Octave

French cinema in the late 1930’s defined strict contrasts between the upper and lower-classes of France. To the lavish upper-class society of France, love is portrayed as a comedy, while to the poor working class, love is nothing more than a despairing tragedy that drains all optimism. Two 1939 films that depict the stark class divisions very well are Marcel Carne’s Le Jour Se Leve (Daybreak) and Jean Renoir’s La Regle du jeu (The Rules of the Game).The character’s offbeat and dynamic…

define the ever evolving genre, leading it to become the backbone of current popular music. Here are 10 of the top RnB singers of all time. Number Ten: Mariah Carey Known for her ability to hit ear-piercingly high notes, Mariah Carey’s nearly five-octave vocal range has made her a household name when it comes to RnB. Crossing over into pop music with her first hits in the mid-1990s, she has been able to maintain her high profile career for more than two decades. Number Nine: Whitney Houston…

The speaker starts the octave with a strong diction of “son-of-a-bitch” (Line 1) to immediately set the intense hatred he feels against the Cottonmouth snake. As he attempts to kill the snake with his car, the speaker witnesses it slithering into a ditch. The carrier’s hatred is reciprocated as the snake hisses upon locating the carrier. The violent nature of the carrier is exemplified as he shoots the snake twice despite the fact that the snake most likely died within the first shot. Within…

music. In an effort to take away the idea of “specialization”, all performers contributed to each form of art. While Partch had coalesced into creating his theory of abstract and corporeal, he had created his own scale. His new scale divided the octave into 43 unequal steps which almost all have names. He also created his own instruments to play on this scale. When thinking of these terms of abstract and corporeal he began to feel confined within the given selection of tones. He then decided…

Earlier Attempts to Synthetic Scale Formations Since the early twentieth century certain theorists and composers sought to expand the number of available synthetic scales for composition. In 1907 the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) as part of an examination of the tonal system based on what he called “the two Series of Seven,” meaning the major and minor keys in relation to the chromatic scale, attempted to write all the possible heptatonic (seven-tone) scales in his book Sketch…

saxophones because the fingers and notes always go in the same spot no matter the transposition or saxophone. Saxophones also all read in treble clef, though they do not sound in the octave that they are written in (mostly for tenor, baritone and lower) and overblow at the octave to have similar fingerings at all octaves. This was thought to make them appealing to more people because of the simplicity of learning one saxophone, yet knowing how to play all of them but, with simple…

rock songs ever, displaying her raw vocals with a sneer. Number One: Freddie Mercury One of the most iconic frontmen ever, Freddie Mercury is known for his colorful stage presence and operatic vocal arrangements. With a vocal range spanning four octaves, he is able to hit outstanding high notes and lower ones, sometimes all within one song. Classic Rock named him the “best rock singer of all time” and by AllMusic as “one of rock’s greatest all-time entertainers,” as well as “one of the greatest…

of its greatest practitioners. The Italian form has two stanzas. The first stanza is the octave, eight lines posing a question or argument, with the rhyme scheme of abba, abba. The second stanza is the sestet, the six-line resolution to the argument presented within the octave. The sestet follows the rhyme scheme cdecde or cdcdcd. Authors use what's known…

Using octave notes are established. An octave is the interval spanning across eight notes of a scale. An octave is divided into twelve half steps, making two halves one whole. There are four major scales chromatic, diatonic, and major and minor scales. The chromatic scale is made up of all twelve steps, but the…

Considered to be one of the best—if not the greatest writer in the English language—William Shakespeare continues to dominate the world of literature, nearly five hundred years after his death. His infamous novels: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, King Henry VI, to name a few, are celebrated and read at every corner of the globe; however, it is Shakespeare’s sonnets that continue to hold a sense of mystery as they are far less analyzed in comparison to his plays. Shakespeare’s sonnets appeal to…