Music Essay

Fredi Pritchett Music 110-08B December 2, 106 J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor On November 5, 2016, I attended the J.S. Bach Mass in B Minor music concert at Converse College, featuring a performance by the Spartanburg Festival Chorus. I enjoyed the musical selections performed by the chorus and saw a few familiar faces of some of my classmates at the concert as well. The venue of the concert was very nice and a lot of older people attended the concert. The music of the concert was nice to me and the…

Hearing a rhythm or melody and calling it ‘music’ with no further analysis or specificity is perhaps the most vague definition on earth. Music is, in fact, so much more. Not only can music span across all sorts of genres, but these genres can be divided even further and made more specific by looking at the number of musicians performing - that is, the orchestral, ensemble, and solo music. Style, perhaps, fluctuates the most of all aspects of a performance with the size of the group. Large…

The music industry is changing more and more every day, and as time moves on it will continue to change as the cycles come into there prime and fall out of there prime. I truly believe that Grooveshark was initially moving in the right direction, or at least I believe there end goals were in line with where the industry looks to be going. The part of Grooveshark’s strategy that I could never agree with was the fact that they allowed others do the dirty work for them. The process in which they…

Musicians are an abstraction to people because of the content they produce in their music and what they do personally that can hurt, offend, and even change others, whether in a positive or in a negative way. Dehumanization is treating someone like they are not human and form opinions on people that aren’t read. People from all around the world have an idea on what they want to do in their life, and in most cases is to become a famous celebrity like an actor, musician, or even an athlete, so…

Horowitz recorded four times of the Third in his lifetime,including the first one with Albert Coates in 1930, the second one with Serge Koussevitsky in 1950, the well-known recording with Fritz Reinerin 1951, and the live recording with Eugene Ormandy in 1978. As the first recording of the third piano concerto, Horowitz played with many his own musical interpretations. In his 1930’s recording, Horowitz started the piece with half note equals 65, which is much slower than Rachmaninoff’s He then…

know the exact definition and history of pop music, when really there's not one. Many believe that pop music has all been the same, when it has changed multiple times and still is changing. The history of Pop music is important because it tells you how the world’s culture has changed. Unlike country or rock, pop music isn’t a specific category. The term for pop music has been changing all of the time. At first it was known as popular music (“Pop Music History Facts and Timeline” 1). The term of…

What I think I did well: I think I played long notes well and extended the notes to their full value, for example, in measures 6-8 I didn’t pause in between the half notes. I also think I articulated well because at the slurs I didn’t tongue and on the notes without slurs, I remembered to tongue them. There are many measures in the song where there are slurs, but in measure 5 I slurred the first three notes and tongued the last one. Most of the time, I didn’t breathe in between notes until…

3.2 Music as Self-Identity According to Ulusoy (2016), art plays a key role in contemporary society and is also a key component of subculture, as it is a form of creative transformation and expression. One of the most universal forms of art is music, which can be further categorized into a wide range of music genres such as hardcore, punk, metal, grunge, straight edge, electronica, old-school rap, alternative rock and metalcore. Music subcultures grants consumer the ability to find a plethora…

Baroque music, which started around the 1600s, was the start of great growth in the composition timeline. In this period, composers like Bach and Purcell dominate and bring forth new forms like ritornello and fugue. Romantic music, starting in the 1800s, goes into a thematic transformation. Composers like Chopin and Schubert are popular during this time, and new forms such as cyclic and strophic arise. The Baroque music period focused mainly on the idea of tonality. Composers began to use new…

Sotto, Jay Prancis S. 2015-65760 A-2R Modern Music, a Piece of Junk Music is generally a melody of sounds that unifies the mind and soul. The heartbeat of people changes and mimics the music they listen to. For some people music is a very big influence. They dress up and act like the music they listen to. Music is so much more than just a form of entertainment. For some people the music that they listen to represents who they are. Different people have different taste in terms of genre, but…