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Though I do not plan to start a career in the field of Journalism, I would consider journalism opportunities as a hobby or part-time job. My interest in journalism sparked while I was a junior in high school. While attending Paul W. Bryant High School, I also attended the Tuscaloosa Center for Technologies for Broadcasting, Television Production 1, and Television Production 2. My instructor, Ms. Winston, made sure I planned on attending college to major in Journalism or a related field. However,…

Reflection Paper This semester I learned about several resources and information about me that has helped me choose my major and that will benefit me in the future. My interest in technology has allowed me to consider taking classes in computer science and MIS. My interest in creating Excel documents has allowed me to organize my school work and spending habits, which allows me to spend more time focusing on other things. These interests are important to me because they help make my life easier…

I. Fiddle on the Roof 1. Genre: American musical 2. Composer: Jerry Bock 3. Lyrical content: the balance between old cultural traditions and new ones as the world advances at the turn of the 20th century 4. Tessitura 5. Harmony: Simple, but steady tempo 6. Orchestration: horn, trumpet 1, 2, 3 : trombone : accordion : guitar : percussion : 3 violin A-B-C : viola : cello : bass 7. Texture: Simple melody, rich harmony in voice 8. How the music…

Rhythmic breakdown In this figure, a whole note takes a whole in a measure, a half note takes two in a measure, a quarter note takes up four in a measure, an eighth note takes up eight in a measure and a sixteenth note takes up sixteen in a measure. As mentioned earlier, this rhythmic grouping only applies when the bottom number is 4. In a compound meter these rhythmic groupings are quite different. B. Meter- is the systematic grouping of beats and their division in regularly recurring…

Being in a band has let me see some great compositions by Tyler Grant, and Robert Smith. The amount of joy I, and my friends have gotten from playing this music has inspired me to want to compose music. This experience highlights that composing music brings many people joy, helps, and inspires them. As a music composer, one could compose for animation, video games, or movies, to have fun composing while affecting humanity. One profession that involves composing music is an animation score…

Music Review Saturday October 9, 2016; a friend and I walked into the CSM multimedia room prepared to listen a piano concert. I noticed that a majority of my peers at the concert were over the age of 55 and have been to one of the performer previous shows (which they stated during intermission). Brian Ganz started off by giving the audience a brief lesson about his history. Mr. Ganz is a jubilant and free spirited person; who love chopin (king of etudes) and only started playing piano at the…

Musical Analysis of “The Beatles”, the self-entitled White Album The first song of the album, “Back in the USSR”, written by Paul McCartney, directly parodies and references the Beach Boys, with subtler allusions to Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. It is set in the key of A major and has a 4/4 meter. Song form consists of an intro, four verse sections, each followed by a refrain, a bridge that follows only the second and third refrains, and an outro. The melody is undoubtedly bluesy, but…

The climax consists of four measures with basic harmonies in D-flat major before moving into the coda (Figure 3). The climax begins with a tonic triad in second inversion which leads to a vi then a I in first inversion before a ii minor seventh chord in first inversion gives way to the pinnacle harmony of the climax in mm. 60: a V chord with a suspended fourth that does not resolve until a measure and a half later giving us a V7 and resolves naturally to a I. During the Vsus4 harmony, there is a…

Blue October More and more the music I hear on the radio disappoints me. Shallow lyrics, unoriginal tunes, all around uninspiring! I get the feeling that the majority of musicians are manufactured, created solely for profit. Every once in a while I stumble across a musician or group that are true artists. One such group is Blue October. The first song I heard by Blue October was “Calling You”, which was featured in American Pie. I’ll admit this tune did not particularly gab my attention. It…

The IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43 In order to understand the IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43, it would be empirical to understand Nobre’s first three piano cycles. “According to Bernardo Scarambone, “Ciclos Nordestinos” are Cycles from Northeast Brazil, where Nobre was born and spent part of his life. Nobre had as main goal to preserve his cultural identity as a composer. The first “Ciclo Nordestino Op. 5 was composed in 1959 and dedicated to Mozart de Araújo who was a Nobre’s friend.” The…