Gabriel Faure Research Paper

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.

8.      Claude Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born Achille-Claude Debussy in 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, France, his mature compositions, distinctive and appealing, combined modernism and sensuality so successfully that their sheer beauty often obscures their technical innovation. Debussy is considered the founder and leading exponent of musical Impressionism (although he resisted the label), and his adoption of non-traditional scales and tonal structures was paradigmatic for many composers who followed. The son of a shopkeeper and a seamstress, Debussy began piano studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of 11. While a student there, he encountered the wealthy Nadezhda von Meck, whom was most famous as Tchaikovsky's patroness. She employed Debussy as a music teacher to her children; through travel, concerts and acquaintances, she provided him with a wealth of musical experience. Most importantly, she exposed the young Debussy to the works of Russian composers, such as Borodin and Mussorgsky, who would remain important influences on his music. Debussy began composition studies in 1880, and

The finest choral composer of Les Six his works are known for their melodic invention and originality. Because Poulenc’s family intended for him to have a career in the family business he was largely self-taught. His music often juxtaposes humor and irony with the sentimental and melancholy. After the death of a close friend in the 1930s he rediscovered Catholicism and composed many religious works. He was particularly fond of woodwinds and planned to write a set of sonatas

Giovanni Gabrieli was a legendary composer of the 16th century. As the fundamental structure and ideas of the Catholic Church were being challenged by the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, Gabrieli’s compositions were given the opportunity to be successful and influential to music in the coming centuries. His works helped to transform not only church music of the Catholic Church, but also secular music as well. Giovanni Gabrieli wrote significant works that ultimately shaped the rise of the symphony, including the development of purely instrumental works, the art of orchestration, and the concerto style. Without his innovations in composition, it is arguable that instrumental music would not have developed as quickly, or developed

The world and especially the Latin music has suffered the lost of one of the greatest singers of all time. The Mexican songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel died on August 28, 2016. He died in his home in Santa Monica, California. Juan Gabriel was one of the top earning artist, his music had no boundaries and was spread worldwide.

inspiration for the composition of the piece, as it was written in French to make use of the language’s sound and enhance its decadence.

To what extent was the reformer obsessed with achieving an impractical goal through fanatical or impractical means?

Hello, everyone my name is Gabriel Fuentes and I am a criminal justice major. The reason i am taking this course is that I am very interested with our criminal law system and how it operates With my free time I love to skate, surf and read, my future planes are to become part of the United States Marshall fugitive task force unit.

     Art, in each and every form that it comes in, shows us who we are. Our

One of the greatest composers of music, even though it was only slightly notated at the time, was Guillaume de Machaut (d. 1377), “one of the undisputed pinnacle geniuses of Western music…” His most famous piece was the four-voice Mass of Notre Dame, which maintained his reputation through the changes in fashion (Roberge). After almost a millennium’s worth of music was composed and contributed, the style of music began to change with the next era.

Both Poems are faced with the problematic situation of inner hassle. Piano’s narrator struggles with his oppression of his emotions in sentimentality. When he is listening to the sounds of the chant from the women singing he says “In

Poulenc’s music embodies the aspects of his influencers as well as their art in terms of poetry. Apollinaire would become “The first poet [he] set to music” (Dobson 51). The concept of Apollinaire’s joyful and melancholic timbre is a key feature in Poulenc’s Opera Bouffe, Les Mamalles De Tirésias. The opera is based off of Apollinaire’s play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, “originally subtitled “Drame surnaturaliste” before being revised as “Drame surréaliste”” (Schmidt 49).

Indeed, Braque possessed a highly refined and knowledgeable interest in music, and was especially drawn to the French composers of the early 18th century--Couperin and Rameau chief among them--whose music was still a rare taste during the first half of the 20th century. The musician Braque cherished above all others, however, was that supreme giant of the late Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach, whose name he inscribed in homage on a cubist painting (Galerie Maeght, ed., Georges Braque: Le cubisme, 1907-1914, no. 122) and inserted into three papiers collés, all executed during 1912-1913 (nos. 165, 166b and

“Evidence suggests that music remains just as essential to the human race now as it did 70,000-80,000 years ago.” (Harvey, 2011) Music, song, and dance as art forms have completely integrated with the art works to tell a whole story of the human culture, its history, and its beliefs. The art of music implements cohesion among a society and acts as a framework to our social architecture. “For many, the evolution of art in Homo sapiens is a unique event that is linked to the evolution of the cognitively modern mind.” (Harvey, 2011) As the human mind has evolved, so has art. Sounds, especially music has had a direct effect on the evolution of mankind. Recent studies have shown how the mnemonic structure of music aids and promotes memory, learning, and the organization of knowledge. It is also proven to add structure to time. Cultures and the human species have continued to do and create art over several time periods because it allows humans to not only

For over two thousand years, various philosophers have questioned the influence of art in our society. They have used abstract reasoning, human emotions, and logic to go beyond this world in the search for answers about arts' existence. For philosophers, art was not viewed for its own beauty, but rather for the question of how art and artists can help make our society more stable for the next generation. Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived during 420-348 B.C. in Athens, and Aristotle, Plato’s student who argued against his beliefs, have no exceptions to the steps they had to take in order to understand the purpose of art and artists. Though these two philosophers made marvelous discoveries about the existence of art, artists, and