Accompaniment

Wolf, and Reichardt all set the text in triple meters which, in respective order, are as followed: 3/8, 3/4 (as well as 9/8), and again in 3/4. Although Schubert’s setting is in duple meter, he frequently uses fast triplet rhythms in the piano accompaniment, as seen in starting in…

Franz Schubert’s Erlkonig or The Erlking uses solo voices and a piano accompaniment to tell the story of a boy and his father. The composition tells the audience how the father and son were riding on horseback when the ailing son hallucinates and sees the Erlking, the king of the elves and an omen of death. The father continually tries to reassure his son that nothing is there but once they arrive at their destination, the son is dead. The song uses only the piano and voice to convey the tone…

favorite song of the performance was “Clic Clac, Dansez Sabots” because it was really catchy and the harmony was fantastic! Even after the performance, I was singing it by myself. Also, I discovered how beautiful voice is. Without any instrumental accompaniment, they were able to sing a beautiful melody. There were parts I dislike. What I dislike was probably the length of the songs were really short. Some were as short as a minute. And that leads me to the second thing I dislike was the sudden…

The crouched figure is musician Luís Miguel Cobo playing an original composition. Through live accompaniment, Cobo creates a harmonious balance of give and take between the movement and the music. The live accompaniment allows for movement to be highlighted as well as gives the dancers room to play with the movement and quality. As the stage fades into brightness, the two male figures effectively connect…

Loneliness is the sadness resulting from being isolated or abandoned. Being lonely is almost always directly connected to relations between people. In the novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, loneliness is a recurring theme especially at the time this novella is taken place - 1930s The Great Depression. All the characters present have experienced loneliness whether in the beginning of the novel, or towards the end. With the era and setting this story is taking place in, Steinbeck portrays…

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue One of the greatest albums in jazz - Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue has received innumerable commendations ever since its release in 1959 and has been admired by jazz fans far and wide. Miles Davis and his sterling band that consisted of top performers at that time together brought this masterpiece to the world. This album features Miles Davis on trumpet, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans on piano,…

ending in measures 77 – 88 as the initial piano minim-followed-by-quaver motif is commanded by the lower stringed instruments while there are sustained long notes played by the woodwinds and a soft piannisimo accompaniment by the string section. Return of the second subject with light accompaniment by…

This paper will describe and critique a listening reaction to Hildegard Von Bingen’s “O Successores” and describe the use of timbre, pitch, melody, and rhythm to name a few examples. In addition, the introduction will discuss the work of the creator, the historic era, and give a general description of the background of this Gregorian chant. Furthermore, the aesthetic value of the work will be evaluated and questions will be answered to what was attractive, meaningful, and inspiring and what my…

Both Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin transcended the limitations of words through manmade sounds. At the end of “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out,” Smith interspersed sound with phrases. While she hummed “mmmmm” to demonstrate frustration with the speaker’s situation, Smith wove in phrases like “I felt so low” and “not one penny / And my friends I haven’t any.” She portrayed the bitterness and nostalgia people feel after loss. This lyric choice only made the ballad’s content more poignant…

Filled with trepidation, I entered the Conservatory Concert Hall for the first time. I was about to catch a classical music concert performed by the students of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. As I walked to my seat, I immediately noticed the abundance of spotlights present. I figured that spotlights were able to give a warm atmosphere as were able to show the audience where the focus ought to be. I also noticed a convex wall behind the stage that was draped with curtains. I could not…