Tonic

Tonic water is a carbonated liquid which is commonly used as a mixer for many alcoholic beverages such as Gin and Tonic. Tonic water is often used in mixed drinks as it has a very bitter taste, as a result of the chemical called Quinine. This chemical was once used as a drug to treat Malaria and is found in the bark of Cinchona trees (Yoquinto, 2012). To assist in swallowing the drug, it was put into tonic water. A British Officer in colonial India during the 1800's found that mixing alcohol with the beverage made it much easier to swallow and tastier (Yoquinto, 2012). Malaria continues to be treated by Quinine today but only when the disease is resisting the treatment of other drugs. Quinine was also used to treat Nocturnal Leg Cramps but…

In Bach's D major and a minor fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, some of the characteristic that Bach often uses including descending 5th sequences in order to go from on tonal area to another tonal area. As you can see in the D major fugue, at the episode 2 which is from measure nine to measure 10, the sequences allows the music goes from b minor back to G major. The same technique is also used in the a minor fugue from measure 8 where it goes from a minor back to C major at measure 9. Some…

The climax consists of four measures with basic harmonies in D-flat major before moving into the coda (Figure 3). The climax begins with a tonic triad in second inversion which leads to a vi then a I in first inversion before a ii minor seventh chord in first inversion gives way to the pinnacle harmony of the climax in mm. 60: a V chord with a suspended fourth that does not resolve until a measure and a half later giving us a V7 and resolves naturally to a I. During the Vsus4 harmony, there is a…

Fryderyk Chopin composed around fifty-nine mazurkas with only forty-one being published during his lifetime; the remaining compositions remained in manuscript form until being published by his close friend, Julian Fontana, after Chopin’s death. Chopin’s mazurkas are based on the traditional Polish folk dance, the mazur, which are the second part of the three-fold dance routine of the original folk mazurka, also called the “round dance” when all three parts are performed together. The mazur’s…

Composers and scholars have not agreed on what each term exactly means, and its scope. Perhaps as a result of its wide acceptance, the term polytonality lacks accuracy as a descriptive category. Béla Bartók’s explanation of both this terms, is one of the most radically different to the rest of composers and scholars. For him, the difference relies in the amount of tonal centers. While polytonality must have two or more tonal centers with identical or different scales, polymodality needs only…

In my teaching episode, I desired to break down the line of music I was teaching based on musicianship standards of rhythm and pitch/melody. I wanted to teach the piece from the ground up starting with rhythm; having the ensemble count and clap the piece. Then, after rhythm was practiced and understood, I wanted the ensemble to sing the melody and have the pitches of the notes in their ear before playing the piece on their instruments. Furthermore, I wanted to connect pitches to fingerings by…

are 4 movements. First movement is usually in sonata form and fast movement in the tonic key. Second movement is slow movement and in a related key. 3rd movement is Minute and trio in the tonic key and the last movement (4th movement) is usually Rondo form or sonata form in the tonic key. However, the sequence of movements of this string Quartet is not matching with this traditional sequence. The first movement is in C Major and the tempo is Andante con moto which is different from the typical…

the fifth scale degrees extend the basic motive x in song no. 7 as shown in fig. 5. In addition, the basic motive x also appears throughout song no. 7 with many different alterations while maintaining the ascending five pitches. The diminution of the basic motive x occurs in song no. 4 rehearsal 52 m. 102 until the end of the song played by the strings where it is written in 16th notes instead of in 8th notes. Fig. 5: Motive x in song no. 7. The abridged version of motive x appear in song…

For this paper, I listened the RadioLab episode on music language. I chose this one because, being a musician myself, I’ve always been interested in the psychology behind music, specifically why certain sounds can so drastically alter our emotion. After all, they’re all just vibrations. So what is it about some vibrations that make them so much more significant to us than others? This is one of the primary questions addressed in this podcast. In discussing how music affects us emotionally, the…

Aerie is a well known lingerie for women by American Eagle. Aerie first started in the year of 2006. This initiated a line of undergarments for women between the ages of 15-25. In early spring 2014, Aerie launched their newest campaign of the time, “Aerie Real”. The purpose behind this campaign was to discontinue using supermodels and digitally retouching its models to start encouraging self-body positivity. And through this abrupt change, “the company has shocked the fashion industry through…