The Day the Music Died

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    was Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg Austria, and he died on December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria. As an Austrian composer he was well known as one of the best in the history of Western music. Along with very few composers, Mozart dabble and composed in every single genre of music and was successful in all of them. The way he created his music, his taste and original ideas make him one of the made him one of the most universal composers in…

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    Oranienbaum, Russia. Igor Stravinsky was a conductor, pianist, and film score composer. He was considered the most influential composer in the 20th century. Igor Stravinsky had no other professions other than music. His father was a Russian singer, so he was introduced to music very early in his life. His music began to fade away for a while when he began to study law and philosophy. He first made a name for himself by writing ballet scores for Diaghilev in Paris. Stravinsky first achieved his…

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    Billie Holiday

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    Life wouldn't be life without music today. If we didn't have music the world wouldn't go round and round like it does. Music is our way to escape life and be free from all our problems bills, family and relationships. There are many different type of music but right now I’m going to talk about R&B and jazz. Woman and men could sing jazz or R&B. with the top records at the top of the charts these singers were unbelievable. Billie Holiday and Kelly Rowland are very amazing singers and they manage…

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    “you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future’’. No matter what everything is connected from the music you listen to , too the day Hitler invaded poland. What you do now will change history. The deadliest war in human history with millions of casualties and even more civilians killed, all caused by one man, Adolf Hitler. Hitler got his hatred for the jews during WW1 on the western…

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    a police officer who died. Others think that his dad died when he was just born. His mother may have remarried to a guy named Ludwig Geyer he was an actor, painter, and poet. When he was young he did not seem to be interested in playing a musical instrument. At 11 years old he wrote his first drama. At age 16 he wrote musical compositions. In 1831 he attended Leipzig University. When he got older he married and actor and singer Minna Planner. When he did some of his music he intertwined…

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    Why Is Bach Important

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    Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Without Bach there would be no history of music as we know it. There would be no Mozart, No Beethoven, there would be no romantic fera as we know it. Every period of music has been informed to some except by the example of Bach. Bach died in 1750 he was more than an organist, more of a keyboard player than as composer. Yet till today the resident power of his work and the best achievements in history music. Bach was the youngest of 8 children in 1685 Eisencich,…

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    process of killing and ventilation of the gas chamber lasted several hours.The people who stood the closest to the shaft died almost instantly, and those who screamed and…

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    Panda Ants: A Short Story

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    around 70 years old when Ophelia was born. Panda ants have a hard time finding a mate and rarely ever do, of there own species anyways. Because of her mother's age, her mother died in child birth. The father was just a distance donor from another planet and was keep anonymous to anybody expect her mother. The hopes of a family died with her mother. Shortly after her birth, she was given to a over-crowded foster home. Elia tried her best to stick out from the crowd but in reality it just made…

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    ability to observe and ask the right questions to figure out why a person is behaving in a certain way or why something has occurred or will occur. My first experience with a sudden, unexpected death was when my cousin, Tommy LaHood, died. Tommy was 12 years old when he died as a result of a tragic accident. I was a year older than Tommy. He was the third child in a family of nine…

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    Bach Stay In Weimar Analysis

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    rhythms and harmonic schemes found in the music of the Italians. This is a direct influence to the progressive type of music that Beethoven is so well known for. Though his stay in Weimar was influential, it was also short lived. In 1717 he moved to secure a job at Cothen. After the move, it didn’t take long for Bach’s life to be changed forever. In 1720 Johann Sebastian Bach’s wife expectantly died, leaving him with four children, three others having died in infancy. It didn’t take long for…

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