Piano Man

Choice of destiny By: Pauline. L “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan. Last two weeks ago, I remembered I was about to have a nice and plentiful dinner outside with my parents. Unfortunately, things didn’t go that smooth as I was expected before. “Pauline, grade 12 is an important year to you, have you decided to go to what kind of stream after graduated from high school?”…

Lillie Moseley MUS101 September 23, 2016 Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most influential composers of history. He has inspired many musical pieces even since his death and continues to do so. One of the most important feats he accomplished was to continue to compose music even through difficult setbacks. The exact day of Beethoven’s birth is not known. However, in the customs of his time a baby was baptized the day after its birth. There are formal records showing he was baptized on…

she inherits from her grandfather like “Piano fingers” (7) which not stated there could point back to a memory of playing piano with her grandfather or rather observing her grandfather playing the piano. Parms does a great job of challenging the reader to think along the lines of how she thinks life works, but by using her theme in the book she manages to support these ideas in how she phrases her ideas with imagery. Specifically, to use the example of piano fingers, that challenge the reader to…

Musical instruments have been around for hundreds of years. Not only have the human voices been used as instruments, but there have been manufactured items that have been made to produce sound. Throughout many eras of music, these instruments have been changed many times, mostly to improve the sound or quality of the sound. There is one particular instrument that has been around for a very long time that has been changed many times. This instrument is the organ. Organs can be very large…

Using the approach of ethnography, the cultural scene of the Kresge-Ford student lounge will be explored. In notion with this paper, ethnography involves conducting detailed research on a setting of everyday life (or group) by observing at a distance with partial communication with the individuals present. Culture is the learned distinction of what is considered acceptable and unacceptable behavior. And cultural scene is the shared experience between a number of people. These concepts will be…

instrument has to be the piano that is usually mistaken to be a part of the string section because of the strings underneath the keys. I began to love the piano because it is the most relaxing and soothing instrument in the whole orchestra, which is only my opinion. To be more factual, the piano is the mother of a lot of instruments. This can also be proved as it is part of the most ancient group, the percussions. The piano idea was identified in Italy in 1709 and piano is short for the word…

In 1839, Breitkopf & Härtel published Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. Schumann conceived the piece in early 1836. The first iteration of Op. 17 was a one movement piece titled Ruines. Ruines was Schumann’s cathartic expression of the fatigue of separation from his love, Clara Wieck. After several alterations of the piece--in the effort to raise funds for a monument to Beethoven--Schumann expanded Ruines to three movements, mulled over a series of titles, and ultimately settled on…

As I try to pinpoint a single day or moment in my life that best exemplifies the person I am today, memories flood my mind and I think about all the opportunities that led me here to Brigham Young University. I could easily write about an epic backpacking trip or meeting President Obama, but there is a greater moment, not even a year ago when I saw myself from a whole new perspective. I always heard about girls who competed in Distinguished Young Women, former junior miss, in my town. They…

Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) is a quirky romantic comedy written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant. The main protagonist, Amelie, is an adult who still has an active imagination carried over from her peculiar childhood. She has frequent fantasy vs. reality moments throughout the movie such as the scene towards, the end at the one hour and forty-nine minute mark. Amelie is making her famous plum cake, but she is depressed because she thinks that Nino is in love with Gina. She plays out little…

Music. It is my sincerest intrigue since I was in fifth grade. My elementary school teacher introduced me to my fascination and, before I knew it, I was playing the Marimba during my sophomore year of high school in honors band. This was a second turning point, as I learned to play at a much more difficult level of music and at a much quicker pace. After a few weeks of that year, things got progressively harder. We had new music for our upcoming competition, and although it was challenging, I…