Musical notation

On October 30 at 7:30 p.m., I attended an opera workshop of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance”. “The Pirates of Penzance” or “The Slave of Duty” was written by W.S. Gilbert and composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1879. The play is a comic opera which consist of two acts accompany by orchestra music. The performance was held at the Preforming Arts Center at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas. The play was directed by Cassi Torres McNabb, the Stage Manager was…

a number of different styles during the years of its popularity and appeared under a number of different descriptive names. It is related to several earlier styles of music, has close ties with later styles of music, and was associated with a few musical "fads" of the period such as the foxtrot. Many of the terms associated with ragtime have inexact definitions, and are defined differently by different experts; the definitions are muddled further by the fact that publishers often labeled pieces…

Classical music has always displayed a vast variety of unique tones. Theses tones give each piece its own distinctive quality that represents the overall feeling the song is trying to portray. Classical music can be categorized according to its tone: heart-gripping, fast-paced rhythms, bold, passionate ballads, and soothingly tranquil melodies. There are some pieces of music that seem to be able to mirror its tempo unto the heart of their listener. The tempo of this type of music…

Have you ever been beaten, bruised, and chained to something in a dark basement? If you answered “yes” to the previous question, then congratulations! If you answered “no”, then you need to get out more. Today, I am here to discuss music for the eighty-three billionth time. So let’s get on with it. Let me introduce our two composers. First, we have Claude Debussy. And next, there is Igor Stravinsky. Now, you might be thinking, “Why did our history lesson start off with a question about chains?”…

I. Mars, Bringer of War- The use of dynamic changes like crescendos and decrescendos really create a sense of excitement throughout the piece. The triplets played by all of the horns also add to this excitement. It seems as though John Williams, the composer for the Star Wars movies, took a lot of inspiration from this piece of music. The low reed sound at around 3:20 creates a mysterious and almost foreboding feeling. The finally with the sharp staccato rhythm really brings the piece…

Consequences I felt like throwing my violin at the wall. I had spent hours and hours getting my scales in tune, and I was still putting my fingers on the wrong places on the fingerboard. Rubbing my eyes, I put the violin down in its case and looked outside the window. It was pitch black outside, so that meant that it was very late. I sat down on the nearest chair, which creaked as it took my weight. I closed my eyes for a moment and thought to myself “What am I doing this for? I don’t like…

achieved amazing results during high school as well as ones who are doing wonderful things in colleges and careers. They feel connected, not just to a group of peers but to a continuous line of musicians just like them who have passed through similar musical experiences. Band uses math mainly fractions There are fractions in band or you call them time signatures. If the time signature is 4/4, the band director must conduct the band a certain way so they can easily…

Students will demonstrate accurate, clear, and precise comprehension of different musical elements when presented with an audio example. Goal 2. Students will express ideas and common attributes in works of the same era and evaluate differences between works of different eras. Goal 3. Students will provide accurate, relevant, and precise…

Your Toes (1940). After Hart’s death, Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II. They wrote ten musicals, the most famous being Oklahoma (1943) and The King and I (1951). five of these ten were some of the longest-running, biggest-grossing broadway musicals ever. Although his shows were different from normal, his work enriched and broadened the genre. Oscar Hammerstein II was born into a musical and theatrical family. He started playing piano at age nine. When he went to university, he…

In the poem, “Player Piano”, John Updike demonstrates a lot of feeling and emotion of an unhuman piano. By having detailed imagery of sounds, figures of speech, and rhyme, he portrays the reader into the picture of a machine-like device that has its own natural music language. This 12-line poem recalls the life and achievements of a player piano. In the first and second line, there is a lot of assonance (the repetition of sound in a vowel) and consonance (reassurance of similar sound) that are…