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recitative, and chorus), the concerto, sonata, and modern cantata,” (History of Classical Music). These advances caused choral music to appear lackluster compared to the newly brilliant instrumental works composers were creating. Individuals such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Handel, Telemann, Rameau, Francois Couperin, Domenico Scarlatti, and Vivaldi were at their peak at this time, creating various sophisticated works to be spread amongst society (History of Classical Music). Even though the Baroque

‘orphanage’ as hush money to keep the knowledge silent. Vivaldi was known to work here for several years on and off before he died in 1741 at the age of sixty- three years old. Now another composer was Pachelbel. He was a German composer fully named Johann Christoph Pachelbel. His exact birthday is unknown, but he was born in the year 1653. Pachelbel wrote mainly for church and for his

composer of all times during the Baroque Era with famous pieces such as Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Mass in B Minor and Brandenburg Concerto. J.S. Bach, short for Johann Sebastian Bach, is a prominent composer during the Baroque Era. Bach was born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany on March 31, 1685. He is the youngest son of his parents, Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elizabeth Lammerhirt Bach. Because he came from seven generations of musicians, it was not unusual that Bach became a musician and composer himself

German culture has spanned throughout the entire German-speaking world. From its roots, culture in Germany has been molded by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. Historically Deutschland has been called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (the country of poets and thinkers) (Wasser, 2006). Germany is in the middle of Europe, not only geographically, but also in terms of politics and economics. The country is Europe's second most populated after Russia, with

People create music in all kinds of different ways, if every piece of music sounded the same it would not be enjoyable. Many people reinvent older composed music and take their own approach to it. There are plenty of instruments that people can use to make an old sound, sound new. People can be very innovative and resourceful when it comes to recreating a new sound with an older composed piece. John Sebastian Bach is one of the many composers whose music is being recreated in a new way. John Sebastian

Intro to Music Masterworks Final Paper Jazz music was originally developed by African Americans during the start of the twentieth century. Throughout the semester we have studied the timeline of musical periods including the Romantic and Classical eras of music. Becoming internationally popular in the 1920's, jazz music has been typically described as "America's Classical Music." The musical periods we have discussed in this course have influenced and show a strong relation to jazz music

Both Ludwig Beethoven’s “Appassionata” piano sonata and Franz Liszt’s B minor sonata are recognized as some of the best compositions of the nineteenth century. The complexity and creativity of these pieces are astonishing. Considering both pieces are sonatas they have some similar aspects, but they are also very different which can be credited to the brilliant minds who composed them. These pieces are both masterpieces of their time which is what has made them stand out amongst the many songs composed

Since the late 1400s, the Sistine Chapel Choir has consisted of 24 male singers. These singers are split into four different parts - soprano, alto, tenor and bass – with 6 singers in for each part. The soprano and alto would consist of the upper range and tenor and bass would be the lower range. The high voices consist of men that could sing in the falsetto range or men who unfortunately was snipped in order to keep their voices in that range. Those men were later replaced by boys in the 1800s but

Since Music is so important and its part of our daily life, we might want to know little bit about where it really came from, how it was invented and most importantly who are the people that contributed to our music. One of the all-time contributor of western music is Guido D’Arezzo, Guido was an Italian music theorist, He was born in Italy in 13th Century. He studied at the Benedictine Abbey of a Pomposa and started teaching how to sing there. Later on he left abbey, the reason he left was because

“Judith is performed largely by one singer with basso continuo. A violin joins in for instrumental sections called symphonies and as part of an accompanied recitative.”2 The cantatas of the Lutheran church were much more sacred than Italian cantatas. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote most cantatas for the Lutheran church. The texts of Bach’s cantatas included biblical passages, a chorale text, and poetic interpretation. Bach explored a variety of instrumental and vocal elements in his cantatas: “Bach’s cantatas