Clarinet

All three of these pieces are something that is completely different, but they all have one thing in common, music. The Fanfare for the Common Man and Adagio for Strings is something I have heard a few times here or there, whether it was in movies or even in music class whenever I was younger. The Drum Corps International 2014 was a collaboration of multiple drum corps from all over that displayed the show at a competition. Analyzing each element of these videos really made me realize how much I…

There 's never been a time when I wanted to be anything but a doctor, more specifically a surgeon, and my life experiences have only strengthened my resolve to accomplish this. Having struggled with depression and anxiety, it led to psychiatric hospitalizations, medications, psychotherapy, and a residential treatment center, yet it formed my passions and purpose for Psychology and Neuroscience. With my conditions, it increasingly developed my desire to help and care for people, and I gladly…

The opening bars repeat, at a semi-higher tone than previously, as a diminishing chord follows. This sequence of music creates the view of a frightening underworld for the listener. As the piece continues, a version of the ideé fixe plays on the clarinet, sounding very mocking and leering. Abruptly, the tempo and dynamic of the piece changes, full of loud chords repeating, which is very hard to listen to. The ideé fixe returns but is shriller and continues to rise in pitch. Then swirling music…

become very sentimental to me for that reason. The first song on my soundtrack is Zelda’s Lullaby. Zelda’s Lullaby is a soft, sweet little melody, just like me. The song portrays the innocence of my younger days. I have learned how to play it on the clarinet and I do so often. In the game, the song plays when Link meets Princess Zelda for the first time, and they are both children. Though a hint of evil is present when the bad guy, Ganondorf, is…

Michael Sweeney’s Earth and Sky, commissioned for the 2013 Nebraska All-State Eighth Grade Band, celebrates the Omaha tribe’s belief that the sky and earth are interconnected. Prior to the 1800s, the animistic union between sky and earth permeated all aspects of Omaha culture. In fact, the tribe even developed a social structure based on the belief. During this time, the Omaha tribe was divided into two half-tribes: the Sky People (know as the Insta’shunda) and the Earth People (known as the…

something, so according to Coomaraswamy it has no real purpose (Coomaraswamy 90). Pierrot Lunaire by Scheonburg was written after his rejection of forms and logic, and shows the speech singing style of Sprechstimme. This piece is composed for flute, clarinet, piano, and voice. Is it for or about something? Nothing except for a rejection of pleasurable aesthetics, which is not a real purpose. Contrasting from our past two analysesm Stockhousen’s Kontakte is amplified music, which records…

Elementary School (5-6) When I entered the 5th grade I saw no reason to see why this year would be any different from all other years, aside from the fact that I would be closer to Junior High and have to accomplish more challenging work. The year progressed uneventfully and I found myself being decently content with what I had. However, it seemed that I was missing something; I was doing fine in all my classes but I did not really have any motivation. In the last month of school, the Band…

When I was five years old, my biggest dream was to someday become an astronaut and fly to the moon. Obviously, that has altered between growing up and with NASA not planning on sending anyone anytime soon off of Earth. Everybody has goals; without them, what is the use of trying to do anything? Ordinarily, high schoolers will have similar goals in life, such as buying their first car, becoming a great successful lawyer or doctor, etc. My goals are plain on the outside, but also can seem a bit…

The following multiply choice questions are from “The Decameron”. 1. Who was elected King/Queen for the first day? a) Pampinea b) Lauretta c) Fra Alberto d) Eliza 2. What city of Italy does the story of The Decameron begin? a) Naples b) Florence c) Rome d) Venice 3. Another name used to refer to the Black Plague? a) Black ground. b). Black disease c). Black death d) Black rats 4. For what reason do the ten storytellers look to…

The clarinet never meant much to me until this point in time when I started high school, but when I was forced to spend hours on end with those polished silver keys on ebony wood, I began to feel the true extent of music’s gravitational pull. Marching band has…