Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

down the street smiling and greeting everyone as I pass. This groups performance was by far my favorite from the entire convocation. There’s not much I would change about their performance other than maybe a little more piano, but for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed what they presented. Honestly, I probably will not be attending another jazz convocation is I don’t have to, because it really is not my cup of tea and quite frankly bores me. However, I have developed a greater appreciation…

Mozart’s “Turkish March” and its later adaptations This essay explores various functions of W.A. Mozart’s Piano Sonata No.11, third movement: Rondo Alla Turca. It is widely known as the “Turkish March” because it mimics the sound of Turkish Janissary bands. This song has remained its high popularity in the world by various adaptations. In the following discussion, I will explore its primary function as an education tool, and respective secondary functions in contemporary societies as a…

Music And Shakespeare Music in the plays of William Shakespeare includes both music incidental to the plot as song and dance, and also additional supplied both by Shakespeare’s subsequent performers. There are hundreds of references to music in the works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s music can be placed into three general categories. 1.Incidental music: The individual titles of incidental music in Shakespeare’s works are never named but the directions “music here”, “music…

An opera house is the place for performing arts such like opera, stage show, symphony, choral concert, singer concert and a place for the artist to perform or display their arts as a world tour around the world. There are hundreds of opera houses around the world include the Malaysia’s opera house as known as Palace of Culture, also known as Istana Budaya that located next to the National Art Gallery on Jalan Tun Razak in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. The first and the greatest public opera house…

The Romantic period began around the 1800’s and lasted only until around the 1850’s but with it came two fantastic God-fearing musicians. Johannes Brahms was one of those musicians and his music was truly emotional. Johannes was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833 and was first introduced to music by his father. Dedicated to both music and his son, Brahms’ father, who played double bass in a civic orchestra,had Brahms taught by Friedrich Cossel and Eduard Marxan, whom kindly taught him without pay…

“A real musical culture should not be a museum culture based on music of past ages... It should be the active embodiment in sound of the life of a community- of the everyday demands of people’s work and play and of their deepest spiritual needs.” (Wilfred Mellers, pg. 54). Music is always changing and adapting based on how people feel and what people like. Some people prefer to listen to choral works, while others are more interesting in instrumental music. Throughout history we have been able…

Handel's operas were still played and modernized by his successors. His music was studied by later famous musicians like Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Beethoven stated this about Handel " He is the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb." Handel's music left an immense impact on his successors. Handel left us with his last and most famous piece the Messiah, it was written for Charles Jennings. Jennings expressed in a letter to Handel that he wanted…

compounds and neurological travel of Dopamine, but I know my strongest reaction to it. All of my life I have felt the most happy when I have been surrounded by music. I’m not by any means an expert on music or even remotely gifted in it, but music has consistently been the most important part of my life. The earliest memories I have are centered around the soundtrack behind them. I was always dancing around in my room, singing off key. Two of my personal favorites to listen to as a young girl…

She has earned eighteen Grammy awards! In 2009 she sang ‘My Country ‘Tis of Thee’ at Barack Obama’s inaugural address. Singing this was a big deal for her and her patriotism. Aretha Franklin was the first to many things. Franklin was the first women to be put in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Aretha…

Bach’s three sets of six suites for keyboard, titled Partitas, French Suites, and English Suites have caused specialists to fruitlessly comb each set for some sense of distinct national characteristics. It was the publishers, however, not Bach, who provided the titles and Bach’s original manuscripts are lost. The English Suites, or Suites pour les Anglois, for example, were published with this name after Bach’s death. The basic style of Baroque suites, including Bach’s instrumental suites, was…