Accompaniment

sacred use. These pieces were performed in churches, and used to enhance church services. The main type of music performed during the Middle Ages was the Gregorian chant. This music was written with sacred Latin text, and sung without instrumental accompaniment. There was no set beat for these songs, and they contained a free-flowing rhythm. This means that composers of that time worked for the churches, composing music for their services. This definitely limited how and what the composers could…

Vicka Karlan MHST Project#1 March 14, 2016 Minor-key quartets of Mozart and Beethoven Mozart’s K 421 quartet and Beethoven’s op. 18 no. 4 quartet were the only minor key piece found in their 6 sets of quartet. Beethoven was certainly aware of Mozart’s works when writing his music. Beethoven admired Mozart and he used similar style as Mozart’s work (which was originally formed by Haydn} and took that style into a deeper content with extravagant imagination that resulted in many extraordinary…

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The musicale had a lot of variety in the performance of the songs. The pieces ranged from being purely instrumental to art songs. There was also a mixture of music from the Baroque through the Modern era. The assorted musical periods and instruments contributed to a more varied Musicale. The group pieces at the beginning and end of the Musicale sounded the most contemporary. “On stranger Tides” was a good choice to start with because it was from a popular movie with which most of the audience…

pretending as a tour guide in the Taj Mahal and so on. The director Danny Boyle used a relaxed and pleasant style, with a strong sense of rhythm, and the integration of modern style based on traditional ethnic the music elements, and plus rap with the accompaniment of music, let the whole life in exile description is full of vitality and brilliant, with special charm, such as life is not a pain, but a kind of happiness. The film also invited A. R Raman, a talented composer, so that the love…

O pastor animarum is a sacred song composed by Hildegard von Bingen. The piece lacks an accompaniment, featuring a single female vocalist. The vocalist’s range is rather broad, jumping from one end of the scale to the other easily. The notes are legato, flowing into one another, typical in Gregorian chants. The texture of the song is light and airy, fitting with the message of salvation in the piece. Many phrases being with a crescendo and end in a diminuendo. Being nonmetric the style of the…

The nineteenth century, the Romantic era of music composition, saw the rise of programmatic music, or music designed to convey a specific story, theme, character, or idea—without any voices. Programmatic music was a stark departure from the prioritization of emfindsamkeit in the Classical era, which had in turn signified a break from the Doctrine of Affections of the Baroque era. While “emfindsamkeit” in classical music referred to the value of music for its own sake, rather than trying to…

country music is a style of American pop music in the southern United States. The roots of country music can be found in folk music and the southeast of Western music. Country music is usually composed of dance tunes, usually a simple form and accompaniment…

A Negro spiritual is a type of religious song originating among Black slaves in the American south. They are African-American spirituals that emerged from a mixture of the brutal institution of slavery, Christian influences, and African culture. There was a joy of love, mercy, grace, judgment, etc. among the themes enfolded throughout the songs. The Negro spiritual that caught my attention would be “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”. This song is simple but has a powerful truth. This song…

something no child would want to witness. Myop is a young girl full of life, untroubled, and comfortable with her surroundings. “She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment.” She and her parents lived in an old rustic cabin, they were sharecroppers. Even though Myop’s life wasn’t one of the wealthy, she was happy, content, and found life pleasurable. She loves to venture out and explore the woods behind her…