Motet

This year I have been selected to be a member of the Youth Bach Motet group sponsored by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Outside of school I currently have a job at Red Robin as a hostess and To-Go specialist. As a hostess, I am in charge of maintaining the cleanliness of the main entrance, seating and greeting guests,…

Palestrina left over 100 masses, near 70 offertories, 100+ madrigals and more than 300 motets. In addition, there are at least 72 hymns, 35 magnificats, 11 litanies, and four or five sets of lamentations(According to www.classical-music.com ). Palestrina's compositions are harmonized like no other. Palestrina established strict guidelines…

The Life And Works of Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a brilliant composer. He was born March 31, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany. His pieces of music are some of the most influential and important pieces in the history of music. If you mention the name Bach today most people they will know the name. He has changed the way music is performed and observed. Bach was a german composer and musician from the Baroque period. He made both instrumental and vocal music. Since the 19th-century…

The Baroque Period, which ranged from 1600 to 1750, was an innovative era for music. During this period, musicians began to compose motets and madrigals, which differed from the type of music typically used during the previous period, The Renaissance. This era of music showed that there were many talented artists that influenced the way music is played today. In fact, "A new style of solo singing was developed, recitative, that aimed to join features of music and speech. This led inevitably to…

Music have been a big entreatment all around the world. Instrument, lyrics and sounds have been for a lot of people there passion for many years. Music is very dynamic and always change all the time depends on the society and the people. Personally, I love music it gives vivid harmony to my life all the time. Musics is so amazing that have been used to communication for thousand of years. Renaissance era was one of the many era very well known in the history of music, was practice often on…

Sir Thomas More said of King Henry VIII, “[that] [i]f a loin knew his strength, it [would be] hard for any man to hold him”.[1] This quote suggests that King Henry VIII knew exactly what it meant to be king and that nobody was going to stand in his way. This proved to be true as King Henry VIII was the most contentious king in England’s history. He is most famous for his six wives, two of whom he beheaded, and his role as instigator of the English Reformation. Through his manipulation of…

Choral Performance Make-Up Project Composer-Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous composer and organist. He was born on March-21-1685. He was born in Eisenach Germany and died at age 65 on July-28-1750 in Leipzig Germany. Johann was a father of over twenty children. He had seven with his first wife but four out of the seven died. Johann also had 13 more children with his second wife Anna Magdalena unfortunately only six made it to adulthood the others died at…

his crowning achievement, the polyphonic (meaning containing multiple simultaneous melodies) Spem Alium, was made for 8 choirs, each consisting of 5 voices, for a total of 40 parts. Some other examples of his work include his Latin “Lamentation” motets and Masses.[Wikipedia] Thomas Tallis died peacefully in his home at Greenwich, in 1585. As his epitaph states: “As he did live, so also did he die, in mild and quiet sort (O happy man!); To God full oft for mercy did he cry, wherefore he…

Known as the “father of Italian opera,” Claudio Monteverdi found a way to bridge the gap between the renaissance and the baroque era. As a composer of the renaissance period, Monteverdi was most popular for his colorful madrigals and motets. Marc Antonio Ingegneri was his teacher growing up in Cremona, Italy. Monteverdi started working for the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua in 1591 as a composer and an instrumentalist. He was obligated by his profession to write sacred music but also…

The Advancement in Music What is sound? Sound as we all know is moving air. Essentially, as the eccentric human beings we are commencing the creation of music. Music is the rational organization of time, the more the vibration the higher the pitch, the less vibration the lower the pitch. More importantly, just like any other human aspiration the production of music, has evolved over time. Considering the five foremost musical eras within the time frame of about 1500 years have developed and…