Music appreciation

Free music allows us to access any form of music through many legal sources without having to purchase a single album or song. Because of this, highly-recognized and even unknown musicians have stopped selling their music and are instead releasing their content to these free sites. This is because no one wishes to spend so much money on something that is easily accessible and free on the internet. Although, it may also be because they think that they will have a likelier chance of being…

Kamien’s Music an Appreciation textbook, the author focuses directly on the Renaissance period, a period of exploring and adventure. The Renaissance Period, also known as “The Golden Age,” was a time of curiosity and individualism in society. The author teaches his readers about the significance of humanism and musicals that were played in churches, courts, and towns. Chapter three explains in depth how to comprehend and appreciate the importance of transition in sacred music, secular music, and…

African-American pianist and a composer who was born in between 1867/68 and died on the 1st of April 1917. Scot Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Texas. He was greatly helped by his teachers to develop and understand his knowledge of music in his early years. In his young age, the composer grew up in Texarkana where he was involved in the formation of a vocal quartet and also taught guitar and mandolin (Berlin, 1996). In the late 1880’s, Joplin voluntarily left his the…

Actual facts about Palestrina's early life are quite limited. It is widely believed that he first got interested in music in Rome in 1537. Which, he traveled to from his home in Palestrina to Rome. To be exact, his home town was just outside of Rome, which was then known as the Papal States. Palestrina's initial reason to go to Rome isn't known either, but scholars have made the assumption that his intention was to sell the family's produce and other products from their farm. While he was…

opportunity for music learning. During their preschool and primary ages, young children imply their positive attitude toward music, often experiencing with different sounds and tones. Frances Rauscher and her team of scientists conducted a study in which they observed the “dramatic enhancement in spatial and temporal tasks (up to 36 percent improvement)” in preschoolers when given piano training in “which they learned pitch intervals, fine motor coordination, fingering techniques, sight reading,…

Joey Peixoto Music Appreciation Listening Assignment Romantic: "Erlkönig" begins with the piano playing fast triplets to make a feeling of direness and reproduce the steed's running. The left hand of the piano part presents a low-enlist leitmotif made out of progressive triplets. The right hand plays triplets all through the piece until the last three bars. The steady triplets drive the incessant tweaks of the piece as it switches between the characters. This theme is specifically connected…

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 wrote madrigals; he has nine books in total that show the vast transformation from the Renaissance polyphonic style to the Baroque homophonic style of madrigals. Compositions from this time in his life are likely to be inspired by…

Listening to the selections I found they all generally appeal to me though others have more of an immediate preference than others. A genuine love for music creates an appreciation for all genres. One can respect or acknowledge the environment from which it was produced, its purpose, and the skill of the musician(s). I particularly became fond of The Andrew Sisters after experiencing the song “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. I recall hearing it from a television commercial vaguely, but it was a…

Taking this class has given me a new appreciation for jazz, especially the “Cool Jazz’ style, such as I heard during the concert, as I now have the ability to openly identify the distinct differences between genres of jazz. During this class was the first time I purposefully listened to any kind of jazz music and it made me realize that I will be continuing to listen to jazz, in some form, throughout the remainder of my life…

Franz Schubert was born on January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund near Vienna Austria. He was an Austrian composer. He himself wrote six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, operas, sacred music and a large body of chamber and piano music. His appreciation was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna. Schubert’s father, Franz Theodor Schubert, was a school teacher; his mother was what we call a modern day “stay at home mom.” Franz had three older brothers…