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middle class, or the differing gender roles of times considerably influenced the creativity in all of history, and still today. With all of this progress in creativity in the arts, music, literature and so on, it seems that we are reverting back to the standards of old restrictive times in the United States. Things like music lessons are becoming luxuries again. Going to school to become an artist or musician seems to be something reserved only for people that can afford to pay the hefty art…

loud. She says that the Vyvanse that she takes for her ADHD makes her angry. To her, music is a release from the disorder that racks her brain. Baldarelli and Morris both suffer from mental disorders and both use art to cope with the symptoms. These girls are part of the growing trend among mental disorder sufferers of using artistic…

instrument amount was varied, but the expected Jazz instruments were all there: stand-up bass, piano, horn section, drums, etc. All of the woodwind players played different instruments throughout each piece. It was held in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall in the Wright Music Building. Around 130 people were there. I never really know what to expect from school performances. I have never been to a completely Jazz concert before, and especially not one done by professionals. There were a lot more…

saturated skies in Salerno Italy, a mandolin was playing live, matching the rhythm of the snare pops and door bells. Mail being tossed on the steps, played on beat with music as if the mail clapping the was percussion from the castanets. The busy people of this small city where bass, placing one foot after there other on beat of the clear music, on there way to the beaches, shopping stores, and there neighbors house. A window of a upper level town house is opened letting Italy’s air invade the…

Music Against Women Music has always been a part of American society and culture; it has been used as a way to create change as well as to unite people of different cultural backgrounds. Music has also been at the center of modern relief efforts in the USA where music artists have often come together to raise awareness and funds through musical collaborations. There are many genres of music for Americans to choose from, so there is a place for everyone to find what allows them self-expression.…

I begged and pleaded with my parents to sign me up for piano lessons, and I abandoned my bow for a bench. Piano soon evolved from five finger melodies into minuets, from sonatinas into sonatas. While the complexity of the music has changed, learning each new piece of music feels the same. The process is intriguing at first,…

The arts have the power to restore, heal, and connect our community It was the day of Night of Gratitude and everything in my mind made me think about the performance, that would be taking place later that night. At tech rehearsals, we ran through the whole show and perfected some of the small issues that we had. During break, I thought about all the hard work and effort that it took to create such an amazing show. Through the three weeks of rehearsals, a major event took place in the city of…

The first part with the original definition of the tempo - Non allegro - begins with a clear rhythm in the pianissimo of the violins, against which there flashes a brief, of only three sounds, the motif of the English horn, repeated by the clarinet, and then descending all the way to the bassoon and bass clarinet. This is a kind of premonition of the basic images that will unfold further. In the meantime, another theme comes into Fortissimo: tough, angular, in the jerky sounds of the orchestra…

In the film” the Great Gatsby’, Luhrmann aimed to construe the jazz age into the music equivalent to our times (the now). However, according to R. Bassil, Luhrmann failed in capturing the spirit and earnestness of Gatsby’s West Egg mansion parties and stated that it is more suitable for a twilight film or a headphone advert (Bassil, 2013). This essay will disagree with the statement made and will refer to the following three sound techniques found in the film: Diegetic, Non-diegetic and a sound…

very closely linked to motivational functions in that they communicate with members of the ensemble on a more individualized basis. Musicians will take their own understanding of these non-verbal cues and adapt them into their understanding of the music. However it is still important to create unity in these cues as Gumm notes the main purpose of motivational functions is to “draw musicians into an intense connection that is spiritual, emotional, or mystical, keeping musicians on the same…