Musical notation

Another significant aspect of creating a silent movie is its music. Because ‘The Artist’ is mostly a silent movie, music played an important role. As in the interview with the composer by Jason Guerrasio as well as biography of Ludovic Bource, it confirms that the man who was responsible for composing the Oscar-winning soundtrack was not very popular in the industry before. In fact, he only composed for a few different movies, including ‘OSS 117: Rio ne respond pas’ also with Hazanavicious. In…

From the moment I was born on June 28th, 2004, my mother told me I was unique. I was named Sarah Beverly after my great grandmother on my mothers side. My last name, Nicol, is a Dutch name. I think we are all unique, and some of us a little more than others. Something that makes me a little more unique, and to some, possibly unusual would be I like to draw. I would not consider drawing my best skill but I would like to think I'm good at it. Another skill I have would be singing. My music choice…

This piece is a compilation of 3 different parts. Zorn uses exact lines and some variations taken from composers like Mozart and Chopin, musical styles, including jazz, country, and funk, as inspiration for phrases, and some phrases are of his own composition completely. It is very hard to explain this piece, because it is completely all over the place. There is not one specific characteristic…

On December 3rd, at 7:30 PM, I had the opportunity to go see San Jose State University’s wind ensemble performance. The wind ensemble consisted of people who played piccolos, flutes, oboes, bassoons, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas, the triangle, the xylophone, the double bass, and finally, the piano. The wind ensemble performance was conducted by Paul Herrera. Accompanying the band was Michael Martinez, a well-known soprano saxophone soloist. The venue itself took…

The Challenges and Rewards of Modern Composition When one considers the word “musician”, the first image that often comes to mind is a performer on stage playing popular, rock, or classical music. However, what many do not realize is that there is a large range of mediums through which one can present music. Some of these methods include writing music to accompany a visual or interactive component such as television or video games. Despite the number of opportunities for original music, the art…

Steel drum music has the ability to move an audience like no other type of music. From the first note, the songs exude a happiness from within each pannist. Even with the slower pieces, you can close your eyes and imagine yourself in a tropical surrounding. The AISD concert, conducted by CJ Menge, which took place April 14, 2012 certainly did not disappoint. The concert was performed in Austin, Texas and featured steel drum bands from seven middle and high schools in the area. The first piece,…

This last Tuesday, September 20th the Fry Street Quartet performed at the Caine Performance Hall. I was in attendance at this even and my feelings about it are varied. I chose this performance for a few reasons, first was that despite it not really fitting into the rock or pop categories whatsoever I was curious to see if any type of message could be spread by a quartet playing classical music. It is a different type of music for the subject and as the performance went on it became clear it was…

hundreds works of art that were marked both by fascinating emotions, and sophisticated textures. Mozart was born into the world of music being as his father was a successful composer himself. At a very early age he began to show understanding of musical concepts such as tempo, chords, and tone. Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart began as a child prodigy…

extending a filmic movement by using another shot placed in the same filmic continuity, even if this second shot has been recorded elsewhere or in another time. Like in symphonic music, with recurrent themes and patterns declined over the length of the musical piece, intervals in cinema enable to create plays of rimes and echoes, not only within a single film, but also in a whole cinematic production. Using the metaphor of music, film intervals could be used as gaps…

(Gardner-Neblett, N., & Gallagher, K. C., 2013) Learning process that involve musical activities develop children awareness on sounds that may help them later on with phonological awareness that relates to sounds found in speech (Activities to develop speech and language skills, 2015). 2. Music enhances physical development. Students…