Pitch accent

On October 4th, 2016 I observed the Intermezzo Choir at the Community School of Music and Arts in Ithaca. Sarah Linfors is the conductor and music educator for that group. Sarah also has a rehearsal accompanist and two student interns, Sarah and Daniel Block. The choir is made up of students 9-13 years old. The room where rehearsals are held is a big open room that looks like an old church space. Chairs were set up for students in straight rows and a name tag was placed on each seat. The piano…

them walking around the store. He had imaginations on how he could connect with them and also he was sexually attracted mostly to the girl who was called Queenie. Tone (atmosphere or mood) - Any resonant sound, a sound with respect to its pitch, volume, accent infection or modulation especially of voice or color. It can also be a character, a style, a temper or a spirit. Example; According to John Updike story, the manager Lengel said, "but this isn't the beach." he affected the mood and…

On Friday 24th October 2014, I went to see Frantic Assembly’s version of William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, directed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett. Frantic Assembly are a theatre company whose performances are primarily dominated by their unusual use of physical theatre to express emotions of characters and uncover hidden meanings within the play through the use of movement. The play was performed to an audience of mostly young adults and teenagers, perhaps because it had been…

Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love? ” From the beginning, he lures my mind into what he is thinking and feeling, and immediately expresses what the song is about. The drums kick in louder and the pitch of his voice rises as he goes on to sing“ And darling I ,will, be loving you, 'til we're 70, and baby my, heart , could still fall as, hard at 23.” While the artist sings, the background begins to come alive with slight backing vocals. There are…

her I was getting teary eyed, and I couldn’t control it, they just kept on coming. I did not look the best the picture that was taken because it was like 1000 degrees outside. It was so thrilling to see her big curly hair and hear her thick Scottish accent. I was like a kid in a candy store, I was just so focused on her that I didn’t look around. The room we were in was all like I was in the 10th century. All the wood and cloth hanging from the wall, yet it was all plastic decorations it still…

than as “negro”. The degradation of one social class is therefore balanced by the promotion of another, similarly, Delph-Janiurek signify the need to gravitate towards classification as opposed to the distinction between genders by using the tone and pitch of…

Phillip shares about a friend that has surrendered to a coma. The tonic from the very first note is the guitar player, Dimebag Darrell using a harmonizing effect to make it sound as two or more guitars are being played at once with a slight change in pitch, but still in tune. This could also be understood as…

Honky takes the serious issue of racism and shines a light on certain aspects by using comedy and satire as tools to support and help illustrate topics discussed on stage. My focus of this paper will be on two actors that I believe personify comedy and seriousness the most in this production, Sam Richardson as Dr. Driscoll and Judd Johnson as Thomas Hodge. Richardson and Johnson both focused heavily in these two categories in Mikell Pinkley’s production of Honky, but Richardson’s comedic take on…

At the end of Theme 1, the closing gesture of the transition is played by the violin and piano with syncopated chords. Next we hear Theme 2. It starts off with a soft melody on the piano with strong accents on the weak parts of beats. Then it reaches a climax with strong syncopation, which then comes to a full cadence. At the cadence, the closing gesture from the transition now is being used as a closing theme for the exposition. Brahms sets the complete…

When thinking about selective attention today, one makes the connection of how much he or she pays attention to something. Selective attention then can be viewed as the process by which people find something upon which to concentrate, and the level of concentration they can continue to exert as distractions arise. The psychological definition of selective attention is the process by which a person can selectively pick out one message from a mixture of messages occurring simultaneously. What a…