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Our Souls in Slow Movement, is a symbolist painting by Denis, as part of his album Amour, of two sisters sitting by a piano. The younger girl, Eva, is playing the piano while her sister, Marthe, listens. Adagio refers to a tempo marking, indicating that the music is to be played slowly, or a composition intended to be played in this manner. Therefore, Denis chooses the slow Adagio movement for his title because Eva is playing the piano, creating music. The sisters look at peace and in a dreamy…

“Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered.” These words were written in the autobiography of a man who meant these words when he said them (Bio.com). Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, who is popularly known as Duke Ellington, is the man being talked about here (Encyclopedia). Duke had a warm childhood, a busy adulthood, and a legacy that will never be forgotten which included him composing the song “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing” (Bio.com). Duke Ellington…

live concert. On Tuesday, October 27 at the Sharp Concert Hall, I had the opportunity to attend a concert held by D. Frazier and Ricardo Coelho de Souza exhibits musical styles from Africa, South America, and parts of North America. All of the musical pieces contained several African retentions, a variety of instruments and other musical accompaniments such as vocalists and dancers. The concert as a whole, methodically put together, revealed the development of instruments through time and…

Upon attending the International Chamber Music Festival Concert, a certain ecstatic vibe could be felt as the performers walked on stage with their musical instruments. The virtuoso’s performed in pieces that contained trios, duets, and quintets; showing the concentration they required when listening to each other. When working on Chamber Music, much of the melody jumps around from instrument to instrument, show casing various solos and much of the instruments having to coincide with each other…

On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, I attended a student ensemble orchestra concert at UTSA called "The Natural Realm". It was a free concert that took place in UTSA 's recital hall, which is located in their art building. The recital hall was a good sized room, not to big or small. It started at 7:30 p.m. and ended around 8:40. The orchestra concert was conducted by Eugene Dowdy, a music professor and director of orchestral studies and conducting at UTSA. It was a tremendous performance filled…

affect intelligence one poses an Annotated Bibliography Bower, Bruce. "Harvard Gazette: Music on the Brain." Harvard Gazette: Music on the Brain. Science News, n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2015. . The article reports that learning to play a musical instrument, may indeed give children an intellectual edge over their peers. Six-year- olds who took weekly piano lessons throughout the school year showed an average increase in IQ says psychologist E. Glenn Schellenberg of the…

1 I believe that I learned a lot about music through all three of the methods listed in the book. As it is common for most young people, I have mostly acquired my musical knowledge through formal means, in a "school" setting. I joined a choir in fifth grade in which our choir director taught us solfege, sight reading, and other musical skills. Since I started learning these when I was younger, I was able to retain them slowly and gradually until I became fairly good at using them in high…

Polymodality and Dual Modality Concepts and Definitions According to Vincent Persichetti, “polymodality involves two or more different modes on the same or different tonal centers. The modal strands may be melodic or harmonic.” In the most traditional conception a melodic line in order to be considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal…

 Musical Notes Can Count Jerri Pineda Abstract— The development of mathematics involves early connections with music and the basic physics of sound. Mathematics is present in the natural occurrence of the ratios and intervals found in music and modern tuning systems. As people age, their hearing becomes dull and require change in the music ratio and interval to hear the same tune as when young. In like manner, the interval increases until a perfect pitch is heard. In this paper we will examine…

plantation house. We arrived at the theatre thirty minutes early and were able to take in the sights completely before the concert began. My wife went with me and we were seated in the balcony. The stage was pretty plain; only one piano and a few musical stands decorated it. A wall of acoustical tiles filled one side of the theatre. The other side had remnants of an old beautiful mural. murals My wife and I discussed the…