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Appraisal My link to the strand is Syncopation and my composition is written in a reggae style. I like the offbeat feel of this style of music and syncopation was something I wanted to explore within it. A well-known Caribbean musician is Bob Marley and I know that he uses a lot of syncopation in one of his best songs “three little birds”. In this song you can hear the syncopation in the hi-hat, cymbals, organ and guitar; playing the chords. In this way, he plays with our expectations of where…

Murdie Educational Scholarship (Conventions Revisions) “I don’t know.” Those were the words I would always say when people asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. I dreaded the day when I would finally have to answer that question with complete earnest. Little did I know the answer I’ve been looking for has always been blatantly in front of me. Like most kids, I enjoyed listening to music. I enjoyed the music on the radio, music in the movies, just music in general. I’ve also liked music…

EDM or Electronic Dance Music uses synthesized sounds to create euphoric melodies, and most often even the drums of the song are either synthesized or recorded and modified to sound more electronic. Artists such as Calvin Harris, David Guetta, and Zedd have become very popular in the music industry by using some of the same tools that musicians used to create…

Which included six players on Violin A, four players on Violin B, two Violists, two Cellists, and two Bass players Trap Set (Snare, Toms, High-Hat, Bass Drum, Cymbals), 3 Timpani, Wood Block, Bells, Pop (Cork Gun or similar), Slapstick (Whip), Vibraphone, Temple Blocks, Chime (Bb, Eb), Xylophone, Cowbell, Oriental Drum, Tambourine (Oklahoma!: Material Notes). There are two major factors for this type of orchestra choice. First the style composed by Richard Rodgers that…

The piece that I have chosen is “Country Gardens”, written by Percy Grainger. This piece was his first piano arrangement of the English Morris dance tune “Country Gardens.” It became extremely popular and his greatest commercial success, later this piece became one of his least favorite pieces as he was asked to play it so often. A remark that was included in the early publication was: “Rough sketched for 2 whistlers and a few instruments about 1908.” In another edition he writes: “In some…

Rap: The Story of the Streets Everybody in the house say hey! I have something to say! New school rap versus old “boom bap” find out who is better today! Rap, it began as a form of storytelling, giving an artist a way to voice their lives for others to hear. There resides several different “Era’s” of rap, but the two biggest have always been “new school” and “Golden age. The so called “golden age” was set during the late 1980’s to the early 1990’s and consisted of acts such as, KRS-One, A Tribe…

Compare and Contrast Goldfinger (1964); Musical Score by John Barry vs Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Musical Score by John Williams During the 1960s, popular music played an important role in filmmaking, garnering larger audiences due to the appeal of this genre but also due to the fact that psychologically, people tend to associate the music they are hearing with real life events or emotions. From 1960-1967, film scores began to change. No longer would we see the traditions of the 50s, where…

“There comes a time when the world gets[so] quiet and the only thing left is [the beating of] your own heart..." But my heart didn 't beat like the drumsticks of a snare drum solo champion, nor it didn 't beat like an infant coming into the world, but it was still. It was steady. So, I close my eyes as the beats of my heart fills my ears and breath stills like ASDFGHJKL and I brace for impact. As a child we are always told to be thankful for what we have, to be kind and to be caring, to be…

requisite for musical instruments that produce sounds over 80 dB (i.e., viola, violin, bassoon, oboe), over 90 dB (i.e., clarinet, Euphonium, French horn, mellophone, timpani), and over 100 dB (i.e., alto saxophone, bass drum, cymbals, flugelhorn/bugle, flute, piccolo, snare drum, tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet/cornet, tuba/contrabass). As Strasnick et al. (2007) reported, profound deafness is at 120 dB; therefore, protective hearing devices must also be worn during symphonic concerts for…

The concept of transition can be believed to be both confronting and transformative for the individual or groups involved. This idea is undoubtedly explored within Steven Daldry’s film, Billy Elliot with a central theme of maturity and Robert Gray’s poem, Late Ferry, as it expresses ideas about the transformative concept of transitions. Additionally, Meiert Avis’ music video for Paramore’s Brick by Boring Brick explores a confronting change to the protagonist as the music video demonstrates…