Fugue

For much of Australia’s history, women have been under-represented and marginalised. Throughout the three eras of Australian poetry (pioneering, war and contemporary), societal ideas, attitudes and values towards woman have been reflected through poets’ use of aesthetic features. Essex’s ‘”The women of the west”, upholds the accepted unequal values of the Pioneering era, and while it does represent women as somewhat heroic, they clearly are not equal to men. The war era shows very little…

Schumann’s Involvement in Resurrecting J.S. Bach As editor and writer for his own music journal, Neue Zeitscrift für Musik, Robert Schumann made it his personal mission to write about worthy composers and lift them up as examples to the music community. He was tired of the “Philistines” of the current music establishment, such as Wagner and Meyerbeer, who he felt were commercial and pretentious. He brought Brahms and Chopin to Germany’s notice, because he felt that their music was “honest craft…

Clarinet, and Piano. This piece began quietly. As the string instrument plucked in unison, the clarinet instruments entered with a slow melody. The mood became more dramatic as it progressed. The pace became faster and the texture more intense with fugue-like entrances. The instruments succeeded one another until they ultimately all entered in unison. The piano was the most prominent…

accompanied with a bassline and harmonics, which is more familiar in orchestras. Many known musicians in this genre included some composers we’ve studied, such as Bach, Purcell, and Handel. Going into the first piece I listened to Bach’s “The Art of Fugue”, like many…

Kings and queens had power over their kingdoms. The time was for ornate elegance in agriculture, music, and in painting. The baroque period has different characteristics, and Johann Sebastian is a well-known for Baroque period composer. His toccata et fugue and mass in B minor had many musical elements of the baroque era. He was also well known as an organ player. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st, 1685. He was the son of Johann Ambrosius. He was born in a family of musicians. He…

nature of modernist world of architecture. However, throughout his career, Sheeler used his photographic skills to bring nostalgic emotions into his paintings of industrialization. Through the analysis of four of Sheeler’s paintings, View of New York, Fugue, New England Irrelevancies, and On a Shaker Theme, this evolution becomes evident. Even though his works are void of figures or symbols, Sheeler is able to evoke a sense of timelessness in his viewer by bring the past to the present,…

Sarika Persaud Professor Debra Matthew ENC 1101 December 08, 2015 Baroque music vs. Classical music Music has changed drastically over decades. It has been seen by many different point of views and many different styles. In todays society, we never really see the amount of work that composers has put into instrumental pieces. In my essay, ill be comparing and contrasting two types of music which are the Baroque and Classical era of music. The Baroque era began during the…

Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele or “Adorn yourself, O dear soul” is a chorale cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach. A chorale cantata is a church cantata that’s based on both the melody and text of a single hymn. The cantata is based on the Lutheran chorale tune by Johann Crüger, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele. Bach composed this specific one in his second annual cycle of writing cantatas, also known as, Jabrgang II. It was written for the twentieth day after Trinity, on October 22, 1724. The…

Concert Report: Mivos Quartet The Mivos Quartet performed at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on the campus of UC San Diego on the evening of October 12, 2016. The four-membered string ensemble - consisting of Olivia de Prato and Lauren Cauley on the violin, Victor Lowrie on the viola, and Mariel Roberts on the cello - played three modern composition in a concert that lasted about one hour. The quartet opened their performance with a piece titled Serashi Fragments composed by Lei Liang in 2005.…

Daniel M. Cobb's Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty examines an often overlooked side of the American Indian Movement (AIM). This book is Cobb’s argument against the "tendency to fixate on AIM" throughout history. Cobb states that his attempt is to "decenter and resituate [AIM] within a larger context of Native political action." (2) Cobb is not looking to take away from everything that the American Indian Movement has fought for, instead he wants to bring…