Vocal duets

Choir Is Cult Only Slightly Less Cultish Than Band It wasn’t really a question on whether or not I was going to join choir Freshman year. I had always been in some kind’ve choir since pretty much birth--we’ve got some pretty sick videoes of me making whale sounds as a baby to prove it--from single digits to double digits, I’d always been singing. Freshman year, I sat in the front row, four chairs in on the right of the choir with Spencer Evoy to my left. Abby Merschman was sitting behind me…

long hour of singing ahead. Once a week, in the quiet, early hours of the morning, my a cappella group assembles to practice and perfect our songs. In a cappella music, the voices have no instrumental accompaniment, so the music solely consists of vocals. In my group, each girl sings her own part, and if she doesn’t sing her part correctly or loudly, the song falls apart. The absence of just one part causes the harmonies to disintegrate, or even worse, the key to change. During rehearsals,…

from R&B tunes, to speak to various crowds. A few people just appreciate certain sorts of music, leaving the void filled by specialists that make such tunes. Certain vocalization could likewise demonstrate to draw in individuals, similar to piercing vocals on…

Reflection On march 10 in the PAC, at 7:00, I had the opportunity to be able to go and see The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a wonderful paly production, with some raunchy scenes, but, it was a very well orchestrated play, with well casted people and had very smooth transitions even though there wasn’t a curtain. The cast was huge, so great was need for voices that they had to hire a local choir to sing with them. The first scene is when you see the choir coming to and sing and take their…

I always enjoyed singing. I sang along to the songs in Disney movies, to the radio in the car, or just at home in my room. I was in choir all year during seventh grade. We sang many songs that year, even one in an African language, but only one song had any solo tryouts. Mrs. Smith picked “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry for us to sing, so we could have at least one modern song. There were three solos in it, I tried out for the first one. The tryouts weren’t in front of the class, but I still had to…

of a Bachelor” and “My Way” are portrayed in different ways, but both songs are in relation to an end of an era. Although the song “Death of a Bachelor” was not inspired by a specific Sinatra song, Panic! was inspired by Sinatra’s compelling use of vocal techniques and his voice as a whole. We can better understand the techniques that Panic! used to mimic Sinatra by recognizing tone, tempo, and the use of extended notes. With every emotion, there is a song that can be used to describe the…

In the movie, Begin Again, the soundtrack plays a significant role in telling the story and reuniting the characters with their loved ones. With minimal prominence, the director uses the soundtrack to add elements found in musicals due to the fact that the songs play along with the theme as the characters develop. Greta and Dan are both similar when it comes to loneliness, rejection, and the question of where the loyalties of their loved ones lie. Both characters display mistrust, distance, and…

Music, or more specifically lyrical music, is an inseparable part of the average American's lifestyle. It’s in our cars, it’s in the stores we frequent, it’s on our phones, computers, and tablets, it’s in the shows we love and the commercials we love to hate, billions of dollars are made off of streaming services and contracts each year. However, for the majority of American’s, the extent of their own singing exposure is serenading the soap bubbles in the shower or crooning to their favorite…

greatest singer of all time. With his 4-octave vocal range to his vocal transparency, and with his vocal dynamics, proves that he is in fact the greatest of all time. “A killer queen” and “dynamite with a laser beam”, perhaps Freddie was referring to his own powerful vocal presence with these lyrics. Rightly so, for no other singers dynamic voice has stirred emotions like Freddie Mercury’s. It has been said that “Bohemian Rhapsody” still showcases unrivaled vocal talent since its release 41…

I mainly enjoyed it because there were vocals and an actual performance along with the music being sang, instead of just instruments with no vocals. Both the band and the orchestra played terrific and I would most likely go back to see the band play because it was interesting for me to see a group reiterate the Beatles music, and they played…