Cadence

In the first movement of his Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra Op. 31, Gerald Finzi utilizes downward bass motion, disagreeing key areas, and ambiguous cadences for the purpose of establishing a sense of wandering and despair. Much like other well-known British composers of mid-twentieth century, Gerald Finzi’s music takes advantage of dissonant and dense orchestration, as well as reflections upon political turmoil and personal ailment of the period. During World War II, Finzi became…

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…

J.D. Salinger writes conversationally in Catcher In The Rye, he often makes use of technically incorrect grammar and untraditional punctuation, such as dashes. In this work I attempted to mimic Holden's style but not his character necessarily. The allusion to The Royal Tennenbaums reflects Holden’s tendency to reference outside works, though Holden would never use a film as a positive comparison due to his hatred of hollywood. A symptom of Salinger’s stream of consciousness style is Holden’s…

“The Hitchhiker”, by Lucille Fletcher is a dramatic piece of fictional literature. Foreshadowing and suspense are two crucial elements that add to the tone, mood and theme of this spine tingling, edge of your seat play. There is a cast of characters, a deadly setting, conflict, crisis, and a resolution that is a head scratcher. Sit down with your family by a radio and listen to the most spellbinding, award winning, and most listened to program to ever hit the airways. “The Hitchhiker” is…

capable of showing that the poet has felt this sense of exhaustion multiple times. As with anything done too often, this text can leave the listener frustrated and with a desire for the piece to move forward. Once the piece approaches and resolves to a cadence, the text changes and reveals the “inner flame” that remains in the poet. In measure 88, the piece returns to a calmer emotion as the poet returns to his thoughts of is solace in nature. There is more use of half and whole notes as well as…

This passage is an obvious example of foreshadowing something that will happen later in the book. Romeo is scared that something is going to happen, something that is bound to happen, and it will start tonight and eventually lead to his death. It is foreshadowing Romeo meeting Juliet,which readers will later learn, leads to their death. I am worried that we will get there too early. It is written in the stars that something bad is bound to happen tonight, Something that will lead to my early…

retrieval cues based on the storage of the information (Rathmus, 2016.pp 148-149). Semantic and acoustic ques are how I retain information best. I correlate a subject as a simplified explanation in a sing-song beat. The words do not always rhyme but the cadence…

Vicka Karlan MHST Project#1 March 14, 2016 Minor-key quartets of Mozart and Beethoven Mozart’s K 421 quartet and Beethoven’s op. 18 no. 4 quartet were the only minor key piece found in their 6 sets of quartet. Beethoven was certainly aware of Mozart’s works when writing his music. Beethoven admired Mozart and he used similar style as Mozart’s work (which was originally formed by Haydn} and took that style into a deeper content with extravagant imagination that resulted in many extraordinary…

The musicale had a lot of variety in the performance of the songs. The pieces ranged from being purely instrumental to art songs. There was also a mixture of music from the Baroque through the Modern era. The assorted musical periods and instruments contributed to a more varied Musicale. The group pieces at the beginning and end of the Musicale sounded the most contemporary. “On stranger Tides” was a good choice to start with because it was from a popular movie with which most of the audience…

very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.” are connected by the conjunction “and,” rather than forming new sentences. Hemingway uses polysyndeton in order to help add some slight cadence to his words, as well as making the words between the conjunctions more powerful. The use of polysyndeton also provides the reader with a feeling that an idea is being built up at the end. “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway is a vivid…