Musical notation

interesting and energetic sound. I liked having this energetic and lively section towards the end of the piece. It created anticipation and excitement while listening, while also revisiting some of the initial musical sections from the first movement. I thought that the revisiting of initial musical pieces tied the whole thing together, by showing the connection through the first and last movements. I thought it was interesting that this movement ended with a downbeat, as it initially started…

J.S Bach, who born in 1686 and died in 1750, was the first one who deals with contrapuntal counterpoint. Today, I’m going to talk about the 1st movement & second movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.2. Brandenburg Concertos were written by Bach, while he worked at Cothen. Baroque Concerto is a small group of soloists pitted against a larger group of players called tutti, which consists mainly the string instruments, with a harpsichord as a basso continuo. 1st movement of this concerto is in…

This article is a book review of the book “Digeridoo: A Complete Guide to this Ancient Aboriginal Instrument,” written by John Bowden. The book is a step-by-step guide on how to play one of the oldest wind instruments called the digeridoo. This book can be used by music educators to help lead their students to a better understanding of the instrument and the Australian Aboriginal culture. However, the best part about this book review was the several links at the end that allowed the reader to…

When you read music, you read it off what is called a staff. A staff consists of four spaces and five lines. On the four spaces and five lines are notes. At the beginning of the staff you will always see either a Treble Clef or a Bass cleft. Each indicates what and where the starting note will be when you are reading your music. On a Treble clef, the line that it wraps around will always be G. When you look at a note that’s anywhere along that line, it’s always a G. Now, with the Base cleft it’s…

tonal and rhythmic patterns internally. Complete musical understanding can happen only when a student has a vocabulary of tonal and rhythmic patterns. That knowledge can lead to a complete understanding of the tonal and rhythm content of a piece of music. This included being able to audiate, for example the resting tone, tonal function, and macro and micro beats. They also have to be able to conceive how those patterns fit together to make musical sense. (Woodford, p.…

One of the ways in which Holmes expresses his care for the Doctor is through his sole medium of emotional expressions -- by playing his violin. While there is little information in Watsons’ accounts regarding the emotional states of the detective (with the exception of his excitement over a new puzzle and the following bouts of saturnine moods when there are no cases to be solved), we can see that the detective often turns to his violin when pondering upon a case, or even when relaxing. Holmes’…

Since I barely have the music sense, listening and writing about jazz music was my biggest headache from the beginning of class. It is hard to use words to describe wordless music that is being heard. Yet I still learned the origin and the evolution of jazz music, its African American background and the different style it changes into. The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz…

The score guides the audience through times of adversity that the protagonist faces in each trial, further deepening the audience’s emotional understanding of the challenges facing the protagonists to show the amount of strength to overcome such struggle. During the moments where the protagonists face sets of trials, the score becomes an extension of the script, guiding the audience to empathize with the protagonists’ feelings of nervousness and determination. In an interview with critic Bill…

He greatly revolutionized the way a piano can sound in terms of beauty and ethereal quality. The term rubato is a musical term referring to expressive and rhythmic freedom by a slight speeding up and then slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist or the conductor. I believe that the performers of Chopin’s music use this technique but at first…

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…