Mensural notation

Two people that can make a connection between the essays that were written is Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. There are no two influential composer or artist that have more of an impact then Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. Both Wganer and Verdi set the tone going forward on the art of music. Even after both of them are gone from the world they still left their mark. Wagner’s pieces to this day are beloved and performed throughout the world. As for Verdi’s pieces, his pieces are also…

Eric Whitacre’s music is undoubtedly compelling. One can find themselves to be struck by its uncommon beauty and wonder why it is that being exposed to this music can affect them so heavily. After an in-depth analysis of several of Whitacre’s choir pieces, it is clear that his complex chord structures are key to his incredibly unique sound. Whitacre uses strong, unexpected chords that demand resolution and possess an intense energy. This paper presents an examination of Whiatcre’s musical…

A Certain Music draws you in from the very first page. A story of a nine year old child who knew no friends, only her mum and her dad were best friends, until one day she hears the most beautiful music coming from a house in the Reisnerstrasse. When you pick up the book you can't stop reading it, because you are so intrigued of where the story is going to take you. It is a unique story of a friendship between a very famous composer, who could not hear, but yet was recognised worldwide for his…

Does changing if a person plays piano or not affect how fast a person can type? If playing the piano affects how fast a person types then pianists will type faster than non-pianists. The procedures for the experiment were; Get participants who are pianists and non-pianists. Prepare a computer for participants to take the typing test. On the computer bring up http://www.freetypinggame.net/. Click on the tab that says test, and choose story number 32 (each participant will type the same story).…

The piano is one of the most beautiful and most influential instruments invented. It also happens to be my personal favorite instrument. Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I…

As the years have gone by, music has changed quite a bit. Music started off with simple monophonic songs but it quickly grew, changed, and evolved. Now music is a completely different being when compared to what it used to be. However, as music transformed, while certain characteristics disappeared for good, certain traits from an older era would reemerge from time to time. This is something that can clearly be seen when comparing the Concerto for Two Violins in G Major and Symphony Number 10.…

A person cannot fully grasp the full effect and intricateness of music without attending a live concert. On Tuesday, October 27 at the Sharp Concert Hall, I had the opportunity to attend a concert held by D. Frazier and Ricardo Coelho de Souza exhibits musical styles from Africa, South America, and parts of North America. All of the musical pieces contained several African retentions, a variety of instruments and other musical accompaniments such as vocalists and dancers. The concert as a…

Break Point 3.1 I believe that I learned a lot about music through all three of the methods listed in the book. As it is common for most young people, I have mostly acquired my musical knowledge through formal means, in a "school" setting. I joined a choir in fifth grade in which our choir director taught us solfege, sight reading, and other musical skills. Since I started learning these when I was younger, I was able to retain them slowly and gradually until I became fairly good at using them…

It is dark and he is trying to open a can of Polish pickles he has found in the house. The can falls on the floor and a German Captain, standing at the bottom of the stairs, encounters him. The Captain asks several questions from which he learns that Szpilman is a pianist. He asks Szpilman to play something on the piano which is in a room nearby. This film presents many intertextual elements: The film is intertextual in itself as it is based on the book “The Pianist”. Films and…

HS Students. Two classrooms were used for the treatment with music and two classrooms were used for the control groups. A test on vocabulary consisting of 10 words was given to two of these classrooms where the vocabulary words are provided prior to the test to see if music will affect the student’s memory. No name was required to be written on the tests, of course. Classical music was played during the entirety of the experiment. 5 minutes were given for studying for the test and 5 minutes were…