9th Symphony Reaction

I now realise that the Arts, including music, creates opportunities to engage, inspire and enrich our lives. Music making and responding can challenge, provoke responses and enrich our knowledge and understanding of ourselves, our communities and the world.

“But… what ARE you?” It was a question I encountered with discomfiting regularity. As a biracial child growing up in a working-class southern community, I was often the only non-white student in my classes. In this homogeneous town, my otherness stuck out like a sore thumb, and I learned from a young age that people can be unkind when they feel threatened by bucked conventions. Though I inhabited two cultures, I didn’t fit neatly in either. These experiences taught me the importance of inclusivity, and I developed a sensitivity for people deemed outsiders because of their differences. In college, these feelings became more acute when I learned that minority and multiracial patients often face specific medical challenges, and need culturally

Music is remarkable for its special nature, which it is heritability. Music itselfs does not only give all music notes but innovation and inspiration from

After many personal crises in his life, Beethoven's music reflects his mood. His masterpiece represented struggle followed by triumph. Later, his influence has been worked by the ideals of the Enlightenment, which led him to dedicate the symphony "Erotica" Napoleon. Symphony "Ode to Joy" was estimated at about the brotherhood of humanity. His works are admired for their intellectual depth, intense expression, and experimental forms. It is considered one of the greatest minds of humanity. His work was ambitious head of the transition between eras of classical and romantic music led Beethoven's life of a child to an adult. A overcame alcoholic father; the death of his mother did not, and has provided a way to support his family. He carried through personal crises, including the loss of his hearing and earned him critical acclaim in social circles. His

INTRODUCTION Attention getter: Whether in spite of, or because of his father’s excessive harsh and abusive methods of teaching, Beethoven was an extraordinary musician from an early age. He showed creative musicianship and imagination that reach further than any other composer ever has or possibly ever will.

Abstract This research looks at the work of Ludwig van Beethoven, who was thought to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. This research outlines primary sources including the composers background, his upbringing, music background, a complete list of his compositions, background on the historic time periods of the composer’s life, and circumstances for which he lived. This focus undermines his role as a dominant force as one of the most influential composers of the nineteenth Century. The development of Beethoven is organized into two periods in history: The Classical and Romantic periods.

Music is like the memoirs to my life as it has been there throughout everything with me. Listening to classical music is a journey, not a state, an activity, not a meditation. Music is not a background noise. It’s something you bring into the foreground of your experience, by engaging with it, by doing some work. Now, when I hear Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 surely bring back the memory I have had with my

Music is a very peculiar term. Everyone knows what it is, yet there are different interpretations and definitions of what it means to them as seen from the varying styles of composers over time. In Beethoven’s case, music to him was an escape from reality and his greatest ally in cooperating with deafness. However, there are other composers who sought to think otherwise. John Cage is an exemplary modern composer who believed that music doesn’t need to make sense. He simply loved music for the pleasure of hearing sounds just as what they are.

In the words of the German musician, Ludwig Van Beethoven (December, 1770 - March, 1827), “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” The beautiful music composed by Beethoven allowed listeners of his day to experience their spiritual side in conjunction with their physical state of being. Beethoven’s ability to compose music that moved the spirits of his listeners likely came at the expense of the child abuse his father imposed on him. Beethoven produced numerous quartets, symphonies, concertos and many other popular styles of music. Beethoven’s splendid ability, acquired by the age of six, to produce hundreds of wonderful, undying musical compositions, even after becoming deaf has separated him from the composers of his time and today’s composers.

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music was progressing to become a source of entertainment, teaching, and expression. The simplicity and clarity often advanced a composer’s popularity like Josquin Des Prez. “Clarity was considered essential and the compositions with all their details were required to be pleasing to the ear; as the focus of the art shifted towards the experiences of existing as a human being.” Music in this time shifted to the representation of the human experience and the

The main concept which Romantic music rotates around is the idea that the instruments can be adapted and adjusted to create different sound; Beethoven, along with others, custom built and adapted pianofortes to fully create music. Further, their musical compositions are full of emotion, with its decrescendos and crescendos, key and tempo changes resulting in a rich and varied portrait. Combined, they create a full and complete composition in a similar manner to what the Romantic philosophers believed a well-rounded human being to be, with unique traits and characteristics formerly believed to be unnecessary by Enlightenment

Did you ask yourself about the meaning of music? Music is made up from beauty, thoughts, and feelings (Juslin; Västfjäll2008). According to Beethoven, the real meaning of music is “From heart is came, to the heart may it go” (1979:8). Actually, I found the definition of music very romantic and beautiful. It has a lot of meanings like: tenderness, love and familiarity. I feel like there is a strong connection between the music and the heart. So, let us recognize music and know more aspects about it.

For my Introduction to music class I decided, to write about the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven. The reason why I choose this symphony is because it’s an emotional piece of music, and it definitely catch my attention since the moment I heard it. I feel this symphony reach emotional situations that are above human explosions. Emotional areas that invade us through a contradictory fact between feelings. The Seventh Symphony in A major by Beethoven appears in 1813. The orchestra contains two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in A, two bassoons, two horns in A (E and D in the inner movements), two trumpets in D, timpani, and strings. Beethoven insisted on directing it at its premiere, with tragicomic results. The critics recognized a new genius of Beethoven; even today there are experts who consider it as the best of their symphonies. Richard Wagner, another fervent Beethovenian, describe this symphony as “all tumult, all yearning and storming of heart” into “the blissful insolence of joy, which snatches us away with bacchanalian might.” For its relentless dance rhythm and

Franz Liszt once said "Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. If music has one advantage over the other media through which a person can represent the impressions of the soul, it owes this to its supreme capacity to make each inner impulse audible without the assistance of reason. Reason, after all, is restricted in the diversity of its means and is capable only of confirming or describing our affections, not of communicating them directly in their full intensity. To accomplish this even approximately, reason must search for images and comparisons. Music, on the other hand, presents at once the intensity and the expression of feeling. It is the embodied and intelligible essence of feeling, capable of being apprehended by our senses. It permeates them like a dart, like a ray, like a mist, like a spirit, and fills our soul." Music has been passed down from generation to generation to show an audience beauty and associate with their emotions. My violin teacher Brunilda Myftaraj once stated that I could play violin all day without ending and I would feel empty, she advised that unless I connect with my audience than the music I’m playing has no exquisiteness and means nothing to no-one. My teacher said a respectable performance is one in which the audience is drawn into the beauty of the playing and adores the music so much that they effortlessly remember the music