Composer

There are very few artists or groups who get lucky enough to survive the ever changing-musical landscape and manage to carve a career for themselves in the music industry. If they do, it usual comes at a cost. Whether it being the reshuffling of band members, power struggles, the inevitable break up and reunion, Styx just like Journey, Foreigner, Kiss &Van Halen, were no exception to the trials and tribulations of the music business. After 13 years apart, the Chicago-based band's classic lineup of vocalist/keyboardist Dennis DeYoung, vocalist/guitarist Tommy Shaw, vocalist/guitarist James Young, and bassist Chuck Panozzo reunited for a successful greatest-hits tour in 1996. Drummer Todd Sucherman replaced John Panozzo, who died of chronic alcohol abuse that year. The reunion would only last three years before tensions would re-emerge in the Styx camp. Depending on who you would ask, it was either the reoccurring conflict over the bands musical direction or DeYoung’s’ development of an ailment making him sensitive to light, delaying their 1999 tour. Styx decided to do the unimaginable and soldier on with new a frontman, replacing Dennis DeYoung with Canada’s very own Lawrence Gowan. Styx managed to pull off a couple of tours and live albums proving that they were still a vital and vibrant live act. But without DeYoung’s balladry and cinematic flair there was no way that this current line up of Styx would ever record an album of original material, right…Wrong! The band went…

In December of 1770, a man that was represented as the highest level of musical genius was born. Ludwig Van Beethoven was a very talented man but had several severe problems that harmed his music career. However, he did not let any of those problems stop him from doing things that he has an interest in. Beethoven was a German composer that created new worlds of music and influenced many other musicians. There were two conflicts that mainly interacted with his music career and those two conflicts…

Renaissance in every field. Orlando di Lasso 's ‘’Conditor alme siderum’’ had the excellence of harmony dissolving into a full choir, now and again making organ-like sounds. Antoine Busnois ' ‘’Gaude, caelestis domino’’ was the soonest piece and was loaded with vivacity and complex cross rhythms working to a euphoric completion, and the singers were seriously vigilant and aware of each other. Robert Parsons ' ‘’Ave Maria’ ’was captivating in its effortlessness and consonant excellence, the…

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Bartok Composer of the week Bela Viktor Janos Bartok he was born in an area that now forms part of Romania on March 25 1881 he was a Hungarian composer, pianist and studied a lot of music. He was considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Bartok had 2 kids and their names were Peter Bartok Bela Bartok the III,and his wife's name was Ditta Pásztory-Bartók. Bela Viktor Janos Bartok died in September 26 1945. His wife died on November 21 1982. His parents name…

Composers have been coming up with new and inventive ways to expand the realm of choral music for centuries. New instruments and techniques are constantly being developed, but many of these techniques fail to secure a lasting foothold and gain traction. Many techniques of the twentieth and twenty-first century incorporate additional dissonances to compose chord resolutions, chord successions, and chord progressions that are atypical of classical music before 1910. Composers continue to push the…

Learning to hear multiple melodic lines and harmonies in your mind is complicated, but once you have the melody created most of the work has been completed for you. With enough time and practice you can learn to master the skill of composing completely in your own mind. By learning to compose in your head, you can create more interesting compositions that don't rely upon the use of an external source to validate the sound you envision. Songwriters must become competent at setting words to music…

regarded composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is seen as the founder of musical impressionism. Born in August 1862, Debussy showed an early affinity for the piano. He began taking lessons at the age of seven and was entered into the Paris Conservatory by the age of eleven. Debussy's Preludes includes twenty-four pieces and were published in two books. Book I was composed in 1909 and 1910, and Book II was composed in 1912 and 1913. Unlike J.S. Bach's The…

One of the most important factors in the development of the trumpet was its acceptance as a key contributor to art music. This realization became fully accepted in the 17th century during the Baroque period. Prior to this time the trumpet was seen primarily as an instrument delegated to military functions and processional fanfares. Due to its construction the common practice of playing trumpet was limited to just notes within the harmonic series of the trumpet. This limitation hindered many…

through these letters, we can get somewhat of an understanding of the type of person he was and how is voice changed throughout the years. In the first set of letters, from the beginning of the 18th century, Beethoven seemed very humble and respectful when talking to the Elector of Cologne, Frederick Maximilian. Maximilian was the Archbishop and Elector of Cologne. He talked about his music when he was a 4th year and how Maximilian should accept his works from that time. While Beethoven…