Music theory

The spread of the performing arts, children, teens, and adults in the 21st century have gained an interest in learning how to play musical instruments. Studies have shown that people who not only listen to music, but play a musical instrument themselves, use more parts of the brain. Not only can it prevent them for getting a disease that affects their ability to think, but it also causes people to learn at rapid speed. “The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the human body. It…

Allstate is the pinnacle of a musician 's high school music career, and is the standard to which they are held to for the rest of their musical journey. Whenever someone mentions they were a musician in school, if the other person also was a musician, he will invariably ask, "Did you make Allstate?" As a high school student at a music festival or camp, at least one person is bound to say, "Hey, you 're pretty good! Would I have seen you at Allstate?" To someone who isn 't a musician, it 's…

Scripted interview Interviewer: Today we will be interviewing a gentleman that has forged a name for him self in the realm of music. He has created every thing from sonatas, fugues, quartets, sonnets, and operas. He has also traveled all across Europe playing some of the most renowned places such as the Sistine Chapel. Ladies and gentleman I give you Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart: Thank you, thank you it a pleasure to be hear. Interviewer: So let’s start simple, and go all the way back to…

of the time. Other times, it is much more difficult to analyze the piece from a storytelling perspective. For example, the messages of songs without lyrics are understandably harder to interpret. Looking at music from that perspective shows how music can be identified as a narrative. A theory developed by Walter Fisher called narrative paradigm explains that all communication is a form of storytelling. In each story, there is a beginning, middle and end, conflicts, and eventually resolution. The…

Music is a universal language that can be used to unite and educate people all over. Music can be traced back to as early as 4000 BCE, using rocks and sticks as drums. Native Africans and Native Americans would often use these “instruments” for religious ceremonies or a way to pass down stories or knowledge. Music has played major roles in developing the human race into intelligent beings that have turned the world into an efficient, functional place. Music has been able to rectify many problems…

My life has basically revolved around music. Ever since I was a baby, I was singing along to the songs my mom would put on or banging on pots and pans making "music". I finally learned to play and actual instrument in third grade, the violin, although I wasn't as enthusiastic about that as I should have been. In fourth grade, I undertook flute lessons, sticking with that ever since. Most of my time was spent practicing, and I was even able to join my middle school's advanced band in sixth grade…

About five years ago I was introduced into the world of music. At the age of 11, I had never touched a single instrument much less made a decent noise on one. My grandmother owned a Casio keyboard that was older than I was that just sat in the spare bedroom unused. Many times when we would stay with them, I would look at the keyboard and long to learn to play it. I had seen piano players before and the idea of being like one of them was my dream. In May of 2012, I acquired the Casio from my…

Music. It is my sincerest intrigue since I was in fifth grade. My elementary school teacher introduced me to my fascination and, before I knew it, I was playing the Marimba during my sophomore year of high school in honors band. This was a second turning point, as I learned to play at a much more difficult level of music and at a much quicker pace. After a few weeks of that year, things got progressively harder. We had new music for our upcoming competition, and although it was challenging, I…

Music is an important activity in most people’s lives, so why not write about it? There are many themes prevalent throughout all of Walt Whitman’s poetry. Nature is a large theme, as is unity, music, and the soul. Walt Whitman even tries to connect all of these themes together at some point or another. Whitman’s unique ideology of unification allows his easy access to unify people, topics, and ideas. “Proud Music of the Storm” is a good example of Whitman’s works. In this poem, there are…

backgrounds, we are finding that musical training can alter the nervous system to create a better learner and help offset this academic gap”. Often times, music is used for memorization. Teachers have set uninteresting things to music, such as the Preamble, to music so students will remember it. However, setting facts to music is not the only way music increases learning. In a study done by E. Glenn Schellenberg from the University of Toronto at Mississauga, discovered higher IQs in…