Harmony

Harmony, word originally derived from the Latin harmonia meaning agreement and the Greek harmós which means to fit together or joint while the word diversity is from the Old French diversité means difference. Therefore, harmony within diversity in other words means to fit together despite the differences. According to Martin Luther King Jr. " We are caught in an escapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affect one directly, affects all indirectly." It is…

a nice melody and the drums and bass acted as background music. The trumpet gave this piece a nice and smooth jazzy feeling. The rhythm was triple meter and I could hear repeating patterns in the background. The melody was also conjunct and the harmony was major. The form of the piece was medley (ABCD..). This piece contained homophonic texture and had a drum solo. The historical period is the twentieth century. When the piano was playing, it gave this piece a tropical and Hawaiian atmosphere.…

A composer might choose to have a melody in the key of C major and harmony in the key of Ab minor. This juxtaposition of more than one key center makes it possible to create music that may follow some basic tenets of tonality, while still advancing the craft and creating modern, dissonant sounds. While this type of music…

At the Rex Jazz and Blues Bar on 194 Queen Street West, The Sinners Choir performed in the genre of Americana, Free Jazz to an audience of around twenty-five people. Free Jazz was first introduced in the summer of 1960 when Saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his band recorded This is Our Music for Atlantic records. In the album, “Coleman reordered structural principles to offer the members of his group maximum melodic and rhythmic freedom,” (Anderson 2007, 1). He accomplished an improvised approach…

vielle was the most popular instrument for both religious and secular songs in Western Europe in the 11th to 16th century. The texture of the music is monophonic. This is because there only one sound also called the melody but has no accompanying harmony. Also, the sound is played at a fixed interval of time. There is the use of the drone in the music. The drone in the music is instrumental created through a sustained sound of the vielle. The style of the music can be classified as canon which…

Song Analysis Essay: Sleep by Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre 's famous composition “Sleep” exemplifies a wonderful spin on Robert Frost 's poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Eric whitacre had originally wrote Robert Frost 's poem to music but couldn 't publish due to copyright claims so in a panic he changed the words in his iconic piece to create “Sleep”. Before "Sleep” was even a concept a Texas woman came to Eric asking him to write a piece in remembrance of her parents…

Procedures: (all sections consist of clearly stated sequential steps) I. Introduction (The Launch) I will ask the students if they recognize the music that is being played. (The Entertainer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSpoVH0c-Dw I will expect the students to respond with yes that’s the ice cream truck song. I would go on to explain that this song is one of many songs written by Scott Joplin and is part of a music style known as ragtime. II. Central Part of Lesson (sequential instructional…

When you read music, you read it off what is called a staff. A staff consists of four spaces and five lines. On the four spaces and five lines are notes. At the beginning of the staff you will always see either a Treble Clef or a Bass cleft. Each indicates what and where the starting note will be when you are reading your music. On a Treble clef, the line that it wraps around will always be G. When you look at a note that’s anywhere along that line, it’s always a G. Now, with the Base cleft it’s…

Unexpected Lessons: (Things I Learned for No Reason in Band) "What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow." This quote is from The Phantom Tollbooth. There are experiences in life where we learn lessons for no reason at all. These things teach us lessons that we don't expect. These are lessons that are learned for no reason at all. For me, my best learning experiences have come from music, and the lessons I learned there were for no…

Fryderyk Chopin composed around fifty-nine mazurkas with only forty-one being published during his lifetime; the remaining compositions remained in manuscript form until being published by his close friend, Julian Fontana, after Chopin’s death. Chopin’s mazurkas are based on the traditional Polish folk dance, the mazur, which are the second part of the three-fold dance routine of the original folk mazurka, also called the “round dance” when all three parts are performed together. The mazur’s…