Clarinet

In this film, the Vienna Philharmonic played Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “From the New World.” This piece displays the serenity of the new world, with violins and violas playing pizzicato to resemble trickling streams, the basses and cellos playing fortissimo in order to represent roaring rivers, and the brass playing in unison to signify the enormous, yet beautiful mountain ranges. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 contains four movements. The first movement is in sonata allegro form.…

reviewed as well: two of these composers being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Giuseppe Verdi. The overall nature of the pieces selected involved various genres that incorporate a singer in its scoring, as well as a piano and at one point a clarinet. Some of the genres utilized in the performance included arias (Ah! Je veux vivre, Ah, fors’é lui che l’anima… Sempre libera), lieds/art songs (Am See, Dein blaues Auge, Au bord de l’eau, Toujours) and other…

and harsh dissonances to create a sense of unexpected pounding to startle the listener. Stravinsky made a primeval and brutish sound with brass and percussion instruments. Other instruments he included in the ballet are bassoons in high register, clarinets, and an English horn. The dancers in The Rite of Spring move along with the music in the sense that they are intentionally awkward, abrupt, jerky, jumpy, and somewhat contorted. They move in a way that is unballet-like. The emphasis is on the…

rocks and sticks were used in religious ceremonies that were known as representations of animals (Hollis). It is known that by 4000 BCE the Egyptians created the Harps and Flutes, and also by 3500 BCE instruments called Lyres and Doubled-Reeded Clarinets has been founded and created (Hollis). Almost all of the Indians and Africans had been using some of these instruments for ancient religious practices. Greece was known as “the root of all classical art” and that almost people in Greece…

In her free time Bailey plays the piano and sometimes the clarinet but mostly the piano. She plays the piano a lot. One time Bailey was playing the piano ,and I left and came back two hours later ,and she was still playing the piano. Besides doing nothing, Bailey folds paper flowers. I do not understand how that…

This week in we learned about music and philosophers in the 1800’s. We learned the 1800’s was the emancipation of music from language. One of the ideas was that music is able to do what language cannot. It was stating that sometimes we cannot explain our emotions or what we want to say. Therefore, we use music to express what we cannot say. In some ways, music was like a process of philosophy. The romantics was when literature, paintings, and art were important. With the romantics, everyone…

This report summarizes a concert performed at the Lincoln Center in New York in March 2016 by a Dixieland band “The Gotham Jazzmen”. This report will highlight the origin of the genre and the band, the characteristic features of Dixieland, The contribution of “Gothan Jazzzmen” to the genre, and an overview of the concert. When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It…

humor.” as quoted by Charles Dickens. Laughter is something that we experience everyday. One very memorable time where laughter was a key part was in my first year at Parks JHS. I was a 7th grader and was enrolled in the orchestra. I played the clarinet along with two other girls, Angela and Julia. I had met Angela in 3rd grade at Golden Hill, but we were never really that close. However when we were at Parks, we had 6 classes together out of 7 which really helped us get closer. I was halfway…

The “10,000 Hour” phenomenon does not make an outlier as Gladwell proposes, it is a result, not the cause. Each of the “outliers” spent time, practiced their skill because they loved what they were doing. Gladwell quotes (Outliers, pg. 52) Bill Gates as saying “It was my obsession”. All of the “outliers” found their talent, loved it and spent as much time as they could learning and perfecting it. Gladwell uses Wolfgang Mozart as an example of the “10,000 Hour” phenomenon (Outliers, pg. 40)…

I am a freshman at West Central High School. As I am only a high school freshman, I think that it is very hard for me to have overcome things and to have set goals. Some of my goals that I want to be able to accomplish in the near future and can hopefully say to someone that I actually did something are, to go to the University of California—Los Angeles and to travel to Europe. For my first goal, I believe that I can easily do this. There are many things that I can do in order to establish my…