Violin

string guitar, and hard drum. Furthermore, the song has a medium tempo and gets faster. The fifth song is a mariachi song, which began in the west coast of Mexico. Mariachi came from Son Jalisciense. The instruments used in this song are the trumpet, violin, guitar, and guitarron. However, there was also no harp. The music slowed down, got faster, and slowed down again. There was a string section, and the trumpet got added later on. In fact, I am very familiar with mariachi music because I…

known as the red hair priest. He was trained to play violin from his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi . Giovanni was a violinist and prior to that, he was a barber. Vivaldi and his father played a duet while they were touring around Venice. As a child prodigy, he appeared in the public in 1696. Vivaldi had a health issue, which know days is commonly known as asthma. However, his love towards the music did not stop him from playing violin or composition. He only had to stop playing any…

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most commonly know as Mozat, was one of the greatest composers of his time. He was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He knew how to play many instuments and began playing for th public ata young age of 6 years old. Mozart composed many works in his time, including symphonies, operas, sonatas, masses, and concertos. Mozart knew how to play many insruments at the age of 6, He may have gotten this talent from his father, Leopold, who was a sucessful…

her favorite classical pieces. The style in my opinion is a renaissance type piece. I know that it was composed in 1938, but it reminds me of a renaissance style piece due to its melancholy tone. The harmony between the violins, I’m sure that there are different types of violins within the mix, like soprano, alto, tenor, bass, are very beautiful whenever the chords match up. The texture at the beginning is relatively light. It becomes thicker as the song progresses, but it’s definitely not as…

Any mother loves their daughter and would do anything to protect and better them. However each mom protects and betters their daughter differently, which creates unique mother-daughter relationships. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the reader can see the relationship through the eyes of the mother and daughter. Even though Amy Chua and her two daughters can be frustrated with each other, they all still care for each other and work through their…

Zoya Alikhan Humanities 1101 Professor Clifford October 25th, 2017 Reflection on “The Joy of Mozart” Video 1. In the video, “The Joy of Mozart,” the radio presenter Tom Service learns about the life of a man named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was one of the greatest Austrian composers of the classical era. He composed operas, concertos, symphonies, sonatas, masses, and chamber music. Service travels from London to Vienna and Salzburg and visits the cities where Mozart lived and…

in Vienna Austria. His middle class family was not particularly musical; therefore, he taught himself most everything he knew about music. Schoenberg was drawn to string instruments as a child, mostly playing and composing pieces for the cello or violin. He had a talent for composing music which was further developed with the help of Oskar Adler and Alexander Zemlinsky. As Schoenberg reached adulthood, he worked as an apprentice at Werner & Co Bank. He quickly discovered this was not his…

Solomon’s first master in his 12 years as a slave gave him a violin to play. This violin granted him favor in some instances with his master, reminded him of home, and gave him some scrap of humanity in his desperate situation. In nearly every scene that the slaves were working they were also singing. The reading in “Black Culture…

On May 10th, I had the opportunity to the “The Stony Brook Roots Ensemble. This was my first experience witnessing traditional American music played live. The venue and the ambiance were completely different from my time at the orchestra at the Staller Center. The performance took place in the Wang Center Chapel, which had surprisingly great acoustics than expected. At the orchestra there was very strict etiquette when in attendance, where one must be incredibly quiet in order to not disturb…

Balzac and the Little Seamstress follows two boys that have to be re-educated during the Maoist Revolution up in a small village. They meet a Seamstress and find banned books with Western ideas to read to each other. Grass on the Rooftop is a story of a boy that is being re-educated that is believed to have saved a picture of Mao and becomes famous and travels around. Both stories have to do with re-education and how people from this time feel and background information to Maoism and China at…