The Sound of Music

film, there is a feeling of fragmented eeriness, that is only propagated by the masterful scoring, (or lack thereof,) by both the director and the composer. There is a noted lack of dialogue in the film that parallels the specific lack of foley and music in some scenes that add to the tense and twisted storyline. The, at times, uncomfortable silence, whether it be a musical or dialogue deficient scene, necessitates the audience’s undivided attention and draws them in further into movie, only to…

Question 1: Improvisation Improvisation in music is making up the music as one plays, or freely. Improvisation does not follow sheet music like typical jazz does. However, the term improvisation is not just linked to music. Movies and television shows also have a technique with the same concept which is improve but with acting. Both of these mean the same thing, which is the artist/actor has the determining factor of what they will play or say. One genre that uses improvisation as a major…

When a boomerang is released into the sky, it makes a giant loop and comes back to its original location. This is the phenomenon that inspired the boomerang hypothesis applied to many different genres of popular music from the continent of Africa. For some African countries and its people, the boomerang was released during the slave trade. Not until slavery was abolished did the boomerang finally return to its origin. For other African countries, the boomerang was flung out much later, during…

State University, in his introduction to his own research paper on the Music of the Spheres. Like him, the concept of the Music of the Spheres intrigued me immediately when I started researching the topic. I have always had a passion for Astronomy, and it was so interesting to discover the immense effect that Pythagoras’s theory, the Music of the Spheres, had on Johannes Kepler, and the connection between the three types of music that Boethius discovered in his studies of cosmology.…

the preceding line. The music has a celebratory quality when the strings are playing their fast paced but legato sound. The strings sound very happy and are almost jumping for joy. They flow and do not pierce the ear. Conversely, the music has a dark and ominous quality in the timbre of the loud horns. The loud horns pierce the flowing strings and blast the ears with doom. In terms of the program of this piece, the music perfectly represents it. In the program, this music is meant to…

showed that very intensive music did not help concentration and actually distracted the students more; However, songs with a softer tune and less lyrics, almost like background music, caused the students to have significant improvements in concentration (Tze-Ming 39). The assumption that music should actually distract people held some truth. Logically, songs that were lyric heavy showed to do significantly less for people’s concentration because of the words mixing up the thoughts of a person.…

risen back up to due to an increase in consumer insight and bands willing to try different things to increase the popularity of the music. Although it has different styles, it has always had the same foundation throughout the years. Why is it called “America’s Music?” Simply because it was created in the United States. Rock is one of the most popular types of music worldwide. It has a loyal fan base and has been in and out of the mainstream spotlight throughout the years, but has always endured…

songs I choose are Drupad Indian music; Georgian chanting; troubadour music; Handel: Messiah, Hallejuah Chorus; Bob Dylan, Like The Rolling Stone; Glass: koyaanisqatsi section and John Luther Adams: The Light that fills the world The Dhrupad music is chanting Vedic hymns and mantras. In the background there is string instrument playing in lower sound than the chanting completing it. It can be used as prayer, meditation and yoga. The Georgian Chant is liturgical music chanted in the church as a…

According to Michael Richardson, a music therapist, music therapy is “the use of music to achieve other than musical goals” (“Music Therapy” 0:08-0:12). Imagine the agony that terminally-ill patients endure close to their final days. Pain becomes unbearable despite the constant intake of narcotics, since these drugs only suppress pain for a limited period of time. Even though pain can be “well controlled” with medicine, some sufferers personally decide to cease treatment (“What Happens”). Yet,…

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,” said William Congreve in The Mourning Bride. If the captivating melody could easily take the edge off of the most atrocious monster, then, what are other significant impacts of euphonic sounds for the society? Many are gradually acknowledging the underlying implications of harmonies to their percipience, as seen in the ironical case of Ludwig van Beethoven. The composer of some of the most celebrated music history, such as Moonlight Sonata and…