Double bass

Seats are filling up, butter soaks the popcorn, and skeleton shaking bass fills the room. The newest action movie featuring this year’s coveted super hero has arrived. Incredible strength, overwhelming speed, and mind bending flexibility, are all physical traits unattainable by the normal population. Viewers are mesmerized by the double life these characters lead. Similarly, miles away, a crowd roars. Not one seat is left unoccupied. Spectators watch their favorite athlete, clothed in his or her…

Madelyn Emmett MUS 100 30 April 2017 Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was born on July 7th, 1860 in Bohemia, then a part of the Austrian Empire (citation). As a German-speaking Jewish man, Mahler came from very humble beginnings in a world where his very identity made him an outsider. After migrating with his family to the booming town of Iglau as an infant, Mahler was first acquainted with music through street tunes and the town’s military band, inspiring him to first play the piano as a mere…

Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, offers a compelling commentary on the central idea of the dangerous and superficial nature of capitalist values. One of the most powerful scenes that convey this idea is at the end of the pageant where Olive performs her act (“the performance scene”). Dayton and Faris use a wide range of visual language features to convey this important idea in the performance scene. At the first shot of interest, Olive begins her dance. In…

Even though, the Baroque period, dating from 1600 to 1750 was centuries ago, the music and the composers of the period are relevant and prominent still today. Per the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Johann Sebastian Bach was, “One of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world” (“Johann Sebastian Bach”) Although, Bach was not recognized in his time as a great composer, he most definitely is recognized as such today, and has been since his compositions were reintroduced…

of musicology and a composer, and his mother, an opera singer, both knew he was different from the very beginning. Yo Yo Ma had his first musical experience at the very young age of four years of four years old. Originally he wanted to play the double bass, but that was nearly impossible for a four year old to handle, so he had to settle for the cello. Of course, being a musical family, his parents were delighted for little Yo Yo to play an…

Pink Floyd is one of those bands just like The Beatles everyone has heard of them in some way or form. A song that everyone has heard by Pink Floyd even though may not know it is the song “Money” from one of their biggest selling albums of all time “The Dark Side of the Moon”. Pink Floyd started of in London in 1964 from the ashes of a band called Sigma 6 after toying the the sound for a while eventually Pink floyd was formed and ready to go. Pink Floyd, The Media, Technology, cultural…

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemicals substances: if there is any reaction both will be transformed"- Carl Jung. Reading this quote tells someone a lot even though two subjects, persons, or items make contact they change the other one. Everyone comes from somewhere on this earth and those people made ideas they also made humungous structures. It just depend on where and when you are from how you will be transformed. This essay will show you people come from…

imagination. The vague artsy lyrics suggest a hallucinogenic experience. “Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain, where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pie “The warm bass notes compliment the tranquil weightless feel of the verse, which is obtained by the sitar and tambura. Everything feels a lot more grounded when the bass starts playing straight quavers as a short build up to the explosive chorus. Songs are made up of music and lyrics. In this song the opening lyric mirrors the…

As a crime film, The Godfather contains numerous violent, sexual and profane scenes as its plot centers on the Corleone family and their criminal business. However, despite its genre, Nino Rota’s score for the film is generally calm, elegant and operatic. For instance, the main theme of the film is a waltz called the “Godfather Waltz,” which counterpoints the horrible images presented on the screen. As a mournful waltz with a melancholic vibe, the “Godfather Waltz” serves as a leitmotif for Don…

recording Uptown Funk began Ronson said “I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio. He was playing drums and Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record that's who's on synths and I was playing bass, and I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness, of maybe that is in there. And then, yeah, like, along the way you fine-tune it because you're thinking (Ronson).” Ronson went on to tell a story about recording the guitar for Uptown…