Baroque music

Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer keeps its oldest and best-loved tradition with 12 performances of A Chanticleer Christmas in the Bay Area between December 10th and 23rd. A Chanticleer Christmas offers profound, peaceful and joyous music in beautifully decorated missions, churches and cathedrals around the Bay Area. Chanticleer’s Christmas season begins on November 28th in Fairfax, VA, with concerts in Manassas, VA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Purchase, NY, and Portland, OR,…

Today I will be providing you with information on the three compositions chosen for my music repertoire each coming from different eras. I chose these three compositions due to how much they have impacted me before and during the class. Learning a lot more about these specific compositions really made me enjoy them a lot more. The first piece I would like to talk about is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, specifically the 3rd movement. Coming from the Classical Era, Moonlight Sonata actual title is…

Music have been a big entreatment all around the world. Instrument, lyrics and sounds have been for a lot of people there passion for many years. Music is very dynamic and always change all the time depends on the society and the people. Personally, I love music it gives vivid harmony to my life all the time. Musics is so amazing that have been used to communication for thousand of years. Renaissance era was one of the many era very well known in the history of music, was practice often on…

that he had passion for music. This radiated around him and brought joy to others. After a stretched and forever-going rehearsal, he was offered to enroll in a conducting class. Without hesitation, he accepted. He practiced for hours and hours, studying the scores of V. Williams all the way to Pre-Baroque. After their concert round, the orchestra was given new music. My grandfather’s maestro, offered the baton to my grandfather, after a few rehearsals of this complex music. You could hear a…

Jasmine Webb Music 1010 Critique 2 February 8, 2016 So for my second critique I was able to go to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and pick a performance that i would find interesting to listen to and focus on that. So the one I have chosen to do was called “Oldies, But Goodies” and the performers that are performing in this piece are going to be, the Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute and they are going to perform “Work for string quartet by Boccherini’, and the next performer is…

staccato of the conductors’ demands cut through the pressure that was quite apparent in the Rice University concert hall. Sweating and focused, my orchestral troop fought through every movement of Tchaikovsky's romantic escapades and Mozart's baroque form of music. I treated my high school career as an unending overture full of experiences that created the composition of my life. From the presto of various HOSA competitions and the steady andante of missionary work, life has become an orchestra…

Georg Philipp Telemann was a German baroque composer during the 17th-18th century. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1681, to a Protestant family. At an early age, he showed great musical talent, mastering the violin, flute, and keyboard by the age of ten, and two years later, at the age of twelve, composing an opera. His family discouraged him from becoming a professional musician however, as it was not, at the time, a profitable occupation. Many of his family members worked for the church,…

percussion), Stanley Clarke (bass), and Joe Farrell (flute) Jazz is a music style with its origin stemming from the black communities living in the US in the twentieth century. Jazz has musical styles from European music, as well as the brass and stringed instruments. It is a mixture of US and Europe music culture. Like its origin, Jazz-Rock fusion is the epitome of the characteristic of Jazz that always combines with other kinds of music and finds its own way to refresh the original style.…

April 20th, 2017 was an organ licentiate recital by Ian Guenette. It was held at the Redpath Hall, a building located on McTavish street. The Redpath Hall was first dedicated for a library building, but is now taken charge by the Schulich School of Music. The Hall is very charming with its high selling that contains thick dark brown carved wodden beams that covers the intire ceiling and gives warmth to the room. The walls are all painted a light cream color that gives plenty of light to the…

His sound remained fluid as he gathered inspiration from Baroque music and other artists he encountered while living there. Although Mozart was not the first to play classical music, he transformed the genre and is known to be the most iconic figure of euphony. His life expanded humanities in all directions as he is considered to have a universal characteristic that flows through any audience. Devoting his life to the elaboration of music, Mozart’s influence is…