Octave

The listener will hear a striking unison D in octaves in the orchestra sounds, and as the chord diminishes, the choir voices echo on the same chord with the text Requiem aeternam donna eis, Domine (grant them eternal rest). The harmony at this point is slow, and the d minor chord is repeated three times…

but it’s important for the conductor to keep the internal clock tempo. For pitch he talks about marking all dissonance areas and places where there could be note issues. For example, he mentioned circling harmonic and melodic intervals, unison and octave parts, chromatic changes, and areas with flats and sharps. For timbre, he talks about the text and making sure that each part sings on the same vowel, so you can have a unified pitch. We must also watch out for vowels, and we may have to make…

of Latin language and performed without instruments. The chants came in various genres all depending on their religious purpose. Some of them consisted of monotone with a slight change in pitch, while others consisted of hundreds of notes over an octave. The chants share two characteristics forms. One of them is nonmetrical, which does not have a clear meter, has a free rhythm, and lacks a beat. The other is created is around D, E, F, or G. Both styles of the…

On January 31, 2016, I attended a classical musical concert performed by Chanticleer. The concert was held in the Halton Theater at Central Piedmont Community College. The audience was dressed very casually and most of the people were elderly. This was the first classical concert I have attended, I choose to write about this concert because it’s the one that I liked the most if I had to choose between all the concert that I attended. Chanticleer is a male classical vocal a cappella ensemble…

Holiday Concert Evaluation After a long summer vacation and a few months that seemed to go by fast, but felt like a lifetime, Concert Band finally had its first formal winter concert. List three positive musical aspects about the concert: I have to admit, since playing in Concert Band for two years now, this winter concert felt different than the rest. (In a total good way.) Maybe it's because I’m an 8th grader this year, and I know the rest of the 8th graders in this class so that way…

Individual Music Analysis Paranoid Android by Radio Head La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf Lily Chapman, Term 4, 2014 Musical elements can be manipulated to change the mood and emotions that are interpreted by a song to the audience. By selecting and studying two contrasting pieces, it will demonstrate how the composers portray specific emotions through the different use of music elements and concepts. The two songs that will be contrasted are La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf, and Paranoid Android by…

a mixture of all of them at once. It is said, that Mariah Carey is one of her music influences (Arian Grande Facts), which explains how she usually creates lyrics with such wide vocal ranges like Mariah Carey. Ariana is also known to have a “four-octave and semitone soprano vocal range” (Vocal Profile: Ariana Grande) voice and she can be described to have an up-tempo beat especially in the last song she performed at the stadium rock (Lesson 25) which is identified to be a concert series or in…

Throughout early civilizations up to common day, trumpets are instruments which serve a myriad of purposes. As the smallest member of the brass family, trumpets produce loud and impressive noises due to their complex cylindrical tubing and large bell shaped opening. Commonly used in jazz and concert music, this instrument encompasses a multi purposeful significance along with its attention grabbing sound quality. Trumpets continously endure remodeling to develop perfect harmonic sounds, which…

Essentially, a good teacher creates a successful student. This teacher doesn’t have to be a formal instructor of the subject, and could be a youtube video, a song, whatever. As long as something is making sure you understand and are prepared for any upcoming tests of knowledge. My piano teacher was strange. She was a tall, rounded woman, who never smiled. If I had to describe her in physical adjectives, I would say she looks like Randall from Monsters Inc. She would saunter in, ready to make…

Romantic period poetry refers to poetry written within ‘an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world’ . By critically dissecting Blake’s ‘London’ (1794) and Wordsworth’s ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ (1802) , this essay will explore the ways in which the romantic poets employ formal devices to shape the meaning of their poems. Although both poets are describing…