Ludwig van Beethoven, his life story and music from the Bonn peroid.

Ludwig van Beethoven (b Bonn, bap. 17 Dec 1770; d Vienna, 26 March 1827) German composer. His early achievements, as composer and performer, show him to be extending the Viennese Classical tradition that he had inherited from Mozart and Haydn. As personal affliction -- deafness, and the inability to enter into happy personal relationships -- loomed larger, he began to compose in an increasingly individual musical style, and at the end of his life he wrote his most sublime and profound works. From his success at combining tradition and exploration and personal expression, he came to be regarded as the dominant musical figure of the 19th century, and scarcely any significant composer since his time has escaped his influence or failed to acknowledge it. For the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music. usic of the Bonn period. . Family background and childhood. Three generations of the Beethoven family found employment as musicians at the court of the Electorate of Cologne, which had its seat at Bonn. The composer's grandfather, Ludwig (Louis) van Beethoven (1712-73), the son of an enterprising burgher of Mechelen (Belgium), was a trained musician with a fine bass voice, and after positions at Mechelen, Leuven and Liège accepted in 1733

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The history of Music

Lauren Wright BTEC National Diploma - Music The history of Music In this essay I will be identifying, explaining, and evaluating the history of Music whilst involving references to musical examples. The four main sections I will be evaluating are; * The origins of popular music * The styles and characteristics of popular music since 1950 * The role of at least four different leading artists/producers * The impact on instrument and recording, of the musical applications of technology. In the first section - The origins of popular music I will be concentrating on; * The music of the slaves * Gospel music * Negro Spirituals * Delta Blues * New Orleans Jazz * Ragtime * Folk and * Bluegrass I will then move onto the styles and characteristics of popular music since 1950 where I will be identifying such details as melody, rhythm, harmony, instrumentation, and structure. I will be concentrating on Rock 'n' Roll, Country and Western, Mersey beat, British Invasion, R*B, Psychedelia, Folk, Soul music, Progressive Rock, Disco, Glam Rock, Heavy metal, Reggae, Punk, New wave, Rap, Hip-Hop, Dance and Grunge. I will also look at how fashion and cultural influences such as James Dean, Teddy Boys, Flower Power, Free Love, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Ban the bomb, Punk, Rap and Hip-Hop, New Romantics, and drug culture have influenced musical development, as well as

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Censorship - are the arts dangerous?

They inspire, but may provoke. They thrill, but sometimes offend. And often the same artwork attracts both acclaim and condemnation. This site provides context that promotes understanding of the history of the arts and controversy. Artists featured in this site address such perennially divisive topics as race, religion, politics, sex, and violence. Although artworks reflecting these issues are included, the site is designed so that visitors must make the choice of what they wish to view, listen to or read, and may opt out of seeing any objectionable material. Definitions of Censorship The term "censorship" comes from The Latin, censere "to give as one's opinion, to assess." The Roman censors were magistrates who took the census count and served as assessors and inspectors of morals and conduct. In contrast to that straightforward definition from Roman times, contemporary usage offers no agreed-upon definition of the term or when to use it. Indeed, even whether the word itself applies to a given controversy in the arts is often vigorously contested. Here are excerpts of definitions of "censorship" from U.S. organizations and publications with varying views. They are not intended as any composite mega-definition of the term, only as indications of the variety of approaches to this concept. Censor: One who supervises conduct and morals: as a) an official who examines

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How does the music in Mozart's 'Die Zauberflöte portray good and evil?

0099 0549 2 016 Word Count: 4095 Tutor: Raymond Fearn How does the music in Mozart's 'Die Zauberflöte portray good and evil? One of the main aspects of The Magic Flute is the evilness verses the good and the light against the dark. This essay looks at evil and good along side, light and dark as well as an insight into other themes that appear throughout the opera. Music cannot simply be good or evil; it relies upon on instrumentation and imagination of the listener to portray good and evil. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart is a German singspiel or spoken dialogue with music. This opera is an exception to all of his mature operas, not only by being a singspiel but also because it was composed purely for money and it was not performed, to begin with, in an opera house but in a suburban theatre. The Magic Flute is influenced by Bach and is more specifically classed as a rescue singspiel, with exotic locations and characters. Some of the traits of singspiel are rescue and exoticism as already mentioned but also magic and religion, all of which feature in The Magic Flute. We are told that Schikaneder wrote the libretto, possibly with some input from Giesecke and there is speculation that this contributed to the Masonic theme as along with Mozart they were all members of Viennese Masonic lodges. Although The Magic Flute is outwardly a Singspiel - with spoken

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How Historical and Social Events have affected Artists' Music

How Historical and Social events have affected Artists' music The human senses function as magnetic fields that draw information in and out from all angles and insert it into a memory chip in the mind and soul. The senses are supposed to do that in order to live in coherence with other human beings and their senses. Because of this, one might wonder, in terms of music, how does the info that is inserted into the mind and soul, affect an artist when he writes music. In this essay we are going to look at the historical and social factors have affected the way artists make their music. Ray Charles and Soul For the American blacks the church was a big part of everyday life. It was a place where the black people could express themselves freely without white people's interference 1"Church was not just a place to visit on a Sunday, but the heart of the community. And at the heart of the church was music." The slaves had English hymns but also made up their own from the books of the Bible and where not afraid to show true sorrow or true joy in sad or happy spirituals instead of just superficial smiles hiding what's really underneath the facade. Thus black church services were very expressive and marked by dancing, singing, clapping and passionate shouting, something that many white people were astonished by. The term 'Gospel' is attributed to Thomas A. Dorsey in the 1930s. After

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Comparing and Contrasting the life and works of Bach and Mozart

Comparing and Contrasting the life and works of Bach and Mozart Year 11 Music in Context 12/09/2011 Catrin Thomas ________________ Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was born in Thuringia, Germany, and was a well-known late Baroque composer. He was brought up by his eldest brother from the age of ten, as his parents had both died, and his brother taught him how to play, read, and write music. Bach was respected as a ‘virtuoso’ organ player, but also wrote magnificent orchestral pieces of music for his patrons. He is now known and appreciated for the emotional depth of his music and writing remarkable concertos and sonatas. Bach was a very religious man, and is said to have had a close relationship with the Lutheran God, his music was influenced greatly by this. His musical style was also very inspired by Italian music, with dramatic openings, clear melodic contours, greater rhythmic conciseness, and more clearly articulated schemes for modulation. Bach is also known to write ‘tightly woven music of powerful sonority.’ Bach’s style of music is very different to that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) who was born in Salzburg, Austria. He was considered a musical child prodigy before becoming ‘the most extraordinary musical genius of his time’. Mozart and his sister Nannerl were brought up by their father Leopold, who was also a great musician. He

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The Blues - socio-political context & influence on culture

The Blues. Stage 2 History Assignment - Blues Essay 2 Vickie Clarke 'The Blues' have been a foremost influence on the development of rock music, from Negro spirituals and work songs of the black slaves, through to the R 'n' B, and the British Blues boom of the 1960's and beyond. In this essay, I am exploring the influence of several artists on the blues / rock genre as we know it today, from its cultural socio / political roots to mass popularity. The first slaves had been captured in Africa during the 16th century and shipped to North America as a source of cheap labour. Beaten, chained and transported below deck, with poor food and water, in overcrowded filthy, disease-ridden conditions, only around one third of the estimated 40million imported during the 300 years of legal slavery survived the journey. In a strange and hostile country, the frightened survivors retained what they were able of their culture by gathering to sing African songs and dance together. The tribes and families would be split up deliberately to prevent further interaction. Many of the slaves were skilled at making music, playing the fiddle, banjo or tribal drums. The Black Codes of Mississippi banned the beating of drums for fear it would cause the slaves to devise a revolt. Very often though, musical skill would add to a slave's purchase price. Singing the traditional African work chants gave them

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THE STATE OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE ON TERRORISM

The 1920s: A New Era in American History "Girls dancing the Charleston. Gangsters carrying machine guns. Charlie Chaplin playing comical tricks. These are some of the pictures that come into people's minds when they think of the United States in the 1920s. The roaring twenties. Good times. Wild times" (Callaghan, 2000, p. 92). The images of the 1920s - jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic have remarkably marked the US history. Hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, widespread social conflict, and the birth of organized crime, on the other hand, were the bitter memories of the roaring twenties In the Twenties, the American people soared higher and fell lower than they ever had before. The controversial era also evidenced an unprecedented economic prosperity, sweeping social change and the emergence of many institutions, ideas, and preoccupations (Miller, 2003). The US Economy in the 20s The Jazz Age takes its name from jazz music, which saw a tremendous surge in popularity among many segments of society. Among the prominent concerns and trends of the period include the public embrace of technological developments (typically seen as progress)-cars, air travel and the telephone-as well as new trends in social behavior, the arts, and culture (Wikipedia, 2006, Jazz Age).

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Rock And Roll - analysis of the different styles of Rock.

Rock PLAN “I don’t know which will go first- Rock and Roll or Christianity”, John Lennon INRTO-1/2 a page BACKGROUND-setting the scene ½ a page DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROCK GENERES- 1 paragraph Punk Rock-1/2 a page Alternative Rock-1/2 a page Blues Rock-1/3 a page Folk Rock-1/3 a page Indie Rock-1/2 a page Wizard Rock-1/3 a page base it on TMB wands chords structure Many bands artists etc – 1 paragraph Sex Pistols- ½ a page Queen-1/2 a page Dire Straits-1/3 a page The Beatles-1 page a page The Clash -1/2 a page 1976–1986 U2 1976–present But there are contemporary artists etc – 1 paragraph Muse-1/3 a page Mumford and Sons-1/3 a page Panic At The Disco-1/3 a page Coldplay-1/2 a page The Kooks Noah And The Whale CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY There are many different genres of Rock music. Each sub-genre of Rock music has an opulent history; each sub-genre is listened to as much as traditional Rock and Roll music, if not more so. We have chosen six sub-genres of Rock music to explore through our essay. It was very hard to pick these genres as there are so many fantastic Rock genres, with different beats, pitches and tones. Traditional Rock music is conventionally built on a foundation of simple un-syncopated rhythms; this is usually in a 4 by 4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. The melodies that Rock music

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Evolution of opera

Evolution of opera Pete Stam The immediate influences of the opera were such early dramatic forms as the late 16th century madrigals, madrigal cycles (madrigal comedies and the intermedio. The very first opera Daphne (which has now been lost) was written in 1597 by Peri. Around 1600, Peri wrote Euridice and Monteverdi wrote L' Orphea as the first operas still around today. The early operas can be described as a collection of recitatives separated by occasional orchestral interludes and the aim was to revive Greek drama. The first move towards opera was the recitative. The need for a style of solo singing that could be used for dramatic purposes, created the recitative style. This was thought to be the correct way to set words as it would enhance the sound of natural speech. Peri, Caccini and Cavallieri were the pioneers of the new style of solo singing. Dissonant vocal lines over a static bass were used. Opera took root in Rome the 1620s. In the music of Roman operas the solo singing was separated into two types, recitative and aria. While the recitative was more speech like, the arias were melodious, though some were on 'ground basses'. The recitative, dissonance and new musical effects created a more expressive, melodious vocal line often with regular phrases and triple meter (bel canto). Music started to become more important than the words. Some melodic sections with

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