Musical form

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…

Susanne Skyrm used technical musical terminology to explain what makes Spanish music distinctly Spanish, one can still gain a better perception of a distinguishing the cultural aspects without being a music major. Skyrm started her presentation by playing a brief piece, which she later dissected further. Skyrm touched a bit on the history of Spain prompting its musicality. For example, she explained how Andalucía is the melting pot region of Spain where most of its musical influences come from.…

Music is a unique form of art that touches both the humanistic qualities of humans as well as the technical. The study of music has been an integral part of my life and has positively changed every aspect of how I live. Serving as an outlet of expression, it has taught me how to communicate and make sense of complex emotions. It has also taught me how to listen and react to what I am hearing. A skill that is a foundation block for any friendship, relationship, or interaction with another…

the local orchestra, one will undoubtedly reach the section that lists all of the donor contributions to the orchestra, and then will realize the amount of wealthy support that goes into the classical arts. Such support doesn’t exist for other musical forms such as rock, country, or rap. Not only is there a funding difference, there is also a major difference in the education one receives based on the genre of…

In the opinion of one of the world’s most significant pianists of all time, Frédéric Chopin always had thought that the piano playing is a form of art, and teaching students how to play piano should not merely about how students can be capable of performing a musical piece with faster tempo and strong dynamic. A good piano teacher should explain to student the art of the music for them to able to comprehend the pieces, and the students should be able to express themselves throughout the learning…

chamber music. The composer wrote it for a ballet; however, the musicians of Diablo Valley College played only musical composition without ballet performance. The Library of Congress was the first place where the musical work was performed and had a great success. However, the DVC chamber orchestra also performed this composition well. It was an excellent performance which…

Music can influence and strengthen a child 's mind through learning to play an instrument. Music has been around for thousands of years, nearly every civilization that ever existed had some form of music. Recent studies have shown incredible benefits for people who learn to play a musical instrument. These benefits should be utilized in school to achieve a higher standard of education. The school board in Bullhead City should require Coyote Canyon Elementary school to have a music class for…

pitches of the scale, the arabesque ornates itself repeatedly with a given pattern only to return to a single stem. Thus, Debussy creates a piece which sounds in whole Spanish without necessarily imitating and copying directly musical traditions of Spain. Since Debussy’s musical exoticism does not reflect directly the culture it tries to portray, it would be interesting to see this analysis applied to his Asian inflected music such as Pagodes and music influenced by gamelan. Given Debussy’s…

my upbringing to have been fairly musical. Starting on my mother’s side with my mother; she tries very hard but lacks a sense of both rhythm and pitch however that never stopped her from singing me lullabies. Continuing on to the generation before my mom there is my grandmother who is very musical. I grew up playing guitar and singing/writing songs with my grandmother as well as with all her siblings who are very musically inclined. On my mother’s side the musical involvement stops there with my…

Like most forms of art, poetry can warrant varying responses from different people. These responses could include visual or audial perceptions, or even literal interpretations of the text. The same stanza could inspire one to paint a scene and another to set it to music. In the case of Goethe’s “Kennst du das Land,” we see a plethora of musical interpretations of the same text. Although the vocalists for Schubert’s and Schumann’s settings are singing the same text, the different melodic lines…