Music

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3,1847 and died on April 2,1922. He is the guy who we all have to thank for inventing the telephone, without him how could we communicate? In 1866 Bell experimented on the thought of how to produce vowel sounds. He came up with the thought of combing the note of electrically driven forks, which gave him the idea of telegraphing speech. Bell with the lack of electric knowledge, ask for help from a local electrical shop owner named Thomas A. Watson. After many months of working together the two finally accomplished something. On June 2,1875 Watson heard a sound coming from over Bell’s end of the wire, with some tinkering the device transmitted Bell’s voice to Watson. Bell soon begins to write a patent for his first telephone. Besides trying to complete the telephone, Bell was trying to help out the deaf children. He opened a school in Boston to train teachers to teach and tutor the deaf. He was also the professor of vocal physiology at Boston University. Alexander did many lectures and tutoring at this time, helping many deaf students. Bells health was not doing so well in 1875 because of the long nights, this led him to return to his parent’s house in Canada to recuperate. In 1875 after many years of working endless nights and with the financial help of George Sander and Mabel Hubbard, the two finish the telephone and Bell soon got a patent for the telephone in 1876.

Sigmund Freud was born on May 6,1856. He was the child of Jakob and Amaline Freud who also had 7 other children, but Sigmund was his mother’s favorite. He was the only one to have his own room and he could do whatever he wanted to. At the age of 17 he enter the University of Vienna to become a doctor. Freud studies the meaning of personality and characteristic. Freud came up with one of the first personality theory in 1901, known as the Theory of Psychoanalysis. The word psychoanalysis to us, means a doctor treating a nutty/troubled patient on a couch, making a lot of money. The theory is broken down into three section, the first being the central role of sexual instinct, the second the concept of infantile sexuality and the third is the dominate part played by the unconscious in shaping human thought and behavior. He thought that everything had a meaning to it and what we do all means something. When we do something accidentally we are really meaning to do it, we don’t do that accidentally. Like what he said we think so much on how to hide it, that we accidentally or what he might say, want to let it out. He also came up with the Three Level of Awareness; the consciousness stage, the preconscious stage and the unconscious stage. The consciousness stage consists of whatever a person is aware of at any given moment, the thought, the feeling, the sensation and memories. The preconscious stage is somewhat like a long-term memory, with the thoughts, feelings and experience of perception. It is something that you are not consciously thinking about at that moment but can lead you into a consciousness level. But with the unconscious stage you can’t be lead it into the consciousness stage. Its memories that are unpleasant or an anxiety provoking that was repressed. Thinks that you don’t want to think about and try to push to the back of your mind. Freud came up with many other good theories before is death in 1939, due to cancer.

The Romantic period lasted from 1825 through 1900. In the period it was made up of richer harmonies which are better to listen and more clearer. It contains a larger orchestral force, mainly emotional music. The rhythm is in a rubato tempos and it rarely changes into a metrical pattern. With a larger orchestra the music is very smooth, a wide range of instruments. The romantic composers were often inspired by literary, pictorial, and other nonmusical sources. Consequently, program music, or music that follows a nonmusical plan, was widely cultivated, leading to the development of the symphonic poem. Many Romantic composers in the 18th century were influenced by Richard Wagner, such as: Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, Strauss, Mussorgsky, Grieg and Sibelius.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a young composer who was inspired to write chamber music for the clarinet owning to his acquaintance with an outstanding clarinetist, Richard Muhlfeld. With Muhlfeld, Brahms wrote his “Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano” in 1891. Also in 1891 he wrote “The Great Quintet for Clarinet and Strings” and in 1894 “Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano.” These works from Brahms are perfect in structure and beautifully adapted to the potentialities of the wind instruments. Brahms orchestral works displays unmistakable and high distinctive deployment of tone colour, especially in his use of woodwind and brass instruments and in his string writing, but the main thing is that the colour deployed, rather than laid on for its own sake. A close relationship between