Most of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people
reading this paper, is the discrepancies between Indigenous and Western worlds and the way in which they conceptualise music. When understanding music as a tool for reconciliation, it can be defined under any of the headings stated above. The way in which traditional and popular music is discussed in this paper can be identified as ‘a collection of lived practices – a culture (Rigney & Hemming, 2011)’. Consequently, contemporary music (for the Indigenous cause) is better described as a cultural project
seem to suggest that music is inherently tied to the Western culture. A case in point is the account presented by several historians of country music suggesting that this particular genre of music has its social origins in the early 20th-century Southern United States, and that New Orleans is the center of many African American musical styles (Manuel 417). Although these accounts may be valid, it may be misleading to hold the perspective that music is inescapably tied to the Western culture and its assumptions
Current western classical music did not occur overnight. It was a long process that had its beginnings in the sacred music of the Middle Ages. War, disease, famine, political unrest and advancements in science brought changes, to not only how music was perceived, but also in how it was presented, giving modern western classical music its rich history today. In medieval times the Catholic Church controlled every aspect of life. The church educated the nobles, advised the rulers, presided over judgments
Although instruments are not necessary for music, what would it be like if they didn’t exist? What would western music be without the likes of the piano, violin, horn, or organ? The evolution of instruments has helped shape what we know as western music. Without each step in this process being taken things could have come very differently. This paper serves as a type of time-line that relates how this progression of instruments had an impact on historical western music. Origins For centuries instruments
Western music has traditionally been around for many era`s. Music was composed to entertain the society of all kinds, or narrate an emotion and express one`s emotion through the composition of sounds and vocals. The composer that I have chosen to reflect and also provide an analysis on is Henry Purcell. Firstly, Henry Purcell was brought up in England, where he became one of England’s best composer of the entire Baroque era. He has composed all forms of musical pieces, some which were included
Music generally plays an important role in all of our lives. Western music reflects all of our supporting cultures. It is commonly passed down from generation to generation like any other type of music. Western music is shared among different religions, dance, and drama. All of which is used to reached out to a certain group of people that relates traditions. Western culture is shared among genres like: Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Rap, Reggae, and so much more. Each genre shares characteristics and
be looking at the story behind the first opera or introduction entitled ‘Das Rheingold,' as well as his use of motifs and his use of development throughout the opera. The aim of this essay is to give a brief understanding of the complexity of western music in the 1800s. Richard Wagner: Background Richard Wagner was born in 1813 in Liepzig,Germany.Wagner, as a child had a great passion for writing poetry, but his musical interests were left aside until he was eighteen.At eighteen he began lessons
constructing this magnificent instrument, for if he did we surely would of seen a significant cultural trend amongst the music composers of the era. In the 17th Century the French Horn began to become an important brass element to music composers. The Instrument began as an invention based on early hunting horns and has origins first being used in late 16th Century, Western Europe Operas. These horns were monotone until 1753 where a German musician of the name Hampel, invented a use of moveable
Entrances of the Percussion Family in Western Music Literature Throughout the Baroque and Classical periods, one instrument can be regarded as the poster child of the percussion family. Due to its appropriation to the nobility, the timpani were not employed until Jean-Baptiste Lully first utilized the timpani for non-court associated activities. As aforementioned in Chapter I, Lully employed timpani in his operas and orchestral works roughly 50 years preceding its rise to popularization later
Johann Sebastian Bach is often identified as the summarizer of the Baroque era and contributed significantly to the practice and theoretical development of Western music. He composed copious amounts of music, including over 500 vocal compositions such as sacred and secular cantatas, motets, masses, and passions. The majority of Bach's cantatas date back to his post in Leipzig. Although he is considered to have written five cantata cycles, only the first three are virtually complete; the remaining
composer and pianist. Many believe he was the greatest composer of all time. He is widely recognized and admired in the history of Western music. He played an important role in the music styles he had admired. Classical and Baroque. As a symphonist, he was the first to use the “Wind band” of the orchestra. While being a quartet writer he leveled up the genre of music he composed and made it to where anyone that wished to be considered a composer must write string quartets. Beethoven also said he
Patsy Montana was one of the greatest women of country music in history. She grew up in a small town, and was blessed with an amazing voice. That voice carried her through life, and ended her with a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Patsy Montana was a great influence on country music today, and it will forever be changed because of her. Ruby Blevins was born is Hot Springs, Arkansas. She was the last Blevins’ kid born into an eleven kid family. All of her life she attended school at Hope
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins - they focus on the West - in North America. Western films have also been called the horse opera, the oater (quickly-made, short western films which became as common place as oats for horses)
The western is one of my personal favorite genres, not in the sense that I particularly like it but because it was one of the categories of movies I was raised on. I watched a host of John Wayne’s westerns, somewhere around two dozen, along with a few other movies from the genre. I still enjoy some of Wayne’s films, though I haven’t seen them in their entirety in years. What I’m trying to say is, I was excited to watch “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a purported classic of the genre. And while
A Western Hero in Shane The western genre plays an important part in the mythologising of American history. The way the western genre and particularly the western hero are put across in such films as Shane, are most likely not how real life in the 1880s was. In Shane the hero arrived on horseback, he was confident, handsome and managed to charm the female character, Marion, almost immediately. Typically, throughout the film the mysterious gunslinger was wearing a cowboy hat and a holster
Analysis of the Opening Scene of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet The film that I am analysing is called Romeo and Juliet. It was released in 1996 and the director is called Baz Luhrmann. Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Romeo and Claire Danes starred as Juliet. It was very successful because in the first opening week it got $11million and the second week it got $9million. The aim of the film was to entertain and interest the audience just like Shakespeare did. Baz Luhrmann wanted to make a more
Saddles the appearance of a classic Western, but within the first few minutes, the satirical nature of the film makes itself abundantly clear. The opening scene of Blazing Saddles communicates the setting and the character archetypes, both as they appear on the surface and as they will manifest throughout the film. Though the film explores this dynamic in greater depth later on, this scene establishes that the crafty underdog protagonist around which Westerns revolve is not one of the white men,
“Fistful of Dollars” did just that, reinvigorating the western genre while also performing well at the box office. Drawing influence from its predecessors, Fistful made the bold choice to get rid of charming heroes and focus on the Wild West and its vices. It depicted a fairytale west full to the brim with stubble, grime, desert vistas, and bloodshed; it made the west fun to fantasize about. Fistful of Dollars invigorated and permanently changed the Western genre with its gritty translation of american mythology
who draws first is the question? This grand showdown was produced by one of the best western directors in the game. His name is Sergio Leone. Sergio Leone combined the smallest and largest details to create a “spaghetti western” movie. The so called “Spaghetti western” film that I will be focusing on will be, Once Upon a Time in the West. I found that Leone is very precise with his facts about the historical western era plus his ability to put us in the setting of the film. Leone demonstrates in this