Melody

The word Klezmer is derived from two Hebrew words, “kle” means instrument or vessel and “zemer” means song (Netsky, p.5). Klezmer music was born from the villages of Eastern Europe where Jewish troubadours (also known as klezmorim) would entertain at different a functions that were happy and joyous like weddings, birthday parties, and anniversaries. Klezmer music can be dated back to the 1800’s from Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants (Netsky, p.5). The Bible talks about music being played in…

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form of a classic Jazz piece is “The Head” or the main melody, “The B-Section”, the contrasting melody of the main melody, an open solo section where musicians would improvise on their instruments over planned chords, and then “The Head”, again. This is no different than one of the most common forms of classical music, Sonata Form. Sonata Form consists of “ABA” representation. Basically, a main melody, a contrasting melody, and then the main melody again. The use of instruments and orchestration…

studios began their own spin on the program. This for Leon Schlesinger and the Warner Brothers was a way of incorporating popular music with cartoons (Beck, iv). An exemplary case of these Merrie Melodies, which is interchangeable with the more known name, the Looney Tunes are Duck Amuck. While Merrie Melodies had been in production since the beginning of the 1930s (Beck iv), Duck Amuck made it’s debut in 1953, directed by Chuck Jones (Klein, 207). During the same year of Duck Amuck’s release, a…

Immediately, Rocky decided to not back down, causing the trumpets to raise its tone to fortissimo instantly, while making to viewers anxious. Without the music, the audience would assume he is just going to get knocked down again, nonetheless, the melody created an anticipation to make the viewers assume that Rocky is going to do the impossible and make his last moments legendary. Then suddenly the trumpets instantly stop, and as Rocky dodges several punches and the musicless few seconds, Rocky…

Also, trumpets and violins started to rise in popularity during this music era. Baroque period was the period in which the concept of melody and harmony truly began to peek interest in many composers. Many music had one melody line with harmony supporting it, like many music of today. In previous musical eras, music was often consisted of a single or several melodies played at the same…

The first Horn Concerto, Op. 11, by Richard Strauss is one of the most notorious pieces in horn literature. The concerto was written in 1882 and is a standard example of the Romantic era. Strauss created both the piano and orchestral versions, with the orchestra score calling for solo horn, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings (Steinberg). The orchestral version was premiered on March 4, 1885. Richard Struss’ father, Franz, was the…

Track1: The Firebird, finale 1. The first few minutes of this piece are pianissimo, and I must say I enjoyed the extreme softness in the beginning of the symphony. As I was listening I noticed the crescendo throughout the piece until about one minute and thirty four seconds. Then the orchestra was playing pianissimo again for just a few seconds. I then heard another crescendo. I think this lasted throughout the rest of the symphony. I did notice the end of the piece went decrescendo for just a…

I listened to two pieces of Irish music the first was a piece pertaining to Irish marching bagpipes. Since this is marching music there is a constant snare drum going on as well as some sort of horn players playing in the background. First of all, its hearing how well the players are playing in tune with each other is amazing and how unified their sound is. There are times when you distinctly know there is a multitude of players playing as it adds to the overall effect of the march as this style…

someone singing it. But you see a true musician, the ones with the gift, they’re able to find voices within the song regardless there are words. You listen in a way that others fail to recognize. It’s up to us to listen closely to the words in the melody, decipher what it means, and to illustrate it to those around us so that they can interpret music the same way that we can hear it.” Josephine’s fingers flew frantically across the neck as she thought of the first moment she played those…