...How did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart change music? That is what this research paper will be about. To me, Mozart’s music is at level of perfection that is unreached by any other composer. Unlike most composers where a composer would only excel in one aspect of music, Mozart excelled in all aspects of music. Mozart had melodic grace like Handel, harmonic complexity like Bach and intellectual developmental techniques as well as emotional content like Beethoven. Mozart also reigned supreme in all styles of music including: fugue, sonata, symphony, concerto, opera, choral music, cannon and cetera. Mozart could do anything. However from what I have learned, there is something deeper inside his music moving as a fundamental undertone throughout his music and ability. As I analyzed the works of the other great composers of this time like Bach, Beethoven and Handel, I noticed how these composers methodically and systematically wrote their music. For example, the sharp melodies and odd intervals in a Bach fugue suggest that his melodies are harmonically born. Bach wrote his music with a harmonic mindset and writes his melodies so that they fit his harmonies. In the opposite way, Handel wrote his music in a way that his harmonies are derived from his melodies. Beethoven had a very logical approach to his music. Starts off with a short theme and that forms the basis of the rest of the movement. So in saying all this, what I mean is their music was manageable. However, with Mozart...
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...CHAPTER III METHODS OF RESEARCH This chapter presents method and techniques to be used in the study, population and sample of the study, the research instruments, gathering of data, and data processing and statistical treatment. Method and Techniques of the Study This study utilizes the experimental method of research to determine the significant effect of classical music in the reading comprehension of first year college students of Sto. Rosario Palay College. The experimental method is the only method that can be used to establish cause-and-effect relationships. In this method, the subjects are split into two groups: experimental and controlled group. The experimental group will read a passage while listening to classical music (Mozart Sonata for two pianos in D-major, K.448). The controlled group will read without the intervention of classical music. Moreover, quantitative and qualitative data were gathered with the use of a survey test and a researcher-made comprehension test. Population and Sample of the Study This study will examine the first year college students from all courses in the College Department of Sto. Rosario Sapang Palay College, a Catholic school in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan. There were 30 participants and they will be divided into two groups (15 members in each group). The first group will read a selection while listening to classical music and the second group will also read...
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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Wolfgang amadeus mozart) "Mozart" redirects here. For other uses, see Mozart (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] [pic] Mozart c. 1780, detail from portrait byJohann Nepomuk della Croce [pic] [pic] Mozart's signature Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt], English see fn.), baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboardand violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons. Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and...
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...didn’t help produce a revolutionary outcome such as in France, Prussia and German states still experienced a fair share of intellectual development during this time. Since Germany was divided into a multitude of smaller states, with different languages and influences, The Enlightenment didn’t have a full blown effect. Moreover, the combination of popular discontent with the Church and a fury of dissatisfaction among the nobility and middle class such as in France wasn’t entirely present in Prussia. Nonetheless, Frederick II the Great, the King of Prussia, borrowed ideas from other parts of Europe in an attempt to modernize his country unaware of the changes already occurring within. During this time period intellectuals such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Friedrich Schiller were at the heart of the cultural and literary movement called Weimar Classicalism. Works by Herder and company helped to promote and legitimize a German language and culture that would one day...
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...The phrase ‘The Mozart Effect’, aptly named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, describes a phenomenon where children, under the age of three, listened to Mozart’s music and have improved brain function. According to Claudia Hammond, this phenomenon originated in 1991 when a study at the University of California Irvine showed that students who listened to Mozart and then attempted spatial puzzles completed those puzzles more successfully than students who did not listen to Mozart. A farmer in Italy claimed that when his “buffalos were played Mozart three times a day, they produced better milk” (Hammond) and some studies have found that simply listening to as well as practicing music “can increase IQ by as much as three points” (Hammond). Even...
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...Student’s name Professor’s name Course name Date Mozart Introduction According to Fisher (15), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a powerful Austrian composer whose success can precisely be dated from his childhood. The composer was born in Salzburg in 1756 and died in 1791 having written over 600 pieces of work of which many remain popular to date. Mozart could play clavichord at the age of three and began writing short compositions at the age of four. When he was 5, he gave his first public performance at Salzburg University. Between 1763 and 1766, Mozart, Nannerl, his sister who was talented in music, together with their father who was a musician as well toured Europe. They visited Paris, London among several other places where Mozart gave several successful concerts, even performing before royalty. This research paper examines the crucial role Mozart played during The Enlightenment. It further highlights the contribution made by the Austrian composer in the transition to romantic from the Enlightenment. Before and during the time of Mozart, composers served the royal courts or church as highly-skilled servants. In the same manner, he began his carrier by working for Salzburg’s Archbishop. Notably, his travels to France as well as England gave him an exposure to the ideals of equality and independence as well. This exposure prompted him to sever his loyalty to the master who employed him to offer services in a very rigid manner. He left for Vienna where he...
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...GRADE 9 Learning Module MUSIC (Qtr 1 to 4) Compilation by Ben: r_borres@yahoo.com MUSIC LEARNER’S MATERIAL GRADE 9 Unit 1 To the illustrator: Using the blank map of Europe, place pictures of ALL the composers featured in EACH UNIT around the map and put arrows pointing to the country where they come from. Maybe you can use better looking arrows and format the composer’s pictures in an oval shape. The writers would like to show where the composers come from. I am attaching a file of the blank map and please edit it with the corresponding name and fill it the needed area with different colors. Please follow the example below. (Check the pictures of the composers and their hometowns in all the units.) Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Music Page 1 MUSIC LEARNER’S MATERIAL GRADE 9 Unit 1 Time allotment: 8 hours LEARNING AREA STANDARD The learner demonstrates an understanding of basic concepts and processes in music and art through appreciation, analysis and performance for his/her self-development, celebration of his/her Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and expansion of his/her world vision. key - stage STANDARD The learner demonstrates understanding of salient features of music and art of the Philippines and the world, through appreciation, analysis, and performance, for self-development, the celebration of Filipino cultural identity and diversity, and the expansion of one’s world vision...
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...Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress | Table of Contents Music History from Primary Sources An Introductory Essay Alfred Mann A vellum leaf, 22 by 17 cm., from a prayer book. The letter forms of early Gothic script suggest the twelfth century, or a period even earlier. Neumes (marked in red) are placed above the first four lines of the Latin text. The entire page is richly illuminated in black, red, and blue, with a heavy gold layer decorating the initial A for the phrase beginning "Adoro te." The leaf was obtained for the Moldenhauer Archives from the music dealer and publishing firm Schneider, Tutzing. The Art of Musical Notation In its primary sources, music merges with the representational arts. Oral tradition has played a fundamental role in all ages, but in its formal sense, history--and the history of music--begins with the visual record. Musical notation, having emerged on a wide scale in all civilizations, produced in itself a highly individual record of artistic endeavor. The medieval monks who compiled the missals and other liturgical books for the service of worship rose from their function as scribes to artists in their own right; among the greatest documents of Baroque art are the holographs by Bach; and an entirely novel phase in artistic musical score design was initiated in the twentieth century. The primary sources of music reproduced in this volume rely on various aspects of the graphic arts, but foremost among them stands the representation...
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...Mozart’s Sonata No. 11 in A-Major K. 331 Sarah Pool Salzburg College Dr. Oliver Kraft 01.12.2012 Mozart’s Sonata No. 11 in A-Major K. 331 Mozart wrote his eleventh sonata around the year 1778 while he was on a trip in Paris. Although the exact date is uncertain, he wrote a set of 4 sonatas in Paris, K. 300-333. However, they were not published until he was in Vienna in 1781. His travels around Europe during the 1770s were not the happiest of times because he was in his twenties and could no longer be considered a child prodigy. He wanted to write instrumental and secular works, but his jobs wanted sacred music (AQA Advanced Level Notes). This particular sonata has a beautiful first movement of variations, a minuet and trio for the second movement, and the “Rondo Alla Turca” third movement written in the Turkish style. When analyzing the first movement of this A-Major sonata, it is important to note that it does not follow the normal sonata form. A typical sonata would have an allegro as the first movement. Instead, this one has a variations movement with the tempo marked Andante Grazioso. It starts at a leisurely tempo, slower than a normal sonata would, but each variation gradually speeds up by bringing in smaller note values along with some contrasting variations in between. The first movement has a French character in 6/8 meter (Kinderman p.50). The French character was used because he wrote it while he was in Paris, and the 6/8 meter creates a pastoral mood. The...
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...Music 115- Weekly Assignment As orchestras grew and more and better instruments came about the symphony emerged. The symphony bares many comparisons to the baroque concerto. A symphony is much more dynamic however; it does not contrast a soloist with a full orchestra creates an interaction and transformation of multiple themes. The string quartet later emerged in the classical era where it was different from symphonies in terms dynamic and timbre but was well suited for the big stages and powerful lights. A string quartet is a group of instruments specifically has two violins, a viola and a cello. In comparison a string quartet matches symphony in movements and tempo but lacks the timbre and dynamic punch of a symphony. Joseph Hayes was the pioneer for string quartets; he made them popular by writing 68 quartets in his life time. String quartets and symphonies began to follow a form just like how today’s music follow a form of chorus to verse. There form was exposition (problem), development and then recapitulation. In the exposition there are many different themes and contrasting tonalities. The next part of the form is sort of a struggle or instability of the tonality. This can be taught of as sort of a story and how a story starts off with a problem, the problem escalates then there is eventually a solution. Recapitulation is the themes of the exposition return. It is similar to the original. The symphony and string quartet both have their similarities and differences but...
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...BCIS 3680 Enterprise Programming Instructor: Dr. Andy Wu Assignment 5 Part 1. Building Database In this part of our development of Music Galore, we will build the database to which the web front‐ end will connect. Create a MySQL database named (for example, CaseJ for Justin Case) and create the following tables. Database Schema 1. An album table to contain album information: Field sku title genre label format Use SKU number of album Album title Genre of album Label (distributor) of album Media format of album (CD, CD+DVD, vinyl, etc.) Release date Price of album Data to Contain Integer, must have value, primary key String, up to 96 characters, must have value String, up to 50 characters String, up to 50 characters String, up to 24 characters rlsdate price Date value, in yyyy-mm-dd format Float 2. An artist table to contain information on singers, bands, producers, etc. Field aid name1 name2 amgid url Artist ID Last name or name of band First name (if band, leave it blank) All Music Guide (allmusic.com) ID URL of artist’s official website Use Data to Contain Integer, must have value, primary key, auto-numbered String, up to 72 characters, must have value String, up to 50 characters String, up to 10 characters Large text field. Input should be limited to 2083 1 characters 1 The length limitation should be enforced programmatically. In MySQL script, simply use text datatype. BCIS 3680 Enterprise Programming ...
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...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 some money by serving as an assistant to his teacher Neefe. Beethoven gave his first public performance at the young age of seven in Cologne. Three years later, at the age of 12, Beethoven published...
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...Defining the Humanities Defining the Humanities The humanities are past stories and events that help form our lives by looking back on how others lived and thought about life. The humanities are essential for understanding the past that is responsible for the creation of the present. The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative. This differs from academic disciplines which use an empirical approach in which evidence is gathered using the senses. The study of the human condition, the humanities cover areas such as art, music, architecture, philosophy, and literature. All other modes of human inquiry are about studying non-human subjects. If it does not encompass the human condition, it is not generally classified as humanities. Art Art has long been a means of expressing social or political ideas. Anselm Kiefer took art and brought it to an entirely new level by using his art to bring attention to national identity and collective memory. In the process his art began evolving to include occult symbolism, theology, and mysticism. All of his work shares a common theme of the trauma experienced by entire societies and the continual rebirth and renewal in life. Kiefer’s works are usually designed in a depressive and destructive style in large scale formats. He often uses photography in conjunction with earth and raw materials. Kiefer is known to include...
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...effect on performance, these expected results were not found. Findings from this study suggested that students who study while listening to popular music performed at the same level as those without music present in either condition. Results indicated that women excelled in recall when the testing condition did not have music present in comparison to men. Effects of popular music on memorization tasks The purpose of this study was to find whether popular music would have a positive or negative effect on memory tasks. There are many different perspectives on how background music and noise affects performance. The current body of research reports mixed results with some studies reporting positive effects and some reporting negative effects of music on performance. Numerous studies have been conducted to test the Mozart effect. The Mozart effect is a term used to explain the claim that people perform better on tasks when listening to music...
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...Immortal Beloved The Immortal Beloved is by far one of the most moving and inspirational movies I have seen. The reason I say this is because throughout the movie Ludwig van Beethoven’s music defines the mood of each and every scene. For example, in the very beginning of the movie where they were showing Beethoven’s funeral they were using a very slow tempo and dramatic sounds in order to show the gloomy and upsetting atmosphere that was surrounding this particular scene. I think just by using the emotions of the people and further expressing it with his music accentuates everything to make it all fall in together, without it; it would be just a plain scene with people talking no emotions or anything. Throughout the film, the director showed and expressed the struggles that Beethoven had to endure due to his deafness. When they are trying to show the struggle that Beethoven has to endure with his deafness I noticed that they started to play a little more faster, and then I believe Beethoven could see what they were playing and that made him enjoy the music that much more. In the part where Beethoven was secretly playing so that no one could see him play, he put his head down on the piano because I believe he was trying to feel the vibrations of the piano in order to feel his music. I think that by just showing how he could love the music even though he had no way of ever hearing it shows the superior capability and love he had for music. Beethoven’s music...
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