Alicia Keys

Appraisal My link to the strand is Syncopation and my composition is written in a reggae style. I like the offbeat feel of this style of music and syncopation was something I wanted to explore within it. A well-known Caribbean musician is Bob Marley and I know that he uses a lot of syncopation in one of his best songs “three little birds”. In this song you can hear the syncopation in the hi-hat, cymbals, organ and guitar; playing the chords. In this way, he plays with our expectations of where…

posth. 67, No. 2 begins with a double period (mm. 1-16) that briefly modulates in and out of the relative key of B-flat major. The first two measures use a v-i progression in g minor that is the mimicked with a modulated V-I in B-flat in measure three and four to finish the phrase with an IAC to solidify the beginning of the common double period structure.…

Webern’s Variations for Piano, mvt. 2 Analysis Webern’s Variations for Piano begins with a prime row starting on Bb3. This continues until the Eb4 grace note in measure six. This is primarily consistent in the bottom staff with the exceptions of measures five and six where the rows switch staffs. The switching of staffs occurs in each iteration of the rows and its various forms at one point or another. Wagner also creates an elision with the last note of one row and the first note of another.…

Did you ever sit back wondering who you really were? After my first year of college I really found out who I was and what I wanted to do with my life. During my senior year of high school, the only thing I worried about was sports, I played three sports and barely worried about my grades. After realizing I won’t make a living off of playing sports, I concentrated on finding a college that fit my lifestyle and had my major. Playing sports made me the girl I am today, it showed me that it’s not…

The unity of music is related to the music structures. People followed the musical structures and expected the direction or message of the music. In the 18th century, the most of the music had almost same musical structures and forms. Most of music in this period progressed to the same ways and the structures and forms had conventional elements. Historically, the music became less conventional after the French revolution and the composers had been interested in their own identities for their…

however, the material is slightly altered when in enters a minor mode following the repeat. This shows that it is in a modified strophic form. Wolf’s setting is by far the most unique of the four, as it is through composed. Given the constantly changing key areas and meters, there are only a few similarities between verses. The latter halves of each verse are nearly identical beginning at the first “Belebt” markings at measures 21, 58, and 99. However, the first halves of the verses are greatly…

Growing up in Poland I spent my youth horseback riding on Arabian horses and eating the sweetest strawberries from family garden. Early on, I was exposed to jazz and theater. The storytelling for adults; it is the oldest oral tradition on passing the universal message face to face. Where the audience deeply experiences their humanity. Some of my deep influences come from theater and Polish movie directors. I have learned how to skillfully read between the lines in post communism yet…

I watched the New York Philharmonic Orchestra perform Symphony No.5 of Dimitri Shostakovich, which took place at Bunka Kainan, Tokyo, Japan in 1979. This concert was conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The concert lasted approximately 50 minutes and included varieties of instruments. Instruments to name are a large group of violins, clarinets, cellos, French horns, a harp, flutes, basses including a bassoon and oboe. I tend to hear various melodies used elsewhere either from Star Wars and or Pink…

These business rules support the definition of the primary components of the relational database storing this student and school information: a data dictionary, primary keys, foreign keys and integrity constraints. From a high-level, the model suggests Finance, Faculty and Student Advising have retrieve visibility to necessary aspects of the student information while Enrollment controls creation of the student record and student…

9 in D major is crucial to understanding and identifying the piece as sonata-rondo form and not simply rondo form; rather than being contained by a single key and theme, it is heavily modulatory and does not seem to have a general theme. Rather, it is absolutely the development section of the piece as a whole. While C beings in B minor, the vi of D major, it modulates to E minor, D major, G major, and A major…