The Sopranos

As I walked into the Brechemin Auditorium I was immediately mesmerized by the stage. I took my seat and instantly took notice of the crimson curtain and the Grand black piano shining in the spotlight. The auditorium was much smaller than I had expected, but it created an intimacy between the musicians and audience that was necessary for the performances. During Introduction and Variations on ‘Trockne Blumen,’ D.802, I could hear the pages of sheet music turn and the breaths that the flute player…

Orfeo and the Magic Flute Compare-Contrast study of musical compositions of Monteverdi and Mozart Introduction: Composed in 1671, Monteverdi drew on the ancient poets of Virgil and Ovid to create the mythological narrative that is the opera Orfeo.1 His last musical work, Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) tests the limits of the high voice register in a ancient Egyptian plot about winning love with the help of magic.2 Signaling a major shift in accepted musical form, Monteverdi’s Orfeo…

The rhetorical situation within the paper is Johnson making the argument to generally educated readers that television shows are not as mindless or unintelligent as many believe. In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Johnson argues that certain television shows can make a person smarter. Using the Sleeper Curve, he expresses that TV shows have progressed from being something mindless that is turned on in order to escape the reality of the rest of the world to something far more meaningful and…

They say there is a special sound that originates for the Rio Grande region of Texas and Mexico called la frontera, “the borderland”. It is referred to as Tejano music. Veda Boyd Jones, author of Selena, describes “the music borrowed the accordion sound from Central European immigrants, mixed the band sound with a driving beat. Tejano music often reflects many different cultures- just like the people who live in the Rio Grande. It is a mixture if polka, Mexican, Latin, popular, country, rap and…

Also I would say his style of jazz is a very medium fast pace goes on in off. Mr. Jones tonality is compared to the subak drum. A major key for Mr. Jones is c note. Mr. Jones instrumental is normally combined with a saxophone, piano, bassist, and soprano in his jazz band. Mr. Jones phrasing sometimes had a message to it, for EXAMPLE, love, happiness, calm, and a sense of relaxation. This probably means Mr. Jones was a once in a lifetime jazz…

the part in the Phantom’s basement (Figure.10) which signified as cruel and lonely atmosphere. A middle shot contained when Christine looked around and sang The Point of no Return which means she is waiting for something or somebody. When the male soprano wear the mask came out, it was the crucial character for Phantom which signified the actor was substituted by Phantom (Figure.9). The medium shot keeps use for Phantom and Christine as they are the dominant of the shot (Figure.11). The colour…

at Luther Memorial Church. This small church was packed. It was uncomfortable, but it was free. The concert was presented by Grandview University’s Department of Music. My co-worker’s daughter is studying to become a music teacher. She is soprano singer. I did get to meet her before the concert. She warned me that the band was going to be bad because there were a lot of freshmen in it. I said, I didn’t mind, my ears are no good anyway. There was not a formal announcement made…

This is a homophonic chorale work that has a timbre featuring a piano and all four vocal parts- soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. It was performed by both the Chamber Singers and the high school symphonic choir. This piece has a conjunct melody and a consonant harmony. There are many crescendos and decrescendos, it includes legato notes, and the meter…

Additionally, the violin was not a single instrument, but rather a family of instruments with varying sizes. The alto violin, which would eventually evolve to be the modern viola, is debated as being the very first violin to be created, with the soprano, tenor, and bass violins coming shortly after. From examining the artwork and writings from the Renaissance, it seems that these instruments were often held and played in a variety of ways. Without shoulder or chin rests which are commonplace…

The theatre of the absurd is a word coined by the Hungarian critic Martin Esslin to describe the works written during 1950’s and 1960’s.The word ‘absurd’ was first used by French philosopher Albert Camus in his work The Myth Of Sisyphus in which represents the existence of humans as meaningless. Also, Camus believed that since human beings cannot provide a rational explanation for the existence of the universe, hence it can be seen as meaningless, shallow and absurd. Martin Esslin described the…