The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time‚ ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While‚ Western music first emerged from Europe. Western music has developed
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Ludwig Van Beethoven was a German. Johannes Brahms was a German. Richard Wagner was a German. George Frideric Händel was a German. Joseph Haydn‚ Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Orff were Germans. Germany has always been a leader in music in Europe and the world. Germany has also been a leader in architecture styles. Germany is known for Baroque style‚ Ottonian style and Gothic style. Germany has produced leaders
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Spinoza set the example for a secularized version of Judaism‚ and Mendelssohn established the main outlines of an assimilationist position. David Hume wrote Inquiry Into Human Nature ( no empirical evidence that miracles exist) Voltaire wrote Philosophical Dictionary (using humor‚ pointed out inconsistencies in the Bible
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individual parts before compiling a full score. Already as a very young child he was improvising fugues and composing substantial pieces. The only composer who comes near to Mozart as a child prodigy is Mendelssohn‚ who composed the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a teenager. However Mendelssohn failed to develop much further‚ and although his music reveals an excellent sense of proportion‚ harmony‚ and passion‚ he lacks the complexity and subtlety which Mozart has over other composers. Amazingly
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Introduction The Importance of Being Earnest was Oscar’s fourth comedy‚ and it was to be his last and most outstanding play. ‘The Trivial Comedy for Serious People‘ (in earlier drafts‚ ‘serious comedy for trivial people’) was first produced by George Alexander at the St James’s Theatre on 14th February 1895 in London. The play was reduced from four to three acts (Raby 161-163). The Importance of Being Earnest contradicts banausic values in a utilitarian age (Varty 205). The comedy of manners
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Romanticism Romanticism. An artistic and ideological movement in literature‚ art‚ and music and a world view which arose toward the end of the 18th century in Germany‚ England‚ and France. In the beginning of the 19th century it spread to Russia‚ Poland‚ and Austria‚ and in the mid-19th century it encompassed other countries of Europe as well as North and South America. Romanticism‚ which appeared after the French Revolution in an environment of growing absolutism at the turn of the 19th century
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Ludwig van Beethoven is considered one of the greatest and most influential composers in the history of music. His Violin Concerto in D Major has been played by nearly every soloist in the past 150 years and‚ today‚ it is one of the major works in violin repertoire. Since its premiere by Franz Clement in the winter of 1806‚ many aspects of the violin‚ bow‚ and performance have undergone changes. This paper discusses the modern day knowledge of Beethoven ’s Violin Concerto‚ and how it is influencing
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the time of the second World War. Summary A ten year old boy named Felix is living in an orphanage in Poland in 1942. Felix finds a carrot in his soup and thinks it is a sign that his parents are coming back to get him. The Nazis come to the orphanage to burn the books in the library. Mother Minka tells Felix that Sister Elwira put the carrot in his soup out of sympathy for him and that his parents are not coming to get him. Felix decides to leave the orphanage. He wants to hide the books in his
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Felix is the protagonist and Cyryl is the antagonist. They each have differences and comparisons. For example they both fear nazis they both scared because they could kill Felix and the Nazis have power over everybody so if Cyryl said something and they don’t believe him they usually beat him up as a punishment for lying. Their differences are that Felix feels bad for the jewish people that get executed and Cyryl doesn’t care since he hates them. “Jew! Oh‚no. Someone else has‚ I know that voice
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MUS1041: Repertory A Western Music: 1750-1890 The purpose of MUS1041 is to give an introduction‚ historical‚ cultural and analytical‚ to the music of what are usually called the Classical and Romantic eras. The main traditions of European music will be covered and advice will be given as to the development of ways of defining the musical materials of these fascinating and popular periods. The module is also intended to function as an introduction to the study of music at university and
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