Johann Sebastian Bach

ARABESQUE no. 1 Title & opus/catalogue no.: Arabesque No.1. Andantino con moto Composer background: Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Him, along with Maurice Ravel were the most outstanding people related to Impressionist music. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music is noted for its sensory and sonic content and the use of nontraditional tonalities. The French literary technique of his period was known as Symbolism. This…

Music. Entrancing both by it's various individual styles and the unavoidable combination of diverse kinds which thusly have made other totally new and novel styles of music. Traditional music is a flawless sample. The soonest types of traditional music were made in the eighteenth and mid nineteenth hundreds of years and showed an exceptionally confused and modern type of composing joining an extensive variety of instruments and utilized the guideline of multi instrumentation which accomplished a…

Steve Reich, a Minimalist composer and artist, has been composing music since he was about 14 years old (Morrison). Upon entering Cornell at 16 years of age, Reich studied philosophy- focusing specific attention to the compositions of Paul Wittgenstein (Morrison). Wittgenstein was involved in a serious accident, leaving him with just his left arm, and so created piano arrangements designed to be played with one hand (Oram). Returning to Reich, he developed the use of repeating patterns in his…

These versions of the piano often became famous for their specific sounds representing a region and the style of music preferred. One of these was the Viennese piano, from the region of southern Germany and Austria. Developed by Johann Andreas Stein, the Viennese piano is lighter, has double strung strings, and a hammer that is mounted on the far end of the key and centered on a metal spring clip. This design allows for the hammer to stroke the string when in contact giving the…

The Classical period, ranging from 1750 until 1825, “reflected general philosophical outlook that valued reason, balance, symmetry, and elegance. It also reflected the tastes of the wealthy ruling class that paid for it.” (Chiego 11) The classical period resulted in many great composers and compositions. Two of the most well-known composers of the Classical period are Mozart and Haydn. Both of these composers had a major influence on the periods of music that followed them. This paper will…

Seiji Ozawa is a Japanese conductor, known for his work with the San Francisco Symphony and Boston Symphony, and his advocacy for modern composers. At the age of 15, Ozawa sprained his finger in a rugby game, unable to continue studying the piano; he shifted his musical focus from piano performance to conducting. Over the course of his lifetime, Ozawa has received international acclaim and many awards from a number of institutions. Ozawa also holds a number of honorary doctorate degrees from…

Audrey Ulmer Honors Music Ms. Vicki Fox May 16, 2016 The Life and Music of Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, known as an adult as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was born January 27, 1756 to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. The last of their two children to survive infancy, he and his sister Maria Anna- also known as Nannerl- were noted to be musically skilled from a young age. Mozart had learned to play piano at the age of three and by the age of five he had begun to compose…

World War II was a devastating time for many people. Auschwitz is only one place that holds many stories of terror from many people. Auschwitz made people vulnerable and made it hard for people to overcome their terrors after the war. Three stories that explain the terror and the aftermath of Auschwitz are Elie Wiesel, Zuzana Ruzickova, and Maximilian Kolbe. It is evident that Hitler was the reason WWII had begun. Concentration camps were places to send people for forced labor and to expand…

Literally speaking, Margarete is a character from a play called Faust by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Margarete is a pious woman, and also the love interest of the main character of the play, Heinrich Faust. On the other hand, Shulamith literally refers to a princess from the “Song of Songs,” an erotic poem in the Hebrew Bible…

born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to “write” on it 34. Jan Vermeer Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675) 35. Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 in Eisenach – 28 July 1750 in Leipzig) was a German composer and organist. He lived in the last part of the Baroque period. 36. The Augustans ask 37. Chiaroscuro an effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light…