Classical Era

    

*The Father of Symphony*  

  

Joseph Haydn “Sonata”  The Season of Autumn   

Haydn was an Austrian composer. He known as one of the most important composer of his time and of the classical period. Mr. Haydn may also be known to some as the Father Symphony and “Father of the String Quartet” due to great genres he used. The theme of musical form is called Sonata. Sonata is a musical form that made a huge impact on The Classical period. This musical form is used with piece music for a keyboard, solo music, and piano. It started out as an three movement work. After that it turned into a four movement work. It even helped organize the movement for symphony. This music brought great sheet music and showed how opera can be so wonderful to watch. I’m very glad during this era that the piano came about. The piano has away of speaking to one in such an amazing way without words or with. I believe during this time the middle class was able to listen to some excellent music that made them feel maybe in an upper class. It most likely provide everyone to come together in this era and enjoy music. The music that I selected below I’ve heard before in choir back in Middle School. It was very different yet interesting to listen to and have an ear to another kind of music. 

 

   

“The Season of Autumn” is the song playing in the video I got from YouTube.com.   

   

Contemporary African music

http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/Styles_and_Genres/Traditional_and_Contemporary_African_Music.php

I’ve choose this Traditional African Music because it’s music that allows you to feel free and be yourself. It’s wonderful to listen to and dance. Alot of the dances nowdays orginated from this kind of music.

The other style of music in this article is Contemporary African music. It is very diverse yet; this style of popular music had alot of traits of the Western times in the mid-twentieth century. This was a time when recording music would start. Then latter formed into R&B music we hear today.  Also, may say it has alot to do with Jamaican reggae and Soul. All of these different styles of music are music I enjoy to hear. I guess we as country would have to pay our thanks to the Contemporary African music. It lead us to even more up beat typos and feel good music.
Here is an example of Contemporary African below here:

Traditional and Contemporary African Music

I also like Contemporary African music.  I’m a huge fan of the different geners of music i stated above.

Traditional African Music

http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/Styles_and_Genres/Traditional_and_Contemporary_African_Music.php

It doesn’t say who created it both kinds of African music or when it was created. It does state that Traditional African music is very old as have been around for sometime now. Its been passed down to generation to genration by orally. It wasn’t put on paper but, the instuments of percussion played a huge part of forming this kind of muic. I mean you have your drums, xylophones, and people who produce different tones maybe from a piano. This kind of music is usually heard at festivals or big celebrations. It gets you in the move to sway your body and have fun with it. Here is an example of Traditional African Music below here:

 

Art from The Street to The World

                                                   Myth like Creatures Up Close and Personal

 

Julian Beever

 Beever is an English man who started showing off his drwalings in 1990’s. He known for his creative drawlings on the street surface. The art is very life like and three dimensions. I really like how he can put real life things on payment and it look as if it was the real thing. Here are some pictures of his outsranding art below.

     “Cocito” from the Chalk It Up Festival in Pasadena, CA.
Produced by Kurt Wenner. This picture is very great from its color of a blue grey thing going on and the creatures look very real yet creepy coming out of the ground like that.

“Muses” in Lucern, Switzerland
Produced by Kurt Wenner. The angles seem very peaceful and happy in the pond he drew with them. I really like that he didnt use white for the wings but green to make them look for pleasing to the eye.

Kurt Wenner

Is also known for his paintings on the street and chalk morals. He was born in  Ann Arbor, Michigan. Wenner also has been in different magaizines and newspapers, because of is street art. His art tells different stories and is also very life like. Iskandar, the last king of Singapore in the 14th century by Kurt Wenner at the National Museum of Singapore.  This art shows an excellent story of a creature dying and and old man and young boy trying to help him. It very intersting.  Kurt Wenner attracted attention at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) as he created a street painting, by hand, with chalk. The big man is very unique, to see someone so huge like that in person is a shocker but then on payment. It something to see I would say.

“African American Music”

    The influence of African Americans Music

                                By Melvin Conn-Baird

African Americans first piece of musical language was Jazz. Jazz was the first piece of music African Americans sung or played to and also were Rap and Hip Hop originated from. One may think of the beat of ragtime, syncopation and driving brass bands to soaring gospel choirs. New Orleans is where is started from an then all over the USA. The city New Orleans was a live, different, yet spicy sounds of Caribbean an Mexico and a well accomplished large black population. Their were parades with Brass Bands marching in big numbers of people down the streets of New Orleans to comfort families during funeral. There were even great dances performed during some events in New Orleans as well. Later on these dances would become “Two Stepping” and future dance now that we as a country enjoy today.                                                                   

When Coactions musicians like such as a man name Benny Goodman added some black arrangements to his music, jazz began to move into the next era of music which was called Swing or Big Band period. This period would also stare up some great noise and music people would love to hear. Here is a piece by Benny Goodman I found on Youtube.com.

One great and known African American composer was Duke Ellington born in 1899-1974. Duke was a Pianist and also a conducted his own Orchestra,. His most popular work was C Jam Blues. Here is also a piece by Duke that I also have gotten from Youtube.com.

 

Romantic Era

Well I did enjoy this era . Well, lets start off with what is imperssionism movement.  In this era the  painting came from France during the 19th century of times. The Impressionist painters in this time were known to be radical. This was because they broke alot of  rules of picture-making. These kind of people found had found many things in life.  Instead of painting an ideal of beauty. Earlier artists had made, the impressionists tried to tell what they saw at that given moment.             

                        Berthe Morisot, Child among Staked Roses, 1881,   

Impressionism in painting came about due to dislike  with the classical and sentimental subjects. These painting were done better by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and done in the studio. The Académie had repeatly set ideas to follow of  the French art. The impressionists actaully went against the perfered ideas and lean to more of painting outdoors. This wonderful idea showed landscapes and street scenes and everyday life. Their main idea object was to preseant something wild and different.   Some known now impressionists are Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot. I love their paintings. They have such a great eye for art and imagiantion. The style of impressionist painting has several characteristic features.  Impressionist painters were known to use broken brushstrokes for brightness amd they often  use unmixed colors. This quality allowed amazing textured surfaces. rather than what was  favored at the time by popular artists. The colors in impressionist paintings overall very unique and interesting. The impressionists also gave their ideas, giving good detail to produce an overall effect.

The Post-Impressionists were not overall pleased with the subject matter and the of structure in Impressionist paintings. A man name Georges Seurat and his followers started something known as  Pointillism. Actually, Pointillism is the systematic use of tiny dots of color.  A man known as Paul Cézanne set out to g ive sense of order and better painting, to “make of Impressionism something solid and enjoyable in the art of the museums. The Post-Impressoinsts mainly painted alone. A man name Cézanne painted in isolation at a place known as Aix-en Provence. He was idenified by Paul Gauguin in 1891 basically took over residence in Tahiti and of Van Gogh. Gogh painted in the countryside at Aries.

  

 

  

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Impressionism

http://www.artmovements.co.uk/postimpressionism.htm

http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=212599

Baroque

                                                                Illusionistic ceiling painting

                                                                    By: Melvin Conn-Baird

 

I enjoy looking at the painting on the ceilings. They so real as if people are actually on the ceiling. The man who started the illusionistic ceiling was Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known simply as Correggio, (August 1489 – March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century.  He had a great eye for capturing some beautiful place as if they were in the sky.                 

The Illusionistic ceiling painting  is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which trompe l’oeil, perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other spatial effects are used to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an otherwise two-dimensional or mostly flat ceiling surface above the viewer.  Painted and patterned ceilings were a Gothic tradition in Italy as elsewhere; but the first ceiling painted to feign open space, was created by Andrea Mantegna, a master of perspective who went to Mantua as court painter to the Gonzaga.

 

Quadratura, a term which was introduced in the seventeenth century and is also normally used in English, became popular with Baroque artists. Although it can also refer to the “opening up” of walls through architectural illusion, the term is most-commonly associated with Italian ceiling painting.  Due to its reliance on perspective theory, it more fully unites architecture, painting and sculpture and gives a more overwhelming impression of illusionism than earlier examples.

Mr. Correggio would paint a feigned architecture in perspective on a flat or barrel-vaulted ceiling in such a way that it seems to continue the existing architecture. The perspective of this illusion is centered towards one focal point. The steep foreshortening of the figures, the painted walls and pillars, creates an illusion of deep recession, heavenly sphere or even an open sky. Paintings on ceilings could, for example, simulate statues in niches or openings revealing the sky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotto_in_su

Pieter Bruegel

Iv’e chosen Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Mr Brugeal is known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). His work was created in Venetiain. Back in the 16th and 17th centuries. Bruegel’s drawings and prints will be supplemented by three ‘dossier’ exhibitions they were small presentations with a primarily knowledgeable sight – hitting certain views. They show Master of the Small Landscapes (which is an artist from Bruegel’s circle who was the father of the Netherlandish village and country scene and apparently the maker of most of the drawings formerly attributed to Bruegel). Tthe import and export of art great prints in Antwerp and Brussels in the sixteenth century. They even show  intellectual climate in those cities between 1550 and 1585. His work is so amazing to look at think about while looking.

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