Kevin McCray Ms. Smith General Music 4 December 2008 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Born May 7‚ 1840 in Votkinsk‚ Russia‚ Tchaikovsky was a famous composer during the romantic time period of music and was the most famous Russian composer. Tchaikovsky was born to a small middle class family. His father was a miner and his mom died when he was 14. He started learning to play piano at the age of 5 and soon showed a great talent for it. At age 10 he was sent to the School of Jurisprudence at St. Petersburg
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Debussy’s Influence Going Into The 20th Century Dan Hall 001166142 Music 3580: History V Dr. Paul Sanden Dec 2‚ 2014 Throughout the nineteenth century composers were constantly searching for ways to create a style of music that was new and provided listeners with something different. The idea of tonality‚ although still one of the main focuses‚ was beginning to be changed and adapted‚ chromaticism was heightened‚ and the idea of rhythm and phrasing was completely rethought
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Rahman was the 1995 recipient of the Mauritius National Award and the Malaysian Award for contributions to music.[90] He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his first West-End production. A four-time National Film Award winner and recipient of six Tamil Nadu State Film Awards‚ fifteen Filmfare Awards and thirteen Filmfare Awards South for his music and scores.[1] He has been conferred Kalaimamani from the Government of Tamil Nadu for excellence in the field of music‚ special music achievement
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Organist Matthew Dirst is the first American musician to win major international prizes in both organ and harpsichord‚ including the national Young Artists Competition of the American Guild of Organist (1990) and the inaugural Warsaw International Harpsichord Competition (1993). He is the founder and artistic director of the period- instrument group Ars Lyrica Houston and Professor of Music at the Moores School of music at the University of Houston‚ and also serves as organist at St Phillip Presbyterian
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learn and admire the indelible marks and influence that he was to the world of music as a composer‚ organist‚ harpsichordist‚ violist‚ and violinist of the Baroque Period. Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach‚ a town in Thuringia‚ Germany; he was raised and spent most of his life there. Because a scarcity of finances his career and himself were limited to where he could travel. Unlike many other known composers of the time‚ he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. Consequently
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Kimberly Kraft Mrs. Besel Debate 14 December 2013 Music Essay In this essay I think Aaron Copland’s essay how we listen to music is better because it gives examples and feelings of why and reasons that people listen to music. In Copland’s essay he says there are different planes of music the first one is the sensuous plane‚ the second is the expressive plane‚ and the third is the sheerly musical plane and in Reagon says there are also different types of music but he describes it as one the
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How do Frankenstein and Bladerunner reflect their Composers context? Mary Shelley’s Gothic Romantic novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s Science Fictions Noir film Blade Runner both explore similar ideas however relative to the context in which they were both made. Both Scott and Shelley use their texts as a cautionary tale‚ warning humanity of their inevitable downfall through greed and the exploitation of nature‚ and the influence science is slowly obtaining over the role of religion. Through
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difference between a major and a minor scale? The difference between a major and a minor scale is their formula/arrangement. In a major scale the formula is TTSTTTS. In a minor scale the formula is TSTTSTT. 2. Which composer was deaf by the time he wrote his 9th symphony? The composer was Beethoven. 3. Name four string section of the orchestra. Violin‚viola‚bass‚cello. 4. To what section of the orchestra does the oboe belong? The oboe belongs to the woodwind section. 5. What is a concertmaster
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How do composers use poetic techniques to reinforce the theme of ‘journeys’ in their poetry? There are many different techniques that a poet can use to emphasize the theme of journeys in their work. When many of us think of journeys‚ we think of a person physically moving from one place to another. However‚ a journey does not only have to be physical‚ it can be emotional as well. Throughout the poems that were provided to us in class‚ the poets have chosen various ways to portray journeys. In
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How do composers use distinctively visual techniques to shape our interpretations of the world? Composers use distinctively visual techniques to shape the audiences interpretations of the world. John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-horn Sonata and the RTA advertisement ‘Notes’ uses distinctively visual techniques such as dialogue‚ photographic images‚ and music to effectively shape the audiences interpretations of the world. Firstly Misto uses dialogue as a distinctively visual technique in his play
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