Oratorio

Hans Christian Andersen, an author and pianist, said, “Where words fail, music speaks.” ("Hans Christian Andersen Quotes" 2006). Through research, it is apparent that this quote is a reflection of each composer’s personality. Piano composers have changed dramatically through the ages. Each composer has their own style of music which varies with the time period. Composers from different musical eras show how musical compositions have changed throughout the years. George Frideric Handel, composer…

1756 and died in 1791. By the time he hit age 6 he could do almost everything including: playing the harpsichord/violin, improvise figures, write minuets, and read music perfectly. By the age of 8, he wrote a symphony. At the age 11, he wrote an oratorio; at 12, he did his first opera (Kamien, 210). Mozart quickly established himself as the finest keyboard player in Vienna, and steadily built his reputation as a composer. After encountering many obstacles to finding another operatic…

Under the Shadow is a piano vocal score composed by Robert Denham. It is comprised of five vignettes and replies, a prologue, and an epilogue. Because it is considered a sacred piece, it often expresses themes pertaining religion. Additionally, the oratorio has themes about the conflict between light and dark. It uses these themes by describing a destructive event in history and in the Reply states a “hopeful truth” from the Bible or religious figure. Moreover, the composer utilizes many…

Today, music is a very big part of everyone’s lives. Wherever one looks, they can perceive people with head phones in or in cars having the radios turned on. This demonstrates the significant role music plays in people’s everyday lives. However, without the help of history music has there will not have been any progress. The Baroque period was apparent of the music revolution that played a vital role in shaping the music we are listening to today. Baroque period took place in the 1600 to 1750s.…

A Given Gift The only person who can stop you is yourself. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel are two composers of the Baroque Period who have made contributions to classical music, whether it is secular or Christian. Bach and Handel have similar influences, different contribution, and communal affects. Although the lives of Bach and Handel are quite different, they are like two lost twin brothers. In 1685 Europe is blessed with the birth of both Bach and Handel. Germany is their…

characters of Russian traditional folksong. Taruskin further mentions that the seemingly unstable interplay of relative major and minor keys reflecting what ethnomusicologists call the ‘mutable mode’ (peremennïy lad) of genuine Russian folklore. In the oratorio, only song no. 2 shows this trait as shown in fig.…

associated to the catholic reformation. Additionally, it became a big thing all over France in the seventeenth century. Across all over Europe, baroque help changed the idea of vocal music and gave it a new color and new form. Such as opera and oratorio, and the rising of only instrumental music. There were three phases in the baroque that are extremely important to know. The first one phase is the Italian baroque, which was link…

~ From the perspective of a Lutheran Baroque Composer in 1680 Dearest Friend, How curious is it, looking dimensionally, how retroactive we are as musicians. It seems as though the other forms of expression such as art, literature, philosophy, and architecture seem to predate all our efforts in the fine arts. I am thinking directly to the days of Martin Luther, that initial step into protestant reformation. Thus came from the manifested power of the Catholic Church the words of the Disputation…

works. Early in his life, Ted Hearne moved to New York in 2000 and has attended the Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music. Hearne's oratorio “Katrina Ballads”, an hour-long piece about the media’s response to Hurricane Katrina received widespread acclaim after it was premiered at Charleston's Spoleto Festival in 2007. Ted Hearne oratorio “The Source”, about Chelsea Manning, sets text from leaked military documents and was premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The Los Angeles…

Gestapo took this to decorate Adolf Hitler’s residence. It was last seen in 1945 by Nazi officer Hans Frank when it was carried to the Royal Wavell Castle. (5) Caravaggio’s “The Birth of Jesus.” Missing: 1969. It was hanging in the San Lorenzo oratorio in Palermo, Sicily and suddenly disappeared. The local mafia was the top suspects, but the remains are still…