New Age music

Romanticism was a period that started in the early 19th century, primarily in England and Germany. At first Romanticism influenced the literature world, but by 1820s musicians started to adopt the style in their music as well. Hector Berlioz was a French composer during the Early Romantics period in the 1830s. He is most famously known for his piece “Symphony Fantastique” 5th Movement composed in 1830, where he tells about his own personal love for an Irish Actress, Harriet Smithson. Hector…

Otto Luening was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Otto spent most of his early childhood on a farm outside of Milwaukee. He started to take piano lessons at the age of four with his father and just two years later at the age of six he began to compose his very own music. When Otto was around 12 years old, he and his family moved to Munich, Germany. Here he studied about orchestration, harmony, flute, and piano at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik. Four years later when Otto was 16, he made his…

Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I plan to discuss two things, the history and timeline of the piano and the remarkable people who influenced the piano we have today.…

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 were Elvis and the Beatles. Elvis was the first notion of a “heart-throb” I had, and at age five was quite the dedicated…

is the story of how music impacts people in nursing homes with Dementia. The journey of Dan Cohen, as he tries to bring the joy of music to as many people as he can, is recorded by the talented Michael Rossato-Bennett, who travels with him since the first day they met. Dan goes to different Nursing Homes to try and help elders remember who they once were and become one with themselves again. Patients with severe Dementia are featured and you can see the change brought by music immediately,…

skills or training prior to relaying the pentatonic scale back to Bobby McFerrin. The significance of the pentatonic scale is that it is easily recognizable to any person. People are able to reproduce it without having a lot of musical training. As a new vocalist, the pentatonic scale is something that I can replicate with practice. There is not a specific gender or nationality that is required to be able to reproduce the pentatonic…

co-director, Jennifer Lee, has indeed been innovative in her use of camera techniques, special effects, music, lighting, etc. Jennifer Lee use a mixed of 3D and 2D camera effects to bring the film the way it is. The studio also developed several new tools to generate realistic and believable shots, particularly the heavy and deep snows and its interactions with the characters. The need to create new tools take a serious action of creativity and dedication. The use of special effects such as the…

June 11, 1864. He was the first child of the musician Franz joseph and his wife Josepha. At the age of six years old he was composing his own first piece of music. At the age of eighteen he had composed a 140 works of his own. Upon recommendation of his own Mentor at the time, the renowned Wagner Conductor Hans von Bulow, Richard Strauss became the most Music director in in the Meninges at the young age of 21. One year later in 1886, the musician moved on to become the third Musical Director…

and Mexico called la frontera, “the borderland”. It is referred to as Tejano music. Veda Boyd Jones, author of Selena, describes “the music borrowed the accordion sound from Central European immigrants, mixed the band sound with a driving beat. Tejano music often reflects many different cultures- just like the people who live in the Rio Grande. It is a mixture if polka, Mexican, Latin, popular, country, rap and blues music. Tejano is often described as bouncy and upbeat. In fact, Tejano…

Nannerl for short. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Very early on in life, Mozart showed remarkable talent in the musical field. At three Wolfgang Mozart was able to pick out chords on the harpsichord, at four he could play short pieces, and by the age of five he was composing. Just before he was six, his father took him and Nannerl,…