...off with “O quam gloriosum est regnum.” This piece was written by Tomas Luis De Victoria, whom lived from 1548-1611. After studying the history of music, I could tell that this music was from the time period because there were fluctuations in the sound, yet the sounds did not vary as much as they did later in history. I also noticed that this performance did not have any musical accompaniment, thus making it A Cappella. From then on, I realized that the chamber choir is an A Cappella group. After this song, the group sang another piece of work from De Victoria and slowly worked their way to more recent works. My favorite piece in this concert was Magnificat, written by Arvo Part. This song was magnificent and I enjoyed the crescendos and decrescendos that the singers were able to accomplish while using Latin. The singers exerted great emotion while singing this piece and I could definitely tell the passion exerted through seeing the faces of the singers during the performance. I believe all of the pieces of the concert were great; however, Magnificat stood above the rest in my opinion because of the passion of the singers during the performance. Overall I enjoyed the concert. It was definitely a cultural experience since I did not know what a chamber choir was. Also, I was not sure if I would enjoy A Capella music, but I did enjoy it due to the variation. I thought the signing was beautiful, especially with the choir consisting of sopranos, altos, tenors, and...
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...Musical Experience You must either attend a live concert, watch a video or television performance, listen to an entire CD or watch a musical movie. You must only use something from this quarter for this assignment (not a concert you saw in another quarter). You may choose any type of music for this paper. Requirements for this Assignment: fill in the boxes below. Describe the Concert Setting and media (Video, CD, DVD, Live Performance): Grease | Date of concert, place of concert, name of group, programs provided, program notes provided, spoken remarks, include the names of all the selections: Date of Concert: June 16, 1978Place of Concert: United StatesName of Group: Grease CastProgram provided: DVDAny Spoken remarks: Various Movie QuotesNames of ALL the Selections you listened to: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing""Grease" – Frankie Valli"Alma Mater""Summer Nights" – Danny, Sandy, Pink Ladies and T-Birds"Rydell Fight Song" – Rydell Marching Band"Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" – Rizzo and Pink Ladies"Alma Mater Parody" – T-Birds"Hopelessly Devoted to You" – Sandy"Greased Lightnin'" – Danny and T-Birds"La Bamba" – Ritchie Valens"It's Raining on Prom Night" – Cindy Bullens"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" – Jerry Lee Lewis"Beauty School Dropout" – Teen Angel and Female Angels"Rock n' Roll Party Queen" – Louis St. Louis"Rock n' Roll Is Here to Stay" – Johnny Casino and the Gamblers"Those Magic Changes" – Johnny Casino and the Gamblers; Danny sings along onscreen"Tears...
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...Wallace did not have very good diction. The words he sang seemed to have country slang although it is German. Overall, Dr. Jones did a very good job at preparing his students to perform in front of a large crowd of people and I was impressed. One song I noticed that I did not like the most was “Come to my Garden,” from the musical, Secret Garden by Lucy Simon. Sydney Hough, soprano, and Katherine Brown, mezzo-soprano, sang this as a duet. This musical was on Broadway in 1991, making it one of the more contemporary musicals. I believe the more recent the musical the easier it is in some aspects because as music has progressed since Mozart and Beethoven, it lost the classical touch old music had – it loses the need for technique. . Sydney Hough began singing first, and was followed by Katherine. Sydney’s performance was very good; she seemed to be in sync with the music. Her tone was dark, and in her lower range was sometimes too airy. Katherine’s singing, I thought, was not good. Her diction was poor and her intonation with Sydney was poor. They harmonized towards the end of the song, and maybe out of nervousness or lack of practice, Katherine became flat and out of tune. I really did not hear much change dynamically, pulling away from the performance. Compared to the duet last on the program, this piece sounded very unprepared and mediocre. My favorite piece of the evening was “The Flower Duet,” from Lakmé sang by two sopranos, Jennifer Pagano and Shana Mayerand. The...
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...The articles are related to music generation features referred papers based on high standard with detailed and informative purpose and claims in order to be reviewed by other peers. Music generation research has approach human and science to make our life become more and more completed in many ways to enhance human cognition, emotion, physiology and endocrine throughout the experiments and study . In this paper we will be analyzing the benefits and effectiveness of music interventions helps people in many other fields like computation, data machine, entertainment and especially human cognition. There are eight sources below to illustrate the range of task and main purposes of music applying the electrophysiological, biochemical measurement...
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...Music is more than hearing a favorite song on the radio or a popular artist on stage performing in front of thousands of people. Although that maybe a great way to start someone’s day, music is bigger than celebrities are. In today’s society, music is changing people’s lives. Music is now more capable of changing someone rather than just riding to tunes on the way to the grocery store. Music has served as medicine to help those who are incompetent, struggling with disabilities, the elderly, and children. Music is therapy. In a recent study, “The modem use of music therapy in hospitals developed during the 1950s in Europe and the United States. Many physicians began to use a multidisciplinary approach to medicine and, recognizing the soothing effect of music, provided music therapy to patients who were...
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...Genuine voices, is an organization that brings music to juvenile jails. They allow the kids to make music with trained instructors. This program is good for the children, because it can help make their time in the jail pass a little faster. It also gives the kids something to look forward to. Some boys are making songs for a program called “Music is Medicine” which is given to children who have terminal illnesses. These songs not only make the boy creating it feel better, but also make the child listening to it feel better. It is a common thought that the boys have nothing to contribute to society, but the “Music is Medicine” program is another example of how they could still help society. Wilkerson thinks that the reason society thinks...
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...As a child, I thought I had so much time to figure out what I wanted to do when I got older; however, since I’ve started high school I learned that it is expected that students know or at least have an outline of what they plan to do when this is all over. Music has always been a passion of mine and always will be. I’m currently weighing the benefits and setbacks of becoming a songwriter or a private music teacher. These occupations are both related to the music industry, similar in education, and environment, but differ in earnings and the qualities needed to perform different tasks. The education for both of these careers is minimal. A degree may help me if a client is picky about credentials, but after high school I can begin working....
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...The demand for country music song writers is fast increasing, with more and more musicians widely accepting that their country songs are in part the product of someone else's words or instrumental. The fact is that song writing, like many other art forms, tends to be a collaboration. You may have a great idea that can be clarified and perfected by working with a ghost writer or other musician. Country tunes, unlike most other genres of music, emphasize the lyrics. In country, the words make the song and usually tell as story. Country music song writers are known for straightforward yet unique lyrics that tell a story. People tend to associate country to feeling at home because there is familiarity in the words that attracts people to the songs. This is, to a certain...
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...I. INTRODUCTION I went to a concert held at Carnegie Hall in New York, New York, on Sunday, February 14, 2016. The concert was performed by The Cleveland Orchestra. It was an all-Mozart program conducted by Mitsuko Uchida. The concert performed 3 pieces of Mozart’s work: Piano Concerto No. 17, Symphony No. 34 and Piano Concerto No. 25. I chose to focus on the last piece played in the concert Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503. II. BACKGROUND OF COMPOSITION The work is a concerto completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on December 4, 1786, and it is the last of the twelve great piano concertos written in Vienna between 1784 and 1786. The concerto is one of Mozart's longest with a duration of about 33 minutes. It has the following three movements: Allegro maestoso, Andante in F major and Allegretto. The Piano Concerto No.25 concerto has long been neglected in favor of Mozart's more "brilliant" concertos, such as Piano Concerto K. 467. Though Mozart performed it on several occasions, it was not performed again in Vienna until after his death, and it only gained acceptance in the standard repertoire in the later part of the twentieth century.[1] Mozart's pupil, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, valued it, as can be seen in the influence it had on Hummel's own Piano Concerto in C, Op. 36.[2] III. FORM AND GENRE The concerto was performed by The Cleveland Orchestra, with the famous musician Mitsuko Uchida as the conductor and pianist. The Form...
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...For my very first site observation, I visited the music therapy clinic on the sixth floor of Robert Glidden Hall. I got to observe Elyse Suhay MT-BC, holding a session with an 11-year old boy who has autism. It was amazing being able to see an intervention in real time. I learned a lot from this first observation. I picked this session to observe because I know I want to work with children after I graduate. I feel like this was a great site to do my first observation, because we were in a separate room from the client; so it didn’t make me nervous, or feel intimidated. The only thing I wish was different was the fact that the child knew we were observing from the next room over. A couple times during the session the child would run to the glass, and try to look through because the child knew we were on the other side. I feel like that was one of the major distractions to the child....
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...who loves listening to music on the radio and listening to the meaning of the lyrics and the story being told. For example, when I hear country music the meaning of the song can be identified pretty easily through the lyrics and how the artist uses different tones and emotion. When it comes to jazz music the story and meaning behind the song are hard for me to find. Before reading any section of the book I believe jazz is broken down into two sections, the sound from the instruments and the vocals to accompany the instruments. While today's country music focuses more on the lead singer, jazz has an emphasis on the singer along with the sound from the various instruments being played. For the most part, I think jazz is the combination of saxophones, trombones, and other wind instruments. Some Jazz pieces may include vocals, but the focus of the piece are the instruments and the sounds they produce as a whole. While there are different instruments in jazz bands the saxophone is the lead instrument that has center stage with the majority of the solos. While instruments are the main focus in jazz pieces there are jazz songs accompanied with lyrics. For the most part, I think jazz music implements lyrics into the music when the there...
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...Christian Music is my favorite genre of music. Now, the term ‘genre’ means “a specific type of music, film, or writing” according to vocabulary.com, but my example is a little bit broader than the actual definition of a genre. The ‘genre’ of Christian music is a very broad and wide subject to cross. So, if I were to narrow it down a bit into more understandable ranges I could say my favorite genre was contemporary Christian music or pop Christian music. I chose this genre because it is what I listen to most. I listen to contemporary Christian music a lot because it is uplifting and makes me feel better and in a good mood. Sometimes I can apply the songs to my life and I get a creepy, weird sensation inside my body, throughout my veins, and...
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...Music is different for certain people and it means different things. Music is also a way of which sound expresses ideas, thoughts, and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony. I like with me when listen to music it makes me feel all different type of ways like maybe happy and sometimes sad. Music can make a human really emotion of it could take all of the pain away and make you feel so much better. When I listen to certain music there are different emotions certain music have different effects. The music that I relate to for comfort depends on the situation at hand. If I am in a situation that I know only God can see me through it, then I lend to Gospel. When listening to gospel I am feeling depressed...
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...The genre of music is made up of many styles and forms that have been shared throughout cultures and traditions. Many styles have caught on quickly and are loved by many whereas others have been more controversial and caused differences among people. No matter what types of music one may listen to it is usually the beat and style that suits that person during that time in his or her life or the mood he or she are in at that moment. The melody and harmony interact to create a masterpiece for one’s ears. The development of music was probably drum related instruments that someone started hitting that made beats and when different objects were hit there were different sounds made. “These simplest of simple instruments are thought to have been used in religious ceremonies as representations of animals. There was no notation or writing of this kind of "music" and its sounds can only be extrapolated from the music of (South) American Indians and African natives who still adhere to some of the ancient religious practices” (Hollis, 2012). Darwin (1871) noted that the human musical faculty “must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed” (Masataka, 2007, p. 35-39). Music has developed and evolved from just a few beats to being one of the most enjoyed past times of all time. Music has evolved from prehistoric music, middle ages, the Renaissance to modern day. After the Renaissance period music developed more from styles other than composers who created...
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...Laura Gachet 28/10/13 Research Paper outline Topic: Music Thesis statement: Music is a determining vector of information, which brings people together. AV: Music does not have any influence on society and is not linked to people’s behaviour. Paragraph 1 Music has a strong influence on behaviour Ex: Rap music and violence, influence of music on particular groups. (Scruton) Paragraph 2 Music has socials functions General music tastes (Frith) Paragraph 3 Communication of ideas through music: music is an information vector. Involved artists (ex: Mandela, Bob Marley) Gathering power (Jennings) Work Cited Berry, Venise « Redeeming the rap music experience », Writing in the disciplines a reader and rhetoric for academic writers. 7th ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy and William J. Kennedy: Pearson 2012. 517. Print. Jennings, Lane « Digital music: You are what you listen to », Writing in the disciplines a reader and rhetoric for academic writers. 7th ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy and William J. Kennedy: Pearson 2012. 532. Print. Rosen, James « Of iPods and dirty underwear », Writing in the disciplines a reader and rhetoric for academic writers. 7th ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy and William J. Kennedy: Pearson 2012. 535. Print. Scruton, Roger « Music and Morality », Writing in the disciplines a reader and rhetoric for academic writers. 7th ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy and William J. Kennedy: Pearson 2012. 511. Print. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447759/ (rap music is bad for AA girls health)...
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