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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Listening Journal 2 Title: Piano Concerto in G major‚ K. 453‚ I — 1784 C.E. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Information: Lived from 1756-1791 C.E. German nationality Genre: Symphony Performing Forces: Solo piano with orchestra (pairs of woodwinds‚ horns‚ and strings) Timbre: Form: First-movement concerto form‚ with orchestral and solo expositions‚ then development‚ recapitulation‚ and coda Comments: I was impressed by the various piano sections‚ which display incredible moments of
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GIMNASIO CAMPESTRE MUSIC DEPARTMENT JUAN DIEGO OSPINA 9C THE FUNCTIONS OF FILM MUSIC NECESSARY MUSIC: The first category that Oppenhaim mentions in his article is Necessary Music. As its name describes it‚ this category is about music that is incredibly necessary in a film‚ to let the viewer understand and the movie to show its objective clearer. In this case‚ the music is extremely essential for a movie scene or an act; it would be a pointless image without a deep purpose‚ simply meaningless
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THEATER FROM RESTORATION THROUGH ROMANTICISM The drama of the English Restoration combined aspects of English and continental Renaissance theater‚ both in playwriting and in theater architecture. French influence was also felt with the introduction of neoclassical ideals into serious English drama. By the eighteenth century‚ there was an attempt to break away from the Italianate traditions. Theater shapes changed‚ and playwrights abandoned the neoclassical ideals in favor of romanticism. As the
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Richard Strauss’ fame first began in the late 1800’s when his tone poems became extremely popular. One of his most popular tone poems that also brings him his claim to fame and acknowledgement in the musical world was Also Sprach Zarathustra‚ or in English‚ Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work itself has been an extremely important contribution to music and movie history‚ as it is extremely recognizable because of its use in modern and historical media. The symphonic work was first premiered in 1896
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showed in each of his works. Debussy was an impressionist‚ his music focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story. Symbolist poets inspired many of his pieces; he would compose the music for operas and poems from the writers’ poems. He got a lot of his ideas through experiencing exotic music styles. His private life was also a huge influence on his music‚ whether it was his many affairs and relationships‚ or his daughter‚ the
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and later American composer fell into the expressionist movement in German poetry and art. He was known for being a leader of the Second Viennese School and also for extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria‚ his music was labeled as degenerate art‚ along with jazz and swing. He developed the famous twelve-tone technique‚ a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all 12
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MUSIC – UNIT II Lesson 1- Music of the Romantic Period A. Vocal Forms * Recitative and Aria * Opera B. Instrumental Form * Sonata * Chamber Music * Concerto * Ballet * Suite Lesson 2- The Composers of the Romantic Period 1. Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) – turned poems into music. He is the father of German Lieder. 2. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) – a German composer‚ pianist and conductor. 3. Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) – is the creator of romantic
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Music is described as an art form whose means is sound and silence. It is the communication through which‚ a music composer can pass an intended message to the public or to specific persons. The melody and harmony in music is governed by the music pitch. The creation of music and its recording is all what is referred to as music composition. The range of music is on organized composition and its definition varies according to the social context and culture. To many people in their cultures‚ music
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these classical values that begin to take place with the dawning of the 20th century: most notably marked with Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring debut in 1913: the work of Richard Wagner and Fredrich Nietzsche will need to be explored. Being of the most influential 19th century opera composers and men of theatre‚ Wagner wrote a significant amount of philosophical essays covering a wide range of topics ranging from music to drama theory‚ social to political
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