extend is popular music an effective medium of political discourse? Popular music is a term for music of all ages that appeals to popular tastes. It reflects the features and events of the time period. That is‚ society affects the music and music reflects the social climate. When we look at the importance of music for society‚ it has political contents and political aims inevitably. Music has been voicing people’s concerns for many years. When we take this feature of music into consideration
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MTV was so important to how rock music changed during the 1980s. The first reason being the fact that MTV provided a change in “the way that the industry operated.” (Schloss‚ et al.‚ 250) MTV allowed for artists to promote themselves and their work on television‚ which allowed them to reach a more widespread audience. In addition‚ at this time the Baby Boomers were now older‚ around their thirties‚ and thus it was easier for them to sit at home watching rock music on television‚ instead of going to
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Erin R Eddins Mozart Symphonies 39‚ 40‚ 41 Performed by The Berlin Philharmonic‚ conducted by Sir Simon Rattle My first impressions of the conductor held fairly true throughout the performance. Sir Simon Rattle is perhaps the most enigmatic master of the baton I have had the pleasure of watching. This is quite an interesting observation‚ since he doesn’t use a baton. He stands in front of his orchestra‚ sans instrument himself‚ without even a podium or stand‚ and conducts using gestures‚ hand movements
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Classical Period: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this essay‚ I will be detailing how‚ through his career as both a performer and composer‚ Mozart is directly responsible for further developing the standardized instrumentation of the orchestra. By looking
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Mozart was a supreme melodist and is one of the most popular classical composers of all time. “Mozartean” is practically synonymous with elegance and grace. The film Amadeus was a great; it showed in-depth adversity about how things were for Mozart during his time. Like his clothes‚ and the way things were established in the seventeen century. It was a reviewed time and time again as a
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Allegro assai Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Year and place of birth: January 27‚ 1756 in Salzburg‚ Austria Year and place of death: December 5‚ 1791‚ in Vienna‚ Austria Composer is best known for: Mozart is known for many things‚ of which include piano pieces‚ as well as operas. I will be performing in one this winter‚ The Magic FluteJ He was one of the greatest music prodigies of all time/ A well-known musical contemporary of this
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Report on Mozart: A Life in Letters Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ known for being a musical genius since his childhood‚ was a brilliant composer of symphonies‚ concertos‚ and chamber music. Even after his death in December 1791‚ Mozart is still among one of the most popular composers to be written of. Mozart: A Life in Letters is a fascinating book that includes a set of his letters‚ providing a new understanding of his life story including his marriage‚ his relationships with his family
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had suffered though difficult and troubling childhood. His father was a shoe salesman and a sensitively absent parent; while his mother was a daughter of a minister of Southern Episcopal. His childhood had changed since his family moved from a small Southern town in Mississippi to St. Louis in 1918. He took third prize in a national essay contest “Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?” by The Smart Pet magazine at the age of 16 (GradeSaver‚ 1). His career started at this point. He first enrolled in University
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Tannya Trudeau 4135080 Professor Grant Musi200 D004 Fall10 15 January 2011 Concert Report: Mozart Symphony No. 40 The western classical concert that I have chosen to review is A Tale of Two Symphonies. This concert is performed in the Avery Fisher hall within the Lincoln Center in New York City. It was performed on July 29‚ 2008. The orchestra that is performing is the 42nd Mostly Mozart Orchestra. The conductor is Louis Langrée. The two pieces being performed in this concert is Mozart’s
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and their influences have been captured through millennia in writing and literature‚ but it is really only in the past few hundred years that history has preserved enough musical notation to allow analysis of this art form for ideological significance. Thus‚ when considering the Enlightenment period‚ it is a particularly interesting to observe how the work of “classical” composers like Mozart embodied the idea of progress through reason‚ while criticizing existing social and political institutions
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