Guido D Arezzo Influence

Luigi Boccherini, born on February 19, 1743, was a Classical Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a musical family and at a young age studied in Rome, and later flourished under royal patronage. Beethoven, baptized on December 17th, 1770, was a German composer and pianist.

For as long as mankind has walked on this earth, music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes, for celebrations, for comfort, for sorrow, for relaxation, for sports, for dances, for energy, for learning, for sleeping, and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply cannot. Music is a representation of what feelings sound like. It expresses emotion and brings that characteristic out from within us; it tells us a story. Every generation has its’ own sound and different music styles have emerged and become

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

Artist included Perugino, Battista Spagnoli, Raphael, Andrea Mantegna, Castiglione and Bandello. Some writers included Ariosto and Baldassare Castiglione, and musicians Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Marchetto Cara.

Antonio Lucia Vivaldi was one of the greatest baroque composers of all time, his diversity and versatility

Guido d’Arezzo is the inventor of the music notation that we use today, as well as a song

He was born in Venice and was trained in music since a kid. He wrote over five hundred concertos and some believe that he invented ritornello. His music was mainly discovered until the early 1930’s. Some of his popular works are “The Four Seasons, Gloria and Con Alla Rustica in G” (Green). Other artists to note are George Philipp Telemann, Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Purcell.

The composer I listened to was Karl Jenkins. The piece of music I listen to is “Palladio” written in 1915. Karl Jenkins attended different universities such as University of Wales, Royal academy of music and Cardiff University. Palladio is a composition for string orchestra. The form of this piece is Concerto Grosso, duration of 16 minutes published in 1996 London. Karl Jenkins was born in February 17, 1944. Jenkins composed a variety of movies and music pieces throughout his years. The piece of work is in three movements in the form of concerto Grosso. Jenkins’s inspiration was Andrea Palladio, a sixteenth century Italian architect who work embodies the renaissance celebration of harmony and order. This piece was a great choice and I really

Giovanni Gabrieli, the man who composed Canzon Septimi Toni a 8, was a well known Renaissance composer born in 1556. Not only that, but he was an organist and teacher who learned everything he knew from his uncle, Andrea Gabrieli, whom he has to thank for his musical upbringing. Gabrieli himself was highly regarded and praised for his contributions to instrumental music for church use as well as choral and instrumental motets. Gabrieli also made use of the San Marco church layout; the two separate choir lofts in the church allowed him to create salient spatial effects, which in turn heavily influenced his style of music. Unfortunately, his health began to suffer and

Lassus had such a beautiful voice that he was kidnapped three times by age eleven because the singular skill his voice had was so beautiful people just wanted the guy. At the age of twelve, he left his hometown and started singing and composing works in Naples. At twenty-one years old he started singing for the Mother Church of Rome, but only stayed there for a year. By the 1560's other composers had envied Lassus for his voice so they started following him and working

When he was six year old, he began to given basic lesson from his father, and a year later he enrolled to his father's school. His formal musical training started around the same time. His father taught him very basic violin technique, and his brother Ignaz taught him piano technique. When he was seven year old, Michael Holzer gave him first lessons outside the family, who is an choirmaster of the local parish

Music originates from all over the world since the beginning of time. Complex or simple, fast or slow, loud or soft. It’s what you feel. It could be your method of escape or keeping you living. Music is love. Music is passion. Music is unity. Music is emotion. Music is belief. Music is beauty. Music is life. Music is perfection. Music is imperfection. Music is peace. “Through music we can live forever.”

Now, when thinking about Classical Italian music, I think of one of the most famous Italian opera composers, Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Verdi's works are most noted for their emotional intensity, tuneful melodies, and dramatic characterizations. Verdi transformed the Italian opera into a unified musical and dramatic entity. Verdi composed over twenty-eight operas. Macbeth, a performance by Verdi based off the work of William Shakespeare, was a popular show performed in New York City in the late 1800s. Verdi’s works, along with the works of

Domenico Scarlatti’s early influences in music are assumed to have started with his father, Alessandro Scarlatti — who had considerable influence

In his paper I’ll be talking Claudio Monteverdi, an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster during the late renaissance and early baroque era who was versed in both secular and sacred music and also worked as a choirmaster. A pioneer in the development of opera and crucial figure in both of these major music periods of classical music. Monteverdi was born in Cremona in 1567, as the son of a barber and brain surgeon as well as a chemist was his father Baldassare Monteverdi. Claudio’s mother, Maddalena Monteverdi nee Zigani was the child of a blacksmith. Monteverdi was born the oldest child of six other siblings, he had three other brothers and only two sisters. Maddalena died when Claudio when he was nine, at that time his father had married another woman by the name of Giovanno Gadio in 1577. Then having three more kids with Gadio but she died shortly after.