Charles Ives wrote the Country Band March about amateur musicians — people who make music for the love of it. In the Country Band March Ives combines a tune that […]
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Before television, radio, and the movies, it used to be a very big deal when the circus came to town. Circus parades and performances were always accompanied by marches called […]
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The Country Band March has 12 recognizable popular and folk tunes in it. But Ives was not the only composer to put borrowed tunes in his music. Many classical composers […]
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A. Kori Hill The Mississippi River is a big deal. It’s not the longest river in the US – that’s the Missouri. But it’s played a big role in American […]
Price’s Mississippi River (The River and the Songs of Those Dwelling upon Its Banks
Both Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams loved using folk music in their music. They were inspired by a „folk song revival“ started by an English musician named Cecil Sharp […]
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When the elder Strauss decided that Johann, Jr. should be a banker, his mother encouraged
Felix Mendelssohn’s father Abraham was a banker who didn’t want to deal with anti-Semitism
Probably no playwright has had more music based on his work than William Shakespeare. Felix Mendelssohn, Henry Purcell, Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi are just a few of the composers who’ve […]
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From the time he was young, Schumann knew that he wanted to write. The only question was, should he write words, or music? Eventually, Schumann became known as a famous […]
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