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10 Products that Define Apple's Steve Jobs



As Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs resigns, 10 products that define this technological visionary extraordinaire are easily identified.


Steve Jobs quits as Apple CEO. (The Sydney Morning Herald, August 25, 2011, 12:21om.) The technological visionary and industry legend takes a bow from Apple.  He has been on medical leave since January 17.  Tim Cook, Apple COO, has been slated as Jobs' successor. However, Jobs will remain at Apple as chairman of the company's board.

As early as the mid-1970s, Steve Jobs has been the icon of the personal computers, with the advent of the Apple I in 1976, and the enhanced Apple II-e.  Whilst Apple II is apparently ancient compared to the latest Apple innovations now and most likely lives in the memory of those familiar with II-e and the early Macintosh, the design was amazing by the standards of those past years. It was also during that time (1981), that IBM launched its personal computer (PC). But it was with the Apple Computers in 1976 that Steve Jobs, (along with another Steve, Steve Wozniak), created the "personal" computer.

Ebb Tide (Song)

Songs / Down Memory Lane


"Ebb Tide" is a song written in 1953 by the lyricist Carl Sigman and composer Robert Maxwell.  The song describes the ebb tides, the ocean waves coming in and out to and from the shores.


There is a movie of the same title produced in 1937, which is a composition by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger. It's not related and should not be confused with the song itself.  




Video Credit:

Ebb Tide - Matt Monro.  Youtube, uploaded by 65Seasons.  Accessed August 5, 2011.  

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Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus

Claassical Music / Sacred Music: Mozart

 

Ave verum corpus (Hail, true body), (K. 618), is a motet in D major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. It is a setting of the Latin hymn Ave verum corpus. Mozart wrote it for Anton Stoll, a friend who was the church musician of St. Stephan in Baden bei Wien. The motet was composed for the feast Corpus Christi; the autograph is dated 17 June 1791. It is scored for SATB choir, string instruments and organ.

Motet
Motet is one of the significant genres of sacred Renaissance music. It can be defined as an unaccompanied choral composition based on a sacred Latin text. In general, motets used religious texts not in the Mass, as the latter already had standardized music.

Melody:
 \relative c' {
\key d \major
\time 2/2
\tempo "Adagio"
a'2 ^\markup {sotto voce} d4 (fis,)  a (gis) g2 g4 (b) a (g) g4 (fis)fis2 e2. e4 fis4 fis g g g2 (fis4) fis e1} 
\addlyrics  {
      A -- ve __ a -- ve ve2 -- rum Cor -- pus na -- tum de Ma -- ri -- a Vir -- gi -- ne}

Listen to the beautiful rendition of  Mozart's Ave verum corpus by the King's College Choir, Cambridge.  Uploaded by drwestbury. Accessed August 5, 2007. Another performance Mozart's Ave verum corpus is conducted by Leonard Bernstein with Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Uploaded by Shostakk, accessed July 13, 2008. A third one I also love listening to is this performance by James O'Donnell, Westminster Cathedral Choir - here. uploaded by Snezhinka9, accessed July 13, 2011.)  


History: 

Mozart composed the motet in 1791 in the middle of writing his opera Die Zauberflöte. He wrote it while visiting his wife Constanze, who was pregnant with their sixth child and staying in the spa Baden bei Wien. Mozart set the 14th century Eucharistic hymn in Latin "Ave verum corpus". He wrote the motet for Anton Stoll, a friend of his and of Joseph Haydn. Stoll was the musical director of the parish St. Stephan, Baden. The setting was composed to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi; the autograph is dated 17 June 1791. It is only forty-six bars long and is scored for SATB choir, string instruments, and organ. Mozart's manuscript contains minimal directions, with only a single sotto voce marking at the beginning.

The motet was composed less than six months before Mozart's death. It foreshadows "aspects of the Requiem such as declamatory gesture, textures, and integration of forward- and backward-looking stylistic elements". While the Requiem is a dramatic composition, the motet expresses the Eucharistic thoughts with simple means, suited for the church choir in a small town.

Franz Liszt quotes Mozart's motet in the piano piece Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky incorporates an orchestration of Liszt's transcription in his fourth orchestral suite, Mozartiana, Op. 61.

Trivia: 

Along with Mozart's Requiem, film composer Hans Zimmer also used Wolfgang Mozart's Ave verum corpus motet in the movie, The Lion King. (Accessed from Youtube, August 8, 2011).

Interesting article: Inside the Mind (and Studio) of Hollywood's Music Maestro. Buzzfeed. Accessed August 5, 2014.  "There are loads of art books and a small library of classical composers. There's a framed copy of Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus," which Zimmer calls "the perfect piece of music." The room is basically engineered for creativity." 


 
Resource:

Ave verum corpus by Wolfgang A Mozart. en.wikipedia.org.  Accessed August 5, 2007.


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