Minimalist music

When considering the theoretical baselines of this module, I decided to look within myself, and consider what in my life embodies these ideas and concepts. Put mildly, I am a dance music fanatic. I perform regularly in Exeter as a DJ and when sifting through my record collection, I came across a record that really speaks to me personally, and in many ways, has a universal allure. The record was released on a German record label named Innervisions, and is called Acamar, written by a duo called…

After Keiler examines Bernstein’s logical fallacies, he dismantles Bernstein’s claims of the harmonic series as basis for all music. He writes that even the “simple diatonic scale requires…gross adjustment” (Keiler, 208). This is indeed true, with the fourth being 29 cents flat, the third 14 cents flat, and the seventh 12 cents flat (as compared to equal temperament tuning). Keiler also says the diatonic scale reaches into the outermost limits of the harmonic series. This is again factual, since…

born on September 13th, 1874, would become one of the most important influences on classical contemporary music. Born to a non musical family, Schoenberg was a primarily self-taught cellist and joined an amateur orchestra under the direction of Alexander Zemlinsky. He would later be instructed in composition by Zemlinsky, and in counterpoint by Oskar Adler. Schoenberg became prolific in music theory and composition while working his job as a bank clerk, and later quit this job to become a full…

Young. Basie’s soloing is relaxed, tight, and precise. The song ends with a final repetition of the riff and a burst of notes from the trumpet and trombone. This piece embodies the classic Basie style, with a tight groove, a repeating riff, and a minimalist…

One of the most admired minimalist composers of our time, Steve Reich, was born in New York City in 1936. His interest in music began when he was a teenager, starting with the piano and then switching to percussion after some time. He later formed a band with a friend during these early years. Reich’s passion for music continued to grow. He eventually attended Julliard, where he began listening to one of the greatest influences on his music—John Coltrane. Although Reich soon realized that he…

Music is my passion, I appreciate all music genres, but I favour country music. I enjoy the simplistic instrumentation as well as the timbre of country vocalists combined with the minimalist dynamic effects and sound processing that is applied to recordings, providing country music with a natural and raw sound, which I hope to replicate in the music I create throughout my studies and career. I hope to have a career in the music industry, and studying for a degree in music production is the most…

opportunity for music learning. During their preschool and primary ages, young children imply their positive attitude toward music, often experiencing with different sounds and tones. Frances Rauscher and her team of scientists conducted a study in which they observed the “dramatic enhancement in spatial and temporal tasks (up to 36 percent improvement)” in preschoolers when given piano training in “which they learned pitch intervals, fine motor coordination, fingering techniques, sight reading,…

Music is always in a constant cycle of change. Over 2000 years, the traditional customs of Western music was no different. Due to the social and religious developments that took place in Europe during these periods of time, concepts such as notes, scales, intervals, ideas all told stories about the character and lives of people through music. Music is a form that is defined as an expression of emotion through sound. To history, music is more than that. Utilizing what we know, recognizing…

Upton comments on the decrease in song writing throughout the music community in his article “Aspects of the Modern ArtSongWhile Modernist poems did not make for easy adaptation into song, the texts that Barber utilized for his compositions worked especially well. Barber was drawn to texts that had regular metric patterns…

backgrounds, we are finding that musical training can alter the nervous system to create a better learner and help offset this academic gap”. Often times, music is used for memorization. Teachers have set uninteresting things to music, such as the Preamble, to music so students will remember it. However, setting facts to music is not the only way music increases learning. In a study done by E. Glenn Schellenberg from the University of Toronto at Mississauga, discovered higher IQs in…