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“Play any scale you would like,” the violinist said to me. Play any scale? Saying this to a well-trained musician is like telling a mother to choose her favorite child from her many children. There are biases of the difficulty of each scale to every person, especially depending on the different strengths and weaknesses for each instrument. My auditioner was a violinist, and I was a flutist. There is a major difference of scale biases between someone who plays a wind instrument and someone who…

Dolly Rebecca Parton (b. 1946) is a pillar figure of the music industry with her career and her influence spanning nearly six decades and reaching across genres. Parton was born January 19, in a small town nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she began performing from a young age, her first performance at age ten began her ascent into superstardom (Watson 2012). She has earned her place as the most renowned female country artist of all time with twenty-five number-one singles on…

Analysis: Mozart Symphony no.40 in G minor K.550 (1788), first movement There are more questions surrounding Mozart's final three symphonies nos. 39, 40, and 41 or "Jupiter" than answers. Mozart’s Symphony in G minor, K550 “is one of the greatest final trilogies that Mozart composed and the process of composing this piece lasted from six to eight weeks during the summer of 1788”(Heninger, 2003, p.1) Firstly, it was written for “strings, flutes, oboes and bassoons. It is then revised to give…

“On first looking into” the poem under study, one may discern some of its formal features. It is written by John Keats after first reading an awe-inspiring translation of Homer into English by Chapman. It rhymes ABBAABBACDCDCD and is dominated with the presence of the sound “I” that suggests a subjective individualistic quest of “poetic truth” in a seemingly lyric text. This is a sonnet made up of two stanzas which develop two aspects of a main theme: Homer’s poetry and its effects on the…

Introduction: How’d He Do That? Memory, symbols, and patterns are important tools to have and use when reading literature. Memory allows the reader to connect what they are reading to something they have read, seen or heard before, and helps them to see similarities between them and draw their own conclusions. Symbols allow readers to find the deeper meaning in what they are reading and help them avoid merely reading what is on the page. Finally, patterns teach the reader what to look…

J.S Bach, who born in 1686 and died in 1750, was the first one who deals with contrapuntal counterpoint. Today, I’m going to talk about the 1st movement & second movement of Brandenburg Concerto No.2. Brandenburg Concertos were written by Bach, while he worked at Cothen. Baroque Concerto is a small group of soloists pitted against a larger group of players called tutti, which consists mainly the string instruments, with a harpsichord as a basso continuo. 1st movement of this concerto is in…

A great alternative to the Tech 21 Bass Driver is the MXR M80 BASS D.I.+. Although the basic concept is similar to the Tech 21 offering, MXR does include a gate to help keep processed signals quiet. Controls for shaping your tone include: bass, mid, treble, clean volume, distortion volume, gain, blend and a trigger adjustment for the included gate. This box is powered by phantom power, nine volt battery or wall wart. Patching capabilities include XLR , line level, and parallel outputs. All of…

Sarah Linfors introduced and taught about slurs, crescendo/decrescendo, trills and staccato. She used specific examples from the Pergolesi Suite in order to connect the musical concept to the music. When a few male sings were singing in the wrong octave she corrected this by asking students to sing with the "who" in their voice. She then had Daniel the intern model what a high siren sounds like in order for the male students to hear an appropriate…

Aristotle’s Teleology The world teleology has two parts: telos, meaning end or goal, and logos, meaning a reason. For Aristotle, this “teleological” view on nature played an important part in understanding why objects in nature behave a certain way or possess certain characteristics. In this essay, I will discuss the characteristics of Aristotle’s teleological view and its relevance to modern science and understanding. I will also argue that while his emphasis on the importance of function, or…

‘It seems that poems about the break-up of love are much more common than those which extol its joys, poems that give a fairly bleak picture of love and reflect on relationships that for one reason or another are at an end’ [Croft, 2000:71]. The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast Michael Drayton’s ‘The Parting’ (c. 1593), Lord Byron’s ‘When We Two Parted’ (1815) and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Love’s Last Lesson’ (c.1838) paying close attention to the prevalent themes of the loss of a…