Percussion mallet

My son and I attended a percussion ensemble and steel band by Thad Anderson and Kirk Gay at UCF. To my surprised we enjoyed it very much. As noted in the first chapters of this course is the proper times to applaud and times to get up without interrupting the performance. All was brilliant music and beautiful harmony. My favorite piece was Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organs. This is a composition by Steve Reich in 1973. I believe this piece is a polyphonic texture. The…

still in the hall, especially for his amazing feats.) His “Psalmos,” a four-movement showpiece for orchestra, was organized around three chorale melodies, famously used by J.S. Bach in his compositions. Scored for large orchestra, its colorful percussion section included bongos, gongs, marimba, vibraphone, harp, piano and celeste. The first movement opened with the chorale “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” in flute (Randolph Bowman). The familiar chorale tune was reworked with off-beat rhythms and…

Swimming through the Notes I can remember the day in fifth grade band sitting at the long, gray percussion tables listening to our band director teach “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Staring off into space because I already knew how to play it for a few months, I could vaguely hear Mrs. Tripi’s voice telling the flutes to watch for A flats and reminding the trumpets that B flat is first valve. As I waited patiently for the rest of the band to finally pick up on the well-known melody, I sat…

the same throughout the entire thing. After the initial part of the recording, the notes then go up in a run like fashion before taking a sudden drop once they reach the top. This recording was not super complex since it only used the piano and percussion, so it was not hard to add your own notes and complexities to it. The waterphone is an instrument that gives great depth to the sounds that it emits even though it is a fairly small instrument. It has a very eerie feel, and is able to make…

the world. Samba is a really lively type of music that everybody may enjoy to dance at and much more. Samba music also has families of instruments more likely of percussion instruments but also brass, woodwind, voices and many more. • Can you identify any other families of instruments that are used in Samba music other than percussion instruments? The other families of instruments that are used in Samba music are the brass family, woodwind family, the string family and voices. • Can you come…

taking into account how they make sounds. In a symphony, artists sit together in these family groupings. In any case, not each instrument fits flawlessly into a gathering. For instance, the piano has strings that vibrate, and mallets that strike.It can be either a percussions insturment or a string insturment.Brass insturments are made of metal or some other metal and make sound when air is blown inside. The artist's lips must buzz, just as making a "raspberry" clamor against the…

The most popular wind instruments that they used were conch shell trumpets,ocarinas and clay flutes. The most common percussion instruments that they used were various types of drums, shakers, rattles, rasps, etc. The most important Aztec musical instrument were the drums. One of the most important and popular drums was called the “huehuetl”. The huehuetl was a large vertical…

“I HATE it!” I shouted as I slammed the door violently. Baton raised. Freedom gone. The stick of ebony wood has more control than I do. I hated it. “Fast, forceful, driving, that’s how I want it. Now, let’s go. One, two, three, four!” the conductor instructed. I pressed my wiry fingers deep and hard against the ivory keys, feeling every hammer fiercely thumping against all three strings of every note; feeling my rage perfectly reflected on the hammers vigorously and promptly attacking the…

Music in Special Education Music education is one of the most important aspects in the grand arena that is education. Yet, it is one of the most neglected. This seems to be backwards due to the mass benefits to include: better average scores on standardized tests, less drug use, better time management/organizational skills, as well as multitasking. Instituting music education can help all aspects of education, including all varieties of education. This includes special education. Most people…

During a recent experimental production by Annie Dorsen, the sole actor was equipped with small in-ear-monitors that allowed dialogue and cues to be fed to the actor by a computer in real-time (A Piece of Work). Technology of this sort might help accommodate performances by individuals with serious memory issues, allowing them to deliver lines, recover from dropped lines, or know when they are to enter and exit the stage. Alternatively, digital projections of dialogue and stage directions could…