Ambient music

Shostakovich Successful Soviet Composer and Pianist was known to be a bit controversy portraying music in expressing, Anger and Tragedy. His performances and being a first-time criminal that isn’t until Stain got in the way in taking over hated Shostakovich’s opera many believe he wrote and composed, Population in fear of Stalin’s terror. In his own way, he could relate. Shostakovich was exposed to so much in Soviet Union where He grew up. Under orders people were imprisoned others were arrested…

The artist Kawase Hasui, was a printmaker who used color and repetition to uniquely style his works. He was one of the most famous artists of the “Shin Hanga” movement during early 20th century Japan. Influenced by Impressionism, “Shin Hanga” meant “new prints” that focused on landscapes and portraits using various amount of colors. As a leader in this movement, Kawase Hasui created many landscapes, often using the same woodblock only with different colors. However, he presented more of the…

Historical Background John Williams was born in New York City on February 8, 1932. His Father was a percussionist for the CBS Radio Orchestra .Music then was not a foreign concept to him growing up. He was around it often, and even began to compose his own pieces…

Rag”. At the age of 17 Duke was awarded an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in New York but he denied it in order to pursue his passion for ragtime and then began to play professionally at age 17. How did Duke’s Music Fit Into The 20s: Duke Ellington’s music fit into the 20s because it was upbeat and fun. The 20s was a time of prosperity so Duke’s…

On Friday, February 6th, 2015, I was sitting in class listening to a Music History lecture, when my teacher, Dr. Jamie Weaver, played a recording of “La Quarte Estampie Royal”, from Le Manuscrit Du Roi, an instrumental piece from the 14th century France. I was intrigued. As a fiddler throughout my high school year, studying a variety of genres, I recognized much of the ornamentation as similar to Celtic tradition, namely Cape Breton tradition. The first things I noticed about the recording…

was a seventh-grader playing in a high school level orchestra. She was a senior stuck with the baby. Making music in an orchestral setting is, at its core, collaborative. For the team to work, there must be trust. Of course, the orchestra must trust the conductor, but there are many other essential levels of collaboration. The principal players must constantly communicate to keep the music together. At the same time, principals, particularly in the string section, convey…

Piano Trio in D Major, Joseph Haydn The concert started with a piece by Haydn that began with the piano playing the melody and then developed into a conversation between the piano and violin. The piece was in a four movement form, like the pieces by Haydn that we listened to during class. The second movement changes from D major into D minor and with the cello and violin playing the melody together and the piano in the background. In the middle of Andantino piu tosto allegretto, the second…

order to cope with and make sense of the world’s shifting socioeconomic and political matters. In addition to that, music and art have often been used as a type of call to action. Especially before the twentieth century, music in war has been used in the form of drum cadences for marching into combat, as well as summoning servicemen into battle (Dobney). The rise of American jazz music in the 1920s challenged traditional values by bringing together different cultures despite economic and racial…

For many years now, taxpayers have had to pay some sort of money towards art projects, not a hefty amount but an amount worth noticing. There has been much argument whether it really is worth it or if we are just throwing our money into a fire by paying for projects involving the arts. I believe that although it sometimes seems strenuous and tedious to pay for different projects that people feel may not have an actual impact on themselves personally, it still is a very important thing to…

composer from a different time; and a well known lullaby composer for his classical concerto. The first piece of music was Steven Stucky’s Symphony. The conductor stated…