Essays on Classical Music

What the effect of Hip Hop and Classical music will have on grade 12 pupils trying to solve simple problems compared to one another.MOTIVATION One is always told that classical music helps aid the thinking process and that it’s the best genre of music to...

Beethoven was a great composer during his time. Beethoven, or his full name, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in December 1770. He was baptized on 17 December and his birthplace now is known as Beethoven-Haus Museum. He is a famous figure in...

Is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music which mixes instruments from different families including bored string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass as well as brass, woodwinds and percussion instrument search grouped in sections. 
 HISTORY OF ORCHESTRA Typically, orchestra...

A deaf composer who has been dubbed “Japan’s Beethoven” has admitted hiring someone else to write his music for nearly two decades. Mamoru Samuragochi shot to fame in the mid-1990s and is most famous for his Hiroshima Symphony No 1, dedicated to those killed in...

By the mid-19th Century, Western Classical Music had become a phenomenon. In its prime, music was the inspiration for all other arts inspired. The inevitable paradigm shifts in music, in line with the evolution of societies, encountered slow adaption or resistance or both. Therefore, when...

Introduction Brief overview of selected work/composer, situate style and genre American composer and pianist, Frederic Anthony Rzewski (b. 1938), studied counterpoint and orchestration at Harvard with Randall Thompson and Walter Piston, and with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University, where he took additional...

Philip Glass is a composer from the late twentieth century he was born on january 31, 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland and is still alive today at the age of eighty-one. Glass took classes at the Peabody Institute conservatory and then later studied at the University...

South Indian Classical When listening to music which comes from regions such as South Asia, there are a lot of common aspects to their music and conduction of songs. To begin, specifically in the song ‘Vina Bheri’ there are a lot of instruments being utilized...

Introduction For the past decades, classical music has experienced a decline in consumption, both in absolute terms and in relative terms compared to other musical genres[1]. Industry insiders are generally split into two views of this decline’s cause[2]: one arguing that stiff traditions in classical...

Canadian author R. J. Anderson once said, “I heard the universe as an oratorio sung by a master choir of stars, accompanied by the orchestra of the planets and the percussion of satellites and moons”. The genre of oratorio was established and popularized during the...

Classical music refers to a musical art produced and rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, while encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present time. Classical composers moved away from the modal system of harmony which had predominated...

Conceived in London, the child of a modern scientific expert and his better half, Rutter grew up living over the Globe bar on London’s Marylebone Road. He was taught at Highgate School where kindred students included John Tavener, Howard Shelley, Brian Chapple, and Nicholas Snowman,...

At the beginning of the semester I only had a vague idea of the kind of impact that classical music had on history. Throughout this course, I was constantly surprised by the things I learned about different eras of music. We talked a lot about...

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32...

The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. It was the start of a new set of ideas....

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to describe the plot, two scenes, and my overall thoughts about the play Amadeus. Amadeus had to do with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Salieri was also a composer who also was jealous of the natural gift...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), was known famously as one of the leading composers involved in the Impressionist style of music. He was ‘one of the artists who represented the nation’s essential spirit and taste most brilliantly abroad’. It was clear that Debussy’s style of writing music...

The concert I will make a report on is called Tchaikovsky Spectacular with Fireworks. The venue was in Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave. Los Angeles, CA, 90068. It took place on Friday the ninth of August this year, at eight o’clock, in the evening....

In this essay I will make a report on the classical music concert I’ve visited. This was the first classical music concert that I have been to in my life so I guess I didn’t really know what to expect. When we drove past the...