Musical notation

Priscilla Luu-Villa Professor Lance MU100 October 19, 2015 Spiced Up For this project, I chose to attend a piano concert because piano was an instrument that I have been playing since a young age. I enjoyed playing it but became bored of playing the piano so I quit. Later however, I did pick it up again and started to self teach myself a few songs and then started to play it again. I remembered a few things here and there that I had learned when I was younger and started to play decently well.…

Jeanie with the light brown hair (published in 1854) by Stephen Foster is performed by a tenor with piano accompaniment. The piano introduces the work with a short prelude starting on a high note then descending in conjunct intervals, briefly ascends from a low note to a note close to F. The piano then varies the prior phrase by descending from a high note with eighth notes then sustaining a note close to A. Following the prelude, the tenor begins the first section on with “I” on the high note…

following a month without any indication of his phantom collaborator, he has a total break down. His agent who has had increasing concerns of his lucidity arrives at the residence just as he is running about hysterically shouting and turning over the furniture frantically in what seems a final hopeless attempt to reunite with the specter. This is ample reason to permit the physician and his two burly accomplices brought along by he agent to overpower him bodily and bear him to the waiting…

Ellens dritter Gesang is written in strophic form like many other religious songs, repeating the same melody for every verse. This places importance on the lyrics and forces the listener to focus on the text rather than the melody. The melody is nevertheless attractive and simple, thus is easy to sing in church or at a religious gathering. Just like in many religious pieces, the song implements plagal cadences to create a greater effect of holiness and righteousness (Audio reference 4). The song…

Later, Aibne elected to play a Celestial Violin Concerto known as the “Pillars of Creation” at the conclusion of a harrowing interment of two children in London. Only the canorous melody seemed to articulate the inexpressible grief of the bereaved family. In fact, with the help of the music, the mourners’ souls grew wings to soar across the solar system and into the interstellar space to seek refuge among the stardust. After all, they were made of stardust too and would one day return to…

The first line of the song is “Music is a world within itself” which is a perfect fit for this book. This line alone connects directly with this book, as in this book the many musical elements are explained. Music, a world within itself is the mood of this book. Levitin explains how music develops people itself and how it has such a different meaning than what most people think it is. The tone of the song is upbeat and cheery,…

Throughout the Adagio movement of Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, we are presented with several different juxtaposing textures, each offering a new perspective with its experience. The dialectic forces of this movement could also be found within layers of Image A. The antiphony at the onset and again in later references can be heard as soft (in a texture sense), open, and even vague in its harmonic and rhythmic structure. The instructed una corda gives an airy and empty quality to the…

twelve-tone composition, where every note in a chromatic scale must be used once before it is repeated. Other less strict forms involve creating cells and sets of notes that are repeated at various transpositions and re-ordered to continually change the musical elements in a composition. The goal of serialism was to break off the pull of tonal music and open up the ear to hearing the frowned upon and less widely received dissonances of earlier classical music. Serialism challenged the concept of…

accompaniment of such tunes as Shepherd’s Hey and Country Gardens.” Although this piece may appear simple, it is just another example of Grainger’s genius with harmony, counterpoint, and color. By using this piece throughout the years of a student’s musical career, it will introduce them to how even a…

characterized by angular shapes that formed characters (Khan Academy, n. d.). Perhaps the most critical invention the Sumerians were known for were lapis lazuli and carnelian, which was much prized for inlays and jewelry. Therefore, they created musical instruments, which were played by skillful harpists and singers during rituals. Music was a significant culture in Mesopotamian life, and Sumerian patrons often constructed the beautiful instrument to play in homes, at funerals, and palaces…