Octave

To be talented at something, you need to work hard to obtain the success, it takes years of practice. The talent doesn’t just come over night. You need to be able at every moment, to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. Life is hard, and it’s even harder when you aren’t good at something. This principal is shown in a text from David Nicholls, “Every Good Boy”, 2011. The text is about a boy named Michael but is also called Maestro. He wants to have talent, cause he doesn’t have one…

Have you ever wondered why a song was so catchy? Or why you always happened to get that one song stuck in your head? Well that has all been answered by Robert Jourdain in his nonfiction book Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy. Jourdain begins his book with the simplest aspect of sound, really the first puzzle piece of how music became a worldwide sensation that can be seen in basically every culture on Earth, which is hearing, and how our ears have evolved to understand, interpret, and enjoy all…

reflects on how this person pursues their dreams and ironically attains success alone despite hardships like lack of support. Accordingly, the speaker is inspired by the subject of their discussion. In terms of structure, the poem’s only stanza is an octave, divided into four sentences, each two verses long. The lines are full sentences and diction is ordinary, with no colloquialisms or foreign terms. The stanza conveys the idea that…

Takacs Quartet Paper For my last off campus performance, I attended the Takacs Quartet at the La Jolla Music Society on Friday December 9th 2016 with a couple friends from the music class. There were three main performances within the Takets Quartet. There was the String Quartet in G Minor, String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 9, and String Quartet in B-flat Major. The atmosphere was full of anticipation and excitement waiting for the symphony to start. The first one piece that was played was the String…

COMPOSER COMPARISON HANS ZIMMER’S PROFILE

Zimmer was 1st introduced to film music in London during collaboration with Stanley Myers for the film “My Beautiful Laundrette”. He then started working on his own solo projects which became a success, mastering the use of combining old and new musical technologies. He got his 1st break in 1988 when he was asked to score Rain Man for Barry Levinson. This was his 1st film to win an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned him his 1st nomination…

Created by Giacomo da Lentini, the sonnet is a poetic form originating in Italy and consisting of fourteen lines, and following a strict rhyming pattern. Additionally, a sonnet includes two parts: first the octave which asks a question or alludes to a problem, and then the sestet which provides a resolution to same (“Sonnet,” Wikipedia). William Shakespeare is one of the most widely known sonnet writers. Contemporaries of Shakespeare include: Sir Philip Sidney who penned sequences “Astrophel and…

disease makes the reader think of the black maids as contaminated therefore dangerous to be around. When Miss Leefolt 's friends, Hilly, Elizabeth and Skeeter go round to play bridge, Miss Skeeter comments on how "Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to colored people." Suggesting that the white ladies believe they are superior and of a higher social status then the black women. They also think they can talk to them in a belittling manner. "Elizabeth smiles like she…

acceptance, love and risk. You can 't run away from your life, no matter how much you try. It can be scary to face yourself and make choices but the practice of gratitude provides healing, growth and enhances your inherent nature. Gratitude is a high octave spiritual emotion that opens up our hearts. It is a skill learned and needs to be cultivated over time. Interestingly, you cannot be grateful and miserable at the same time. It is impossible to feel the fear, worry and negativity when we…

table of elements” on the base of periodic repetition of properties. In 1864, before Mendeleev, and John Newlands arranged the elements in order of atomic mass where every eight elements has similar properties. He called the relationship “the law of octaves”. Even so, this law could not be applied for the elements beyond Calcium, so it was not accepted by the scientific community. The modern periodic table is thought to be the outermost ground-state electron configuration of the elements. The…

Auditions were always there, the days dark clouds on the calendar. Playing in front of an adjudicator, who scribbled furiously at every mistake you made. They were especially nerve-wracking for a violist, like me. Not many people chose to play the viola. There is very little solo repertoire, and the orchestra parts are often boring. The viola has also always been in the shadow of the violin or the cello. Because of this unfortunate lack of violists, there is also an unfortunate lack of festival…