He was a devout christian, he wished that his all music could serve the God and also most of his works are religious music. The biggest achievement of Bach was that he developed the polyphonic music, in his area, he stranded the highest level position. To compare with Bach with Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart is like a happiness of the God, Beethoven is like the God’s powerful, but Bach is language of the God. In personal opinion, Bach’s music is more connotative and complex. Bach had composed 228…
the drums and bass set a groovy beat. The tenor saxophone makes an appearance at the scene. Throughout the song, bassist, Jaco Pastorious, plays a couple of unique sounds. Eventually, there is a solo performed by the saxophone with the drums as accompaniment. The song “Birdland” is formatted in a series of brief melodic statements…
with accompaniment, technical exercises, and études in front of a professional examiner. The examiner provided a mark according to the performance being unsatisfactory (below 65), a pass (65-74), a merit (75-84), or a distinction (85 or above). A 7-point Likert-type scale was used to assess learning strategies including cognitive, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and motivation. The survey item “I have fully…
and Adele’s was written to be a song. The fact that Adele intentionally wrote this piece of music with the thought of having instruments behind it, a melody to it etc. shows that it was completely differently written. Schubert only composed an accompaniment and melody for already written lyrics, showing that he is of course a brilliant composer and had an emotional connection with the lyrics, but he didn’t compose this song because he had inspirational words flowing around his head, unlike Adele…
Robert Schumann's "Liederkreis Opus 39" and Kendrick Lamar's "Damn" reflect two different but equally significant ways of musical expression. Schumann's Romantic-era song cycle, composed of Josef von Eichendorff's poetry, exemplifies the beauty of traditional Lieder with its expert use of meter, mood, speed, and expressiveness. On the other side, Kendrick Lamar's "Damn" is a modern hip-hop masterpiece, with complicated rhythms, innovative production, and socially conscious lyrics that push the…
The song is in Bb Major and the piano plays ascending and descending two-part arpeggiated chords throughout the song. The pattern is repeated with the left hand playing the first chord followed by the right hand playing sextuplet chords. The accompaniment also…
La creation du monde is a 20-minute ballet for small orchestra composed in 1923, which outlines the Creation of the world, based on African folk mythology. Influences in the music come from blues and ragtime, particularly in the melodies, and African rhythms. The ballet is in six continuous dance scenes, as follows: 1) Overture 2) The Chaos before Creation 3) The slowly lifting darkness, the creation of trees, plants insects, birds and beasts 4) Man and woman created 5) The desire of man and…
(AGG) With no food, water, clothes and shoes, refugees around the world are forced to travel to camps that are not always considered to be safe havens. (BS-1)This is a story about fictional characters connecting to refugees everyday lives. (BS-2) Refugees are forced to live with barely any of the necessities that humans need to live. (BS-3)The characters in Under The Persimmon Tree put into perspective how real the refugee situation is in the world. (TS) The author uses fictional characters to…
Movies, they would just be boring and nothing without the music in the background or the song that a character would sing. Two composers that make the boringness going away while watching is Alan Menken and John Williams. Both composers are well-known for their music in movies like Harry Potter, where music was composed by John Williams, or Aladdin, where its music was composed by Alan Menken. Alan Menken was born in New Rochelle, New York on July 22nd of 1949. Menken is mostly famous for…
On Saturday night, March 26th I attended Boston Ballet’s annual production of The Kaleidoscope. The ballet dancing and classical music was wonderfully organized. The name of the production comes from the colorful costumes that cause the dancers to look like a kaleidoscope. With the incredible, inspiring ballet, the music also had a huge effect on the show. Boston Ballet’s orchestra consists of many instrument, including two flutes, a piccolo, a oboe, a bass clarinet, two english horn clarinets…