Harmony

Song of Myself “Song of Myself”, which is famous for “representing the core of Whitmans poetic vision” (Greenspan) was written in 1881 by Walt Whitman. This poem is baffling to many people because of both the symbolism and wordplay. Walt Whitman begins by introducing the subject in the poem, which is himself and he goes on by celebrating this theme. Whitman utilizes words such “I”, “myself” and his inner soul to generate a feel of being and depiction in specific sects of the poem. Whilst it…

In 1999, Tim Westergren and two of his friends launched a company out of San Francisco called Savage Beast, which would later become Pandora (Pozen & Rosenfeld, 2009). Pandora was powered by the Music Genome Project. The Music Genome Project is a music discovery engine, and each song in the project’s library was analyzed by Pandora employees (Pozen & Rosenfeld, 2009). Pandora spent time and money building up their musical library in the project so that customers were enabled to listen to songs…

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…

As I read Bill Lucas’s autobiography, I was amazed by the fact that Lucas could just not catch a break. Not only did Lucas’s eyesight have a significant impact on his life, but between frequently moving around, losing his mother, and being unable to find work and keep his music group together, Lucas’s life was far from easy. However, it is the obstacles that Lucas faced that makes him the perfect person to be a blues singer. It seems like singing the blues was a great way for Lucas to get his…

The piece I selected was “Tout est Perplexe,” from the soundtrack of the Japanese animated film, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. I selected this piece because it shows a dynamic internal contrast between a mild, lingering sadness and overwhelming depression. The piece starts of softly, with a single instrument playing most of the melody. Moreover, the melody itself is in the minor key, giving the music a sad quality, and it moves upwards in scale in a conjunct manner, so the music does not…

Analysis of Excerpts of Representative Composers As mentioned earlier in this chapter, polymodality can be traced back to the baroque period. Figure 1.3 shows an excerpt of J. S. Bach’s Four Duets No. 2 BWV 303, measures 43-46. This is an example of contrapuntal writing, where Bach creates a canon a perfect fourth lower from the top voice. The upper melody is composed in a D melodic minor scale, and the lower voice is written in A melodic minor. Mosco Carner states that “Bach in contrast to…

Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” from Rodeo incorporates several elements of music to further its ideas. The “Hoedown” is peppy and in duple meter. It is program music, using traditional American folk tunes and an impressively diverse range of high and low pitches to convey a sense of vastness, representing the immense American frontier. The movement’s beginning uses consonance as all the notes seem to mesh well with each other, but the middle shows some dissonance, as the notes seem harshly unrelated…

Today i will be talking about racial harmony and how it is wrong to judge people on who they are what they do and how they do it. People have no right in telling people what they can and can't do the people that make fun of these are bullies. And are just mad that they can't be as unique as that person is. Here is an example both of my cousin are bisexual and my aunt just can't except one of my cousin for who they are. It's just that she can't expect my other cousin because she is only 13 and my…

Kraus in 2011 with 80 primary school students in gang reduction zones in Los Angeles, who shared similar disadvantaged backgrounds yet were all motivated to participate in music training with the Harmony Project. Mostly a privately funded program, the Harmony Project provides free music instructions for disadvantaged children (more than 2000), whose schools had stopped offering music classes. The project fosters the healthy development of children’s auditory processing and learning…

South Carolina, was dedicated to collecting the songs of the American people and compiling them for use in the church. Walker’s book was titled Southern Harmony and was the most popular tune book during the pre-civil war era. This paper will discuss Southern Harmony, its many republications, and how it led to the development of The Christian Harmony directly after the civil war. The tune books published and distributed during this time period were unique in the system of music notation used…