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elevated appreciation for music, unmatched by any other. Cage enjoys everyday, naturally occurring sounds because of their dynamics and their lengths, rather than the sounds constrained by musical instruments, something other composers usually overlook. This gives him the advantage to compose music in a unique manner. Cage has had an impact not only on musicians, but dancers and philosophers as well; His ideas and ways of thinking changed the mindsets of many in the world of music as we know it…

western classical music. Having been developed and patented by instrument creator and businessman Adolphe Sax in 1846, the saxophone had already missed out on much of the literature and masterworks written for other wind instruments centuries before its time. Additionally, much of the major classical musical works written for the instrument happened during its constant refinement development in Europe; allowing the saxophone to have more of a foothold in the originally American music idiom of…

Music adds to the effect of visual and imagination. Different musical instruments and music creates different types of moods and emotional impact. “Mahal” is considered as a horror genre. The type of music used in horror movie is much more appealing to the audience than the other type of music used in different movies. There are two types of music used in Mahal a lot, loud music and slow music. Loud music could also be described as sudden music, this music is used to give a frightening touch to…

The song is cool and chill, and the instrumentation that Leadbelly uses is guitar. I also notice the call and response in this piece of music. For example he sang the line of “My girl, my girl, don’t you lie to me..where did you sleep last night,” and then he followed by saying “Come on and tell me somebody.” I think Leadbelly should be recognize as an artist or musician in the society. Despite of his heinous crimes, it should not be affected in his career as a musician. Personal life and his…

whole play, there was jazz music in the background which helped the play move along smoothly. On the side of the stage, were two men who played the instruments. One instrument, the saxophone, was played pretty often. Percussion instruments, such as the drums, were played as well. All these types of instruments blended in with the scenes of the play. I find it very amazing how one person can play so many instruments just for a single performance. Without the background music, I feel like there…

After Keiler examines Bernstein’s logical fallacies, he dismantles Bernstein’s claims of the harmonic series as basis for all music. He writes that even the “simple diatonic scale requires…gross adjustment” (Keiler, 208). This is indeed true, with the fourth being 29 cents flat, the third 14 cents flat, and the seventh 12 cents flat (as compared to equal temperament tuning). Keiler also says the diatonic scale reaches into the outermost limits of the harmonic series. This is again factual, since…

entertainers are wearing distinctive types of clothing. The music in this piece helps me to remember music you would hear in a thriller movie, for example, Halloween. The movement of the piece was robotic now and again. The movements went from quick to moderate, with the dancers in and out of the entire performance. The second performance was titled “From Me, To You.” This dance performance was a solo act performed by a female dancer. There was no music involved in this piece, just a commentary…

was able to choose from a list a books that had to deal with music. For my analytic review, I have decided to choose “This Is You Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession” by Daniel Levitin and “Music, the Brain and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination” by Robert Jourdain. I have decided to choose these books because I thought it would be fascinating, just from the titles, about how the brain and our mind reacts to music. Even though the books sounded very interesting to me, it…

“Architecture describe as frozen music, landscape as thawed music”, this is my favorite sentence from the book . The author of the book--John Powell was using the eyes of artist to look our world. Landscape is described as a dynamic and flowing thing. It has more similarity with music. In other words, the way we feel landscape is quite similar with how we feel music. We could get different feeling, receive different experiences in different sections and time of a music, so does in landscape. It…

brains (Miendlarzewska). Students who participate in music have consistently higher performance in advanced mathematics: students who had arts-rich experiences in high school were more likely to complete a calculus course (Caterall). Additionally, the same study concluded that in musicians,…