Grieg's Pr Gynt

Soon after this, Gershwin began producing plays with his brother Ira. George would compose the music, and Ira would create the lyrics. This prolific partnership created many plays including Tip-Toes, Oh Kay!, Strike Up the Band, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, & Of Thee I Sing, which won a Pulitzer prize. George also created many songs at this time including Clap Yo Hands, Strike Up the

A composer depends entirely upon the nature of the film for all the clues needed to write a suitable score for a film. Brought into the production after a certain amount of film has been shot, the films concept will dictate how the composer will write the music. Whether based on the story line, or providing information by setting an atmospheric state, film music will always have different purposes between different films. Penguin Ballet by Nigel Westlake was composed to focuses upon the graceful, almost ballet like movements of the penguins underwater. Whereas, Writings on the wall by Sam Smith conveys ideas and messages which will be expressed throughout the film, especially through the use of lyrics. Although positioned within the film to provide contrasting messages, both these songs use similar musical elements to support the piece, and its position with the film. The discussion of this essay is that there are similarities between the musical elements that support the lyrics in a song and the action in a documentary. Through this, we will discuss the musical element’s of pitch, and timbre and texture.

Although known for his pianistic abilities Grainger is best known throughout Australia as a composer. He had planned his life as a composer before he was twenty years of age and held true to that plan as best as he could. His arrangements of folk music including ‘Country Gardens’ and ‘Folk Song from Country Derry’ were not what he classed as compositions. Rather his serious compositions include ‘Kipling Jungle Book Cycle’ and ‘The Warriors’ during his quest for free music. Grainger’s folk music are short melodic works that are set in a variety of rhythms, pitches and instruments. During his early years in London he composed a transcription of Tchaikovsky’s Flower Waltz and this sparked a venture into piano transcriptions including Four Irish Dances by Charles Stanford. It was also during this time that he met Edward Grieg, his long time musical hero and inspiration. Whilst in Australia Grainger was first introduced to Grieg by his mother Rose and thus ignited his passion for Grieg’s lyric pieces, resulting him to arrange a series of theses during 1898. Grainger continued to arrange folk music, presenting a collection of work which is unique in music history. During a visit to Scotland during 1900, Grainger was heavily influenced by his cultural experience and arranged 25 new accompaniments to Augener’s ‘Minstrelsy of England,’ thus had a profound effect on his future musical

“Indeed, Gnaritus espouses many of the mores and conventions of the Native American Indians,” Stefan deduced. “For example, the Native Americans Indians maintained no boundaries to their villages or any concept of land ownership either. They considered the Earth as a living consciousness with connections binding everything together in a whole. However, Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in 1492 ushered in a new era. Soon the settlers claimed ownership of the land and carved boundaries, borders, and divisions in stone and blood. They severed the threads that connected people to each other and the land. As a result, the new boundaries served only to separate and isolate individuals even more. In essence, these immigrants failed

George Gallup was born in the fall of the year 1901 on November 18, in the small town of Jefferson, Iowa the heartland of America. He grew up in an octagonal house build by his father, who was also named George. His father, George Henry Gallup, a farmer as well as a real estate dealer in agricultural land. From a young a George Jr. was already being to have a sense of democracy based on the sturdy, self-sufficient farmer. As a teenager, Gallup Jr. worked as the manager of dairy farm and used his salary to start a newspaper at his high school. He enrolled in the University of Iowa in 1918, played football and became the editor of the Daily Iowan as he began working for three U of I degrees, he received a bachelor's degree in 1923, a master's in 1925, and a doctorate in 1928.

Schubert composed the Fantasy in C Major (“Wanderer” Fantasy) in 1822. This fantasy became a milestone in music history because it was the first time when a composer “integrated a four-movement sonata into a single movement.” Schubert did so by matching the sequence of a traditional four-movement sonata (Allegro, Adagio, Scherzo, Finale) to one big sonata form (exposition, development, recapitulation, coda). This exploration opened a new era of composing romantic music because it created an expanded form with more freedom in theme. Composers in this way were granted more freedom to compose based on their personal imagination and to compose with more virtuosity.

Franz Schubert composed the German Lieder, Gretchen Am Spinnrade, in 1814. This composition is one of Schubert’s pinnacle compositions, which introduced the world to the idea of the Romantic Lied, veering away from the already existing Classical Lied. Observing the form, rhythmic structure, key modulations and dynamics with relation to the text, Schubert paints a beautiful emotional drama for the listener allowing them to dive into the thoughts and emotions the woman, Gretchen, is experiencing while longing for her lover, Faust.

Since the days of the ancient Greeks, music has been an integral part of drama and theatre. Many composers wrote music to accompany plays, and sometimes the music became more well-known than the play it was written for … It

“There is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require”-Sir Edward Elgar. Elgar was one of the 19th century’s most famous composers. He devoted his life to writing musical pieces such as Enigma Variations, The Dream of Gerontius, and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches. Certain personality aspects of Elgar, such as his wit and creative humor, are found in his music and set him apart from the other composers of his time.

In what period was the work composed? List three aspects of the musical style of this period that apply to this work.

Felix Mendelssohn is a well-known German composer, pianist and organist of the early Romantic Era. At a very young age, Felix Mendelssohn quickly established himself as a musical prodigy and is now studied by people across the world. What many do not know is that Felix had an older sister who was also a musical prodigy; however, unfortunately, she does not get the same credit as her older brother. Due to the gender politics of this time, women who performed after the age of one who should be married were looked at negatively in society. Women were meant to serve their husbands and take care of the children, not to compose or perform at musical venues. Pieces from both Songs without Words composed by Felix Mendelssohn and Das Jahr composed by Fanny Mendelssohn have so many similarities. When taking a closer look at Felix’s compositional work, it is sometimes indistinguishable to the works of Fanny.

In 1832 he published his first composition which was a piano sonata and symphony that were influenced heavily by Beethoven (Bonds 464). However; in attempting to write these kinds of music he realized he loved theatre music (Bonds 463). Wagner spent a lot of time with the theatre he was able to see Geyer preform and see all the inner workings of the theatre (Jacobs 3). Through his experiences with the theatre he began to develop his own ideas of music. He only valued music for the operatic images that struck him (Jacobs 6). His image of music from the beginning seemed to be very narrow

The folktale essence of the tale is kept from version to version as the already seemingly impossible life explained as Peer’s is just as ridiculous and unlikely if not even more representative of the genre in Bradley’s adaptation. The origin of this story, various tales from Norway and other nations in close proximity plays to the overarching unrealistic nature of the outcomes and procedures taken by Peer on his adventures and the versions of the story, similar in nature, are the result of oral tradition and passed down tales which may have been morphed and molded over the years by the Folklore collectors whom shared these stories. The logic and context that makes Peer’s adventures seem reasonable that are apparent and explicitly written in the text are even left with less context while we turn to the movie so that they are definitely both folk tales. While the movie is almost seeming as a fairy tale which can also be understood through reading some of the ridiculous and unrealistic contexts of Peer’s journey in the original work, both the original and the adaptation of the story are folktales which push the boundaries between folk and fairy tale as we follow Peer on his

(2) Schubert was one of the most prominent composers in the Romantic era. He was the first composer to live off only the money he got from composing. He wrote many compositions during his short lifetime, especially art songs (“OnMusic”).

Another influential musician in Norway, Johan Svendsen, was a composer, conductor, and violinist. Svendsen was known for composing larger scale orchestras and ensembles, while Grieg composed for smaller instrumental ensembles. Svendson’s most famous work is his “Romance” for violin and orchestra. Although Svendsen was extremely popular in Norway and Denmark, winning several awards and honors, these honors did not help his music spread very widely.