Timbre

sonata, with the prevailing character of the narrative and thematic development and song thematic. Sudden flashes of drama interspersed with moments of focused contemplation, genre scenes - with ecstatic insights. There are a lot of great harmonic and timbre finds. 2.…

listeners, as the more frequently people listen to a song, the more meanings people can derive from the song. By being more conscious and aware listeners, people would be able to derive multiple meanings of a song and can analyze rhythms, tempos, harmony, timbre, and other musical elements of the song to “deepen [their] understanding of music” (Copland 3). Thus, actively listening is necessary for listeners to have a complete and enriched listening experience, instead of passively listening to…

On February 11 at 10:30am, I attended Aggieland Saturday, an open house for prospective students, and observed the Aggie band play. The band played a total of 4 songs and the last song being the Aggie War Hymn. Unfortunately, the performance didn’t contain the entire aggie band as I expected, but rather members from all the necessary subgroups were present. The key instruments were aerophones, membranophones, and idiophone. The major aerophones consisted of: clarinets, piccolos, trumpets,…

“Nature Smart”, designates the human ability to discriminate among living things. This works perfectly if you were a hunter, farmer, etc. Most of us exploit the intelligence of nature. “Music Smart” is a person that knows how to keep pitch, rhythm, timbre, and tone. This helps people like composers,conductors, musicians, vocalist, and sensitive listeners recognize, create, reproduce, and reflect on music. Some are usually aware of the sounds that others might miss. “Math Smart” is a logical…

because of all the effects and plug-ins are in stereo and people think it will work out and be fine. The end result is just a really big mess of mono mixing. Don’t be afraid to turn the stereo into two separate mono tracks and have different pans timbres on each one of them. Step two. Use Multiple Reverb Plug-Ins, Dave just uses a several versions of Digidesign and experiments with reflections and decay times. Just playing with the sounds with different and effects you could find something that…

life, For me. Wait for who? Who does “me” refer to? The singer presumably. So really, the whole tone of “Feeling Good” can be controlled by the singer. The lyrics never change, but by tweaking the arrangement through instrumentation or vocal timbre, the mood of the song can be flipped upside down and thrown onto the other side of the world. This could not be more clearly exemplified by the two covers of “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone in the 1960s and Muse in the early 2000s. “Feeling…

Final Research Paper: Os Mutantes and Tropicália By: Christie Alexander In Brazil, on April 1, 1964, the Armed Forces, backed by the United States, overthrew the Brazilian President João Goulart. Goulart was a member of the Brazilian Labour Party. The 1964 Brazilian coup d’état put Brazil under the control of a military regime until 1985. This event sparked a musical movement in Brazil known as Tropicália. Also known as Tropicalismo, this movement was not only about music in Brazil but theater,…

to maintain a dramatic edge in some parts of the piece, as well as displaying nice lyrical quality in some of the lighter parts of the piece. All in all, I thought Florez performance the scene very well, and his high C’s sounded healthy and full in timbre. The performance I observed is heavily related to the course material cover in Elementary Voice. Watching the performance I was able to observe how proper diction, stage presence, posture and breath support can come together to create a truly…

Orpheus is an extremely gifted instrumentalist and vocalist, taught by Apollo himself, who is subsequently able to charm anyone and anything to do what he wants them to. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love with a Nymph named Eurydice. He and Eurydice live a happy, loving life until a son of Apollo tries to pursue the young nymph. In her attempt to escape, she steps on a poisonous snake, gets bitten and dies. Orpheus, still infatuated with his lover, follows Eurydice to the Underworld where…

Xinzhu (Zoe) Ma Music History II March 25th, 2016 From the Old To the Folk: Dvorák and Haydn On a chilly Friday night, Nichole and I went to the Ohio Theatre for the concert featuring music by Dvorak and Haydn. The solemn air swelling in the street and the dazzling atmosphere in the concert hall supplemented my expectation towards the concert; when we finally sat on our seats, I couldn’t wait for it to start. The concert includes not only the works of Haydn and Dvorak, but also of a Native…