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From Village to Concert Hall: The Journey of Folk Melodies
…conduit for passing down stories, wisdom, and values across generations. Characteristics of Folk Music Characterized by simplicity and directness, folk music often utilizes traditional instruments and is marked by melodies…
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How Beethoven Created Incredible Music as a Deaf Composer
…especially when traditional hearing became almost non-existent. Beethoven’s late compositions, such as the last five string quartets and piano sonatas, were crafted during a period of near-total deafness. These works…
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
…Dresden and subsequently Vienna. Revolutionizing Opera In the 1750s, Gluck began to grow dissatisfied with the constraints of traditional opera seria. Influenced by the Enlightenment ideals of clarity, simplicity, and…
