...In the film, The Limey, there are different sound motifs that are used to help tell the narrative of the story and give the audience cues to how the action or character is related to the sound. Music or sounds help the audience associate and connect certain scenes with their implicit meaning. Wilson’s love for his daughter joined with a regret over lost time that might have, or should have been spent with her, leaves him bound to investigate and avenge her untimely death. “Tell me about Jenny”, is Wilson’s quest to find out what happened to Jenny and his quest causes the narration and action in this film. Wilson’s memories (flashbacks) of Jenny are what keeps him driven in his search for answers. The reoccurring sound motifs in this film are wind chimes, the sounds of the ocean (waves), Wilson’s humming and a unique melody of piano music. These reoccurring sound motifs aid the audience’s understanding of the film’s non chronological temporal order of the story. The film uses different sounds during flashbacks to help add or reveal new information to the viewer about Wilson’s past and the film’s scenes that occur out of the story’s chronological order. The flashbacks are used to create suspense and intrigue in the narration by gradually revealing the entire events of the story. The piano music motif is associated with Wilson’s quest for the truth about Jenny’s death. The piano music is used for different purposes throughout the film. One use of the piano music is...
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...non-smoker and non-drinker. I play church organ and I price clothes for a major retail store. I do children's sermons at church. I live in an apartment that is a two minute walk from my church. I grew up so shy that I wouldn't even talk to my relatives. I am prone to obesession. I have a phobia about deep water because I nearly drowned when I was a toddler. I almost choked to death on a Life Saver when I was a toddler. I am also a little afraid of police officers. I have severe sleep apnea but am otherwise healthy. My favorite colors are purple and peach. I have never seen a fireworks show. I like dogs and cats. I have owned unusual pets over the years: a tarantula, scorpion, and a centipede. My favorite food is tuna salad. When not busy with musical or occupational concerns, I enjoy walking, attending high school choir concerts, and working puzzles - jumbles, cryptograms and sudokus. My favorite singer is Brandon Heath. My favorite actor is Aaron Ashmore. I used to watch the former shows Alphas, the 80s vertsion of Beauty and the Beast, Butterflies, and Birds of Prey. I like shopping. My car is a teal green two-door 1998 Chevy Cavalier. My favorite movies are Now Voyager, and Carnival of Souls. I have played piano since I was four and used to take harpsichord lessons. I have played flute, piccolo and oboe. I used to volunteer at the library as a bookmender and at Salvation Army as a receptionist. I have absolute pitch and a photographic memory. I like trivia and poetry. I went to college...
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...LISTENING REPORT FORM Name: ___keith stone_________________________________ Listening Report #_34____ Composer: ____John Williams_____________________________________________________ Composition: ____Liberty Fanfare_________________________________________________ Genre(s): ____Symphonic Fanfare________________________________________________ If any of the questions do not apply to the piece of music being reported on, mark N/A. 1. If known, what was the composer’s intent in writing this piece? ________________________ __________It was for the celebration of the centennial of the Statute of Liberty. 2. What is/are the texture(s) of this piece? ___Polyphony_____________________________ 3. What is the type of ensemble/instrumentation? ___Flutes, piccolo, oboes, English horn, clarinets, bassoons, contrabassoon, horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano and strings.__________________________________ 4. Describe the beginning tempo. ____High classy ______________________________________________ 5. Does the tempo change? ___yes _____ If so, how often, and how drastically? _____Not drastically but the tempo does speed up like a rush.___________ 6. Describe the opening dynamics. ____High trumpet notes._____________________________________________ 7. Do the dynamics change? __yes______ If so, how often, and how drastically? _____The brass makes a lower note.__________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ...
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...Background Yamaha Corporation is a 125-year-old musical instrument maker headquartered in Japan. Yamaha Canada Music Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary and is responsible for promoting and selling Yamaha instruments in Canada. Yamaha is the largest instrument manufacturer in the world. It is also the prominent brand in this country. Despite this, challenges are plenty in the Canadian market. This paper will take a first look at a particular challenge related to Long & McQuade (L&M)—the largest retail chain in this country. The following are some important characteristics of L&M: 1) it prices aggressively versus other instrument dealers; 2) it buys up other dealers at an alarming rate, recently even breaking into the Quebec market—a market that had traditionally eluded it; 3) as the largest chain, it has tremendous buying power; 4) it owns or distributes a number of popular musical instrument brands which compete directly with Yamaha. Problem Like any good portfolio, Yamaha’s dealer network is most fruitful when it contains some diversity. From a risk management perspective, it is dangerous to rely on just L&M for growth in the future. Furthermore, since L&M pushes its own products on the sales floor more than Yamaha’s, it is believed Yamaha’s market share erodes every time L&M expands through acquisition (its favourite mode of expansion). Yamaha is the only musical instrument manufacturer with a Canadian head office and independent distribution...
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...Nicole Domangue The Harp The Harp is one of the most ancient types of stringed instruments. The world “harpa” or “harp” comes from Anglo-Saxon, Old German, and Old Norse words meaning, “to pluck”. It is unknown where the harp originated and no one knows what harp music sounded like in the pre-historical era due to the lack of a notation system back then. One of the earliest musical instrument discoveries showed a harp-like instrument on rock paintings that dated back to around 15,000 BC in France. Those who played the harp back then relied on memory and improvisation in order to perform. The first harps most likely evolved form the hunter’s bow and had a single string. Over time, as the harp continued to develop, more strings were added, although it maintained it’s basic bow shape. After some time, the harp evolved into an angle harp with a sound box in order to produce more volume. During the early centuries, the harp was one of the most popular instruments. It was the favorite instrument of the troubadours and minstrels. Most harps in the medieval and renaissance period were diatonic, and therefore became less popular over time as music became more complex. The Harp is large and sits on the floor with many strings that are strummed or plucked. Its strings are modified to play different pitches through the use of a pedal mechanism. Harps produce sound by vibrating strings, and the range of sound is determined by the number of strings it has. All string instruments have...
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...Vela Dhana Bheel Vela Dhana Bheel sings Bhajans- hindu devotional songs set to the music of Santaar, Manjira and Ghada Ghamela. The Bheels are a tribal community indigenous to many parts of India. Traditionally they were hunters and gatherers and lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle but in the present take up daily wage labor or work as farm hands. They espouse a unique culture of music evolved over years of social bonding and improvising instruments from materials in their immediate ecology. Bhajans are sung to celebrate the lives of famed saints and heroes and are eulogical in nature. Almost every village or community in India has a Bhajan mandali- a group of spiritual singers and instrumentalists. Vela Dhana Bheel belongs to a village called Gadhada, at Khadir Bhachau in Gujarat. He plays the Santaar along with an accompaniment of local percussions and his songs manifest philosophic notions and carry spiritual messages. One of the oft sung compositions revolves around an avowal made by King Ramdev Pir, an incarnation of lord Vishnu, at the time of his Samadhi- attainment of oneness with reality and eventual release from the mortal body. The king warns about evil begetting evil, thereby stressing the need to sow seeds in the form of good deeds. In rural Gujarati and strung to emotive local folk tunes his calling out to the divine is as sonorous as it is warm and simple. Information * Genres: Bhajan, Folk Instrumental * Instruments: Ghada Ghamela, Manjeera, Santaar ...
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...Mozart’s Sonata No. 11 in A-Major K. 331 Sarah Pool Salzburg College Dr. Oliver Kraft 01.12.2012 Mozart’s Sonata No. 11 in A-Major K. 331 Mozart wrote his eleventh sonata around the year 1778 while he was on a trip in Paris. Although the exact date is uncertain, he wrote a set of 4 sonatas in Paris, K. 300-333. However, they were not published until he was in Vienna in 1781. His travels around Europe during the 1770s were not the happiest of times because he was in his twenties and could no longer be considered a child prodigy. He wanted to write instrumental and secular works, but his jobs wanted sacred music (AQA Advanced Level Notes). This particular sonata has a beautiful first movement of variations, a minuet and trio for the second movement, and the “Rondo Alla Turca” third movement written in the Turkish style. When analyzing the first movement of this A-Major sonata, it is important to note that it does not follow the normal sonata form. A typical sonata would have an allegro as the first movement. Instead, this one has a variations movement with the tempo marked Andante Grazioso. It starts at a leisurely tempo, slower than a normal sonata would, but each variation gradually speeds up by bringing in smaller note values along with some contrasting variations in between. The first movement has a French character in 6/8 meter (Kinderman p.50). The French character was used because he wrote it while he was in Paris, and the 6/8 meter creates a pastoral mood. The...
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... Pupil’s Activities Good Morning Class! Good Morning Teacher! Let’s start our day with a prayer. Please lead our prayer ______________ the student will pray Okay, let me check the attendance, who is absent Today? Student will tell who is absent Good! Few are absent today 2. Review and drill Teacher’s Methodologies Pupil’s Activities Okay class! Based on our lectures, can you Give me a sample of musical instruments that you see here in the Philippines? If you want to answer, please raise your right hand. Yes _____________________? Flute, Guitar, Banduria, Drums,...
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...AUTHOR’S NOTE Don’t listen to anything I say. INTRO What does Anything Goes, Hello Dolly!, Les Mis and Wicked have in common with anything else that has ever existed? The answer at the bottom of the page (upside down “absolutely nothing”). It’s a strange world, musical theatre; we have all seen one, been in one, fantasized about starring in one, hate one or adore one. None the matter. When it comes down to it, we must come to realize that our proud, intelligent, gun-slinging species has created the most romantic and magical source of entertainment I have ever come to witness. How do other animals entertain themselves? Dogs chase their bums, cats get their nip-fix, dolphins screw, primates throw excrement. Humans deride at our beastly brethren for their means of amusement, yet I have little doubt if you sat a gorilla in the mezzanine to watch a hoard of synchronized singers and dancers telling their story in front of him, he would think “What the hell are these idiots doing? I want my stick back.” Yet what makes it so real? Where does the allure come from? The high notes or the kick lines? The consistency or the insanity? I have but one theory. One of my favorite words is “romance”. Not, of course, in the way you are probably thinking. I’m thinking in the broadest sense of the word. Not the squishy “I love you, you love me, so-on-and-so-forth mediocrity.” Not the “Oh, Shannon” and, “William, my sweet love.” Give me a break. The romance I’m talking about is the surreality...
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...hearing semantically neutral utterances spoken with emotional (i.e., happy, sad, fearful, or angry) prosody, or tone sequences that mimicked the utterances’ prosody, participants identified the emotion conveyed. In Experiment 1 (n 20), musically trained adults performed better than untrained 56), musically trained adults outperformed untrained adults. In Experiment 2 (n adults at identifying sadness, fear, or neutral emotion. In Experiment 3 (n 43), 6-year-olds were tested after being randomly assigned to 1 year of keyboard, vocal, drama, or no lessons. The keyboard group performed equivalently to the drama group and better than the no-lessons group at identifying anger or fear. In the past 10 years, the possibility of links between musical and nonmusical domains has generated excitement among researchers and the popular press. One line of research concerns short-term benefits in nonmusical domains that occur as a consequence of passive listening to music. In two widely cited studies (Rauscher, Shaw, & Ky, 1993, 1995), listening to music composed by Mozart led to temporary improvements in spatial abilities. As an instance of crossmodal priming, this result is remarkable because the priming stimulus (music) is seemingly unrelated to the task being primed (a spatial task). Subsequent research indicates, however, that the so-called Mozart effect has nothing to do with Mozart in particular or with music in general (Nantais & Schellenberg, 1999). Rather,...
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...APPLICANT INTERVIEW RATING SHEET Position: General Office Support Staff Applicant name:_________________________ Questions (Allow 20-30 minutes) Comments 1-low, 6-high Secretarial Skills 1. Using past work experience, discuss how you might handle a situation where you are asked to do several tasks at the same time to meet staff needs. 1--2--3--4--5--6 2. What kind of supervision have you had in the past and how have you responded to it? 1--2--3--4--5--6 3. Your reception duties will call for you to hand numerous questions from students and staff. How would you handle questions that go beyond your knowledge? 1--2--3--4--5--6 Interpersonal Skills 4. Drawing from past work experience, describe several situations where you had to interact with "difficult people" and how you handled the situations. 1--2--3--4--5--6 5. Comment on the following: "Students are the most important people in our business." 1--2--3--4--5--6 6. This office is many times "all things to all people." How do you see your skills and personality fitting into that expectation? 1--2--3--4--5--6 Professional Ethics/Behavior 7. Tell us how you have handled past work situations that required "confidentiality." How might that procedure impact this office? 1--2--3--4--5--6 8. Discuss your understanding of the word "teamwork" and how you have been involved with that process on the job or in other settings. How might teamwork (or lack of it) affect an office...
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...Some ideas and advice to enhance your music writing experience: 1. Write the Lyrics for Your Song Many musicians write their own melodies as well as the lyrics. If you already have lyrics, consider them when writing your melody. Some questions to ask yourself before composing the music are: What words do I want to focus on? Are there note lengths or timing that will accommodate certain words better than others will? Consider the following line: I DROVE my CAR down the HIGHWAY. The emphasized words DROVE, CAR and HIGHWAY give the listener an idea of what is going on, even if these are the only words they hear. On the other hand, if you sing the same line but emphasize different words: I drove MY car DOWN THE highway. The listener might have no idea what you're singing about. You can emphasize words with a louder note, changing the note itself, a longer note or including a rest before or after the note. Experiment with your song and see what sounds the best. 2. Listen to and Learn from Other Composers There is something to be learned from every single musician or band out there. Listen to how your favorite musicians construct their songs—examine the style, the tone, how different instruments work together and so on and so forth. You can implement many of the same ideas into your own music or even take some of their riffs and tweak them to fit your style. This is a great way to come up with new melodies. 3. Use Music Composition Software Music composition software...
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...Name: Laina Roberts Mus 206 Week 4 Homework Define the following using my lecture, your own words, or the glossary in the book and course site. Chapter 9 Fanfares - 1) A short, lively, loud, militaristic composition usually composed for brass instruments and timpani. A fanfare is usually warlike or victorious in character. 2) A flourish of horns or trumpets. Jug Band - A folk music ensemble that uses a stoneware (or glass) jug as the bass & rhythm instrument along with a mixture of traditional and improvised instruments. The jug band would normally have the jug and some form of guitar or mandolin. There would often be rhythm instruments such as spoons or washboard, a home-made kazoo, and possibly a washtub bass. Octave - An interval spanning seven diatonic degrees, eleven semitones. An octave above C would be C. The frequency of a note one octave above another will have exactly twice as many Hertz as the frequency of the note an octave below it. Chapter 10 AM Radio Beats - The regular pulse of music which may be dictated by the rise or fall of the hand or baton of the conductor. by a metronome, or by the accents in music. See conducting patterns. 2) A throbbing that is heard when two tones are slightly out of tune. 3) The English term for mordent, an embellishment consisting of the principal note and the note below it, resembling a short trill. Cool Jazz Existentialism FM Radio Guiro - A Latin percussion instrument consisting of a gourd with grooves...
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...Graphic Rating Scales Definition: ← The oldest and most widely method used for performance appraisal. ← A scale that allows the rater to indicate an employee’s performance on a variety of job behaviors. ← The Rating Scale is a form on which the manager simply checks off the employee’s level of performance. Graphic rating scales require an evaluator to indicate on a scale the degree to which an employee demonstrates a particular trait, behavior, or performance result. Rating forms are composed of a number of scales, each relating to a certain job or performance-related dimension, such as job knowledge, responsibility, or quality of work. Each scale is a continuum of scale points, or anchors, which range from high to low, from good to poor, from most to least effective, and so forth. Scales typically have from five to seven points, though they can have more or less. Graphic rating scales may or may not define their scale points. How is it used? ← It is used to indicate on a scale the degree to which an employee demonstrates a particular trait, behavior, or performance result. Acceptable rating scales should have the following characteristics: 1. Performance dimensions should be clearly defined. 2. Scales should be behaviorally based so that a rater is able to support all ratings with objective, observable evidence. 3. Abstract trait names such as "loyalty," "honesty," and "integrity" should be avoided unless they can be defined in terms of...
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...Connor Sikes Instructor: Liz Edsen English 1300- 002 25th, September 2013 Discourse Community (Musician) "Its a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So its a wonderful thing to do"(Marcus Miller). When I became a musician, a quote like this ran through my mind like a spinning record. It still amazes me how even after eight years I still have so much to learn down the road. Being a musician has really enlightened me with the motivation to put the effort in making and playing great music with others or by myself. Music is a form of expression in which many emotions can be shown from happiness, depression or rage. Music gives people the chance to express themselves without using words of their own and instead through emotional music or just simply a great song they love. Musicians without question successfully manifest Swale's characteristics of a discourse community. When it comes to musicians, setting goals is the first step to achieving success. If musicians don't know exactly where they want to go, then how can they know which paths will lead them there? Music has been alive since the beginning of time basically. Mankind in general used many forms of sound like rocks in the stone age, medieval times used wind instruments like flutes or a recorders, and the renaissance era used string instruments such as Violins or Piccolos . Music has many types of genres to this day from jazz, rock, country, classical, and many more...
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