The Chamber

Ever since entering Dr. Berdahl’s chamber music class, I have grown more found with working with other instruments from outside of my comfort zone. I really like the idea of sight reading and being able to accompany other instruments to create wonderful music together. This semester I would like to recommend just two pieces of music for Chamber ensemble from the same composer, to focus on working together and learning the appropriate style. Franz Schubert, January 31, 1797 - November 19, 1828, was brought into a world where music was changing rapidly. Baroque music slowly drifted away around the year 1750 and now the Classical Era was greatly being more favored by the main public. Schubert wrote various melodies in all of his music, slowly…

Upon attending the International Chamber Music Festival Concert, a certain ecstatic vibe could be felt as the performers walked on stage with their musical instruments. The virtuoso’s performed in pieces that contained trios, duets, and quintets; showing the concentration they required when listening to each other. When working on Chamber Music, much of the melody jumps around from instrument to instrument, show casing various solos and much of the instruments having to coincide with each other…

This was my first time attending a chamber concert and I found it to be quite amusing, this concert was primarily instrumental and the type of ensemble this concert feature was chamber music. For the genre I would consider these piece as a string quartet. And for the historical era I would have to put it with romantic and twenty and twenty first century era. This was my first live concert that I’ve ever attended so is was my first time hearing a violin and a cello live. The way I would describe…

Positive Reinforcement of Rats in Operant Conditioning Chamber Phebe Crane Western Illinois University Abstract In order to successfully shape the behavior of pressing a lever for delivery of a food pellet, consecutive days of training must take place with the use of fixed-ratio scheduling for the rat to successfully press the lever repeatedly. In a 4 day study over the span of four weeks, it is difficult to achieve shaping a rat to press a lever consistently for the reward of food pellet…

Did you know that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets combined made over two billion worldwide at the box office? The purpose of my speech today is to tell you about these two movies. Since I have read the books, did extensive research, and watched both of these movies many times, I consider myself a credible source. Right now, I want to tell you about the Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets plot, main…

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry is met with multiple struggles when it comes to going back to school at Hogwarts (one being a persistent house elf named Dobby). He does end up going back, despite the warnings from Dobby. When he arrives he and classmates find that the chamber of secrets, which was rumored to be a myth, has been reopened and that the heir of the man who created had set a monster free in the school. Harry and his friends begin working towards closing the chamber,…

but then, Sycorax in Caliban turned into … humans. Joey was so surprised, that he tripped. They had a long talk about what just happened. Suddenly Sycorax started feeling sick and started going crazy. She started feeling worse and worse, so Joey and Caliban needed to leave her behind. So on the went to reach their destination. After two days they have reached Diamond city. They first rested a while and then they went asking around, no success. Until there was a guy that said that they should ask…

The Courtship of Mr. Lyon and The Bloody Chamber are both based on fairy tales written by Angela Carter. Both of these stories are thought to be inspired by author Charles Perrault’s writings Beauty and the Beast and also Bluebeard. Both fairy tales have similar plots, the usual “good feeling” plots, where a girl is on a mission to find her true love and encounters many men not fit for her along the way and also other trials and tribulations to eventually get to that one knight in shining armor…

‘The Bloody Chamber’ is from Angela Carter’s collection ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and other short stories written in 1979. This short story is the titular tale in the collection. Angela Carter was an English novelist and during the period in which she was writing, women were fighting for social, economic and political equality. Carter began writing fairy tales throughout the period of the second new wave in America. During this Second-new wave, feminists were fighting for equal rights and…

The Bloody Chamber is a novel filled with short stories. The short story I chose to read was the first story of the book, The Bloody Chamber. It is about a seventeen year old girl marries a rich old man and claims to have definite love and affection towards him. She notices the small flaws about him that make him seem almost dead such as his stone cold eyes. Though, she refused to leave him. Her mother expresses dissatisfaction at the marriage but does not tell her daughter not to go through…