...Sketch of Ludwig van Beethoven Introduction Ludwig van Beethoven (December 1770- March 1827) was a pianist and composer- arguably the greatest and most influential composer of all time. He made his mark in history with the crucial role that he played in the transition of classical eras in art music. He had a full and varied music career and wasn’t afraid to move his numerous compositions from the tried and tested musical styles. In terms or the world’s greatest, Beethoven only comes second to the likes of Mozart or Bach. Beethoven is best known for his compositions, which include 32 piano sonatas, 5 concertos for piano, 16 string quartets and 9 symphonies (Anderson 1044). He is also known for the composition of other music, choral works and songs. Early Childhood Beethoven was born on the 16th of December, 1770 in Bonn and baptized the following day (Dalhaus & Whittall 6). His father was originally from Brabant, Belgium, but had moved to Bonn where he served as a musician at the local court. Despite his weakness for alcohol, Beethoven’s father was quite influential in shaping the music career of Beethoven as it was through him that young Beethoven was exposed to music. From an early age, Beethoven was taught music by Christiano Gottlob Neefe, a famous opera composer and conductor, and Johann van Beethoven who was his father. Johann envisioned creating a new kind of Mozart in his son and would train him every evening on returning from the court. As a teenager, Beethoven earned...
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...Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16th, 1770 - March 26th,1827) BIOGRAPHY Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. He was the oldest of two brothers. His childhood consisted of endless piano practice forced upon him by his alcoholic father. If Ludwig made a mistake, his father would punish him. In 1782, Beethoven published his first work, 9 Variations in C minor for the piano on a march by Earnst Christoph Dressler. By the age of 12, he was providing for his family by playing the organ and composing music. In Bonn, he studied with Christian Gottlob Neefe. Neefe once wrote about Beethoven in the Magazine of Music saying, “If he continues like this, he will be, without a doubt, the new Mozart.” For a while he also studied with composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In 1792, Vienna became his permanent residency where he studied with Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. In the early 1800’s, Beethoven’s hearing started to decline. 1814 was his faming peak. Two of his most famous works were: Wellington’s Victory op. 91 in 1813 (otherwise known as the Battle Symphony) and The Glorious Moment op. 136 in 1814. His works done between 1818 through 1826 included: the Sonara in B-flat major op. 106 in 1818, the Missa Solemnis in D-major op. 123 in 1823, the Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli in Cmajor op.120 in 1823, the Symphony No. 9 in D-minor op. 125 in 1824, and his last string quartets. Throughout his life he wrote: one opera, five piano concertos, nine symphonies...
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...Classical Period (1750-1825) Listening Bridge Both of these excerpts are from CONCERTOS. Listen and compare, using the following questions as guides: • What is the solo instrument in each piece? • How would you describe the orchestra that accompanies the soloist in each example? • In which piece does the orchestra and soloist play the same “theme”? • In which piece does the accompaniment part include many repeated tones? • In which piece are there more sudden and extreme changes in dynamics? • Which one has a basso continuo? • Which one features a more “singable” melody? • What purpose do you think each piece was intended to serve? |[pic]Four Seasons: Winter |[pic]Piano Concerto No. 21 C major | |[pic] |[pic] | |Antonio Vivaldi |Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | | | | |Born: 1678 |Born: 1756 | |Died: 1741 |Died: 1791 | |Period: Baroque |Period:...
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...The classical era in music was all about change. It begins around the year 1735 and finishes around the year 1825. The classical era has to do a lot with emotions, like the most common one used love or romance. It also has to do with the contemporary music at that time of history. Three famous composers that made a huge impact in the classical era are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Four famous instrumental genres that were well known through the whole entire classical era were symphony, string quartet, sonata, and concerto. To begin, one famous instrumental genre of the classical era was the symphony. It is a form of musical work in orchestra. It has a lot of movements and many sections that make...
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...There are many popular composers whose music has made a great impact on the way that music is created, performed, and listened to all around the world. Each composer has their own unique methods that they used to create their pieces. The composer and musical piece that I will analyze is "Symphony No. 3 Eroica" by Ludwig van Beethoven. This piece of work focuses on various themes and elements that help portray it into a symphony. To further explain his musical piece, it is important to do an in-depth search on the piece's background, characteristics, and key elements. Beethoven was a very talented, dedicated, and hardworking German composer. "Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a period of musical history as no one else before or since" (Knapp & Budden). Beethoven wrote "Symphony No. 3 Eroica" at an emotional and hard time in his life when he was in the early stages of going deaf. Writing musical pieces like this symphony are...
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...Phoenix Material Music Appreciation Chart For each time period, fill in the required information. Please see your instructor’s syllabus for the weekly schedule of completing this chart. | |BAROQUE PERIOD |CLASSICAL PERIOD |ROMANTIC PERIOD |EARLY TWENTIETH- CENTURY | | | | | |PERIOD | |LIST 3 COMPOSERS |JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH |Ludwig van Beethoven |Vincenzo Bellini |Samuel Barber | | | | | | | | |George Philipp Telemann |Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin|Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy |Luciano Berio | | | | | | | | |George Frideric Handel |Christoph Willibald Gluck |Eliza Flower |Benjamin Britten | |For each Composer, list 3 |Johann Sebastian Bach- Wie |Ludwig van Beethoven- |Vincenzo Bellini- |Samuel Barber- Dover | |compositions |schön leuchtet der |Symphony No. 2, op. 36 (D |Adelson e Salvini, Bianca |Beach, Summer Music, and | | ...
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...Ludwig van Beethoven was born in December 1770 to a musical family living in Bonn, Germany. Although he and his family celebrated his birthday on 16 December, there is no evidence to suggest that this was his exact date of birth, with only the registry of his baptism on the 17th serving as the commonly accepted birth date of this legendary composer. As a child, Beethoven was musically trained by his father and later by other local musicians. His talent was evident from a young age and, exploited by his father as a child prodigy, he made his first public performance at the age of 7 (he was advertised as being 6) in March 1778. Soon after, Ludwig went on to work as the Court’s Organist where his talents were recognised and encouraged. In March...
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...era was the time when artists revolted against the classical values of balance, control, order, and proportionality promoted by neoclassical artists (Sayre 878). This revolt against the formalism of the Classical age produced a flood of emotional lyric, music, art, and poetry that peaked in works such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770-1827) The Ninth Symphony (1824). The romantic characteristic of emotions, individualism, and imagination can be found in The Ninth. Francisco de Goya’s (1746-1828) Saturn Devouring One of his Children (1820-1823) posses the horrifically natural or true to life, as well as the emotional characteristics he so genially portrayed. On the softer side of the romantic scale, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s (1792-1822) Indian Girl’s Song (1819) beautifully portrayed the natural and emotional characteristics of Romanticism. There are also references to the supernatural, as well as the exotic, in this work, which most certainly leaves his readers yearning for more. Artists approached the world with an outpouring of feeling and emotional passion that came to be called Romanticism. The key characteristics of Romanticism are emotion, the exotic, nature, imagination, individualism, and the supernatural. Romanticism was an overt reaction against the Enlightenment, which was a cultural movement of intellectuals whose purpose was to reform society using reason and classical culture of the eighteenth century. Music and literature were the heart of the Romantic era....
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...Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) The culmination of the Viennese Classical Style—and/or first great Romantic? The first completely freelance composer: Beethoven never held a position as a composer in residency, as had Haydn and Mozart For his success at combining tradition and personal expression he was the dominant musical figure of the 19th century, and scarcely any composer since his time has escaped his influence Beethoven’s greatness is mainly thought of in terms of instrumental composition (though in his last symphony he would try to synthesize the symphonic and vocal realms) Beethoven’s audience heard “Liberation” in his music—a successful revolutionary He chose to compose music that would express his individual ‘genius Beethoven expanded all the stylistic categories and models that he inherited Beethoven’s life was seen as a tragic and—in the age of Napoleon—as a heroic struggle He was of the generation coming of age at the time of the French Revolution (1789–1815) The revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, fired Beethoven’s inspiration Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon embodied the “career of talents” (meritocracy) The “heroic Beethoven” takes shape: For two years I have ceased to attend any social functions . . because I find it impossible to say to people ‘I am deaf’ - - (and yet) I will seize Fate by the throat - it shall certainly not crush me completely The Heiligenstadt Testament The Eroica (Ital.,...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay: Classical and Rap Music Kristin Conway COM/155 - UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I March 15, 2014 Instructor: Kathleen Case In contrary to common thought, classical and rap music have as many similarities as they do differences. The sound may be completely different, but there is a way to show emotion that will affect the listeners. For example, they both have ways to bring emotion and feeling into both performance and their audience’s effectiveness. Classical has an effect on the listeners that makes them cry, laugh and be happy. Rap music has an effect on a person that makes them get up and dance to the beat of the song. Classical and rap music are different in many ways but are also the same, especially in musical influences, musical evolution, and the musician’s techniques. Classical music is the first type of music performed. Classical music started in the year 1150, with the development of Medieval music, where according to Naxos.com, where 1“The earliest written secular music dates from the 12th century troubadours (in the form of virelais, estampies, ballades, etc.), but most notated manuscripts emanate from places of learning usually connected with the church, and therefore inevitably have a religious basis. Gregorian chant and plainsong developed during the 11th and 13th centuries into organum (example: two or three lines moving simultaneously but independently, almost inadvertently representing the beginnings...
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...Sanders Music Appreciation Final Exam My comparison will go between two periods that was classic vs. romantic classical music composers were satisfied to stay and work within a definite boundary of what made up the acceptable music. In this era the chord resolutions were at all times the identical, and furthermore the connection between keys, sections, and movements, maintained proportion. On the other hand the Romantic composers extended these boundaries or rather limitations, and in place they brought in new chords, atypical key changes and in numerous ways went in opposition to the way they were made in the classical period Romantic period dealt with more emotions. Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor which is my favorite piece from the classical period and Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody which consisted of great story telling through the music. Exoticism influenced by some ethnic groups music groups from the late 19th-century. This means when different ethnic cultures start to make a dramatic influence on the primary music at this time which led to a major change in music. Nationalism is the fact that various types of political evolution were achieved in each country that in turn affected musical nationalism refers to the various national schools that consciously tried to separate themselves from the standards set in the Classical period. Trying to remove themselves from the boundaries of which classical music set transcending music itself by breaking...
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...Social Inspiration; Ludwig V. Beethoven LEAST WE FORGET Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770 and died in 1827 at the age of 56, the funeral rites took place at the church of the Holy Trinity. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 people attended… When I think of this I can’t begin to imagine that type of influence, and type of appreciation he had. In a time where there was no radio stations or Televisions, and telephones where still a couple decades away, 10,000 to 30,000 people attended one man’s funeral on paper news and word of mouth. Beethoven was no regular man, but yet a man born with talent. Beethoven who was brother of seven whom only three brothers survived making Beethoven the eldest; began learning music at a young age from his father, musician at the Court of Bonn. He Showed talent right away, and on March 26th 1778, at the age of 7 in a half, Beethoven gave his first know public performance, at Cologne. His talents surpassed his father’s ability at a young age and needed more talented teachers. He later began to learn under several renowned Instructors but things didn’t really pick up until he fell under the teachings of Gottlob Neefe. The reason that Neefe’s ability to coach Beethoven were so notable is because Neefe knew people and would began to bring the piercing stature of the young man to public interface. So began the attention of philosophers, ancient and modern, known to Beethoven. In 1782, before...
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...types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) The three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era are adaption, arrangement, and original music. Adaption follows the strategy of borrowing pieces of existing music. The pieces do maintain majority of their original structure, but may be tweaked to the fit the film better. “Symphony No. 6”, by Ludwig Van Beethoven, is a great illustration of this in Birth of a Nation. The second type of music, arrangement, also follows the strategy of borrowed pieces, however it only uses the melody of the track. The melody is then altered with new accompaniments and arrangements. The Birth of a Nation shows this idea through “Maryland, My Maryland”, which utilizes the same melody as “O Christmas Tree”. Finally, original music was used, consisting of pieces written specifically for the film. Carl Breil, the score composer for Birth of a Nation, demonstrates this type of music through many leitmotifs paired with certain characters throughout the movie. For example, Elsie’s joyous and naïve tune. With adaptation you borrow substantial portions of existing music, usually classical, for use in film score. The music should remain largely in tack, although it can be altered or adapted to fit the film. Some examples of adaption can be heard in The Birth of a Nation, one is the use symphony No.6 by Ludwig van Beethoven and another...
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...The World without Music From as far back as scholars can trace, music has always been an essential part of the human culture all over the globe. Music can be used to convey feelings, promote religious agendas, and entertain. It can be expressed through chanting, singing, dancing, and most importantly, playing instruments. One instrument, the violin, has been a major part of musical compositions for many centuries. The violins importance with music can be analyzed by focusing on its history, its sound and effects, the style of music that made it popular, and how it is being incorporated in music today. First, to understand the violin, one must know what it is exactly. The violin, also referred to as the fiddle, is a four-stringed instrument that can produce different tones depending on which string is played, A, E, D, or G. It belongs to a family of stringed instruments, which includes the cello and viola. The violin is the smallest instrument in the strings family. Kerman and Tomlinson, authors of the music book Listen, point out: Stringed instruments produce their sound by means of taut strings attached to the sound box, a hollow box containing a body of air that resonates (that is, vibrates along with the strings) to amplify the string sound. The strings themselves can be played with a bow, as with the violin and other orchestral strings; the bow is strung tightly with horsehair, which is coated with a substance called rosin so that the bow grips the strings...
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...I chose to respond to Symphony No. 5, I (opening) because this is one of my favorite pieces. When I was little my mother would play this song almost every single day. It is one of the most popular pieces by him and in the classical genre. Although Beethoven’s symphony No. 5 is classified as a classical piece it really pushes the borders on the genre of classical music. Symphony No. 5 was composed by the German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven between the years 1804-1808. The first performance of symphony no 5 was in 1808 at Theater an der Wien in Vienna Austria. A lot of people who know of classical music can tell this piece from any other music because the Symphony No. 5 has a very distinctive four-notes opening, which is short-short-short-long...
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