Musical form

Far from setting out to destroy music in all it's forms, Arnold Schoenberg's first compositions were extremely tonal and almost indistinguishable from the works of other Romantic period composers. In a search for a way to secure the German music tradition for the "next 1000 years," Schoenberg searched for a way to present music in a new way. This reorganization resulted in what we now call serialism. In it's more severe and restricted form, the technique is called twelve-tone composition, where…

realm of the Forms. The Forms are described as perfect and unchanging exemplars for our earthly experiences. For example, the table we experience on earth is an incomplete version of the Form of table in another realm. This is related to his idea that the body and soul are separate identities. Plato believes that the soul functions more effectively when not hindered by a body. In addition, Plato states that before we are born our souls exist amongst the Forms, making knowledge of the Forms pure…

With new methods of composition came new ways of conveying emotions in dramatic settings. Musical rhetoric can be identified in terms of articulation of form, text declamation, and text painting by studying the scores of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Lully’s Armide. Orfeo contains several examples of musical rhetoric in its various forms. For example, m. 12 displays form articulation with a shift in instrumentation to theorbo. The basso continuo section that follows is an example of simple recitative.…

Analysis 4.1 Analysis The initial interpretation of the poem comes about significantly as a result of looking at the words used by the poet, particularly about their interconnection and the deviant grammatical and graphological elements. Analysis of lexical features is therefore, a better point to start with a detailed linguistic analysis. This in turn, contributes to the effects of overall meaning that the poem carries. 4.1.1 Lexical level At lexical level we see the lexical choose many single…

pentameter. The Narrative poem tells a story, it structures explains the plot line of a story, the introduction of characters, and giving a conflict between the characters. The first subtype of an Narrative poem are Ballad poems. Usually Ballads has a musical rhythm and can be sung, and usually organized into quatrains also has a simple rhythm structure. Balanced out into an uprise or a down turn, and tells the tales of someone 's everyday life which brings the concept of…

objects. The resultant sounds were then recorded and manipulated with microphones to create the wide variety of new sounds (Stockhausen 78). While listening to the different sounds Stockhausen was able to deduce which sounds belonged together in order to form a modified scale for the piece. Following Mikrophonie I, Stockhausen wanted to further experiment with the tam-tam and various methods of altering the sounds which is what lead him to create Mikrophonie…

help achieve this I will be focusing on musical genre in Hollywood by analysing the following clip shown of ‘Singin’ in the rain: Good Morning’. This clip shows how the musical conforms by having general conventions of the genre and also shows the development of Hollywood musicals and it’s importance to genre in a particular time period. Musicals had become an essential to Hollywood as by the middle of 1929, 25 percent of films in production were musicals. (Grant, 2012) By the time the 1930s…

There are a lot of Irish traditional musical instruments, but there is one instrument that sticks out the most it is the Irish harp. The harp is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world, the earliest harps were developed from the hunting bow. The harp or Celtics harp has a big impact on the Irish musical culture. As music evolved it was also necessary for the harp, if it was to maintain its popularity, to move with the times. Instead of only being limited to eight major keys and five…

third is the “sheerly musical plane” (Copland 7). As Copland discusses and critiques each plane, the reader quickly realizes that they gravitate towards certain planes more than others. While this piece is somewhat opinionated, Copeland thoroughly justifies his claims, allowing the reader to consider how his methods may apply to areas beyond music. Copeland addresses the sensual plane first. He defines this plane as listening to music “for the sheer pleasure of the musical sound itself”…

Rent, a rock-musical set in New York, follows seven artists working for their dreams of stardom without becoming sellouts. Originating in 1996, Rent was composed by an almost unknown composer at the time, Jonathan Larson. From small beginnings in the Off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop, Rent made its way to Broadway, and became an American hit. This hit musical was written and composed by Jonathan Larson. Living from 1960-1996, dying the morning Rent was to be performed in its first…