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    The Musical Career of Antonio Vivaldi On March 4th, 1648, Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy. His father, a violinist for St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, made sure his son received impeccable training in music during his first years of life. Young Antonio was brought up trained in playing the violin, playing the harpsichord, and as a priest in Venice (“Antonio”; “Classical Net”). 1703 was a pivotal year for Antonio Vivaldi. He was ordained into the priesthood and began working at Pio…

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    Fanny Hensel was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1805 to Berlin banker Abraham Mendelssohn and his wife, Lea. Along with her younger brother, Felix, Fanny was considered to be musically gifted and received exceptional music education from renowned music experts, such as Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter (Fanny, 2010). As a piano composer, Fanny began orchestrating pieces and performing at a young age; however, her ability to continue her education and make her works public became restricted…

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    Shostakovich Analysis

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    Petersburg, Russian on September 25, 1906, and died in Moscow on August 9, 1975. He wrote this cello concerto no. 2 Op. 126 in the spring of 1966, specifically for Mstislav Rostropovich who was a celebrated cellist and a dear friend. The state Academy Symphony Orchestra of the USSR gave the performance on September 25, 1966 to celebrate Shostakovich’s sixtieth birthday. It was recorded live in the Large Hall of Moscow State Conservatory. The orchestra consists of flutes, piccolo, oboes,…

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    Symphony is a multi-movement instrumental work for an orchestra originating from the Italian Sinfonia, which was an instrumental prelude to large-scale vocal works such as opera and oratorio. Sinfonia comprises of 3 movements written at the tempo sequence of fast- slow fast. According to Dr. Nolan Gasser, the new trend of adopting opera sinfonia for concert use emerged in the 1720s and 30s and soon, composers such as Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Johann Stamitz began composing symphonies as…

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    John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947. Adams began composing at the age of ten and first heard his music performed around the age of 13 or 14. After he matriculated at Harvard University in 1965 he studied composition under Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, and David Del Tredici. He earned two degrees from Harvard University (BA 1969, MA 1972). His piece "American Standard"…

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    The stage lights blared down on my trembling body as I tried to force a smile onto anxious face. The year-end concert had approached and the moment for the audience to be introduced to the elegant melody of Gabriel’s Oboe had finally arrived. The hours spent perfecting my tone, the repetition of phrases to perfect my rhythm, all led up to my hope of performing a faultless solo. As the conductor nodded his head and the the phrase the band behind my played escalated, the first notes spoke from the…

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    Auto-Tune In the reading “Seduced by ‘Perfect’ pitch: How Auto- Tune Conquered Pop Music” the reading had many main points for example does society like auto-tune, for some they don’t mind artists using auto-tune but some of the older generations do because they listened to music before there was such a thing called Auto- Tune they can pick it more then todays generation can. Auto- Tune was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand who is a classically trained flautist, who spend most of his younger days…

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    You’ve probably forgotten about 7th grade by now. What you looked like, how you acted, and how you dressed is all in the past. Thanks for forgetting me, by the way. I’m you from your 7th grade year. Currently, I have the long, ash brown hair you’ve grown to hate. With the same chocolate brown eyes and thick-rimmed glasses, I most likely do not dress like you. I have my signature look; black skinny jeans, black band shirts, and red flannels. I joined the marching band in the summer along…

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    The Curtis Institute of Music is ranked as one of the top ten music schools in the country. The students enrolled in this institute, are some of the best musicians from around the world and are granted a merit-based, full tuition scholarship to fulfil their academic success. On Monday, December 5th, the South Orange Performance Arts Center held Curtis Chamber Orchestra Curtis on Tour, the Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music. This concert included some of…

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    Beethoven Biography Essay

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    Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. He was the eldest of three children of Johann and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven. At an early age, van Beethoven took an interest in music and his father taught him day and night, on returning to the house from music practice or the tavern. Without a doubt, the child was gifted and his father Johann envisioned creating a new Mozart, a child prodigy. On March 26th 1778, at the age of 7 ½, Ludwig Van Beethoven gave his first…

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