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    (pentatonic scale) and uses many Chinese melodies, chord structures and patterns. This gives a distinctive “Chinese” sound, though it uses tonal harmonies. Music techniques in classical music, such as variations or cyclical forms, do not appear out of place in the Buttefly Lovers Violin Concerto. In the section of Zhu’s resistance to arriage, there is syncopated chords and agitated rhythm from Chinese traditional instruments mix together, conveying stress and tension with disharmonious musical…

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    the two shows and look at what challenges may be different when directing two very different styles. One is a play where as one is a musical. One was performed in the round on a small scale in TOTS and one was performed on a large scale in Bush. There are many differences in the directing challenges, but also some similarities. A Chorus Line is a well known musical that’s been made into a movie, toured, had a cast album made, and so on. This brings one challenge of the audience likely…

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    could perform directly to a god or goddess. They sang hymns with the sistrum. The sistrum is a musical instrument of the percussion family used in ancient Egypt to rattle. Its sound is metallic and was thought to attract the attention of the god or goddess the shemayet was performing to. One of the most popular instruments used in contemporary Egyptian music is the oud. The oud is a wooden stringed musical instrument resembling a lute. The oud has a rounded and hollow body, through which the…

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    Why Is Chopin Important

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    of performing a musical piece with faster tempo and strong dynamic. A good piano teacher should explain to student the art of the music for them to able to comprehend the pieces, and the students should be able to express themselves throughout the learning with great suppleness in the wrists and fingers. In addition to the study and pieces, Chopin also established that students should also practise various technique regardless of their instrumental ability. The incredible musical talent of…

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    Classical Music Composers

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    what we now call serialism. In it's more severe and restricted form, the technique is called 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…

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    Orchestra Compensation

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    (Milkovich, Newman, Gerhart, & Martocchio) Instruments are needed to perform for their musical sound, but more importantly, individuals and their instrument playing skills are needed even more to progress to an exact sound to certain musical notes. An instrument performer who plays the violin could be violinist I who receives $2,899 or Violinist I that receives $2,685. Not all violists will receives the same compensation…

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    without musical theatre entertainment? I can answer that—boring. Entertainment in this industry has proved the world that musical theatre is just as amusing as a football event played on the weekends. Acquiring a job in this field can be difficult, but with hard work it can be done. Musical theatre has been around for a long time and has changed over decades. Entertainment in this industry started in the nineteenth century and still thrives today. It started off with smaller scale…

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    Jazz Concert Review Essay

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    Bells,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and Billie Holiday’s “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.” The concert was located at The Walt Disney Theater and featured works from several promising musicians who came up with an assortment of unique musical combinations. This was a great chance to witness an extensive diversity of music, which for the beginner jazz enthusiast, was wonderful. However, it was not only the…

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    the orchestration which is assigning the parts of the musical texture making it lively. It also contains an accent, the sound events are stressed. Instrumental music has different pitches, like beats and pulses giving the song cheerfulness. Another similarity is that both songs are metered and employs the diatonic scales for it’s pitch world, often stressing one of them as a foundation. The songs contain a sequence of pitches belonging to a scale giving it melody and tune that sounds attractive…

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    Piano History

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    the piano? And who created the piano? All of these will also be answered. First, you’ll need to know that a keyboard instrument is any musical instrument on which different notes can be sounded by pressing a series of keys, push buttons, or parallel levers. In almost all cases in Western music the keys are equivalent to consecutive notes in the chromatic scale, and they run from the bass, the left side of the keyboard, to the treble, the right side of the keyboard. Since, the keyboard allows…

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