Xylophone

Changing Through Positivity The best thing to do after a negative event is to keep a positive mindset. Being positive can make the situation easier to cope with and can allow you to move on with life. Sometimes, it might be able to flip the situation around in the real world, as it did with my Junior Districts audition. It was late fall of 8th grade when Mr. Wright explained that Junior Districts was a program that had 7th through 9th graders audition to participate in an advanced band,…

Case Examples of Music therapy for Survivors of Abuse by Kenneth E. Bruscia is a collection of case studies in which the clients discussed have been affected negatively by emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. The emotions manifested by each study aided me as a reader to understand what everyone had to face physically and emotionally. Physical wounds heal on their own, but psychological symptoms often worsen over time without the proper treatment because these traumatic experiences infest…

case study it was noted that Ann arrived early for her appointments, making a noticeable difference in her attendance and social functioning, her mood stabilised with tearful results a rarity, her involvement was more frequent with her playing the xylophone “being timid and barely audible” but giggling at random notes she hit. Gradually Ann’s musical responses became more decisive and had assertive qualities about them and became confident enough to play one of her favourite songs, Country Roads…

Within any film, the score has a major impact on the final production. No matter how impeccable the plot is, the casting choice, and the special effects are, the movie will not have quite the impact that the director envisions, unless if there is a perfect score used in a film. Although it is often overlooked by many, including me sometimes, music within movies is crucial to further the mood and energy in a scene. In the film Raiders of the Lost Ark there are many scenes that are full of action,…

For my ethnography project I will be doing the study of African music. This tradition and culture started around the 15th century. Miriam Makeba is a popular artist of African traditional music. He played folk, pop rock and jazz. I picked this topic because their religions, feelings and rituals. This stuck out too me in so many different ways. Another reason why I picked this topic was because of the interesting instruments they play. This music is some of the oldest extant music traditions in…

I attended the American Landscapes performed by Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Thomas Dickey conducted the orchestra. The concert was held at the Serentean Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. At the concert, I was an amateur, listener to this type of music. I had never witnessed a live performance of this musical style before. I would consider myself to be a passive listener. I listened to the performance with…

Achille-Claude Debussy was born on the day of August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was the oldest of five children, and immediately showed an amazing artistic ability in music despite that his family had little money. He soon became a household name, traveling for inspiration for his music. He had many affairs, sometimes even working for the woman’s husband! He married twice, and had one child; he died of colon cancer in 1918 in Paris. His most well-known attribute is that he is…

Music: a cinematic aspect of illustrative themes. Media production has largely been affected by various pieces of the film such as characters, focus, camera, lighting, symbols, speial effects and music among others both positively and negatively. There is overwhelming evidence that music affects media production and audience through presenting the ideas and inspiration, evoking human emotions. The music of the film Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) creatively intertwines with other aspects…

for granted. Despite my doubts, I now sense a feeling of truth in her words. My love for music started when I was just a baby, watching the mobil above my crib spin around, playing it’s melody. When I was a toddler, my parents brought home a toy xylophone. I would constantly play like a construction worker hammering down a nail. I know it annoyed my parents to no end. When I was older, my mother made me start taking piano lessons. My teacher, Mrs. Cutler, said I was naturally gifted, since I…

filled with instruments that makes notes and sounds similar to the one you can hear in different places in the world. There were instruments created from resources and people of tropical rainforests in South America to the wild jungles of Africa. The Xylophone known as “Mbila”, of African and Southeast Asian background was very fun to play and created different pitches of wooden sounds that was pleasant. They are commonly used for musical entertainment in Hindu regions and withhold customary…