Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most creative and dynamic composer of his time. His intelligence was demonstrated in his masterpieces. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, during the modern-times of Salzburg, Austria. Mozart’s mother, Marie Anne Mozart, was the inspiration to the heart of Wolfgang Mozart’s music. “She married Leopold Mozart on November 21, 1747” (Boerne 1).
Johann Sebastian Bach is a renowned German composer from the Baroque Period. Bach’s compositions were inspired by not only his German heritage, but from his study of French and Italian music pieces. Bach composed over 1000 pieces (imslp.org) during his lifetime that include hundreds of cantatas, concertos, canons, overtures, motets, and sonatas. Bach’s compositions include instrumentals and vocal pieces that were produced during the height of the Baroque period. Bach masterfully combined his technical skills he learned in his childhood with the Italian and French influences to make masterpieces.
The songs usually performed by court minstrels most of them dealt with love. The Golden Ages was the best time of the Middle Ages because it was the time between the fall of the Imperial Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance. The Renaissance Period took place from 1450-1600. This period started in Italy and spreaded to the rest of Europe. Three composers from the renaissance were Josquin Desprez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd.
My music stretched and influenced various other genres such as blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical genres. My career spanned more than 50 years and included leading my orchestra, composing an “inexhaustible” songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. I am generally considered to have “elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music” due to my charisma and eloquence. I refer to my music as “American Music” rather than jazz. I melded the “beyond category” individuals of my orchestra into the most well-known jazz orchestral units in the history of jazz.
Bourrée Johann Sebastian Bach Bourree was written by J.S. Bach who was born on 21st March 1685 and died on 28 July 1750 which was when the Baroque period ended and the Classical period started. Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist who wrote pieces for orchestras, soloists and choirs. He is one of the most famous composers in history and wrote many famous pieces such as Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ and the Brandenburg Concertos. The piece Bourree is a movement from the Suite in E minor originally written for Lute which is one of seven suites.
John Coltrane – Who is he (Analysis) John Coltrane was born in September 23rd, 1926, in Hamlet, North Carolina and died in July 17th in Huntington, New York at the young age of 40. He was called a revolutionary saxophonist. He also helped pioneer the genre modal jazz along side the great, Miles Davis. Early in his career, he would play in two genres, which is bebop and hard bop. He grabbed hold of a saxophone at the age of 13 and shows great talent.
Today I will discuss with you the life of Luciano Pavarotti, his career as an operatic tenor, his many humanitarian efforts to help children and victims of tragedies, and his untimely death. III. Most of the information that I will be presenting to you, I have learned from reading Mr. Luciano Pavarotti’s biography titled, “My World”. I have also gathered valuable information from Luciano Pavarotti’s website, which can be accessed at Lucianopavarotti.com, and I have read news paper articles from artists and people who had the privilege of knowing him as a singer and as a person. For this speech I have used bits and pieces from other internet sources and e-books.
Later, the strings came in as an accompanying section along with the guitar playing chords. After the English horn finished the melodic solo, Mr. Williams played the melodic line, which is almost identical to that of the English horn. Mr. Williams’s solo was very melancholic, yet uplifting. Both the soloist and the orchestra were very sensitive to harmonic changes and drama during the movement. The cadenza was very impressive musically and technically.
Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi was born on May 15, 1567, in Cremona Italy, Monteverdi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and the Early Baroque, and is known as the first great composer of the operas. Monteverdi is often view as a composer of the Renaissance and of the Baroque, there is a similar pattern in that is continuous that is often viewed through his work in both styles. Monteverdi often was known as a dramatic composer, while bringing a tremendous meaning from the text he set that often turned each of his pieces into a believable musical and also produced a dramatic statement. It was an early age when Monteverdi’s career began, he then published his first pieces, and this was based on as a collection of three-voice motets, at the age of fifteen. It was by 1591, when he went to Mantua as a musician for the Gonzaga court, by then he had already published books of “spiritual madrigals” in 1583, then another canzonettas in 1584, by 1587 and 1590 he published his first two books of “madrigals.” It was in Mantua he continued writing madrigals, and then in 1607 he produced his first work in the new genre of opera, the setting was of Orfeo.
This was overcome by the construction of the recitative which is basically a single melodic line accompanied by various instruments. In 1594 the first opera was born from the collaboration of librettist Rinuccini and music by Jacopo Peri which was given the name of Dafne. The story of Dafne was steeped in ancient Greek mythology and the affairs of gods. This new art form was received with enthusiasm and it led other composers such as Caccini to write other operas. The baroque period saw opera spread like wild fire with demand coming not only from aristocratic patrons but also from newly opened public opera houses.