Marching percussion

Observation The concert that I attended was a jazz concert. The concert started off with music. It was during the intermission, the musicians introduced themselves. The music is not written down on the program. Rather, it was stated orally. The group of male musicians was consisted of a pianist, drummer, bass, and saxaphone. Many times, the group would be playing a polyphonic texture. However, there were other times where they would suddenly change into a heterophonic texture. The heterophonic…

damp grim room. Fragments of a single perpetual light, escaping just as it gave gasps of its dying breaths, flickering through the concave parallels of what he assume were walls. He could hear the rhythm of his heart throbbing as if a small marching percussion was playing in his chest. His palms were clammy as he quivered in his unhinged thoughts. Thinking what his life would have been like if he hadn't opened it, or had seen what he believed was the probable cause for his horrific experience.…

and Dallas. The musical instruments used were percussion instruments similar to those used in African music. The slaves used to have Sunday off and…

international success, but this triumph would soon be quelled. At a performance of Lady Macbeth at the Bolshoi Theatre in early 1936, Shostakovich noticed that Stalin was in the audience. Accounts testified that Stalin shuddered every time the brass and percussion played too loudly, that he and his consort laughed at the love-making scene between two characters and that when Shostakovich came on stage to take a bow he was “white as a sheet”. Two days later, an…

Victor Hugo once said, “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent” (Hugo). Music is not simply an art form, for music can be seen as a basic function in human existence, providing the necessities needed to survive (Yagelski & Miller). For instance, music is recommended to promote quality health and entertainment. According to Brenda Griffin, music is truly remarkable in that it unites all people; when one listens to music, he or she shares a connection…

(A playful writing influenced by A. A. Milne’s ‘Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter’ Stories) I gaze from my window to see a slight rustle in the conifers, picking up my binoculars with curiosity I notice a wood pigeon fluttering about; my imagination gets the better of me, thoughts rolled into a story. I don’t believe in happy endings; but I will try and write something with a good end to it and no better way can a story be brought to life than through the antics of wood pigeons. There was a…