For many years, musicians and vocalists worldwide have been performing Messiah. A piece that has been composed and re-created many times, by Handel himself and his peers and fellow composers. Messiah is an English- language Oratorio composed initially by Handel that has grown more popular over the years due to the rise in historically informed performance and the need to recreate a piece that has been put on the library shelf for too long and play it as it would have been played in the composers
During the time of John Sebastian Bacch people may have known him as an amazing organ player for Lutheran the church, but in today’s society he is recognized as one of the most greatest composers of all time. From Bach’s composition of St Matthew passion to his sets of work like Sonatas and partitas for solo violin he created an innovation of music that he or no one saw coming. John Sebastian Bach created many songs and hymns that were sang in the church. Though at the time he wrote primarily for
4. What impact did World War One and World War Two have on society as a whole? How did it impact culture, music, art and how people interacted with each other? Do you agree with the often used term “Lost Generation” to describe the generation post WWI? Why or why not? (Define Lost Generation in your answer.) World War I’s impact on society saw the demise and fall of the Austria-Hungary and Russian Empires. As a result new countries were established causing communism to increase in Eastern European
studied such varying accounts of cross cultural encounters happening within the long nineteenth century, spanning from people from all over the East and the West, and all of them coming from different positions of power and backgrounds, with all of their observations being heavily punctuated by different motives and biases, helps one gain a lot of perspective over the entire situation. The impact that the dealings of these people have had on the world as we now know it also becomes clearly evident