Remember…..
Blend (Match)your
sound….
Balance (Listen Down)…
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A painter paints pictures
on canvas. But musicians
paint their pictures on
silence. ~Leopold
Stokowski
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Music can name the
unnameable and
communicate the
unknowable.
-Leonard Bernstein
Congratulations to Meagan Parker
Drum Major of the 2014 Marching
Bobcats!
Review
III. DISCUSSIONS/QUESTIONS
* How do you interpret each quote?
* How do you set a good example
for others?
* What are the benefits when we
expect more of ourselves than
others?
All Study Guides are due Friday March
21st!
Every Tuesday 4-5
All are welcome!
Tuesday April 29
Brass Ensemble, Flute Choir
6:30 PM
Thursday May 1
Jazz Band-6:00
Percussion Ensembles-6:45
Wind Ensemble-7:30
Check the “Missed Rehearsal” sheet to
see what you missed! Items on the list
can be made up on the next
Theory/Make-up Day
March 20
April 10
4:00-6:00
Parent Meeting after rehearsal
March 20th 6:00-6:30
The following students owe for Candy Money.
Ashley Haithcock $120
DeShaun McDonald $60
Ishmael Strickland $60
Jasmine Allen $66
David Foggin $60
Eniledy Morales $60
Isaac Rodrigues $60
Kara Roseboro-Laboy $60
Hunter Sapp $60
Brandon Delapp $60
Luis Sanchez $60
McKayla Teague $120
The following students owe for the Beach Trip.
Isaiah Butler-Johnson $69.55
Chase Smith $117.50
JB Hurley $60
Meagan Parker $45
Cole Brown $200
Brandon Delapp $175
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Salvation is Created is a choral work composed
by Pavel Tchesnokov in 1912. It was one of the very
last sacred works he composed before he was forced
to turn to secular arts by the Soviet government.
Although he never heard his own composition
performed, his children had the opportunity years
following his death. Salvation is Created was originally
published in 1913 by J. Fischer and Bro. but its
popularity drove editors to produce many different
versions in both Russian and English. Scored for
either six or eight voices (SATTBB or SSAATTBB), the
work is a communion hymn based on a Kievan
syndonal chant melody and Psalm 74 (73 in the Greek
version).
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Was born on March 26, 1923
He was born in Traskwood,
Arkansas
He dropped “James” from his
composing name because he thought
it sounded more distinguished.
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Williams received his education at
Louisianna State University studying
composition and horn. After
graduation he continued his studies at
the Eastman School of music where he
studied with Bernard Rogers, Howard
Hanson and Arkady Yegudkin.
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Williams has a many
important pieces for band
including: Arioso, Caccia and
Chorale, Fanfare and Allegro,
the Sinfonians, and Symphonic
Suite.
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Dedicatory Overture was
written in the 1960’s and was
commisioned by the Epsilon
Upsilo Chapter of Phu Mu
Alpha Sinfonia at Evansville
College Indiana, for use in
services dedicating a new
music building.
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The first performances of Dedicatory Overture
took place during the spring of 1963 by the
Evansville College Concert Band under the
direction of Wesley Shepard. Williams used
Evansville College’s alma mater as the thematic
material to compose the piece.
Brian Balmages (b. 1975) is an active
composer, conductor, producer,
and performer. His fresh
compositional ideas have resulted
in a high demand for his wind,
brass, and orchestral music
throughout the world.
He received his bachelor’s degrees in
music from James Madison
University and his master's degree
from the University of Miami in
Florida.
Mr. Balmages' compositions have
been performed worldwide at
conferences including the College
Band Directors National and
Regional Conferences, the
Midwest Clinic, the International
Tuba/Euphonium Conference,
the International Trombone
Festival, and the International
Trumpet Guild Conference.
His active schedule of commissions and
premieres has incorporated groups
ranging from elementary schools to
professional ensembles, including the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the
Miami Symphony Orchestra, the
University of Miami Wind Ensemble,
James Madison University's School of
Music, Boston Brass, members of the
United States Marine Band, and the
Dominion Brass Ensemble.
His music has been performed by
members of leading orchestras
including the St. Louis Symphony,
Philadelphia Orchestra, National
Symphony, and others. He has
also had world premieres in
prestigious venues such as
Carnegie Hall and performances
at the Macy's Day Thanksgiving
Day Parade and abroad.
He has also served as an adjunct
professor of instrumental
conducting and Acting
Symphonic Band Director at
Towson University in Maryland.
Currently, he is Director of
Instrumental Publications for The
FJH Music Company Inc. in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida. He resides in
Baltimore with his wife, Lisa and
their sons, Jacob and Collin.
Rain is a gentle work with a great
deal of expressiveness. It paints a
picture of a quiet rainfall with
distant rolling thunder. The sound
of droplets hitting the ground
often puts me at ease for a reason
I cannot adequately describe. For
this reason, I chose to explain my
thoughts through music, which
has always been a more powerful
means of expression for me than
words.
The melodic and harmonic lines
convey the complexity of rain-the
sadness it brings to some, the
calmness it brings to others, and
its ability to rejuvenate; the soft
droplets outside our window that
can be so relaxing, yet can also be
the cause of a raging river. It is my
hope that groups will experience a
wide range of emotions as they
rehearse and perform this work.
Rain was commissioned by the
Virginia Band directors
Association District 10,
representing schools from Fairfax
County, Alexandria, and Falls
Church. The work was premiered
by the All District Middle School
Symphonic Band with the
composer conducting.
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Alex Shapiro (born January 11, 1962 in New
York City) composes acoustic and
electroacoustic music favoring combinations
of modal harmonies with chromatic ones,
and often emphasizing strong pulse and
rhythm. She was educated at the Juilliard
School and Manhattan School of Music as a
student of Ursula Mamlok and John
Corigliano.
The majority of Shapiro's catalog is chamber
works, and since 2008 she has also composed
several commissions for symphonic wind
band, several of which include the use of
prerecorded electronics.
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What do teenagers like? Video games, TV, and
movies. What do all these media have in common?
Music!
I was thrilled to have a chance to add to the
educational band music repertoire, thanks to the
American Composers Forum's terrific BandQuest
series. In my desire to compose something relevant to
younger players, I decided to create a piece that
sounds somewhat like a movie soundtrack, to which
the musicians can imagine their own dramatic scene.
I also thought it would be fun to make the kids
themselves part of the action, and so "Paper Cut" has
the band doing choreographed maneuvers that look
as compelling as they sound. In fact, the band
members don't even play their instruments until
halfway into the piece.
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Music isn't just melody; it's rhythm and texture as well. The unusual
element of paper and the myriad sounds that can emerge from
something so simple, offer a fresh view of what music-making can be
and opens everyone's ears to the sonic possibilities found among
everyday objects.
With a nod to environmentalism, "Paper Cut" might even remind
people to avoid waste and recycle. Players can collect paper that
would have otherwise ended up in the trash, and bring it to
rehearsals. The piece might even be therapeutic, as students can take
out their aggressions by ripping up bad grades and test scores!
Although "Paper Cut" was composed with middle schoolers in mind,
it's also suited to more advanced musicians, since the paper
techniques and the skill of playing against a prerecorded track are
interesting for all ages. I'm delighted to introduce a new approach to
concert wind band repertoire, and I hope that conductors and band
members have as much fun with this piece as I had creating it.
Alex Shapiro
Summer, 2010
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Elton John, Tim Rice and Hans Zimmer wrote
the music, lyrics and original score of Disney’s
The Lion King.
Time Rice is a long time associate with
broadway composer Andrew Loyd Weber
Released in 1994 The Lion King features the hit
songs: Circle of Life, I Just Can’t Wait to be
King, Be Prepared, Hakuna Matata, Can you
Feel the Love Tonight, and King of Pride Rock.
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Andrew Boysen, Jr. is presently an assistant professor
in the music department at the University of New
Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony
and teaches conducting, composition and
orchestration. Previously, Boysen served as an
assistant professor and Acting Associate Director of
Bands at Indiana State University, where he directed
the Marching Sycamores, conducted the symphonic
band and taught in the music education department.
Prior to that appointment, he was the Director of
Bands at Cary-Grove (IL) High School and was the
music director and conductor of the Deerfield
Community Concert Band. He remains active as a
guest conductor and clinician, appearing with high
school, university and festival ensembles across the
United States and Great Britain.
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Boysen earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree
in wind conducting at the Eastman School of
Music, where he served as conductor of the
Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant
conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He
received his Master of Music degree in wind
conducting from Northwestern University in
1993 and his Bachelor of Music degree in music
education and music composition from the
University of Iowa in 1991.
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He maintains an active schedule as a composer, receiving
commissions from the Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library, the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Orchestra Festival,
the Iowa All-State Band, the Rhode Island All-State Band,
the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association, and many
university and high school concert bands across the United
States. Boysen won the International Horn Society
Composition Contest in 2000, the University of Iowa
Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and has twice won the
Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in
1991 for I Am and in 1994 for Ovations. Boysen has several
published works with the Neil A. Kjos Music Company,
Wingert-Jones Music and Ludwig Music, including pieces
for band, orchestra, clarinet and piano, and brass choir.
Recordings of his music appear on the Sony, R-Kal, Mark,
St. Olaf and Elf labels.
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I Am was commissioned by Craig Aune and the Cedar Rapids
Prairie High School Band of Cedar Rapids, Iowa in February,
1990. It was written in memory of Lynn Jones, a baritone
saxophone player in the band who was killed in an auto
accident during that winter. The work is basically tonal in
nature, but includes extended techniques such as an aleatoric
section and singing from members of the ensemble. The
aleatoric section is intended to represent the foggy morning of
the crash in which Jones died. The words "I Am" are taken
from a poem that he wrote just days before his death. The
piece is not intended in any way to be an elegy. Instead, it is a
celebration, a reaffirmation, of life.
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I Am
Life, Music, Competition.
I like exciting things, and doing good for others.
Beauty, Successfulness and Smartness are important to me.
I like to achieve recognition.
I can succeed if I really put my mind to it.
I am very set in my ways,
But I can change when I realize my ignorance.
I like a simple nonchalant lifestyle.
I hate ignorance.
I hate structuredness.
This is me. I am!
-Lynn Jones
January, 1990
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Julie Ann Giroux was born in Fairhaven, Mass on
Dec. 12, 1961 and began playing the piano a few
years later. By the age of 8, she began
composing. Several years and family relocations
later, Julie attended Jack Hayes Junior High
School. She composed her first Concert Band
Work in the 8th grade at the age of 13. She
attended Ouachita Parish High School in
Monroe, Louisiana graduating in 1979. She
played the French Horn in the school bands and
played piano for the Choir all the while
composing various types of music, including
piano works, band works, solo instrumental
works and vocal works.
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Julie attended college at Louisiana State
University receiving her bachelors degree in
music performance, all the while continuing to
compose band and orchestra works. At this
time, she also began composing commercially.
In 1981 she published her first band work.
Literally days after college graduation, Julie had
the opportunity to arrange & conduct several
arrangements for a live ESPN broadcast for the
National Sportsfest held in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Composer Bill Conti had also been
hired to compose and conduct music for the
same event. Shortly after that, Mr. Conti invited
Julie out to Hollywood to work on the miniseries "North and South."
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Julie went on to compose & orchestrate music for many
Television and Films and received her first of three Emmy
nominations in 1989-1990. In 1991-1992, Julie won an
Emmy Award for
"Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music
Direction" for the 64th Annual Academy Awards, ABC."
When she won her first Emmy Award, she was the first
woman and the youngest person ever to win the award in
that category. A member of the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), her credits
include White Men Can't Jump, Masters of the Universe, North
& South & North & South II, Broadcast News, Blaze, Dynasty
and multiple Academy & Emmy Awards shows. During her
career Julie has had the honor of scoring for Celene Dion,
Paula Abdul, Jerry Orbach, Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli,
Bryan Adams, Peabo Bryson, Angela Lansbury, Jon Bon
Jovi, Madonna, Reba McIntyre, Little Richard, Billy
Crystal, Michael Jackson and many, many others.
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Ms. Giroux is an extremely well rounded composer with
works for Symphony Orchestras (including chorus),
Chamber music, Wind Ensembles, Soloists, Brass and
Woodwind Quintets and many other serious and
commercial formats. Her first published work "Mystery
on Mena Mountain" with Southern Music Company was
composed while still in college. Since that time, she has
composed and published numerous works for
professional wind ensembles, military bands, colleges,
public schools and professional orchestras.
In 1998, Ms. Giroux decided to go back to her roots full
time, composing primarily for Concert Bands, Wind
Ensembles and other various "serious" forms of music.
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This work opens with a
theme which represents a
16th century conquistador
and his army of fearless
men who sail the seven
seas in search of gold and
adventure.
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The second theme, “The
Woman,” represents the
romance between the
conquistador and a
beautiful woman.
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The conquistador must
leave, but gives the
woman a ring as a token
of his love. Unknown to
the conquistador, a
demon’s soul had been
imprisoned in this ring.
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Shortly after the
conquistador’s departure,
a band of demons kidnap
the woman and the ring
in order to extract the
demon’s soul from the
ring.
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“Dance of a Thousand
Demons” represents the
demons’ ritual dance.
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The ritual is interrupted
by the return of the
conquistador and his men
and the work ends in a
battle to the death
between the conquistador
and the demons.
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Gustav Theodore Holst born 21
September 1874 – 25 May 1934 was
an English composer, arranger and
teacher. Best known for his
orchestral suite The Planets, he
composed a large number of works
across a range of genres, although
none achieved comparable success.
His distinctive compositional style
was the product of many influences,
including the English folksong
revival of the early 20th century
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In 1909, when this Suite was written,
concert wind band music consisted of
reductions of pieces originally scored for
orchestras. Thus this suite was
revolutionary in that it was written
exclusively for wind band and is
considered Holst’s first step toward
achieving his goal of making the concert
band a serious concert medium. It was
originally written for Military Band, and
a full score arranged with additional
parts to make it suitable for American
bands was not published until after
Holst’s death.
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The first movement is a Chaconne, a
14-note melody that is passed
throughout the band. The lively
Intermezzo shows Holst's mastery in
writing for woodwinds. The closing
March combines two folk song
melodies with counterpart in the
finale. Holst was well suited for his
role as concert band composer, having
played trombone in various groups in
England and Scotland for years. -James Huff 23:17, March 28, 2007
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Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January
1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flutist,
flute maker and composer.
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Quantz was born in Oberscheden, Germany. He began his musical
studies as a child with his uncle's son-in-law (his blacksmith father
died when Quantz was young; on his deathbed, he begged his son
to follow in his footsteps), later going to Dresden and Vienna. He
studied composition extensively and pored over scores of the
masters to adopt their style. During his tenure in Dresden, he
abandoned the violin and the oboe in order to pursue the flute. He
studied with Pierre Gabriel Buffardin. It was during this time as
musician to Frederick Augustus II of Poland that he began to
concentrate on the flute, performing more and more on the
instrument.
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He gradually became known as the finest flautist in
Europe, and toured France and England. He became a
flute teacher, flute maker and composer to Frederick II
of Prussia (Frederick the Great) in 1740. He was an
innovator in flute design, adding keys to the
instrument to help with intonation, for example. He
often criticized Vivaldi for being too wild when he
played.
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Although Quantz wrote many pieces of music, mainly for the
flute (including around 300 flute concertosand over 200 sonatas),
he is best known today as the author of Versuch einer Anweisung
die Flöte traversiere zu spielen (1752) (titled On Playing the Flute in
English), a treatise on traverso flute playing. It is a valuable
source of reference regarding performance practice and flute
technique in the 18th century.
Quantz died in 1773 in Potsdam.
Jonathan S. Miller was born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania on August 14th, 1978. Mr.
Miller attended Conemaugh Township
High School in Davidsville, Pennsylvania. It
was during his teenage years that he
developed his love for music and theater. It
was in high school that he was first exposed
to his favorite composer Stephen Sondheim.
After High School Mr. Miller attended the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania and
studied trumpet with Dr. Kevin Eisensmith
who was very supportive of Miller’s
compositional endeavors. Dr. Eisensmith
premiered some of Miller’s first pieces for
Trumpet ensemble and challenged Mr.
Miller to do his senior recital with all his
own music.
While attending IUP Mr. Miller studied
composition with Daniel Perlongo and
Conducting with Dr. Jack Stamp. These two
individuals were very influential to Mr.
Miller’s composing and teaching styles.
Mr. Miller was director of bands at
Leonardtown High School in Leonardtown,
Maryland for four years. Currently Mr.
Miller is your band director, a post he has
held since the fall of 2005. Mr. Miller
continues to compose new music for band,
orchestra, percussion and chorus.
By the River was written for the
2013-2014 Flute Choir at Glenn
High School. Named by the
composer’s daughter Charlotte,
By the River is a light hearted
tune composed for three flutes
and piano.
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Ludwig van
Beethoven German: baptised
17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827)
was a German composer and pianist.
A crucial figure in the transition
between
the Classical and Romantic eras
in Western art music, he remains one
of the most famous and influential of
all composers. His best known
compositions include 9 symphonies,
5 concertos for piano, 32 piano
sonatas, and 16 string quartets.
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Born in Bonn, then the capital of
the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy
Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his
musical talents at an early age and was taught
by his father Johann van
Beethoven and Christian Gottlob Neefe.
During his first 22 years in Bonn, Beethoven
intended to study with Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart and befriended Joseph Haydn.
Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 and
began studying with Haydn, quickly gaining
a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in
Vienna until his death. In about 1800 his
hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last
decade of his life he was almost totally deaf.
He gave up conducting and performing in
public but continued to compose; many of his
most admired works come from this period.
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passe·pied
päsˈpyā/
Noun
1. A spirited dance in triple
meter, popular in France and
England in the 17th and 18th
centuries, resembling a
minuet but faster.
2. Music for or in the rhythm
of this dance.
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Georg Philipp Telemann (14 March 1681 – 25
June 1767) was
a German Baroque composer and multiinstrumentalist. Almost completely selftaught in music, he became a composer against
his family's wishes. After studying
in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim,
Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to
study law, but eventually settled on a career in
music. He held important positions
in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach,
and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in
1721, where he became musical director of the
city's five main churches. While Telemann's
career prospered, his personal life was always
troubled: his first wife died only a few months
after their marriage, and his second wife had
extramarital affairs and accumulated a large
gambling debt before leaving Telemann.
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Telemann was one of the most prolific
composers in history (at least in terms of
surviving oeuvre) and was considered by
his contemporaries to be one of the leading
German composers of the time—he was
compared favorably both to his
friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made
Telemann the godfather and namesake of
his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and
to George Frideric Handel, whom
Telemann also knew personally.
Telemann's music incorporates several
national styles (French, Italian) and is even
at times influenced by Polish popular
music. He remained at the forefront of all
new musical tendencies and his music is an
important link between the late Baroque
and early Classical styles.
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George Frideric Handel
23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was
a German-born
British Baroque composer famous for
his operas, oratorios, anthems and org
an concertos. Born in a family
indifferent to music, Handel received
critical training in Halle, Hamburg
and Italy before settling in London
(1712) as a naturalized British subject
in 1727. By then he was strongly
influenced by the great composers of
the Italian Baroque and the middleGerman polyphonic choral tradition.
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Within fifteen years, Handel had started three
commercial opera companies to supply the English
nobility with Italian opera. In 1737 he had a physical
breakdown, changed direction creatively and
addressed the middle class. As Alexander's
Feast (1736) was well received, Handel made a
transition to English choral works. After his success
with Messiah (1742) he never performed an Italian
opera again. Handel was only partly successful with
his performances of English oratorio on mythical
and biblical themes, but when he arranged a
performance of Messiah to benefit
London's Foundling Hospital (1750) the criticism
ended. It has been said that the passion of Handel's
oratorios is an ethical one, and that they are
hallowed not by liturgical dignity but by moral
ideals of humanity. Almost blind, and having lived
in England for almost fifty years, he died in 1759, a
respected and rich man. His funeral was given full
state honours, and he was buried in Westminster
Abbey.
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Handel is regarded as one of the
greatest composers of the Baroque era,
with works such as Water Music, Music
for the Royal
Fireworks and Messiah remaining
popular. One of his four Coronation
Anthems, Zadok the Priest (1727),
composed for the coronation of George
II of Great Britain, has been performed
at every subsequent British coronation,
traditionally during the sovereign's
anointing. Handel composed more
than forty operas in over thirty years,
and since the late 1960s, with the
revival of baroque music and original
instrumentation, interest in
Handel's operas has grown.
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Franz Joseph Haydn 31 March[ 1732 – 31 May
1809), known as Joseph Haydn,[ was
an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and
prominent of the Classical period. He is often called
the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of
the String Quartet" because of his important
contributions to these forms. He was also
instrumental in the development of the piano
trio and in the evolution of sonata form.
A lifelong resident of Austria, Haydn spent much of
his career as a court musician for the
wealthy Esterházy family on their remote estate.
Isolated from other composers and trends in music
until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put
it, "forced to become original" At the time of his
death, he was one of the most celebrated composers
in Europe.
Joseph Haydn was the brother of Michael Haydn,
himself a highly regarded composer, and Johann
Evangelist Haydn, a tenor. He was also a friend
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a teacher
of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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re·gen·cy
Rējənsē
Noun
a government or period of
time in which a person (called
a regent) rules in place of a
king or queen
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Down by the Salley
Gardens (Irish: Gort na Saileán)
is a poem by William Butler
Yeats published in The
Wanderings of Oisin and Other
Poems in 1889.
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Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to
reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly
remembered by an old peasant woman in the village
of Ballisodare, Sligo, who often sings them to herself." The
"old song" may have been the ballad The Rambling Boys of
Pleasure[ which contains the following verse:
"It was down by Sally's Garden one evening late I took
my way.'Twas there I spied this pretty little girl, and
those words to me sure she did say. She advised me to
take love easy, as the leaves grew on the tree .But I was
young and foolish, with my darling could not agree.“
The similarity to the first verse of the Yeats version is
unmistakable and would suggest that this was indeed the
song Yeats remembered the old woman singing. The rest
of the song, however, is quite different.
Yeats's original title, "An Old Song Re-Sung", reflected his
debt to The Rambling Boys of Pleasure. It first appeared
under its present title when it was reprinted in Poems in
1895.[4]
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Down by the salley gardens my
love and I did meet;She passed the
salley gardens with little snowwhite feet.She bid me take love
easy, as the leaves grow on the
tree;But I, being young and foolish,
with her would not agree.In a field
by the river my love and I did
stand,And on my leaning shoulder
she laid her snow-white hand.She
bid me take life easy, as the grass
grows on the weirs;But I was young
and foolish, and now am full of
tears.
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The verse was subsequently set to
music by Herbert Hughes to the
traditional air The Moorlough Shore in
1909. In the 1920s composer Rebecca
Clarke (1886–1979) set the text to own
music. The composer John Ireland set
the words to an original melody in his
cycle "Songs Sacred and Profane",
written in 1934. There is also a vocal
setting by the poet and composer Ivor
Gurney, which was published in 1938;
and another by Benjamin
Britten published in 1943
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Over the Rainbow" (often referred to as "Somewhere
Over the Rainbow") is a classic Academy Awardwinning ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics
by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the 1939 movie The
Wizard of Oz, and was sung by actress Judy Garland in her
starring role as Dorothy Gale.Over time, it would become
Garland's signature song.
About five minutes into the film, Dorothy sings the song
after failing to get her aunt and uncle to listen to her relate
an unpleasant incident involving her dog,Toto, and the
town spinster, Miss Gulch. Dorothy's Aunt Em tells her to
"find yourself a place where you won't get into any
trouble." This prompts Dorothy to walk off by herself,
musing to Toto, "'Some place where there isn't any
trouble.' Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto?
There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat, or
a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the
rain..." at which point she begins singing.
-Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg (April 8, 1896 –
March 5, 1981), known as E.Y.
Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an
American popular song lyricist who
worked with many well-known
composers. He wrote the lyrics to the
standards, "Brother, Can You Spare a
Dime?", "April in Paris", and "It's Only
a Paper Moon", as well as all of the
songs in The Wizard of Oz, including
"Over the Rainbow".
Harold Arlen (February 15, 1905 – April
23, 1986) was an American composer of
popular music, having written over 500
songs, a number of which have become
known the world over. In addition to
composing the songs for The Wizard of
Oz, including the classic 1938 song,
"Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly
regarded contributor to the Great
American Songbook. "Over the
Rainbow," in fact, was voted the
twentieth century's No. 1 song by the
Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) and the National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare
to dream
Really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are
far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon
drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
Antonín Leopold Dvořák
September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904
was a Czech composer. Following
the nationalist example of Bedřich Smetana,
Dvořák frequently employed features of the
folk music of Moravia and his
native Bohemia . Dvořák's own style has been
described as 'the fullest recreation of a
national idiom with that of the symphonic
tradition, absorbing folk influences and
finding effective ways of using them'.
The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the
New World, popularly known as
the New World Symphony, was
composed by Dvořák in 1893 while he
was the director of the National
Conservatory of Music of America from
1892 to 1895. It is by far his most
popular symphony, and one of the most
popular of all symphonies.]
"When the Saints Go Marching In",
often referred to as "The Saints", is
an American gospel hymn. The precise
origins of the song are not known.
Though it originated as a Christian
hymn, it is often played by jazz bands.
The song is sometimes confused with a
similarly titled composition "When the
Saints are Marching In" from 1896
by Katharine Purvis (lyrics) and James
Milton Black (music).