Constanze Mozart

today. In that century, composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, and many more would have never thought that their music would have played a large role in the 21st century. For years now, researchers have wondered what effects come from listening to classical music and many have found that listening to classical music is beneficial in education while helping improve memory, learning and intelligence. “But much more than learning Mozart or Beethoven happens. Lives are transformed as…

Music can have a huge influence over a child’s academic life. The author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel feels that the arts can have an influence over a person’s imagination. Martel feels that “If we citizens do not support the arts, then we sacrifice our imagination...” (xi). Music has the ability to spark memories of times someone has had with his or her families and friends. A song played during the holiday season can bring back memories of something as simple as decorating a Christmas tree or…

The Healing Power of Tunes Alternative medicine is not something everybody believes in, but something everybody can feel an effect on the brain, a mood or health. Sometimes it is quiet hard to explain, however it works. Surprisingly, 60 % of people worldwide rely on non-conventional medicine, including herbs, aromatherapy, acupuncture or hand healing. Music therapy is an exception. It is widely used in surgery and treating serious diseases. What result can be expected from just listening to…

improving your child’s intelligence has been a subject that puzzles most people. The Mozart Effect is a controversial topic that claims anyone who listens to the famous composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, can have significant growth in their intelligence. This case has been widely talked about and can play a convincing role for new mothers looking to educate their kids at an extremely early age. It is said that listening to Mozart can enhance your performance in cognitive thinking, which is also…

The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews, a classic musical, illustrates how music can serve as an aid to stimulate a learning experience for the children of the Von Trapps during World War II. The sound of music can also serve as a learning tool today, as most teenage students have multiple devices for listening to music. Music surrounds teenagers: “A typical student may not only have TV sets, CD players, and computers with Internet at home, they may also have cell phones...where they can listen…

music (Vivaldy’s “Spring Concerto” and Mozart’ “Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K448”) can temporarily enhance cognitive performance: digit span and phonemic fluency (Mammarella, Fairfield, & Cornoldi, 2007), and spatial abilities (Rauscher, Show, & Ky 1995; Thompson, Schellenburg, & Husain, 2001). Two hypotheses that might serve to explain these phenomena are the Mozart effect, and the arousal-mood…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (vs) Ludwig Van Beethoven During the classical time frame there were two amazing and talented composers, Mozart and Beethoven. These two men were well-known and extremely gifted. Although not both of them were born with these incredible abilities. There birth places were not the same nor was there child hood. How they operated as young men and into their late adulthood was quite the opposite. In comparison while both men were talented to no end, they were very different…

The Winter Concert was a marvelous showcase of music talent from the student body of St. John’s music society. There were in total twelve magnificent musical pieces and were all much appreciated by the people who were there. All the musical pieces were great, but the one that I enjoyed the most was the Claude Debussy which was presented by Kevin Won and Rex Chou who played the piano together. However, that does not take away from the other music works that were down. Furthermore, I felt all the…

Donna Elvira is portrayed as the “Donna Abbandonata” (abandoned woman) throughout various literature. In particular, I will examine her character through Wolfgang A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni. Donna Elvira is a sensible and imprudent woman throughout her ordeal with Don Giovanni. She can’t decide whether she wants to kiss Giovanni or to kill him. Donna Elvira is unwavering in her goal throughout the opera. She is in love with Don Giovanni even while being completely aware of his…

which increased in popularity during the classical period. The origins of sonata-allegro form were derived from older Baroque forms of the 17th and early 18th centuries. It played an effect on composers of the time including Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart. Sonata-allegro is typically used in the first movement of a composition, while it may also be…