Italian composers

processional fanfares. Due to its construction the common practice of playing trumpet was limited to just notes within the harmonic series of the trumpet. This limitation hindered many composers from written significant melodic works for the instrument, however, overtime across Europe a new performance practice for trumpet begin to developed. In 1614 Italian trumpeter, Cesare Bendinelli published one of the first trumpet method book Tutta l’arte della trometta where he discussed the rules of improvisation in what would become known as the clarino register. Edward Tarr stated, “Since many of Bendeinelli works that are found are dated in the 1580s, we assume with certainty that trumpeters of that period played that is improvised pieces of this kind for precessions, tournaments, mealtimes and similar functions. . . Playing in the…

Antonio Vivaldi is known as one of the greatest Italian Baroque composers. He was born on March 4, 1678, in Venice. Vivaldi was born at the time when the city was the capital of the independent state called the Republic of Venice. Like his father and other members of his family, Vivaldi had red hair, and when he was ordained into priesthood at the age of 25, he was given the nickname “The Red Priest.” Vivaldi was the son of Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio. Vivaldi was one of…

There are very few artists or groups who get lucky enough to survive the ever changing-musical landscape and manage to carve a career for themselves in the music industry. If they do, it usual comes at a cost. Whether it being the reshuffling of band members, power struggles, the inevitable break up and reunion, Styx just like Journey, Foreigner, Kiss &Van Halen, were no exception to the trials and tribulations of the music business. After 13 years apart, the Chicago-based band's classic lineup…

In December of 1770, a man that was represented as the highest level of musical genius was born. Ludwig Van Beethoven was a very talented man but had several severe problems that harmed his music career. However, he did not let any of those problems stop him from doing things that he has an interest in. Beethoven was a German composer that created new worlds of music and influenced many other musicians. There were two conflicts that mainly interacted with his music career and those two conflicts…

Renaissance in every field. Orlando di Lasso 's ‘’Conditor alme siderum’’ had the excellence of harmony dissolving into a full choir, now and again making organ-like sounds. Antoine Busnois ' ‘’Gaude, caelestis domino’’ was the soonest piece and was loaded with vivacity and complex cross rhythms working to a euphoric completion, and the singers were seriously vigilant and aware of each other. Robert Parsons ' ‘’Ave Maria’ ’was captivating in its effortlessness and consonant excellence, the…

Soon upon their arrival in Weimar, Maria gave birth to their first child, Catharina Dorothea. In 1713 the 'Hunt ' cantata Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208 was performed at for the local Duke Christian of Saxony-Weissenfels. This was Johann Sebastian 's first secular cantata, and it implemented the new Italian method with recitatives and da capo arias. In 1713, Bach was offered the post of successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, former educator of Handel, at the Liebfrauenkirche…

regarded composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is seen as the founder of musical impressionism. Born in August 1862, Debussy showed an early affinity for the piano. He began taking lessons at the age of seven and was entered into the Paris Conservatory by the age of eleven. Debussy's Preludes includes twenty-four pieces and were published in two books. Book I was composed in 1909 and 1910, and Book II was composed in 1912 and 1913. Unlike J.S. Bach's The…

through these letters, we can get somewhat of an understanding of the type of person he was and how is voice changed throughout the years. In the first set of letters, from the beginning of the 18th century, Beethoven seemed very humble and respectful when talking to the Elector of Cologne, Frederick Maximilian. Maximilian was the Archbishop and Elector of Cologne. He talked about his music when he was a 4th year and how Maximilian should accept his works from that time. While Beethoven…

Introduction The 19th century movement towards Italian unification which concluded in the establishment of The Kingdom of Italy on March 4th 1861 is called ‘’the Risorgimento’’. ‘’The Risorgimento was an ideological and literary movement that helped to arouse the national consciousness of the Italian people, and it led to a series of political events that freed the Italian states from foreign domination and united them politically.’’ (Risorgimento | Italian history | Britannica.com. 2015) The…

The invention of the Gutenberg press at this time resulted in a wide scale distribution of music which meant training musicians of the Renaissance were exposed to the works of composers from many other regions which in turn had a profound effect on the music that they composed which also had features from their own local music culture. These new musical ideas were also contributed to greatly by aspiring musicians who travelled to the South from across the Alps, as they also brought home new…