Octave

Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger, better known as Lili Boulanger, was sister to Nadia Boulanger who is regard as one of the most influential pedagogues of the 20th century. Though Lili Boulanger's impact on the musical world maybe not have been as numerous as her sister's, it was not due to lack of talent but time: most of her life she lived with poor health and died at the age of 25 in 1918. In the short time she was alive, she became the first woman to receive the coveted Prix de Rome in 1913 for…

One cannot study William Shakespeare’s work without noticing the way in which his sonnets manage to both subvert and conform to the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry. Shakespeare’s sonnets are striking for many reasons, be it the surprisingly realistic themes, the way he approaches each of his poems subjects of affection or the shocking he topics he discusses. His work stands out against those of his contemporaries as he transforms the rigid form of Elizabethan romance poetry by confounding…

Modern Post-Grunge is very different from the previous, heavier sounding Grunge despite sharing many common characteristics. The differences really started to come from a select few of major artists, who in turn made it blow up into a great genre of music. The one who is my personal favorite would have to be Breaking Benjamin. They were quick to become successful due to their impressive sound. Breaking Benjamin is known for being dynamically loud, having a low pitch, a dark and heavy tone, and…

of the oratorio. For example, in song no. 1, the melody sung by the bass leaps up fifth at the beginning of the melody and leaps up a sixth at the beginning of the melody sung by the choir, and in song no 5, the melody sung by the choir leaps up an octave. Only the melody of song no. 4 does not have a rising gesture, however, the cheerful march-like rhythm compensates for the unavailable rising…

The journey Donald Duck is taking in this short film tells the origins of mathematics and how mathematics can be found in everyday life. The film shows you how it all began by taking Donald back to ancient Greece. Pythagoras is the father of mathematics and he showed us how everything does in fact include math in it. Pythagoras learned that from taking one thread of string and dividing it in half then dividing that in half and so on, he learned they each have their own tones due to each length…

and form in a way that lets the poem flow. “Range Finding” has a relatively straightforward structure. It is laid out in the form of a sonnet. It contains fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that are split into two stanzas. The first stanza is an octave consisting of eight lines, and its rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA. Stanza two differs, as it takes the from of a sestet containing six lines with the rhyme scheme CCDEED. Frost’s diction seems to be well thought out and articulated. He uses vivid…

of 'Hello Little Girl'. It was easier to not laugh during the scene when Tim Reynolds had sang it to her during rehearsal at school; the boy was tall and had a scraggly beard that made him look a bit more feral. Alex though had decided to sing two octaves lower and had been so over the top in her prowling that Caitlyn couldn't do anything but laugh at…

According to Furniss & Bath, ‘literacy criticism in the Twentieth Century has come to regard ambiguity in poetry as one of its most characteristic and valuable features’, as shown in Michael Drayton’s sonnet ‘The Parting’, Lord Byron’s poem ‘When we two parted’ and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s poem ‘Love’s Last Lesson’ (Furniss & Bath, 1996: 207). The symbolism used in these poems portray the ambiguous representation of love/death elegies, love symbolizing hope and death symbolizing loss.…

Vocal Function Exercises (VFE) by Joseph Stemple Purpose: The Vocal Function Exercises (VFE) was invented by Joseph Stemple. The purpose of VFE is to balance the subsystems of voice production in order to improve and enhance the vocal function of the speakers with normal voices, opera singers, teachers with voice disorders, and elderly men (Stemple et al., 2014). Method: The VFE begins with describing the problem to the patient or showing illustrations using the patient’s own stroboscopic…

They were aware of different musical scales, such as the Rask. Also, when practicing or talking to friends, they used musical terms such as pitch, melody, and octaves. The poorly educated individual would probably refer to these aspects using non-musical terms. I personally feel that muezzins are trying to increase their level of musicianship. Because the more knowledge they have, the better the delivery of the…