… to Vienna, the capital of European classical music, and had acquired two more powerful advocates, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim and the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick.(*) Both men saw Brahms as the last best hope of the anti-Wagnerites,…

… Armonica Op.III Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most prominent composers of the Baroque period. He lived in Venice, Italy for the duration of his life (1678-1741) and taught music at an all-girls orphanage for most of it. He was also an accomplished…

… music by Jerry Garcia. If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine and my tunes were played on the harp unstrung would you hear my voice come through the music would you hold it near as it were your own? It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are…

… that is common to most people and is synonymies with great classical music. He is known, quite loosely, as the German composer who created beautiful pieces with an incredible disability. Despite an unhappy family setting and the deafness that struck…

… we feel tempted to consider them radically different like black from white or good from bad, but if we analyse the question carefully we will see that both concepts have a lot in common and sometimes their limits can be quite ambiguous. In general,…

… English 100 07 October 2003 Hip-Hop Nation The development of hip-hop music has made an astonishing effect on the music community globally. Hip-Hop music developed in the late 70's early 80's, and since than it has had a major influence on…

… study some type of art. Every year in elementary school, my class would attend weekly art classes where we would draw, paint, sculpt things with our hands, and learn about types of art and artist throughout history. I would also have to attend a weekly…

… big band members were drafted or volunteered to join the war effort. Big bands lost some of their great members, and thus big bands came to an end. Swing music, which was very popular during the war, died out at the end of the war. This happened becau…

… [teens'] moods, furnishes much of their slang, dominates their conversations and provides the ambiance at their social gatherings" (O'Toole). Music without a doubt touches every teen's life in some way or another. You walk into a grocery store…

… Eisenach. His father, Ambrosius Bach, was a town and court musician. As a child, Johann attended Eisenach's Latin school. At the age of ten, he became an orphan after the death of his mother and father. He was then sent to be raised by his older brother…