Getting Started with

Microsoft Word 2007

What is included in Getting Started:

The tutorial movies found in the Getting Started with Microsoft Word 2007 series
demonstrate how to use the basic tools found in the application to create an
example research paper about the composer, J.S. Bach. The tutorials will guide
you step-by-step through the process of adding and formatting text, inserting,
editing, and manipulating images in the document, and creating a bibliography of
research sources.
The text for the example project begins on the next page, so you can follow along
and re-create the example, as it is demonstrated in the tutorial movies. This
project is intended to complement the skills taught in the Microsoft Word 2007
Intro series of tutorials.

What you will need for Getting Started:

A computer with Microsoft Word 2007 installed

The Getting Started tutorial movies
The sample text included for this project
A printer (optional)

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Sample text used for the Getting Started Project:

Use the text below to complete the example project, as it is demonstrated in the
tutorial movies for Getting Started with Microsoft Word 2007:
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
Who Was This Man?
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is considered to be one of the greatest
composers in Western musical history. This assessment would probably have come
as a great surprise to the composer, since Bachs musical career was very similar
to that of many other successful musicians who lived during his time in Lutheran
Germany. Yet, several hundred years after his death, his music continues to be
played and studied everywhere, and the genius of his compositions continues to
influence and inspire musicians through the present day.
Early Life
J.S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. He was the youngest
child of Johann Ambrosius Bach, a town and court musician, and Maria Elisabetha
Bach. His father began teaching him how to play the violin at a very early age,
and another relative instructed the youngest Bach on the organ.
J.S. Bachs parents both died when he was only 10 years old. He went to live with
his older brother, Johann Christoph Bach, who was a professional organist. By the
time he was in his early teens, he had mastered a number of different instruments,
and at the age of 18 he began his first job as a lackey and violinist in the court
orchestra in Weimar. After a short tenure with the orchestra, he took a job as a
church organist in Arnstadt.
Bach had extremely high expectations and insisted on perfectionism, both from
himself and also from fellow musicians. This did not always sit well with his
colleagues and caused him to gain a reputation for being quarrelsome and
demanding. In 1707, when he was just 22 years old, he left his position in Arnstadt
complaining of the lousy musical standards and took another organist position in
Muhlhausen. His stay at St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen didnt last long,
however, and he soon fled back to Weimar where he assumed the position of
organist and concertmaster in the Weimar Chapel. He stayed in Weimar for nine
years, and it was here that he began composing major works, including organ
showpieces and cantatas.
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Emerging Greatness
As his work in Weimar became known, his growing mastery of compositional forms,
such as the fugue and the canon, began to attract a lot of interest from the musical
establishment. He was soon recognized as a brilliant, yet inflexible, musical talent,
sought after for his abilities on the organ, and performing regularly as a solo
virtuoso. But, like many people with great artistic talent, he lacked the ability to
play political games, and as a result, was passed over for the much-desired
position of Kapellmeister (Chorus Master) of Weimar.
Partly in response to this rejection, he left Weimar in 1716 to become the courtconductor in Anhalt-Cothen. During this phase in his career, he turned his
attention to instrumental composition, producing one of his most beloved works,
the Brandenburg concerti.
After seven years at Cothen, Bach took a highly prestigious, though demanding,
position as the cantor for the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. His duties included
composing cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conducting the
choirs, overseeing the musical activities at numerous other churches, and teach
Latin to boys in the St. Thomas choir school.
Again, he experienced some difficulties getting along with the court and the
Leipzig church officials, but his persistence and skill ensured his continued
employment there. Bach held the position in Leipzig until his death in 1750
More than 1,000 of his compositions survive. Some important and familiar
examples include:
Art of Fugue
Two & Three Part Inventions
Brandenburg Concerti
Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord
Mass in B-Minor
Motets
Easter and Christmas oratorios
Toccata in F Major
French Suite No 5
Fugue in G Major & Fugue in G Minor ("The Great")
St. Matthew Passion
Jesu Der Du Meine Seele.
The Bach Family
In 1707, the same year that he left Arnstadt, he married his cousin Maria Barbara
Bach. Together they raised four children. Maria Barbara died while Johann
Sebastian was employed in Anhalt-Cothen. Shortly after her death, Bach remarried
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Anna Magdalena, for whom he composed the charming pieces that comprise the
Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach. Bach had 13 children with Anna Magdalena
six of whom survived childhood.
The family talent for music, which had been evident in J.S. Bachs father and
siblings, was passed on to Bachs own children. Three of his sons: Wilhelm
Friedmann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Christian Bach, are recognized as
very fine composers in their own right. Altogether, the Bach family produced 53
highly regarded musicians over a period of 300 years.
References
Boyd, Malcolm. Bach. London: Dent, 1983
Grout, Donald Jay, Cornell University, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western
Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1960.
Geiringer, Karl. Johann Sebastian Bach. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in
Documents. New York: Schirmer Books (Macmillan, Inc), 1984.
The J.S. Bach Homepage. 2008. Jan Hanford and Jan Koster. http://www.jsbach.org./

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