and died‚ music was beginning to evolve into a more diverse musical experience. Arcangelo Corelli was one of the few violin and musical composer pioneers that helped shape music and create some of the most recognized compositions of his era. According to Baroque Music‚ Corelli not only shared his musical knowledge with fellow musicians‚ but was known as the “founder of modern violin technique‚” the “world’s first great violinist‚” and the “father of concerto grosso.” The period‚ life‚ and works in
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Carter was born in Detroit‚ Michigan on August 6th‚ 1962. Her parents were not musicians (her father an autoworker and her mother an elementary school teacher)‚ but her cousin‚ James Carter‚ is a jazz saxophonist. She began piano at age two and violin at age four. She took lessons at the Detroit Community Music School. In addition to her musical studies‚ she took dance‚ focusing on tap and ballet. Regina was classically trained‚ but became interested in jazz and funk as a teenager. She played
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Legal‚ Political‚ Ethical Dimension - Week 5 Midterm 1. Question : TCO B. After the 2010 fall election‚ the Democratic National Committee (DNC) decides to take matters into its own hands. During the lame duck session‚ they pass a new "Elections Are Free Act" that requires single people who make more than $75‚000/year or married couples who make more than $150‚000/year to provide a copy of their tax return to their local county officials before being allowed to register to vote. The return must
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Seasons is a set of four solo concertos for violin‚ string orchestra and basso continuo. The texture of each concerto resembles each of the presented season. This piece by Vivaldi is considered program music. Program music is instrumental music associated with a story‚ scene‚ poem‚ or idea that is often found in the romantic period. The first season we heard in this concert was Winter. It was performed be Stephenie Roeper‚ who has played the violin for 13 years. This season has three movements
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“Le Tango de Roxanne” scene - which is in fact three scenes intercut - contributes to the overall success of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge in several ways. Specific techniques‚ including lighting and music‚ are vital contributors to the effect of this scene. The long shadows and the cold‚ blue light in the tower are captured by a PAN across the room prior to Satire’s dramatic entrance à la Marlene Dietrich. An ECU of her face shows the minute diamond shapes of which her veil is made‚ suggesting
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Chapter 17: 1. Describe the solo concerto or "concerto" as it is now referred to in the Classical Period (5 pts). This could sort of be considered the start to public concerts where the composer organized and managed most of the administrative details. The Classical concerto features one person or instrument. The soloist stands while the rest of the orchestra sits. The enter and leave with the conductor which gives them a special status. They get to bow and acknowledge the audience. The most often
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his influence upon later composers is immense. In his early life Franz Joseph Haydn was recruited at age 8 to the sing in the choir at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna‚ where he went on to learn to play violin and keyboard. After he left the choir‚ he supported himself by teaching and playing violin‚ while studying counterpoint and harmony. Haydn soon became an assistant to composer Nicola Porpora in exchange for lessons‚ and in 1761 he was named Kapellmeister‚ or "court musician‚" at the palace of
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Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most influential composers of the Baroque period. He‚ along with many other composers‚ created some of the earliest European music familiar to us today (What is Baroque Music?). The Baroque period can best be described as using the power of music to communicate (What is Baroque Music?). The composers used a single voice that was accompanied by instruments‚ as well as specifying the instruments used‚ to capture the importance of the relationship between tonic and dominant
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Much like the Ritornello‚ it has a thin texture‚ only scored for three violins with the absence of a bass line allowing for a lighter sound and is based entirely around the chord of e major. Example (picture) Unlike the Ritornello though‚ it has contrapuntal texture making high use of imitative qualities between the solo and first violin players‚ a typical baroque feature‚ allowing for countermelodies and layered entries as Vivaldi tries to imitate the
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flexibility in its form and influence‚ but still retaining the constraints of the form of baroque music. He blended Italian and German music in these concertos‚ giving them a distinctive touch. This fifth concerto is made distinctive by the flute‚ solo violin‚ harpsichord‚ and strings. It is the only one of the six pieces to have any solo given to the harpsichord‚ which is part of the continuo throughout
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