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Wolfgang Mozart mixed with Ne-Yo. Bach blended with the soulful sounds of Adele and soothing cords and progressions of a violin. These are only a few of the characterizations I would use to describe violinist and performer Josh Vietti. Josh brings a distinctive approach to music combining tones of classical with a wide variety of styles from pop to gospel, hip hop jazz and country. He is a musician typically defined as a hip-hop violinist, but Josh Vietti is enormously more than that. He is an…

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach is a German composer of the Baroque-era. He was one of the most celebrated members of a large family of northern German musicians. He was a organist, harpsichordist, and an organ builder. Bach had composed many songs. Two songs that are well known of his are Toccata in Fugue D Minor and Mass in B Minor. His music is considered a prestigious lineage. Now a days Bach is considered as one of the greatest composers. Sebastian Bach was born March…

Samuel Osborne Barber II, a well remembered American composer, was known for his astounding musical skills. He showed his ardency for music from childhood and even at an extremely puerile age and went on to he decided to become a music composer. He was a master of orchestral, opera, choral and piano music. It was practically instinct for him to go along with music all his life since he was brought up in a family packed with musicians. Barber’s works acknowledge his love for poetry and his deep…

Have you ever wondered how similar two Baroque composers could be? Although there are numerous differences between the two composers, such as that Bach did not become famous until years after his death, while Handel was famous during his lifetime, they are very similar. They both were German composers who could play a myriad of instruments and started their musical journey as children. One way that Bach and Handel are similar is that they were both German. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany…

The nineteenth century was a very important time for music, an age often defined by two composers - Ludwig van Beethoven and Gioachino Rossini. These two composers represented and were key to the development of that era’s musical powerhouses, German instrumental music and Italian opera respectively. Despite the composers’ similar importance to their respective genres, Beethoven and Rossini are often viewed as polar opposites with Beethoven reigning as superior; however, the veracity and…

Franz Schubert, “Erlkönig” (1815) List of six articles: 1. Newbould, Brian. Schubert Studies. Ashgate-England,1998. 2. Youens,Susan. Schubert Die Schone schöne Müllerin. Cambridge University Press-Great Britain,1999. 3. Newbould, Brian. Schubert the Progressive:”History, Performance Practice,Analysis”. Ashgate-England,2003. 4. Kamien,Roger. Music: an appreciation. Mcgraw-Hill-New York, 2011. 5. Stein,Deborah. ‘Schubert’s “Erlkönig:” Motivic Parallelism and Motivic Transformation’. 19th-Century…

Scoprendo il Talian - viaggio di solo andata per la Mérica, (Discovering the Talian - one way trip to America) tells, in 120 pages, the history of the immigrants from their own memories, traditions and music. It reports their departures, journey, and the arrival in Brazil; their hope of a better life and what was facing a whole forest to be cleared. It also tells what they did and what they were able to create, that is, a new Veneto with all the features of the original one, keeping since the…

A Given Gift The only person who can stop you is yourself. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel are two composers of the Baroque Period who have made contributions to classical music, whether it is secular or Christian. Bach and Handel have similar influences, different contribution, and communal affects. Although the lives of Bach and Handel are quite different, they are like two lost twin brothers. In 1685 Europe is blessed with the birth of both Bach and Handel. Germany is their…

J.S. Bach was a German composer and musician in eighteenth-century. He serves at courts. He has three most important positions. There were at Weimar, Cöthen and Leipzig. He has little responsibility at Cöthen and Leipzing. Therefore, he composed 250 sacred cantatas. The most notable one is Cantata No.140. It has seven movements. The melody and text are based on chorale tune Wachet auf. The first movement has sopranos and tenors singing a polyphonic texture. The melody and lyrics use imitation…

Before Bach passed away in the eighteenth century, the audiences thought his music was old fashioned. Many of the musicians also thought his music were old fashioned because all of the younger composers in Baroque period wrote better songs than Bach. However, Mendelssohn’s performance of Bach’s piece, Liszt’s arrangement and performance of Bach’s piece, Bach’s innovative musical techniques, and influence on Vivaldi’s Italian style soon spread throughout Europe and to the world. Therefore, Bach…