1980s music groups

In movies, music serves as an emotional cue for the audience. A scene can change dramatically with the music and can often create emotion in people. However, in books, there is no music and an author must use different methods to set the tone and evoke emotion in the reader. Through description and carefully selected words that is precisely what is done. Even though two words might have the same denotation, different connotations envoke various feelings in the reader. Different connotations also…

Vision and Sound: Polyphony in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s Walls The term polyphony, meaning multiple voices, has its origin in Western music. Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian thinker has adopted the term polyphony to explain the nature of Dostoevsky’s novels. In his Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics Bakhtin says that Dostoevsky makes his characters free from his control and allows them to have their own voices. In the same work, Bakhtin later says that…

Since then the use of sound, music effects, Hitchcock has used background score a lot. He has sometime asked his musicians to compose a news song for his film, for example being, Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" that had been inspired by the movie The Barefoot Contessa (1954)…

Performing theatre live, is the most exhilarating experience that I have ever had. When I am waiting to walk on stage for the first time, there are countless emotions running through me, but as soon as I take that first step into the light I am hit with a sense of overwhelming joy. During the past year of my life I have accomplished more than I ever expected. While studying at Gateshead College I have managed to improve my ability in all three disciplines. This has helped me both inside and…

Once, I had an interesting opportunity to participate in listening and enjoying a wonderful performance at Moorpark College, one month ago. This performance is named “Night Before Nationals,” which was presented by Moorpark College Forensics on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at 7:30 P.M. At first time I heard this public event, I honestly thought it was a performance about the United States and other countries. But after I had already bought the ticket, I just knew that “Night Before Nationals” was…

Harmonia Mundi is a chapter that speaks to how music has changed throughout history, how it continues to change through new ideas, and views on what defines music. It shows that as our understanding of music changes, the way we listen to and view music changes as well. The chapter is broken down into 5 main sections each highlighting a certain point or view one music. The beginning of the chapter detailed how in the beginning of time how the world is said to have been created by a…

James Tenney 's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion" felt calm and collected within the first few minutes. It reminded me of an electronic piece I composed for another class. However, about five minutes in, I became suddenly aware of the volume and sense of restlessness the composition was bestowing within me. There wasn 't much movement, pitch wise, and it felt like a wave of sound was crashing into me. The contrast between the barely audible beginning to the loud crescendo was so…

“My Experiences With Art” I believe art is all around us, whether it is something we see, or something we hear. Art has always been something very important to me. I’m not sure where my love of art began but it has always been something that is fun to me. I love art a lot and I believe I have a very artistic philosophy towards life. When it comes to my life, I live very carefree and “in the moment”. I live very passionately. I believe art is this way too. Many times when creating art things…

It only goes to show that the question that more than likely receives the most generic answers from an audience, can also be the hardest to answer truthfully. What is art? If you were to ask a group of one thousand people that very question, the chances are that the majority of them would answer it by saying something along the lines of “It is and expression of yourself and how you feel” and “Painting, drawing, sculpting, and photographs.” I refuse to be restricted to these two categories, only…

In Gayl Jones’ Corregidora one of the main texts focus and themes is centered and founded upon the blues. Through Ursa; the main characters singing of this specific genre of music, the reader is forced to recognize that Ursa’s singing ties in completely to her defined belief that her sole purpose is to “make generations” and her singing in a way fulfills that purpose as she in body can’t. The reader is given evidence to this by past recollections in the text, current statements that repeatedly…