Ludwig Van Beethoven (December 16‚ 1770 – March 26‚ 1827) He was a German composer of Classical music‚ the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest of composers‚ and his reputation inspired – and in some cases intimidated – composers‚ musicians‚ and audiences who were to come after him. Beethoven’s first music teacher was his father‚ who worked as a musician in the Electoral court at Bonn. Beethoven’s
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach Germany in 1685. Bach could sing very well and studied Latin‚ Greek and theology in St. Michael’s School. He played organ in a church at Arnstadt when he was 18. The church didn’t really like him because of his improvisational style of the songs. So he walked to Lubeck to study with a famous organist Buxtehude. Buxtehude liked Bach so much that he offered to give him a job if he married his daughter‚ in which Bach declined. Some of his career moves include
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Did you know that each time period has its own name called an era? The violin has come quite a long way since the beggining of its time. Music through the centuries has been changed time and time again‚ each era sacred to its particular style of music. The music aswell‚ as the people‚ welcome everyone to join in its beaty. Music is an open door for interpretation‚ some people find the camouflaged beauty in song. Music isn’t just a bunch of notes and lyrics written on a piece of paper‚ it’s stories
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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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1.) Purcell‚ Dido and Aeneas‚ Act III‚ Dido’s Lament (10 September 1659 - 21 November 1695) Purcell was an English Baroque composer. He has often been called England’s finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. His brief career began at the court of Charles II and on through the turbulent times of James II and finally into the period of William and Mary. Purcell’s music ranks among the finest
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Based on the presentation‚ I think the topic that interested me the most is the Baroque Music. I showed interest in the Baroque Music because I think it is really attention grabbing by how the many musical terms and concepts from that musical era is still used today. I researched more on The Baroque Music era and found out that the Baroque Music was correspondingly the period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion. And the Music also used clear‚ strong‚ details to easily interpret what
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed this piece. This piece is part of the St Matthew Passion‚ BWV244. It is a musical composition from the Passions written by Bach in 1727. The St Matthew Passion is written for solo voices‚ double choir and double orchestra. Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici) is the libretto of this composition. This is a scared music. Only 2 out of 4 or 5 setting of the Passions survived. Bach was a devouted Christian‚ so he composed it for Good Friday. Gerne will ich mich bequemen
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were the forerunners of the piano. In 1685-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach became one of the most famous musicians the world has ever known. This man was an organist‚ violinist‚ and player of both the harpsichord and clavichord. He composed music‚ taught it and directed choirs in Leipzig; wrote over 300 cantatas and numerous accomplishments for the organ‚ harpsichord‚ clavichord and for small orchestras! George Handel (1685-l759) was a composer‚ as Bach‚ but was most well known for composing Italian operas
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The Baroque period extended from 1600-1750. It was during this time that many well known composers developed some of the most famous masterpieces in the musical world. Composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Brandenburg Concerto No.3‚ George Frideric Handel composed The Messiah‚ and Johann Pachelbel created Pachelbel Canon. What all of these composers have in common is that all of their music contains a similar sound. Baroque music tends to have one melody with harmonic support from a keyboard player
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Lillian Hikmah Professor Kevin Cummines Intro to Music 21 November 2013 Applied Questions 2: 1. Discuss the use of music in Catholic and Protestant worship practice‚ from the development of polyphony‚ through the music of J.S. Bach. In so doing‚ discuss the shift in responsibility for musical development from the Catholic Church to the Lutheran Church. During the middle Ages‚ the Catholic Church was the sole contributor to musical development. The music of the early church was monophonic‚ and had
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