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Growing up in Poland I spent my youth horseback riding on Arabian horses and eating the sweetest strawberries from family garden. Early on, I was exposed to jazz and theater. The storytelling for adults; it is the oldest oral tradition on passing the universal message face to face. Where the audience deeply experiences their humanity. Some of my deep influences come from theater and Polish movie directors. I have learned how to skillfully read between the lines in post communism yet…

I watched the New York Philharmonic Orchestra perform Symphony No.5 of Dimitri Shostakovich, which took place at Bunka Kainan, Tokyo, Japan in 1979. This concert was conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The concert lasted approximately 50 minutes and included varieties of instruments. Instruments to name are a large group of violins, clarinets, cellos, French horns, a harp, flutes, basses including a bassoon and oboe. I tend to hear various melodies used elsewhere either from Star Wars and or Pink…

These business rules support the definition of the primary components of the relational database storing this student and school information: a data dictionary, primary keys, foreign keys and integrity constraints. From a high-level, the model suggests Finance, Faculty and Student Advising have retrieve visibility to necessary aspects of the student information while Enrollment controls creation of the student record and student…

9 in D major is crucial to understanding and identifying the piece as sonata-rondo form and not simply rondo form; rather than being contained by a single key and theme, it is heavily modulatory and does not seem to have a general theme. Rather, it is absolutely the development section of the piece as a whole. While C beings in B minor, the vi of D major, it modulates to E minor, D major, G major, and A major…

Beethoven’s Leonore No. 3 overture can be evaluated the complete version of the Leonore overture like the magnificent symphonic work. This third version of overture also overture was composed in the sonata form like Leonore No. 1 overture, and Leonore No. 2. Further, its musical materials and structure also are developed from Leonore No. 1 overture. In other words, he kept using the excellencies of the previous overtures, and Complemented the Deficiencies of the previous overtures. Basically,…

When listening to any piece by Beethoven, you receive the whole range of emotions, and the Fifth Symphony is no different. Just the first four notes, a simple da-da-da-dum, is enough to send shivers up your back. Packed with all the furious confidence of Beethoven, it suggests scarlet eruptions, heavenly processions and all the powers human drama. These four notes started the memorable first movement. This movement is like a Stephen King novel because it is so saturated with intensity and…

Tin Pan Alley Tin Pan Alley is the name that is given to the group of musical artists and producers of New York during the 19th and 20th century. The name was, at first, given to a specific location in New York. Tin Pan Alley was located between West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Tin Pan Alley is said to have gotten its name from the collective sound of the pianos all playing different tunes at the same time. This was said to sound like tin pans being banged…

This piece is based on pitch set classes 01346, 0124, and 014 as well as their respective inversions and transformations. The piece is set in an ABA’-like form and explores the versatility of the clarinet. In the beginning, the piano introduces the theme of 01346 and following measure presents a chord of 0124 with the melody harking back to tonality by using an unprepared suspension. These set classes form the A part of the piece. Measures 3 and 4 presents 02356 in the treble while its inversion…

The Fishin’ Song, these are the words that lulled me to sleep each night as a child. My dad’s deep, gruff voice never sounded as stern as he half whispered, half sang the words, slowly and rhythmically. There was always something magical to the song, it could soothe the fussiest baby and send the stubbornest child into dreamland no matter who was the one singing the song. The origins of The Fishin’ Song goes back four generations to my great grandfather who sang it to my grandfather and to my…

The courante (“running” or “flowing”) was a French dance whose choreography included bending the knee on the upbeat or offbeat and rising on the beat, often followed by a step or glide. The music is in moderate triple or compound meter and always begins with an upbeat. In many courantes, including the two in this suite, the meter shifts back and forth between 3/2 and 6/4, sometimes with different voices simultaneously implying different meters. Although the composer included two courantes in…