Johann Pachelbel

In the 16th century, composer Johann Sebastian Bach, created The Brandenburg Concertos, a six-part series. The concertos are a unique composition of music, utilizing instruments like the harpsichord, flute and violin to create a melodic conversation. Bach’s Bradenberg Concerto No. 5 in D Major is a particularly unique piece as it is the first to feature a keyboard solo. In this composition, the harpsichord stepped into the spotlight and ditched its normally supportive role. The three movements…

England’s premiere Renaissance composer, William Byrd, “lead the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries” (Burkholder, Grout, Palisca 224) well before Purcell and was best known for secular vocal and instrumental music. William Byrd was famous as a religious composer, writing for many church services including both Anglican and Catholic. England’s most prolific composer, William Byrd, was “the first English composer to absorb Continental imitative techniques.” (Burkholder, Grout, Palisca…

The Baroque Harpsichord During the Baroque-era, the harpsichord was an extremely popular instrument. It was heard in many musical pieces throughout the 1600’s. Harpsichord is defined as “a keyboard instrument that produces sound by depressing a key that drives a lever upward and forces a pick to pluck the string” (Wright 462). Harpsichords all work the same way, no matter the size. With each string connecting to a key, a piece of material is placed in a small and thin piece of wood called a…

Alban Berg born in 1885 through 1935 was one of the composers of the Second Viennese School founded by Arnold Schoenberg. The most Romantic of these tokened European modern composers like Berg, he successfully combined late Romanticism elements with adaptations of Schoenberg’s twelve tone techniques. Berg wrote his most famous and widely performed instrumental work, the Violin Concerto, in 1935 and it’s premiere was held shortly after his death in 1936 by renowned violinist Louis Krasner. His…

In one of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s quotes, he said that “instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.” As my teacher and supporter, Dr. Droz, you guided me by providing me with your important feedback, and encouraged and motivated me to become a better writer and researcher. I am not saying that before I was not writing essays or I didn’t do as good. But, before I was writing all the assignments and essays to get good grades, which was my only goal. After taking your class,…

The nineteenth century Romantic Movement was viewed as a challenge to the Rationalism Movement of the Enlightenment period. Throughout the nineteenth century, Romanticism is seen through the ideas of philosophers, through artists and their works, and through poems and novels of the era. The characteristics of Romanticism include a power of nature and the supernatural world, the emphasis on emotion and intuition, the embracing of the value of the individual, as well as the rejection of the…

Whether it be chanting for a sacred ritual or eloquent discourse for business relation and even informal chat between two friends, the power of language is indisputable by all cultures in the world. The novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse aimed to change this classic view on the power of words and assert that, although language is invaluable for worldly affairs, when dealing with the forces of divinity and higher spiritual enlightenment, words lead to distortion of concepts. An overwhelming theme…

William Wordsworth is considered as the real pioneer of romanticism all over the world so he published a lot of romantic poems which reflect the beauty of nature to all readers. He had established effective relation with Samuel Coleridge for emphasizing the romantic context of poetry in the 19th century. They both revolted against the norms of classical movement which dominated Europe until the end of the 18th century. Romantic poets adopted a new approach of poetry writing as they avoided the…

Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century to the mid 19th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement.Romantics abondoned many dominant attitudes and prinicples of previous age.Romanticism was a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality, physicl materialism and Classicism of 18th century.Romanticism focused on personal emotions, the individual, the subjective, irrational, the imaginative.Their deep love,…

The key ideas of British romanticism and how Frost’s poetry is similar or different from that. The romantic age of England ranged between 1780 and 1830. The Age of Romanticism or the very ideology of romanticism was a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment emphasizing upon the significance of reason and logical faculty of human mind. Romanticism primarily emotion and imagination which play an instrumental role in creation of art and poetry. Romantic poetries were essentially subjective as…