Accompaniment

Walking into the auditorium, I immediately noticed that the atmosphere of the concert was completely different from that of the classical concert I attended weeks earlier. To begin with, it seemed like there was much more of an audience. Everyone seemed excited for the concert to start. As for myself, I was also excited because, on the very front of the program, it said that there was a guest artist that was going to perform with the ensemble. The performers wore more of a business casual look,…

By. Bobbie Sheppard Ads today draw us into the television with enticing, edgy images depicting women and men in sexualizing roles. However, women are repeatedly used as sexual appeals to promote the good of a product, but is the aim really to promote the product or the idea of gender roles in society? Society promotes that women should be the one to stay home and take care of their husbands to please them, so they create a visual image for men as to how they should treat their woman and how…

Women were to follow the Taliban law, and stay at home at all times. Women were not allowed to wander the street or walk around under any circumstances. They must only leave the house in extremely dire situations with the accompaniment of a male relative. If women were caught alone on the street they would be beaten and then sent home. Women were also prohibited from running away or leaving their husbands or family members, no matter what the circumstances were. The portrayal…

Unlike many other perspectives, Humanism/Existentialism is person-centered and less complex. Believing phenomenology and holism is essential to understanding that man is both conscious and unconscious, more subjective than objective. While directing the person to look inside for solace, inner peace, and self-empowerment. Humanism emphases goodness of humankind and employs features of positive psychology for inconstancies of personality and behavior. Aspects of positive psychology promote…

An abstraction is the process of thinking of something independently of its association, attributes, or concrete accompaniments. In other words it’s taking a complex system like a computer, automobile or a weapon, and removing the complex parts that make the system function, and only thinking about the basics. People often use abstract systems without even thinking about it, one does not need to know how or why something works in order to use it daily. For instance, for one to use a weapon, one…

In Unit One of Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell’Antonio and Joseph Machlis’ book, The Enjoyment of Music, we discuss a ton of different things. In the beginning of unit one, the authors write about melody, rhythm and meter, harmony, and the organization of musical sounds. Near the end of the unit the authors begin to write about musical texture, music styles, and music functions. The last topic discussed in unit one is sacred music in the middle ages. This unit provides us with insight on the basics…

“The Flower” by Alice Walker is a short story that took place in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. This story tells us about a little girl named Myops, a little girl who is African American and her journey through the woods and fields that are behind her house. She loves to explore the land that her and her mom went on to find anything they needed but this time she went by herself. When Myop is on her journey, she makes her own path and goes into the woods about a mile or so from her house.…

Music these days is mostly associated with songs, people singing and a melody as an accompaniment. Many of the biggest composers in the history of music were in the classical and romantic era, where voices were rarely seen in a performance; almost every composition was instrumental. Through this method of expression they were capable of transmitting the mood and feelings of that particular time in history. An example of these master composers was Frederic Chopin, a Polish composer and virtuoso…

Considered one of his most famous pieces, Bach 's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" speaks a lot, both technically as well as contextually. Initially, my reaction for the piece was positive, with the notion that it would be used to accompany theatric performance of some sort. I noticed the song was composed in a way to have both slow and fast parts, as well as being complex yet easy to follow. Upon looking into Bach 's religious beliefs and lifestyle, in addition to the time period this was…

Music can be traced all the way back to 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with sounds and discovered tones can be formed from plucking strings. During the Middle Ages is when music began to be considered a gift from God. A common way to praise and worship our God was through music; this is how sacred music came about. Soon later, sacred music eventually was overcome by secular music, which is more along the lines of crusades, dancing, and love songs and less of the more religious and…