Types of Listeners Casual Listeners • Most common • Likes having music playing‚ filling the environment with sounds • Views music primarily as a mood enhancer or as pleasant part of the environment • Johann Sebastian Bach - Air from Suite No.3 in D major o Slow and relaxing pace – often used for meditation Referential Listeners • Relate music almost exclusively to outside experiences • These external references are so strong that the music is not really heard anymore; instead‚ the
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During the Baroque Age‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organist in this time period. From the age of nine‚ J.S Bach was orphaned both of his parents had died and was adopted by his brother’s name Christoph who was an organ player. Christoph taught Bach’s how to construct organs from the frequent repairs that had to be made to the church organ. For the most part‚ Bach was self-taught by copying music in order to learn the musical style and to get music. Later in 1707‚ Bach was hired
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Monophonic Hildegard of Bingen‚ Columbia aspexit (L 1/8) Homophonic Wolfgang A. Mozart‚ Piano Concerto No. 21‚ in C‚mvt. ii (MEB 1/4) Ludwig van Beethoven‚ The Ruins of Athens‚ “Turkish March” (MEB 1/9) Polyphonic‚ imitative Johann Sebastian Bach‚ The Art of Fugue‚ Contrapuntcus 1 Polyphonic‚ nonimitative Sergey Prokofiev‚ Montagues and Capulets‚ Dance of the Knights- Mid-section combination of textural types: Georges Bizet‚ L’Arlésienne Suite‚ “Farandole” LISTENING
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want and what they people understand and/or know. I gathered eleven surveys and averaged out their numbers to get the most famous composers. They are in order from 1st to 5th. As the first-most famous composer‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was consistently first place in online surveys. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer who lived from 1685-1750‚ part of the Baroque Period. Bach wrote hundreds of pieces for organ‚ choir‚ as well as many other instruments. He spent most of his life as a church
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J. S. Bach (1685-1750) : Prelude & Fugue in G minor‚ BWV 861 Book: Well-Tempered Clavier Book I Composed in: 1722 Publish year: 1722 Background Johann Sebastian Bach was as “the Father of Music” who devoted himself to music education in his later years and brought great influence to the classical music world. The Well-Tempered Clavier‚ a collection of solo keyboard music (harpsichord)‚ was a good example. J.S. Bach’s music requested high technical command and artistic beauty. With
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1. Enlightenment Setting a. The Enlightenment is a combination of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution‚ marked with a sense of less spirituality and more secularism. i. Less spirituality‚ more secularism. ii. During this time‚ people questioned authority more than ever before. People wanted equality – or at least semi-equality – where the masses weren’t dirt-poor and the middle class totally unobtainable. iii. Not only were more people learned (thanks to the printing press in the Renaissance)
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works in which the great Arcangelo Corelli lived will be discussed in greater detail as the paper progresses. To begin‚ the baroque period‚ also known as the “age of absolutism‚” is classified by the years 1600‚ in which opera began‚ to the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 (Kamien 99). Opera was birthed in Italy within the baroque period and provided the people a show of “magnificent extravagance” with more emphasis on the words than the music (Kamien 118-19). Furthermore‚ the baroque styled opera
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spaces‚ domes‚ and large masses as seen in the Royal Palace at Versailles‚ Trevi Fountain in Rome‚ Salzburg Cathedral and Mirabell Palace in Salzburg. In music‚ the Baroque style makes up a large part of classical music. Important composers include Johann Sebastian Bach‚ George Handel‚ and Antonio Vivaldi. This style’s popularity was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church‚ which had decided at the Council Of Trent that the arts should portray religious themes and direct emotional involvement in
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Elements Music is an art based on the organization of sounds in time. Also the universal language of man or something who knows Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound Tone is a sound that has a definite pitch Interval is the distance in a pitch between any two tones Tones are separated by an interval called the octave Tones have a specific frequency in music Pitch range is the distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce
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THE BACH CIACONNA IN D MINOR‚ A LIFE OF ITS OWN Natalie W. Chang Graduate Survey in Music History‚ MUSC 7020 November 26‚ 2012 Introduction It is hard to imagine a world without Johann Sebastian Bach‚ a world devoid of his absolute brilliance. And yet‚ he himself found no brilliance in his work‚ as he had an innate sense of continuous self-improvement through learning from and imitating other composers. For such a master at his craft‚ he was
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