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Music has contributed remarkably to the film industry since the latter’s existence, and films have simultaneously immortalized musical pieces and kept them profitable beyond their time. During the silent films era, music was essential to fill the silence and keep the audience entertained, as well as engaged with the motion-picture. Even films that were meant to celebrate the intensity of a silent background have had music added, such as “All is Quiet on the Western Front.” Even though films have…

A setting where music is performed in Houston is downtown at the Discovery Green. Here live music performances are done outside in the open for people to see. Some of the music that is performed is by urban music. This type of music has different instruments like the bass, piano, trumpet, drums, among other instruments and the vocal singer. With the singer there also might be backup singers. The stage at which they perform, is outside where the people can sit anywhere they want. The people can…

of surrealism, bizarre means strange and unusual (Oxford). In 1945, Lee Miller took a picture of Irmgard Seefried who was an opera singer at the time. In the picture you can see Irmgard singing in an opera house which has been completely destroyed by the war. The picture of the opera singer creates a surrealist element of bizarreness because Irmgard is singing in the opera house as though…

Choral Performance Make-Up Project Composer-Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous composer and organist. He was born on March-21-1685. He was born in Eisenach Germany and died at age 65 on July-28-1750 in Leipzig Germany. Johann was a father of over twenty children. He had seven with his first wife but four out of the seven died. Johann also had 13 more children with his second wife Anna Magdalena unfortunately only six made it to adulthood the others died at…

The musical piece Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, by Claude Debussy was one of the composer's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of music. The piece was made in the start of the twentieth century when compositional style of impressionism was first being introduced. The piece was first composed in 1894, and first performed in Paris on December 22, leaving his audience amazed and impressed by the revolution of this new music. The type of music reminded me of…

I force my small, trembling legs to step onto my giant makeshift stage, which is really just a gazebo, but feels like Madison Square Garden to my four year old brain. I watch the piercing eyes of my preschool classmates as my chest rises and I take a huge inhalation; and I begin my shaky, a cappella rendition of “Sk8r Boi” by Avril Lavigne. As I finish the song, my peers applaud and I am greeted with a feeling of pride and accomplishment that I had yet to know in my previous four years of life.…

Stevie Wonder, one musician that sees the world through music, not eyes. Stevie went through many hard times with his disability. He overcame his disabilities by doing what he loves most. From Singing to Harmonica to Piano, Stevie showed how much he loved the vocal and instrumental arts. Stevie was blind his entire life. The young super star was born May 13,1950, in Saginaw, Michigan. By the age of 13 he began to sing to his hearts content. He attended Detroit, Public Schools. Growing up was…

In the poem, “Player Piano”, John Updike demonstrates a lot of feeling and emotion of an unhuman piano. By having detailed imagery of sounds, figures of speech, and rhyme, he portrays the reader into the picture of a machine-like device that has its own natural music language. This 12-line poem recalls the life and achievements of a player piano. In the first and second line, there is a lot of assonance (the repetition of sound in a vowel) and consonance (reassurance of similar sound) that are…

Dark Elegies: A Masterpiece Antony Tudor choreographed and wrote the libretto for Dark Elegies. The world premiere took place in 1937. It was held as part of the Ballet Rambert, in the Duchess Theatre, London on February 19th. In addition to Tudor, there were many other influential members involved in creating this dance work. Gustav Mahler composed the five songs that make up the score and Friedrich Ruckert wrote all of the lyrics. Nadia Benois created scenery and costumes, while Jean…

of the Classical era. Mozart was a prodigy that performed for European royalty, and basically grew up to become a famous musician that had Classical style. Although he was a versatile composer that wrote in almost every genre including: symphony, opera, solo concerto, and chamber music. Even though these genes were nothing new his piano concerto is what made him so famous. First of all, Mozart’s music was a typical example of Classical style. If you listen to one of his works you can recognize…