Music education

audiences humored laughter. In fact, I was the only person to step on stage for the entire performance who was of the male gender. What does this mean, why is it special or uncanny for an entire ensemble to be made up of exclusively women? What does music do to change implications and assumptions on this matter? What are we expecting? This entire situation I found myself in seemed to be nothing more than a happy accident. KaeRenae Mitchell emailed me mid-semester to…

decided to go was BYU Baroque Ensemble, a production made by BYU students, taking place at Madsen Recital Hall Harris Fine Arts Center on November 3. The idea of making a baroque orchestra is where musician get together to make a perfect composition of music, the baroque orchestra is made up mostly of stringed instruments, when you listen you feel something different that makes you see it from another perspective, you just can’t stop listening and focus on every note that the musicians are…

‘Casablanca’ was released during the golden age of Hollywood film; “a visual and narrative style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1917 and 1960”. It is a style in which falls between formalism and realism. Casablanca makes the shots realistic at the beginning by making the voice over resemble a radio reporter - drawing the audience in and making them feel apart of the story. But the the film is then also filmed in controlled studio…

also another one behind the grand piano. The piano is a black piano and it usually has music papers all over. I sometimes stand there behind Bryce and mess with him hoping to mess him up. I sometimes also like to try and play chords or something someone shows me. To the left is a rack full of movies that Dr. Ryan shows the choir sometimes. The movies all have to deal with music, for example, The Sound of Music. The piano faces the different choir sections that are grouped together. There are 4…

dance faded a calm atmosphere began to settle. The first notes of the W. A. Mozart’s “Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra” K #622 Movement #1 begin to be heard the curtain rises and eight dancers appear in a circle, four males and four females. As the Music continues the dancers travel in a circle with very balletic movements taking turns to partner in the center. Partnering in this dance doesn’t necessarily mean that it is a man and a woman dancing together, throughout the work there are duets…

This song has a wide dynamic range due to the “extremely soft passages as well as extremely loud passages” (Elements of Music). The rhythm patterns change throughout this piece. It begins to slow then changes to a faster pace. Along with changing rhythmic patterns there is a change in melody. The song changes from low to high pitches. Dissonance and consonance harmonic tones…

mixed. It has influences from Europe, Africa and Asia. For instance, Cuba has several kinds of religions like African, Catholic and Protestant. There are many typical religious ceremonies that are performed on the streets. You can also enjoy Cuban music and dancing at the streets, restaurants and clubs.…

Etta James has that get into your soul and dig deep down music. A song once performed in Cadillac Records called I’d Rather Go Blind orignally was written by Etta James but was performed by Beyonce. She knows exactly what to do when it comes to getting real sentimental and soulful with old music. Beyonce has did old coverups for plenty of people. Beyonce and Etta James both have great voices and both are very soulful. Both tend to view music differently genre wise. Etta James song At last is…

amazing and revolutionary impact on music history as well as American history. Over the past 200 years, the saxophone hasn’t taken on the role in the orchestra but rather found a much bigger home in marching bands as well as jazz big bands. What would jazz be if there were no saxophones? The world will never have to wonder about what might have never happened if the saxophone hadn’t been born. The development of the saxophone has had such a profound impact of music over the past 200 years,…

Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor is split into three movements of varying texture and feel. Full of tension and release, the piece reflects both Brahms’s other works and his life during the time of its composition. Although initially received in 1859 to an overwhelmingly negative reaction, (Lunday 127) the concerto grew in popularity with the help of Clara Schumann and remains a popular composition to this day (Staines 97). Throughout the piece, the delicate balances of…