my musical choice I picked Rodeo: Hoe Down. I think the mood in this music is happy there is a lot of upbeat rhythms and tones. The speed is very fast and quick it never stops its instruments
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Hitler’s Influence on Music Between the years of 1939 to 1945 the world was an entirely different place. This was one of the darkest parts of world history‚ World War II. This war truly reshaped the world‚ as we know it today. During this type period there was also a huge amount of compositions being produced and performed. Often times though certain composers music was censored because the leader of their nation did not agree with the composition or the ideas of the composer. The most powerful
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Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair State University on Wednesday‚ December 8th‚ 2010 at 7:30 pm. The program was approximately an hour and a half long‚ with two parts and a short intermission. The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps- 1913) by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was performed. There was an assortment of musical energy in parts of the first section of the symphony with a quantity of sections constantly changing rhythms. I really enjoyed the piece‚ it was not too long to become fed up with
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During these years‚ he worked with cardinal composers‚ such as Prokofiev‚ Stravinsky‚ Claude Debussy‚ Erik Satie and Ravel‚ and Famous artists who were in charge of designing sets and costumes‚ such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse‚ creating new works that integrated all the arts. Among his new works‚ in Paris‚ 1928‚ Balanchine staged the premiere Apollon musagète (Apollo and the muses) in a successful collaboration with Stravinsky. It turned out to be one of the most innovative ballets combining a classical
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The Rite of Spring by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) had been composed in 1913 and is considered a masterpiece of the twentieth century. Despite being considered such a prolific piece‚ it serves as quite paradoxical when it comes to its rather contradictory and ambivalent background. The composition process had been approached in a different style to much of his other works‚ involving myth‚ folklore and traditionalism and all of which surround this rather haunting yet admirable
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in poet T.S. Eliot. -Logical mathematical intelligence-number smarts‚ reflected in scientist Albert Einstein. -Spatial Intelligence-space smarts‚ reflected in artist Pablo Picasso. -Musical intelligence-music smart‚ reflected in composter Igor Stravinsky. -bodily Kinesthetic-body smart‚ reflected in dancer Martha Graham. -Interpersonal intelligence-people smarts‚ reflected in psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. -Intrapersonal intelligence-self smart‚ reflected in philosopher-activist Mahatma Gandhi
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MUSIC OF THE 20th CENTURY Music of the 20th century Introduction In this history of music and arts‚ every period has its own characteristic style which is associated with the society from which it originated. The period of the 19th and 20th century perceived the two world wars‚ and had been a period of many changes: advancement in technology‚ a period of many inventions such as the telephone‚ television‚ electronic light‚ computers‚ cassette tapes‚ synthesizers‚ CD players‚ and many others.
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twentieth century‚ Vienna was Paris’s only musical rival‚ the heart of the great Austrian German musical tradition”. Concurrent to Paris‚ the Modernist musical movement in Vienna‚ underwent a different sort of musical revolution. “While Debussy and Stravinsky both grew out of Romanticism‚ their musical debts to the
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An Introduction Oboe and Bassoon By Marie A Rogers 300005290 Woodwind Techniques 1 1010-1100 Mr. Robinson The oboe is a soprano-range double reed instrument with a length of 62cm. Its wooden tube is distinguished by a conical bore that expands into a flaring bell. The modern oboe’s range extends from the B flat below middle C (b3 flat) to about 3 octaves higher (A6). The oboe has a very narrow conical bore. It is played with a double reed consisting of two thin blades of cane tied together
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and urbanization‚ by the search for an authentic response to a much-changed world. Among English-language writers‚ the best-known Modernists are T.S. Eliot‚James Joyce‚ Gertrude Stein‚ and Virginia Woolf. Composers‚ including Arnold Schoenberg‚Igor Stravinsky‚ and Anton Webern‚ sought new solutions within new forms and used as-yet-untried approaches to tonality. In dance a rebellion against both balletic and interpretive traditions had its roots in the work of Émile Jaques-Delcroze‚ Rudolf Laban‚ and Loie
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