The Sound of Music

This film is story of a friendship between a live-in babysitter and a 12-year-old privileged music prodigy. Eleanor, the live-in-babysitter, strikes an unlikely friendship with Reggie when she hears him play a composition called Like Sunday, Like Rain on his cello. The audience is given some background information that Eleanor had music talent as well having been excepted at Julliard to play the cornet but lacking funds. Eleanor and Reggie become closely attached;…

In the 30 minutes that I analyzed for Mr. Bean’s Holiday, the kinds of music that they used was a collection of songs. Most of the songs used in the movie were instrumental and symphony orchestra like. The composer of the score would be Howard Goodall. The type of performers that are used are an orchestra. The genres of music that are included are mainly instrumental classical like songs. While they are driving to Cannes in the evening, Mr. Bean is listening to radio and Born to be Wild, a rock…

Rock and Roll Rock and roll was born in the United States in the mid 1950's, crossing racial and geographical lines. This major music genre has spawned many kinds of rock such as: hard, soft, acid, metal, Southern, jazz, blues, punk, pop, gospel, etc. as listed on Wikipedia website of List of rock genres. (Wikipedia.org). According to our textbook, The World of Music, rock and roll was influenced by "R & B and country and western - one especially black, the other white." (123). The…

beats of an ancient drum to the electronic sounds of a modern synthesizer, music has evolved over millennia. Since the invention of the audio recorder, people have been able to document the evolution of music so that history can actually be heard. Recording devices have developed from tinfoil and hand cranks to complex computer systems. When music was first being recorded, musicians played instruments as technicians recorded on a machine. Today’s music, however, is no longer being played and…

time) I am currently the dissemination activities of music therapy. (spreading information about) Music therapy uses the sound source of "Cymatics". I think that there is the knowing person. (I think many are familiar with Cymatics?) "Cymatics" was invented in the 1980s by Dr. Peter Guy Manners. He invented an improved form of the Vibration sound therapy. We cause innovation in the medical world. (We provide better solution) It is, to the music therapy to be more familiar. It offers "anytime,…

“ The eyes see better when the sound is great” (Barsam, Monahan 364). Sound enhances an audiences experience of a film. It explains the meaning depicted in each scene because the music chosen for a scene sets the tone. For example, if it’s a daring car chase the tempo would be fast paced to entice the viewer to not divert their attention for whats in store. A character who is losing someone very dear to them would have a very somber setting with slow and sad music in the background to create the…

progressions that led to the emergence of jazz music. Bebop and cool jazz incorporated fast tempos from African American cultures with European harmonies in order to create new music, representing the existing ethnic diversity in the US. The sociocultural environment of Harlem allowed for African American musicians to gather and produce bebop music by drawing from their folk rhythms and other sounds. The intricate arrangements of cool jazz represented a style of music more “commercially viable”…

family, trumpets produce loud and impressive noises due to their complex cylindrical tubing and large bell shaped opening. Commonly used in jazz and concert music, this instrument encompasses a multi purposeful significance along with its attention grabbing sound quality. Trumpets continously endure remodeling to develop perfect harmonic sounds, which are produced by valves and pipes. Trumpets from past centuries were simply hollow cylindrical shapes with two openings on each side. However,…

The unit I will be designing for my middle school general music class focuses on creating an original composition of music. The students will be working in peer groups to write original lyrics (two verses and one chorus), create a rhythmic “loop” using the application GarageBand on their laptops, and create a music video using their final original song. This unit will relate to many of the National Music Standards, and the students will have choice and will incorporate the use of technology,…

Country music has changed through the years. Country music today is much different than the country music you would have heard even just 15 years ago. There are a verity of different forms of country now which is all still put under one category but I would say that you could split it up into at least two. Today’s Country music is very much on the mainstream and popish where 20 years ago it had a specific sound; you would hear it and so oh that’s country. It is actually sometimes quite…