Mozart effect

Coltrane thanks composers such as Beethoven and Mozart for his musical success. With that said, musicians today have been inspired by his music such as Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, and Mike Watt. Throughout this course we have discussed all periods of the musical timeline. I chose John Coltrane for this paper because I feel that he was a significant part of his era of music and the types of music and the composers we have studied have a large effect on him and Jazz music. I believe music is…

The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as "the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion" (Concise Oxford Dictionary 1992). However, the music genres known as Noise music and Musique concrète, for instance, challenge these ideas about what constitutes music's essential attributes by using sounds not widely considered as musical, like randomly produced electronic distortion, feedback, static, cacophony, and…

Like the thematic functions in symphony no.5, symphony no. 9 demonstrates the musical effects of thematic materials. Significantly, finale contains many quoted material from previous movements. Since the quoted materials are from the near movements, it has connection with previous movements also it tells us what is going to be next. It takes a crucial role to express the narrative message and musical effects. Similarly, Belioz fantastique also has highlighted features of recalling thematic…

found in British popular dance, jig rhythms, and marching songs in the sixteenth century. Ragtime composer Scott Joplin played his work just as it is on the music score and considered his music as the American classical music close to the pieces of Mozart or Chopin. Joplin’s classical ragtime is a reminiscent of Chopin’s song because it is beautiful not only structurally, but also melodically. For instance, Joplin’s Stoptime Rag has a rhythm of soft foot tapping, which makes audiences to move…

The Mass in D major, Opus 86, for chorus, soloists and organ —also known as “Lužany Mass”—was originally composed in 1887 for the consecration of the chapel in the stately home of the prominent architect and philanthropist Josef Hlávka in Lužany. Hlávka had built a chapel at his residence in the southwest Bohemian village of Lužany, and he wanted music by Dvořák for its consecration. Hlávka and Dvořák corresponded personally, and Dvořák was glad to seize upon this opportunity to write to…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (vs) Ludwig Van Beethoven During the classical time frame there were two amazing and talented composers, Mozart and Beethoven. These two men were well-known and extremely gifted. Although not both of them were born with these incredible abilities. There birth places were not the same nor was there child hood. How they operated as young men and into their late adulthood was quite the opposite. In comparison while both men were talented to no end, they were very different…

The Winter Concert was a marvelous showcase of music talent from the student body of St. John’s music society. There were in total twelve magnificent musical pieces and were all much appreciated by the people who were there. All the musical pieces were great, but the one that I enjoyed the most was the Claude Debussy which was presented by Kevin Won and Rex Chou who played the piano together. However, that does not take away from the other music works that were down. Furthermore, I felt all the…

Beethoven vs. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are two of the most greatest, well known composers of all time. They’ve created some very outstanding and magnificent pieces of music that have been listened to for centuries. Though these two artists were both very vital in music history, each having the same rare gift of amazing music ability, the way they composed were very unique when compared to each other. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in a small…

Donna Elvira is portrayed as the “Donna Abbandonata” (abandoned woman) throughout various literature. In particular, I will examine her character through Wolfgang A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni. Donna Elvira is a sensible and imprudent woman throughout her ordeal with Don Giovanni. She can’t decide whether she wants to kiss Giovanni or to kill him. Donna Elvira is unwavering in her goal throughout the opera. She is in love with Don Giovanni even while being completely aware of his…

It is dark and he is trying to open a can of Polish pickles he has found in the house. The can falls on the floor and a German Captain, standing at the bottom of the stairs, encounters him. The Captain asks several questions from which he learns that Szpilman is a pianist. He asks Szpilman to play something on the piano which is in a room nearby. This film presents many intertextual elements: The film is intertextual in itself as it is based on the book “The Pianist”. Films and…