Melody

Music is composed of many different elements that together give feeling to what we hear. These elements include rhythm, beat, accent, meter, syncopation, tempo, pitch, dynamics, tone color, overtone, scales, melody, harmony, texture, tonality, and mode. Just like with chemical elements, combining musical elements will create something new and exciting, and different combinations will give something distinct to the music. All sixteen elements mentioned are equally important and together…

playing a melody with entrances and exits from the Kakko and a San-no-tsuzumi. The Ryuteki introduces us to the melody used throughout the remainder of the piece. These moments of monophony are seen throughout the piece. An example of monophony from Gregorian Chant can be found in “Alleluia Vidimus Stellam”(1). This clip begins with a male soloist singing sacred text, who is later joined by a choir of men. The choir is singing in unison, meaning together and without harmony. The melody sung by…

Nothing in this submission is anything like what I originally had written. I wrote this piece sitting at the piano, which I’ve played since I was eight, and fiddling with specific melodies. After composing a piece, I would listen to the music that I had composed, and then would title my piece based on what images came to mind while listening to…

persisted throughout the piece. Also present was a bright fanfare in the trumpets, followed by a light descending melody played by the entire orchestra. After this movement, all the instruments began playing a strong fortissimo beat, which gradually increased the tension, leading up to a muted trumpet solo. The strings dominated the remainder of the movement, with a strong legato melody passed from the ’cellos to the violins, and, finally, to the basses. The third movement could be…

Claude Debussy’s, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, helped push the transformation of music in the 20th century. Tired of the tender melodies and the emotional tone of the romantic era,these composers experimented with tone, rhythm, and melody eventually defining news styles of music. The purpose of this paper to identify the similarities and the differences between Debussy’s La Mer, Stravinsky’s Right of Spring, and Schoenberg’s Erwartung. Claude Debussy’s La Mer is an orchestral…

pattern. As the piece goes on, it is obvious that Mahler is trying to recreate a nature scene in his first movement. To match the dark setting that started the movement is little bits of music that poke out. An example would be, throughout the sluggish melody an awaking would call that was slow, but surely came closer and more apparent in the movement by the various woodwinds, and each section represents each animal waking up on the first day of spring which is shown by slow and groggy texture,…

samba groove at measure 11. The saxes make the first statement of the melody at measure 19. Crisp brass backgrounds punctuate the second statement of the melody at measure 35. At measure 51, the harmonized trombones and bari sax begin a smooth-flowing bridge. When the trumpets take over the melody at measure 59, the bridge should build in volume and excitement to a peak at measure 65. After the bridge, the saxophones pick up the melody again…

exciting. The amazing change is the music seems continue with this exciting melody to the brilliant climax but it is not. Cello suddenly forces the mood and speed down and embarks on a long, lyrical section. And the amazing change has not finish yet. Every time the cello gradually becomes more exciting and it seems to be about to reach a climax, however, every time the cello pull the feeling back to smooth and build the melody again until once the cello play the solo almost like the climax but…

As my second concert report was over King FM classical radio. The FM classical radio, is based out of Seattle. King Classical radio is a radio station that is available online, and plays different classical music throughout the day. This happens to have five different kinds of radio which are Classical King FM 98.1, The King FM Evergreen Channel, The King FM Seattle Symphony, The King FM Seattle Opera Channel and The King FM Arts Channel. I listen to many different pieces in each of the…

This week I started to play a game that I just bought, “Assassins Creed 4th”. When I played the game, I heard a melody which sounds very familiar; its name is the "dark slayer.” When its original version firstly appeared in the “Assassins Creed 1”, it was called “Ezios’ family.” It is not the main melody, but in every version of the game, this melody will appear in different forms. The success of the structure is directly related to the success and failure of music in the game.Since the music…