Vocal music

years old. In 1830, Chopin left Warsaw due to the Polish November Uprising which inspired him to compose music with nationalistic elements. The following year, he traveled to Paris, which became his home for the rest of his life and met fellow contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. This meeting gave him a chance to showcase his talents and he went on to become a highly paid music instructor. Despite being a renowned pianist, Chopin preferred to perform with an intimate group…

psychological complexity of the blues. Smith’s angry, harsh notes smoothed out and, therefore, showed a pained mental state. This combination of coarse and fluid notes inspired Joplin to communicate deep feelings through sound. Listening to Smith’s music also convinced Joplin to over-use Ebonics…

Gustav Holst, born in Cheltenham in September 1847, is still today considered to be one of the greatest music composers of all time.He didn’t start out as the great composer that we know and love. His path to success wasn’t the smoothest. Holst was born to Adolph von Holst and Clara Cox Lediard. His father was a professional pianist who practiced many hours a day leaving very few to his wife Clara and their children. Clara was a student of Adolph when they first met. She was also a talented…

in Cleveland, Ohio, music surrounded Diane Dixon from a young age. Whether she was listening to her mother sing in a jazz big band or her older brother practicing for his gigs opening for the Doors or the Who, no instrument or musical experience was off limits. She met Jim Morrison backstage at age eleven, but her life-changing moment happened when her brother took her to see the Beatles. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Dixon says. “It was incredible to see what music can do to people.…

of Music and Arts in Ithaca. Sarah Linfors is the conductor and music educator for that group. Sarah also has a rehearsal accompanist and two student interns, Sarah and Daniel Block. The choir is made up of students 9-13 years old. The room where rehearsals are held is a big open room that looks like an old church space. Chairs were set up for students in straight rows and a name tag was placed on each seat. The piano was positioned to the side of the teacher and the choir. There was a…

R & B/Hip-Hop music has undergone a radical transformation over the last twenty-six years. The new millenniums of young artist have changed the way we listen and view music. In the early 1990’s R & B/Hip-Hop music or other music genre had a different composition, demographic prospective and conveyed different emotions compared to today. Music in the 90’s era was less instrumentally inclined compared to this new era of music (article). Music today is more about image, fashion, promoting sex and…

seventies’ eighties’, and nineties’. During the time my parents were in college and dating, they went to Air Supply, Bee Gees and ABBA concerts together. I remember that the first music I ever heard was my mother’s collection of vinyl records and cd’s. I grew up listening to Robert Plant, Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury’s God-like vocals, Led Zeppelin’s head-scratching lyrics, David Bowie’s many stage personas, and Angus Young’s stage performances wearing his schoolboy uniform and doing his famous…

EARLY VERDI In his early works, Verdi was known for using canons and fuges and also to have written vocal music, band music and chamber works. In his early opera he uses standard elements of Italian opera content of the period. Amongst the essential elements are the aria, the duet, the ensemble, and the finale sequence of an act. The aria format, involved three sections, a slow introduction, marked typically cantabile or adagio, known as the cavatina, a tempo di mezzo that might involve chorus…

Have you ever wondered what led to Adele being a huge success? Well, based on Adele’s childhood stories you would think that she would be the last person to be famous. Adele has accomplished incredible things that many people wish to do someday. From her humble beginnings as a child with no musical background to winning 15 grammys and most recently being asked to perform at the Grammy’s, Adele is truly one of the most impressive and accomplished singer there is today. Adele’s full name is…

piece being of the Baroque style are that it has a single melodic idea and that the dynamic shifts drastically from loud to soft quite often, which are both staples in Baroque style music. The piece was written for 2 trumpets, 2 oboes, 2 violins, along with a single timpani and viola. This piece also included the SATB vocal ranges in their choir and solo accompaniments. This piece is popular even today, I knew of it before this class simply from Church services and in other popular events. I…