Theme music

These performances often narrates and enacts adapted stories and themes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana, two major Sanskrit epics of the Hindu religion. The Mahabharata and Ramayana are Hindu scriptures and promotes religious paragons through its stories (Nong, 2008, p. 133). The Mahabharata is a religious work that…

On October 7th I attended a concert by the Auburn University’s very own Chamber Winds / Percussion & Symphonic Band. They performed 11 pieces altogether that were all met with enthusiastic applaud and commendation. The first piece that caught my attention was “Broken Clouds”, a piece composed strictly of percussions, specifically the marimba, vibraphone, and the darbuka. This piece caught my attention due to each instrument having its own solo portion in the piece with a synchronous medley of…

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with dramatic themes and a timpani part, which all combine to create a suspenseful and serious mood; Lockwood describes the Fifth Symphony as “unleash[ing] a tragic power in the symphonic domain that audiences had not known before”(219). However, the Sixth Symphony is in F major, and it is known as the Pastoral Symphony because its topic is nature and the countryside (Lockwood 225). Whereas the Fifth had no predetermined topic, the Sixth Symphony was considered to be “program” music because…

The theme of the novel Player Piano is oriented towards the role of machine by taking the scientific realities of the early 1950’s and the projection is at the present to make the readers to imagine what will happen in future. After the second industrial revolution…

The production I was involved in this semester was My Son Pinocchio. The music and lyrics were written by Stephen Schwartz and the book by David Stern. The process of putting this show together began in September with auditions and the run of the show taking place early in December. I was playing the part of a parent in the opening scene Toys and a “perfect” parent in Idilia. I also had the role of a young fox in the scene The Road. Overall this play was a great experience because it furthered…

Large offerings of food, drinks and various goods, rows of empty chairs endlessly waiting to be filled, and mass amounts of people enjoying a live performance; these are all commonly seen sights at the annual Hungry Ghost Festival . In Malaysia and Singapore the Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as Zhong Yuan Jie, takes place during the seventh month of the lunar calendar. During this 'ghost' month, souls who suffer in the underworld are believed to walk freely among the living. The doors of…

Intertextuality is a conception that links to most of literature. Stories can take motivation from a story that came before them. The musical Rent was derived broadly on Puccini's La Bohème, congregating musical themes, plots, and words of the opera. La Bohème and Rent focus on the difficulty of artists in a city, and both displays attention on the poverty and threats of a life lived away from conservative standards. Comparing to La Bohème, Rent examines more toward modern matters, such as…

accompaniment to their music. The concert ran from 7 to 9 PM, so I went in not only with the intention of listening to the group but also with a good meal in mind. I left the building with filled notebook pages…

2:55 and the album version is 5:28. The album version has that energetic solo. The difference between Take 5 and KoKo is that Take 5 is West Coast Cool Jazz and KoKo is Bebop. West Coast jazz: It is actually a diverse subgenre that was popular jazz music that developed around Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is a subgenre of cool jazz, which is “heavy” and flows through each beat, so it’s actually a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. West coast jazz was more…