Timbre

PART FOUR: Written analysis and description 381_CP_SONG 1: Can’t Stop Can’t Stop expresses the importance of having someone in your life that looks out for you and you hold in high respect. In the chorus, “Can’t stop thinking bout, won’t stop thinking bout, how you love me” conveys how you often have that someone on your mind because they are willing to care for you. These lyrics have a catchy melody attached to them as there are no more than two syllables for each word. This gives a rhythmic…

Claude Debussy, born August 22 1862and died at the age of 56 on the 25th of March 1918. He was born in France and is known as a very influential composer of the 19th century going into the 20th century. Debussy started piano lessons when he was 7 and at age 10 he left to go study many musically related things such as: music history, harmony, and composition. Debussy was considered to change music in such a way that no one had ever heard of. He did this through the development of dissonances…

of each of the sections and explained that most of the tubes that an organ uses, you can’t even see. He also demonstrated what each section of tubes sounds like. I also learned that the organ contains metal, wood, and PVC pipes to access different timbres. After the presentation, Ramírez and the symphony finished off the rest of their program. At the conclusion of the final piece, Raúl left the stage only to be called back by thunderous applause from the all-standing audience. The crowd remained…

Making: Using Pinterest I researched and learnt about the type of percussion instrument l was going to use (Dinham, 2014, p.3). Discovered untuned instrument of creating a Maraca would be the best for my written song. I was able to use reuse objects around the home, such as pasta shells, paper plates, paint and coloured paper. With trial and error before did the final stapling of the paper plate folded in half, developed nature of the instrument. Until l was able to be satisfied with rhythm,…

his father. Shakespeare’s use of “’Tis not alone” sets up a list of symbols of grief, such as “inky cloak,” “solemn black,” and “dejected havior of visage.” Through his use of each of these phrases, Shakespeare employs rhetoric to convey the somber timbre of Hamlet’s emotions in the aftermath of…

Piano Concerto, as noted by Stanley Kleppinger: “Among those ‘jazz techniques’ commonly cited in [the Piano Concerto] are the use of ‘blue notes’ (chromatically lowered scale degrees in close proximity to their diatonic versions), emphasis of certain timbres such as drum-kit-like percussion and brass with various styles of mutes, and the use of rhythmic materials common to jazz music” (Kleppinger). The influence of American popular music is much more evident here than in Piano Blues, because the…

On Thursday, November 1, 2016, I attended World Percussion Night at Bowling Green State University. This musical event took place at 8:00 PM in Kobacker Hall located inside the Moore Musical Arts Center. World Percussion Night featured multiple styles including performances by the Kusuma Sari Balinese Gamelan, Afro-Caribbean, Hayabusa, and Kaze No Daichi Taiko ensembles. As I entered the building, I was anxious to see what I would endure at this concert. Not only had I never been to a musical…

pressure applied to the body that is represented in the sensation of touch. Physiology is the means of translation from physical phenomenon to felt sensation, as the ear and connected nervous system turn a sound wave into a note with with pitch, timbre, and volume, or the eye and connected nervous system turn light into a figure with color, shape, and brightness. Mental philosophy is implicated in the senses when one considers the epistemological question of the day, which was whether or not…

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Through many examples of music from many different backgrounds, I have come to realize and appreciate the diversity present in the world of music. When I was asked to select one piece of music to analyze, I was faced with a difficult decision. It was challenging for me to decide on one piece of music that I could analyze given the abundance of music. After many countless hours of searching for one piece of music that I could focus my time on to analyze, I selected a piece named October by Eric…