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A 12 page essay that addresses the technological and social contributions of each and interrelationships between them. The paper also addresses individual pieces by each composer and compares it to the advances made in music which sets these artists apart from others. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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and its composer(s), has a purpose in relationship to the currents of the day, especially in regards to what needs to be felt and expressed.
In addition to speaking to the times, each artist--Bach, Beethoven and The Beatles--advanced popular technology, in both the sense of instrumentality and music form. By comparing their
works we can build an understanding of how all of these are interrelated to the desires of the audience. Johann Sebastian Bach Todd McComb writes that: Bach is
considered by many to have been the greatest composer in the history of western music. Bachs main achievement lies in his synthesis and advanced development of the primary contrapuntal idiom
of the late Baroque, and in the basic tunefullness of his thematic material. He was able to successfully integrate and expand upon the harmonic and formal frameworks of the national
schools of the time: German, French, Italian & English, while retaining a personal identity and spirit in his large output. Bach is also known for the numerical symbolism and mathematical
exactitude which many people have found in his music -- for this, he is often regarded as one of the pinnacle geniuses of western civilization.
To understand why this is so important, one must understand that before the Baroque period, music mostly consisted of ballads
and little polyphony--which is the combining of instruments and voice in a set pattern. In fact, until the Baroque period, instruments were strummed for the pitch in the background
of a voice, and did not follow a patterned tune since voice was both the religious and common form of expression in music, not the music itself during Medieval years.
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