The Sopranos

melodic line throughout. This song also has a strong and quick beat to it because it is a medieval dance piece. The piece from the Renaissance, Pope Marcellus Mass: Kyrie, has a polyphonic texture. This piece is for an a cappella choir consisting of soprano, alto, two tenors, and two bases. The voices all flow together at the end of each section and has a very full sound. These two pieces are very different from each other and can show the differences in music between these two significant time…

birthday last December. In this recreation, the song still has its original sound and the jazzy influence, which I would say keeps its historical meaning. However, with Lady Gaga’s vocals added to the song it creates a different vibe. Her powerful mezzo soprano vocals brings extra emphasis to the piece. The song is an adnate tempo with a mezzo piano dynamic, however there are many crescendos and decrescendos throughout the song. The instrumentation is the typically instruments you would hear in…

modifications depending on vocal ranges. When it comes to intensity, it is important to have a clarified balance. We must be attentive to dynamics, articulation, phrasing, rubato, and linear direction. One of my favorite statements from this section is, “sopranos sharp, altos are inaudible, tenors flat, and basses are late.” When he explained why this was true, everything that I’ve seen in chorale made…

The portrayal of his homosexuality is a bit shallow and uncomfortably stereotypical if one looks closely: Paul is petrified by rats, splashes cologne on himself, and is fastidious about odors and dirt. The only woman who interests Paul is the soprano he sees at Carnegie Hall, a middle-aged woman described as “the mother of many children” (Jewkes, 69)and a clear substitute for Paul’s own deceased mother. The prospect of heterosexual relations seems to repulse Paul. He is unsettled, for example…

The musical I went to was “Heathers; The Musical”, lyrics and music by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe. Which is about a high school girl named Veronica Sawyer who was nobody until one day, three of the popular girls at her high school decided to she would fit perfect with them. Funny thing was that they were all named Heather. After being whisked away from her boring life and put into the Heather click, she meets a boy named JD who she falls in love with. Veronica, later in the year,…

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is a renaissance type piece. I know that it was composed in 1938, but it reminds me of a renaissance style piece due to its melancholy tone. The harmony between the violins, I’m sure that there are different types of violins within the mix, like soprano, alto, tenor, bass, are very beautiful whenever the chords match up. The texture at the beginning is relatively light. It becomes thicker as the song progresses, but it’s definitely not as thick as what Fanfare for The Common Man was. The…

Gillian Welch and Taylor Swift are both singer songwriters in their own right and both have had/are having very successful careers. Although when listening to their music they appear to have two very different vocal styles some striking comparisons can be drawn and will be discussed in this paper. These two artists can be seen to have the similar influences of country and blues in their music and so although they are two very different artist it is because of their similarities that they make an…

For my other religious experience I had the privilege of attending a friend’s Catholic wedding. The church was everything I expected it to be with tall beautiful stained glass windows and sturdy wooden pews. Even though the church was in the middle of downtown Nashville, I felt as though I was in some peaceful little town in the middle of nowhere. The whole experience was more of a shock than I was expecting; I knew that mass would be different than attending my normal church, but I honestly had…

The “Heiligenstadt Testament” was a document written by Beethoven in 1802, while he was resting in Heiligenstadt (Ludwig van Beethoven 's Biography: Heiligenstadt Testament, n.d.). It was in part his will, the first of three that he wrote during his lifetime (Ludwig van Beethoven 's Biography: Heiligenstadt Testament, n.d.). The document was also a letter to his brothers, in it Beethoven revealed to them that he was deaf and told of the despair he felt because of this (Ludwig van Beethoven 's…