Antonio Vivaldi was the artist of my choice because I am actually more familiar with his music rather than the other artist listed. I chose Vivaldi because I am a fan of the string instruments because of the beautiful and graceful sound of the string instruments. Vivaldi specialized in string instruments so I had to choose his music. Another reason I chose to write about Vivaldi is because of his confident personality. He knew that he will produce an outstanding piece of music and in a short amount of time.
Vivaldi's musical contribution to the development of music during his timeline were his operas that he wrote. He wrote the operas for Venice but they were performed through Italy. Vivaldi's concertos were very dramatic the way he performed
No other composer or musical artist has made as big of an impact on music as Ludwig Van Beethoven. He influenced many other composers, and made some of the most beautiful pieces that are still played today. It is truly amazing that he was able to master his craft and become questionably the greatest composer that has ever lived, despite having a condition that would seem to make composing music impossible.
In the Baroque period, some composers are Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Pachelbel, and Handel. There, of course, are much more as these are just four composers. First, Vivaldi, his full name is Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Vivaldi was born in 1678 and grew to be an Italian violinist and a composer. He was born with angina pectoris or chest pain due to heart disease caused by his heart not gaining enough oxygen, he was also born with asthma. Due to these conditions, he was known for running out of the church, but he was also known to run out
Beethoven is perhaps the most famous musician of all time. His influence on later composers was extremely huge, to the extent where many composers were intimidated by his music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 into a family of musicians. His father and grandfather were both musicians at the court of Elector in the German town of Bonn. His grandfather was very respected, but his dad not so much given that he was an alcoholic. At a young age, Beethoven was put in charge of his family’s finances and started a job at the court. He composed music and helped look after the instrumentation. Around the same time, he began to write music. In 1790, an important visitor passed through Bonn: this was Franz Joseph Haydn. He was on his way to London for a visit when he stopped to meet Beethoven and agreed to take him on as a student when he came back from London to Vienna. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study with Hayden. Apparently, it did not go as planned. Hayden was old fashion and a little overbearing, while Beethoven was rebellious and headstrong. Beethoven found support among the rich arts who lived in Vienna. Prince Lichnowsky gave him board and lodging at his place for in return, Beethoven would compose music and preform at evening parties.
Throughout history, there have been many periods of time where music rose and fell in favor of the masses. Music was part of life during the old age in many areas such as religious services or entertainment among the elites. During the late 17th century which was known as the Baroque period, many famous composers such as Johann Pachelbel, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, and many others that were successful in adapting to the change of new music style. Among these famous composers, Antonio Vivaldi stood out for his unique style of music that innovated and revolutionized the Baroque period.
This one is quite self-evident. You are not restricted to any particular period or style. For example, if you favorite instrument is guitar, you can choose Eric Clapton and John Williams.
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele was a very eye opening book to read. I never realized before reading this book how big of an impact stereotype threat can have on people. I obviously knew of stereotyping, and all the different types of stereotyping there are, but I didn't realize how much of an impact it could have on education. When I think of stereotypes, I usually think of stereotyping different races, but this book brought to my attention that stereotyping can be towards gender, minorities in different situations, and many many more. After reading this book, I feel like it made me more conscious of what I say to people and the way I think of them. Also, it made me really open my eyes and made me aware for when I become a teacher and the way I portray others, and how it can effect them academically.
“Using motivation to overcome barriers… theme of black life in America, as it is for other groups contending with negative stereotypes” (p. 108), the aforementioned quote is an impeccable main overview of the novel Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele. Steele is a renowned social psychologist that, in this novel, centralizes on stereotype threats and its effects in society. Steele defines stereotype threat as a standard predicament of life that are intersubjective upon social groups based on identity (p.5). In Whistling Vivaldi, by Claude M. Steele, the topic of discussion included stereotype threats against certain identity groups and its potential effects among these groups.
Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4th, 1678. He was born in Venice Italy, where his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, was a professional violinist who taught Antonio to play too. Through his father, Vivaldi met and learned from some of the greatest musicians and composers in Venice at that time. Vivaldi tried very hard to get religious training and musical instruction. At the age of 15, he started studying to become a priest. He was officially confirmed as a priest in 1703. Due to his red hair, Vivaldi was ultimately known as "the Red Priest." Vivaldi's career in the clergy was very short-lived. His health problems had prevented him from delivering mass at church and it drove him to leave behind the priesthood he had shortly after his ordination. When Antonio reached the age of 25, he became named as the master of violin at the Devout Hospital of Mercy that was in Venice. He had composed most of his major pieces while he was named this, in over three decades. This hospital was an institution where orphans were taught. The boys were in trades
Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy. When he was childhood was probably playing the violin around venice and going to mass every Sunday. His religion was being a catholic and singing during mass every sunday. Antonio had eight siblings, four brothers and four sisters. They were Francesco Gaetano Vivaldi, Zanetta Anna Vivaldi, Cecilia Maria Vivaldi, Bonaventura Tomaso Vivaldi, Margarita Gabriela Vivaldi, Gerolama Michela Vivaldi, Iseppo Gaetano Vivaldi, and Iseppo Santo Vivaldi. When he was 25 he became a priest. He got a nickname called “The Red Priest,” because of his red hair. He retired after 3 years because of illness. After priesthood he work for an Italian prince.
The focal subject of Whistling Vivaldi is character, and, moreover, the distinctive ways individuals react to each other's personalities. Amid his times of research into social brain science, Claude Steele has considered a wide range of types of character, including, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, social introduction, class, and age. One of the premises of his exploration is that individuals will definitely judge each other on the premise of their personality. Moreover, Steele contends that each one of a kind personality has a related generalization—a sort of short-hand for seeing how individuals with that character will act. Stereotyping is, obviously, a typical type of extremism. For instance, a math teacher who expect that a female understudy won't be ready to comprehend the material is utilizing a sexist generalization—that ladies aren't great at math—to judge the understudy's conduct. Steele indicates how stereotyping, and the danger of being stereotyped, can apply an immense impact on various individuals' conduct.
Born in Venice in 1678, Antonio Vivaldi became a Catholic priest and a virtuoso violinist and was known as the most influential Italian composer of his time. He was a prolific composer who wrote more than 500 concertos, 230 of them for violin and the others for instruments ranging from cello, bassoon, oboe and flute to viola d 'amore, recorder, and lute. He also wrote 46 operas and sacred choral music, as well as 90 sonatas and numerous chamber music works. Due to his use of programmatic material in some of his musical works, such as Four Seasons, he is seen today as a pioneer in the development of programmatic music.
In the 1700s, Antonio Vivaldi composed his highly accredited Four Seasons concerto. The autumn movement in this concerto follows the allegro-adagio-allegro pattern. Vivaldi provided sonnets to go along with each movement to explain what the true meanings are. As a group, we felt it was necessary to provide all of our reactions to the piece. This allowed us to interpret what each of the others were visualizing throughout the composition. Some of our opinions may have varied, but overall the general mood of the piece allowed us each to have the same emotions toward the Autumn movement of the Four Seasons.
Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist born on the 15th of February 1564 in Pisa, Italy. Galileo had a great passion for science, his main areas being physics, astronomy, mathematics and engineering. Galileo is often referred to as the “father of modern observational astronomy” and the “father of modern science”.
Vivaldi's had a every successful career as a composer and musician in early life but did
As the ground started to shake and church bells began to ring all over the city of Venice, a sickly red headed baby boy was born to Camilla and Giovanni Vivaldi. Antonio Vivaldi was delivered at home by a mid-wife on March 4, 1678, in the middle of an earthquake. Little Antonio struggled to breathe and was not expected to live. Asking God to spare her son, Camilla vowed that Antonio would grow up to be a priest. Had Vivaldi died that day, the world would have missed out on one of the life’s greatest composers. Antonio Vivaldi loved music as a child, worked as a music teacher, and composed many wonderful works of baroque music.