Hindustani classical music

Ludwig van Beethoven was an amazing composer in the late 1700s to early 1800s composing 9 symphonies in his lifetime. Beethoven was only a small child when his father introduced him to music. In the time in between the birth of his two little brothers, his father introduced him to music. Beethoven’s First Symphony was composed in the year 1799-1800 and was released later that year in 1800. In the next few years Beethoven created his 2nd Symphony in the years 1801-1802. At the time he was…

Beethoven was an interesting character. He has gone through much in his lifetime that it is understandable that his character is an interesting and complex one. In Chapter 27 of Downs’s Classical Music, Downs gives his interpretation of Beethoven and what kind of person he was. From what was gathered in this chapter, Downs is not just stating the facts, but gives Beethoven a variety of personalities. In my sense of the composer from Downs’s text, Beethoven was an infant prodigy turned to a…

of some of his major works. In 1729, he obtained a position as the director of Leipzig’s music club. He wrote music for the orchestra and they performed once a week (Koster). He was immersed in music until the year before his death. His last great work, the B minor Mass was finished in 1749 (Koster). At the end of his career, Bach suffered failing health and failed eyesight from the time spent writing music in poor light. On July 28, 1750, at the age of 65, Bach suffered a stroke at home and…

Mini Critique #2: Atmospherics In recent decades, stores, malls, restaurants, and all kinds of businesses have learned to manipulate customers’ five senses by utilizing the techniques of atmospherics, in order to push customers to spend their money impulsively and emotionally; therefore, businesses can make more profit. According to what Douglas Rushkoff argues in his book, Coercion, the floor plan, temperature, lighting, sounds, smells, and other elements are all designed to create a “consuming…

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…

Amadeus Mozart are regarded as the head honchos of the classical music era. Mozart was one of the composers that ushered in the classical era, whereas Beethoven studied classicism, refining and expanding on it in order to help usher in the Romantic era. Both names are synonymous with top rate classical composition. In this essay, I will try to determine which of the two curmudgeon composers reigns supreme. The style characteristics of the classical era had to do with tuneful thematic material.…

Essay 2 Many will say Beethoven influenced the course of musical events more than anyone. The music he has left behind is still influence musicians today. In 1770 he was born in Germany, died in Austria at the age of 57. He became deaf before he died, but that did not spot him from composing music. His work took time to complete and look than the other composers at his time. Throughout his career he completed nine symphonies, nine concert overtures, nine piano concertos, one violin concerto,…

covered both Classical style and Romanticism. He started to sketch the Symphony No.6 in 1802, and instead of related the title with friends or sponsor’ name, he himself named it ’Pastoral’ to express his love with nature. The symphony is divided into five movements and featured like a program music. It was first performed in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808. Bela Bartok was one of the most important composers in twenty century, who integrated folk music with classical music, and…

Ludwig Van Beethoven was a stubborn inventive and creative composer and was the leading musical figure of the romantic and classical era who has inspired with his intriguing life from his youngest years to his oldest. Who also is considered one of the most widely recognized composers in the history of western music. Early life and family Ludwig Van Beethoven was born somewhere between the dates December 16th or 17th of 1770 in Bonn, Cologne Germany his birth date is uncertain because of laws…

Policies dividing states already troubled by discrimination and gross systemic inequality are perplexing and illogical, more so in countries already plagued by multiple types of division. A special case of this type of rule is the Republic of India, in which the country is divided politically as the cause of different regions taking on different identities through the recognition of multiple languages as being national. This has led to many regions institutionally standardizing different…