Ambient music

Since my ending of my last production I was eager to start our new musical. One evening after school musical practice finally started. Exhausted after class, I grudgingly sat down around the piano while I waited to the music to start and practice to begin. At 3 o’clock we began to learn our required songs for our audition. Our school play is the Wizard of Oz and I decided that I wanted to audition for Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Good Witch. I was fully expecting Dorothy’s notes in her song…

Wait, what? When you compose music, you tell a story, not just say it. There’s meaning. That’s why I think composing music would be the perfect career for me. It’s diverse, satisfying, and worry free. Composing music is like making art; anyone who wants to, can accomplish it. The music industry is based all around the world so location is never a problem. That’s what makes composing music so diverse. Anyone can do it! Even the singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran says, “Music is a powerful tool in…

Music has always been a part of my life. The extensive record collection between my father and grandfather. The music teacher grandmother. The composer cousin who lived in L.A., New Orleans, and Nashville who married an operatic vocalist and toured the country with his jazz group who now directs a middle school band. Then, there is the other cousin who was in high school acapella choir and a guitarist and a bassist and a drummer and a bagpipe player. I went to church children’s choir practice…

the first points of the chapter stresses how listening is subjective. Especially in music, listening to a certain kind of music can have an effect on you posture, mood, and emotion. This change can be small and unnoticeable or very noticeable. On my car rides, my mood is boosted if I blast some country music and roll the windows down. When I need to crack down on papers or studying I put on some classical yoga music from Pandora. Campbell and Doman…

both discusses how music educators need to make several changes to the program to provide students with more opportunities to be creative as well as learn lifelong skills which they could apply to their lives. Kratus points out the fact that making small changes to the music education program in schools can have a huge impact. I believe that it is risky to step up as music teachers and most of the time music teachers rarely get opportunities to step in or lead the program since music is not part…

Some Phun Intended The first time you hear music, it is not even a sound. It is a feeling, a sensation one got from inside their mother. Whether it was Willie Nelson, Beethoven, or Slim Shady, the rhythm felt as such a small person stays with us. Later, we listened to whatever television show was playing in the room we were in; or the music our parents played for us in the car on the way to school. It is not until we are about eleven or twelve that we truly discover what we enjoy listening to.…

trumpet greatly changed the future of the instrument and the music. The instrument was revolutionize, as the trumpet evolved from a valveless horn, that only played certain pitches, to a Baroque trumpet that had key holes to help tune the same pitches, to the keyed trumpet. Even though the keyed trumpet itself was deemed a failure at the time, this lead to a change that greatly influenced the modern day horn and the music.. The music greatly change thanks to the keyed trumpet’s unique…

The Cry me a River dance video contained a free, fast-paced, fluid form throughout its entirety. For the most part, I felt the expression was empty with an edge of annoyance at times. To me, the dance imitated a relationship that had ended and was in the process of finding closure. This was indicated through their bodies. Their were many female dancers and one male dancer. They all appeared to be the same age. I think the females represented all the memories he had with the ex he has just come…

characteristic that Bach often uses including descending 5th sequences in order to go from on tonal area to another tonal area. As you can see in the D major fugue, at the episode 2 which is from measure nine to measure 10, the sequences allows the music goes from b minor back to G major. The same technique is also used in the a minor fugue from measure 8 where it goes from a minor back to C major at measure 9. Some other character that show up in both D major and the a minor fugue includes Bach…

originally composed in 1887 for the consecration of the chapel in the stately home of the prominent architect and philanthropist Josef Hlávka in Lužany. Hlávka had built a chapel at his residence in the southwest Bohemian village of Lužany, and he wanted music by Dvořák for its consecration. Hlávka and Dvořák corresponded personally, and Dvořák was glad to seize upon this opportunity to write to Hlávka about the role his faith played in the Mass’s composition: Dvořák began his work with…