There are many preconceptions of what the history of music is. Some people think it is mainly a biography of composer's lives, but they are wrong. The history of music is primarily the history of musical style. In order to appreciate this, it is essential to become acquainted with the diffe...

Analysis of Handel's Admeto In the beginning of the 18th century opera seria developed into a vibrant art form, and took a center stage in operatic performance of London. As a genre, opera seria takes its themes from classical myths and literature, building on the musical standards developed throu...

In order to assess how important individuality was to composers of the Classical period the question of what exactly individuality is must first be tackled. It can be defined as "the aggregate of qualities and characteristics that distinguish one person or thing from others" and in a mus...

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields presented and preformed exquisitely three separate works: two concerti by Bach and Haydn and a string arrangement based on a Schubert quartet (arranged by Mahler). All three performances included the virtuosic Joshua...

My first circumstantial listening or contact with this classical, instrutmental music, which dates back to 1725, is one subconsciously by accident. More times than I can count, I recall hearing this music in classical and modern movies. This music usually played the foreground position to the smil...

The Choir/Band concert performance was a great experience. The music was very crisp and pleasing to the ear, while the choir accompanied them quite well. I really have no complaints about the concert at all, I felt that it was put together well, and sounded great.The song Gloria In Excelsis Deo by...

Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel were two of the mostimportant composers of the Baroque Period. Compare and contrast their lives andsacred musical works studied in class.Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel are two of the mostimportant composers of the Baroque period. ...

The Quintessential Composers Try this. Play for someone a random selection of classical music and ask him or her to identify a given piece. Now do the same with Joy to the World by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus by George Frederic Handel, and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Ama...

Throughout its history, music has developed into cycle. This cycle is a return of fundamental and traditional ideas of an earlier time transposed into the present. It represents a "style revolution" in which a simple structure further develops to become a more complex system. At this point a "rev...

I got early just as the teacher had told us to do I thought it was going to be a concert with pianos and great orchestras, but to my surprise when I saw the plan and took a look at it the first thing that I saw was the name of theChamber Ensembles? being a little bit early to the concert that gave...

The Doctoral Recital was the second concert I ever attended within the US. The instruments played were the clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion instruments. The performance started with Carl Nielsen\'s \"Clarinet Concerto,\" Op. 57(1928). It lasted for about twenty-seven minutes. The who...