Piano

In the song “Heartless”, Kanye uses a slow, sentimental beat while carrying on an auto tune sound that would be very uplifting. A slow heartbeat-like beat in the background, after the first few seconds a fast paced piano comes in. The rapping starts to pick up its pace and the lyrics get sadder. Kanye Wests Heartless has been considered a masterpiece, and in my opinion it has been. Various artists had rarely used the auto-tuned sound, and Kanye brings it back with recent album “The College…

aria is intermittent, full of starts and stops. Throughout his song, there are often quiet rests followed by a startling sforzando. This fitfulness reflect’s Osmin’s agitated emotional state. In addition, the dynamics fluctuate between extremes of piano and forte. These spikes of loudness reflect the intense emotions that Osmin is harboring. The most startling point is the onset of the allegro assai which comes “just as one thinks the aria has ended” (Weiss 131). In this last portion of the…

January 21, 1941, in Madrid, Spain, Domingo grew up in a very music oriented family. Both of his parents were singers of Spanish operas, and toured all around Spain with a troupe. When he was around the age of eight years old, he received his first piano lessons. He moved with his parents down to Mexico so they could start up their own zarzuela group, which helped him learn all the basics of musical theatre. There are rumors that Domingo also made some of his first stage appearances during his…

All three poems have several moods and tones that allow the readers understand what and why the poet feels this way throughout the poem. ‘Piano’ is a nostalgic, retrospective and reluctant poem although the mood in this poem is toward the dampening and melancholy side, “my manhood is cast,” throughout the poem he explains how he misses her mother in the past memories, “pressing her poised feet” and at the upmost importance that he “weeps like a child for the past,” this represents remembrance…

One of the most admired minimalist composers of our time, Steve Reich, was born in New York City in 1936. His interest in music began when he was a teenager, starting with the piano and then switching to percussion after some time. He later formed a band with a friend during these early years. Reich’s passion for music continued to grow. He eventually attended Julliard, where he began listening to one of the greatest influences on his music—John Coltrane. Although Reich soon realized that he…

series, named Primary Motivations, these three composers were very much alive and present thanks to the duo of Joshua Gordon, cello and Randall Hodgkinson, piano. Besides invoking the deftness of such prodigies through their compositions, the night marked the debut of Brandeis University Department of Music’s new Steinway & Sons Model B Grand Piano, which was funded by the Ilse H. Perlman Trust and the Dean of Arts and Sciences. The program started with Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “Cello Sonatas,”…

is intermittent, full of starts and stops. Throughout the aria, there are often quiet pauses abruptly terminated by a startling sforzando, reflecting Osmin’s agitated emotional state. Likewise, the dynamics constantly fluctuate between extremes of piano and forte. The most unexpected shock is the onset of the allegro assai which Mozart intentionally inserts “just as one thinks the aria has ended." (Weiss 131) In this final part of the aria, the music accelerates and crescendos to a permanent…

Fact VS. Fiction Movies are created to be enjoyed. Some pay tribute to famous people throughout history, while others are merely used for our amusement. Some movies about a particular person contain nothing but the truth about that person’s life. Others contain some truths while the rest is left up to the writer to fill in, to keep the movie from being too boring. Because movies are for our entertainment and not necessarily to tell us the truth, (that’s what a documentary is for) I can see why…

“Come whenever you feel like it. Be careful; the stairs and landings are dark; don’t stumble.” Page 64, speaker is Mademoiselle Reisz. Edna went to visit Mademoiselle Reisz because she wanted to hear her play the piano, it soothes her. Edna learns that she was receiving letters from Robert and wants to visit her more frequently. Not only does Edna want to see Mademoiselle Reisz to help calm her nerves and help her figure out her feelings, now Edna has an ulterior motive in her visits; to read…

increased interest in her fingers, focusing on the small things, proving to herself that she exists. She will not allow anybody to touch her. Her anxiety disorder leads her paint brush to a stark white canvas. Across campus, Julia Morris is playing the piano, all the notes are staccato and blaringly loud. She says that the Vyvanse that she takes for her ADHD makes her angry. To her, music is a release from the disorder that racks her brain. Baldarelli and Morris both suffer from mental…