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    WILLIAM BYRD

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    WILLIAM BYRD Gradulia Andrea Campbell MUSC 311 Dr. Hugo Oct. 19 2012 Introduction William Byrd was one of the best English composers during the renaissance era. He is one of the greatest known Elizabethan composers of scared music and one of the main writers for the virginals. He wrote many different forms of music that were popular in England at the time. Some of these include sacred and secular polyphony‚ keyboard

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    Elliot Carter Contribution

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    period were the Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano (1961) and the Concerto for Orchestra (1969). Three significant vocal works mark his career. These were composed between the years of 1975 and 1981. They include A Mirror on Which to Dwell for Soprano (1975)‚ Syringa for Mezzo (1978)‚ and In Sleep‚ In Thunder for tenor (1981). Ten years prior to his death‚ he never slowed down in his compositions of music‚ but released several other compositions including A Fourth String Quartet (1986)‚ Violin

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    Musicology

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    139 (Fall 2011) Paper #1: World Music CD Report Newly Arranged Chinese Folk Songs is an anthology of Chinese folk music that originated from both Northern and Southern China. Featuring opera singer and concert soloist‚ Dr. Mei Zhong’s operatic soprano vocals along with young composer‚ Dr. TingYi Ma’s fusion of modern atonal music and traditional Chinese tunes‚ the arrangements in this CD bring forward a blend of contemporary and classical ideas; however‚ in this experiment to combine Western and

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    Now 1717‚ Bach arrived to the court of Cothen to assume his position as chapel master. This rank was the highest given to a musician in the baroque era. Here in cothen Bach was under the rule of prince Leopold‚ who was a lover of the arts despite being a Calvinist and not allowing music to be used in the church. Leopold was a proficient musician on multiple instruments and would often times play with the orchestra during performances. Alongside this proficiency‚ Leopold also respected and treated

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    Mozart Wise Women

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    Research Oh Susanna: The Wise Women of Mozart In Mozart’s operas‚ as in his life‚ says Anat Sharon of the Department of Literature‚ Language and the Arts at the Open University‚ women rather than men are the ones who come out on top and who win our hearts. Mozart loved and valued women in his personal life and this was reflected in his operas. Through brilliant musical interpretations‚ his sympathetic‚ vividly-drawn portraits make audiences love even the most evil of women. Mozart’s fascinating

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    Popular Kinds of Music

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    Popular Kinds of Music The word “Mucis” derives from Greek “mousike” which means art of the Muses. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. To many people in many cultures‚music is an important part of their way of life. With 20th-century‚rock music‚electronic music and R&B music are become popular for teenagers. Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in 1950s

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    Ways of Laughing

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    Ways Of Laughing Laugh: to make sounds with your voice‚ usually when you are smiling‚ because you think something is funny. Belly laugh: a laugh that cannot be controlled. Giggle: to laugh repeatedly in a silly way because you are amused‚ embarrassed or nervous. snigger: to laugh unkindly and quietly‚ especially at something that is not meant to be funny. chuckle: to laugh quietly‚ especially because you are thinking about something funny. to roar/howl with laughter: to laugh very loudly

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    sebastian bach

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    Christoph‚ a church organist in Ohrdruf‚ took him in. Johann Christoph provided some further musical instruction for his younger brother and enrolled him in a local school. Bach stayed with his brother’s family until he was 15. Bach had a beautiful soprano singing voice‚ which helped him land a place at a school in Luneburg. Sometime after his arrival‚ his voice changed and Bach switched to playing the violin and the harpsichord. Bach was greatly influenced by a local organist named George Bohme.

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    different instruments including the winds in twos‚ piccolo‚ and contra bassoon; 4 horns‚ 2 trumpets‚ 3 trombones;2 kettledrums‚ triangle‚ cymbals‚ bass drum (the three last only in the 4th movement); the strings‚ in quintet; a quartet of solo voices (soprano‚ alto‚ tenor and bass) in the finale; a four voice choir in the

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    John Coltrane Research Paper

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    The same month saw the birth of "Spiritual‚" featuring exotic and otherworldly solos by Coltrane on soprano sax and Dolphy on bass clarinet. Recorded at the Village Vanguard‚ the piece made clear‚ if any doubts remained‚ that Coltrane was attempting to raise jazz from the saloons to the heavens. No jazzman had attempted so overtly to offer his work as a

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