Baroque composers

I picked Andy Grammer to tell you about. They reason I picked Andy Grammer is because I really like his music. Also I want to learn about how he became a singer.The three parts of his life that will be being told are his singing career, childhood, and experiences. Let’s get startedoAndy Grammer | Bio! My first interest was Grammer’s singing career. He wrote the song “Honey I’m Good.” Another thing he got to experience in his singing career was going to West palm beach. WHere he played s hit…

a concert band compared to that of a symphonic orchestra. While both might essentially be capable of playing the same pieces, a symphonic orchestra has a wider range of sound due to the added element of the string section. Many of the well known composers of the classical era rarely composed for ensembles without strings, which makes it difficult to arrange certain pieces for a concert band without loss of…

respond. This verse is extremely ornate, and the respond is also very melismatic. It is the only part of the Mass for Christmas Day that is in mode 5. Because of its highly melismatic nature, it was viewed as an appropriate candidate for future composers to base new works off of with ample room for interpretation and adaptation. Both Viderunt omnes by Leoninus and colleagues and Viderunt omnes by Perotinus utilize the original text for all lines. In both pieces, the rhythm of the tenor is…

The greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian born on February 3rd 1525. He took his name from his birthplace of Palestrina. As a youngling Palestrina sang in the streets of Rome while selling his parents farm products. While roaming the streets Palestrina was heard by the choirmaster of the Santa Maria Maggiore who then decided to educate him musically. Palestrina then got the job as an organist in his hometown principal church, St.…

What are all the different types of cultures in the world? In America there are a lot of different cultures depending on where someone lives. Cultures can range from the type of music someone listens to, to the type of clothes someone wears. A lot of places have astonishing cultures, but the most astonishing culture is that of Australia. There are many different aspects of Australian culture. One of the main aspects of Australian culture is the type of music and dance styles. Australia has…

Modern music has a variety of repeating themes that can be found in classical pieces from the early-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Women and the representation of women is an example of one of these reoccurring themes. The Weeknd’s “Six Feet Under” from his latest album, Starboy describes a woman in a way that Richard Strauss’s “Dance of the Seven Veils” depicts a seductress in the play Salome. The Weeknd’s voice is very iconic. Its high-pitched quality makes his sound easily noticeable…

works such as opera and oratorio. Sinfonia comprises of 3 movements written at the tempo sequence of fast- slow fast. According to Dr. Nolan Gasser, the new trend of adopting opera sinfonia for concert use emerged in the 1720s and 30s and soon, composers such as Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Johann Stamitz began composing symphonies as an independent work. Three symphonies from Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven will be used in this paper to compare four elements –movement…

Placido Domingo is generally known as “the King of Opera”, as he is one of the most famous singers and composers of all time. Born on January 21, 1941, in Madrid, Spain, Domingo grew up in a very music oriented family. Both of his parents were singers of Spanish operas, and toured all around Spain with a troupe. When he was around the age of eight years old, he received his first piano lessons. He moved with his parents down to Mexico so they could start up their own zarzuela group, which helped…

The St Matthew Passion is a sacred song that was written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727. It has interspersed chorales and arias as it sets to music chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew (Leahy, 2011). It is a great masterpiece of classic gospel music of all time. Three different excerpts of the music are analyzed in this paper with a special focus on the form, texture, harmony, relationship between text and music, and the dramatic significance. The main purpose for writing the song was…

Auto-Tune In the reading “Seduced by ‘Perfect’ pitch: How Auto- Tune Conquered Pop Music” the reading had many main points for example does society like auto-tune, for some they don’t mind artists using auto-tune but some of the older generations do because they listened to music before there was such a thing called Auto- Tune they can pick it more then todays generation can. Auto- Tune was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand who is a classically trained flautist, who spend most of his younger days…