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Gamelan Music (Gam-a-lawn) is the traditional ensemble music of the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia. These ensembles consist largely of percussive instruments. With different variations of gongs, mallet instruments, and drums, each instrument is struck with a mallet to produce a metallic/percussive sound. Each Gamelan Ensemble has a different style and can incorporate different percussive instruments, string instruments, and voice. This gives each Gamelan a unique texture. Gamelans…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

“To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.” All sonnets follow one form and style but it is the result of emotional pain, personal values, state of mind and rational actions that separate and differ one sonnet poem from another. Sonnets were first introduced to the world in Italy traditionally written as love poems. This particular style of poetry was invented in the early 12th century, by the…

The guitar is a string musical instrument which is very popular; it has between 4 and 18 strings. It makes sounds through acoustic means for an acoustic guitar or electrical amplification for an electric guitar. It is played through strumming the strings with the right hand while the left hand presses against the frets. The traditional guitar is constructed from wood and strung with either gut or nylon strings while the modern guitar started from the gittern, vihuela, the four-course renaissance…

written by Wilfred Owen following his own experience in the trenches during the Great War. His poem is based on the death of a fellow solider and how he was haunted by the brutality of war. The rhyme scheme to this poem is chaotic. First we have an octave, followed by a set-set, then a couplet and finally a 12 line stanza. Stanza one starts with the conventional ABABCDCD pattern in, however in the second stanza the rhyme scheme becomes abrupt. The stanza breaks are irregular, this isn’t an…

Partita no.2 in c minor, BWV 826 The second partita was announced a little less than a year after the first. Its minor key and the style of the opening sinfonia declare it to be a more serious piece. It is also more conventional, containing a relatively traditional allemande and courante as well as a rondeau, a form favored by Couperin and other French composers but treated sparingly by Bach. Yet these movements are conventional only superficially. The sinfonia, whose initial section looks like…

The Kyrie is followed directly by the Gloria, with no intervening prayer or action. The Gloria or greater Doxology is a text that praises God. The gloria or greater doxology is a text that gives praise to God, says the creed of the Trinity, and asks for mercy. In the gloria that we discussed in class the two first phrases "the words of angels announcing Jesus's birth to the shepherds” are biblical. In a simple sense this may be felt as beautful in the intelligible sense because it recites…

Emphasized through Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence,” extending over three octaves in range of a Major 24 (C² - B⁵), this musical progression has the tendency to highlight lyrical progression through harmonization rather than extensive melody and chord sequences stereotypical of classic 1960’s rock genre. As this predisposition…

:: ONE :: AGATE Lone survivor, where will you run? A red arrow, straight out of a gun. I’ve got you in my sight. *** Dead eyes. Dull, captivating, lifeless eyes that seemed to pierce a person’s soul. A untold phenomenon where the pupils shift into small specks, and the encompassing irises emit an unearthly glow. It's said to stop a furiously beating heart--attracting countless, uneasy stares of fearful judgement. She's been told numerous of times that her eyes were something of…

grip when rolling on the bass drum. It made sense because of how the drum was turned, so it was definitely more practical than match grip. When watching the mallet player I noticed that she moved with the keys, and when she was playing the upper octaves she moved her feet so…