... a soothing and calming effect that was very relaxing. I had anticipated additional instruments being added or the accompaniment of an orchestra; however the entire piece of music was played with the double bass and piano. I am very accustomed to hearing a double bass as back up to other instruments. Hearing it played ... was in 3/4 time. The sound created from the Double Bass seemed slurred and slow as if marching doggedly. The piece started with the piano setting a triple metered slow tempo. The Double Bass comes in about the third bar with a slow sliding triple meter melody sounding a...

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... difficult to translate, the other elements are what make the sound organized and meaningful. Melody is an organized set of notes consisting of different pitches. It is basically the up and down motion of the lead singer. Rhythm is those beat of patterns that underlie most forms of communications. It is made up of pulsations that follow a consistent pattern. It will sometimes show us the emotional feel ... was the cakewalk was the cakewalk which was a danced step used to make fun of how stiff the white man walked and later on became the first truly Afro-American dance step. Another form ...

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... and expressive, with a slide on almost every pitch. For example, the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues singer, Bessie Smith, is striking in its similarity. Also, the African scale, which contains notes flatted on the 3rd, 7th, and sometimes 5th degrees, is directly translated into blues music, which also incorporates slides into its instrumental form ... . The inception of this particular singing style and scale in blues became the catalyst for the genres that followed it. Developed in the rural ... mainstream, blues was also being combine...

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... . The next thing that got Shostakovich into trouble was ironically the piece that had first seemed his greatest success. His opera, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"." The piece challenged and excited the audience. The music was different and the plot was racy and exciting as well. Everyone loved it ... hesitant and uncertain feel. No matter how the music begins, it comes to a dead end. Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. In the course of this movement, in fact in the entire symphony, the music arrives again and again at the same dead end. The design is ... what n...

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... and he had a brother, Modest, whom he was very close with throughout his life. He was a smart child having had learned German and French at the age of 6. While a young Peter was taking piano lessons, at night when he'd go to sleep, and wake up complaining to his parents that the music in his head made it hard to sleep (5 Wiki). This ... the 2 minute mark this change in tempo is exactly what happens. The tempo becomes moderato while continuing to bounce around as the length of notes are being shortened and increased to add variety to the piece. Instrumentally during this part of the piec...

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... correlate music and studies. This famous notion demonstrates that, when students are exposed to classical music, specifically to that of the Mozart piano sonata, enhances the points in the Stanford-Binet IQ test from eight to nine! Leibnitz, the great mathematician had said, "Music ... everything into one's school bag or office bag that will be needed for the day. Students of music learn to think creatively and to understand the blend in the different notes put together to form a particular song. Thus it enhances their creativity and analyzing skills. By taking ... music lessons, stude...

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... , meaning the title, Poco allegro, was very fitting. The dynamics also varied in this movement, from mezzo piano to forte. This aptly named movement made me think of a car chase scene in a movie. With the moments of action occurring simultaneously with high ranged and fast tempo notes. I did not really get closure on this scene however, because the movement ended awkwardly on an eerily ... it hard to decipher whether they were playing the same movement or starting a new one. I am unsure of what actual movements make up the last two movements that I have recorded. The last movement that I...

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... them, while having a big impact as we can imagine the ripples of water following the "single lucid drop of water that stars the speaker's dream." While analysing the rhythm of the poem, we observe that in the beginning it has a slightly broken rhythm probably to depict the disharmonious notes of the piano which the tuner is repairing or maybe depict how the musical atmosphere ... of the house is disrupted but from the point where the tuner makes the strings quiver like bowstrings, the structure ... of the poem takes a new turn with enjambed sentences and less punctuation it takes on .....

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... in the opposite direction. Romantic melodies tended to be more lyrical and expressive and could be repeated many times throughout an entire piece. Other melody trends were the use of one single unbroken rhythmic pattern. The obvious trends in Rhythm were freedom and flexibility. Cross rhythms were popular as well as simple subdivisions against irregular subdivisions (duplets against ... triplets and so on). Chopin often used this technique in his piano music with the numerous notes for the right-hand against a steady accompaniment for the left-hand. Rhythms were generally "Stylized dance...

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... in the opposite direction. Romantic melodies tended to be more lyrical and expressive and could be repeated many times throughout an entire piece. Other melody trends were the use of one single unbroken rhythmic pattern. The obvious trends in Rhythm were freedom and flexibility. Cross rhythms were popular as well as simple subdivisions against irregular subdivisions (duplets against ... triplets and so on). Chopin often used this technique in his piano music with the numerous notes for the right-hand against a steady accompaniment for the left-hand. Rhythms were generally "Stylized dance...

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... to its counterpoint and layering. I thought that it would be a mixture of them, but I later found out that each piece performed was a style of its own. It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some scattered notes with her other hand. The rhythm was starting to gain pace and ... you could hear the counterpoint that kept a constant tempo. This piece was clearly Jazz. After the second section of the tune was stated, it was then ... other through the harmonic framework underlying the music. The t...

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... to its counterpoint and layering. I thought that it would be a mixture of them, but I later found out that each piece performed was a style of its own. It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some scattered notes with her other hand. The rhythm was starting to gain pace and ... you could hear the counterpoint that kept a constant tempo. This piece was clearly Jazz. After the second section of the tune was stated, it was then ... other through the harmonic framework underlying the music. The t...

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... volume in this piece keeps changing, while most of the time it is mp or mezzo piano. Sometimes the dynamics gets louder when Parker plays higher notes, as this is his attempt to emphasize those specific notes. By looking at the very first eight bars of this piece of music, hearing the harmonic progression within the linear line of the solo would not be a hard task to ... follow, even if there was no piano player. Angular points in the solo would make one think ... that it would be difficult to hear the chord progression; however, even then, the notes involved in the angularity are impo...

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... the right channel, which helps create the swaying, dream-like feel. The meter of the intro is an unusual 9/8 meter, which makes it somewhat difficult to count. For the first four measures of the song, there is no musical accompaniment. In the fifth measure a piano comes in and plays a few notes very softly under the vocals. Also, the meter switches to the standard 4/4, and ... remains for the rest of the song. The only other sound present is a synthesized swishing sound that lasts for ... about two beats. On the last downbeat of the intro the bass guitar comes in with a whole note, and...

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... very well and throughout all the pieces the two instruments support one another as they exchange rhythm and interplay between melodies. The clarinet gives vibrant color to the sound of the music while the piano gives underlying harmony under the sharp notes of the clarinet. Even though the concert was titled "Clarinet Spectacular" on moments the clarinet would recede the ... piano kept the melody going for a short period of time. Digressing on the topic of the musicians of the concert, I'd first like to discuss the performance of Michael Baron. There were some moments Baron would ... p...

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... the walking bass and the soothing feel of cool jazz. Naturally, the shrill sound of the trumpet solo was forte and triumphant as well. The piano solo, on the other hand, consisted of a few short runs and some dissonant notes, but still triumphant. The climbing trumpets gave way to the short, still dissonant finishing notes of the piano and the intense crash of the high hat. The Jazz Ensemble ... II began with a piece of, what seemed to me like, cool jazz. The song was ... titled "A Beautiful Friendship" and was arranged by Sammy Nestico as well. The overall melody of the song seemed to...

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... important factors that can range from sound to length. Change is particularly an important part of music. Without it, music would be flat and boring. In the pieces Attitudes, composed by Derek Keller, and Ribbons, by Rick Snow, change occurs throughout the ... 's own melody and complements the drums in the background. In the end, the beat slows down, although still fast, and ends with a block sound. The second part of the piece begins with the drums by itself and seems to get faster. There's a high pitch note that is repeated over and over while the drums are playing. As ... other instr...

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... important factors that can range from sound to length. Change is particularly an important part of music. Without it, music would be flat and boring. In the pieces Attitudes, composed by Derek Keller, and Ribbons, by Rick Snow, change occurs throughout the ... 's own melody and complements the drums in the background. In the end, the beat slows down, although still fast, and ends with a block sound. The second part of the piece begins with the drums by itself and seems to get faster. There's a high pitch note that is repeated over and over while the drums are playing. As ... other instr...

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... frantic. Within twenty measures it faded to pianissimo. During the entire piece, the dynamics ranged in and out of this spectrum. The tone color of the "cello was sharp, flighty, and eclectic while the piano represented tonal characteristics of power, joy, grace, and sorrow. The pitch of the number varied from soprano to bass although it stayed mostly in the baritone register. It was measured ... "cello would imitate each other in a counterpoint fashion. It seemed as though at times the "cello would command the piano and vice versa. The texture was definitely homophonic because of this....

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... poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." The key word here is "or," for it denotes the ... imprecision of the speaker's understanding. What the blues articulates is the simultaneous presence of the "tragic and comic aspects of the human conditions." Thus, the blues in the poem ... is not the conventional "eith...

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... between music and math. Did you know that listening to music enhances your mathematical ability? "Researchers have proven that children playing the piano often show improved reasoning skills like those applied in solving jigsaw puzzles, playing chess or conducting mathematical deductions."" (Motluk:17) It ... properties of frequency and length."" (Motluk:17) On the other hand, Frequency "is the measure of the highness or lowness of a note, and length is its duration measured in variable-sized units called "whole notes".(17) One of the most important parts of music is learning the types a...

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... be described as joyful and beautiful. The ensemble played Sonata in D major for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 102, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Suite in C major for Solo Violoncello, BMV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sonata in D Minor for Violoncello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. The notes of each performer seemed to lean on each other and were rhythmically in sync. I also ... thought the performers did a good job with the texture of the pieces as everyone knows Beethoven and Bach are not the easiest pieces to play. There ... were three aspects of this instrumental that really ...

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... was no special occasion for this performance other than it being a showcase for student jazz musicians. The performance was opened by Jazz Combo Seven (directed by Michele Weir), which consisted of a piano, trumpet, saxophone, drum, and bass. They performed a musical piece called "November 15th, " followed by another piece that was composed and arranged by them. The first song was pretty soft, and ... . The girls did sing extremely well, though. The next group to come up to the stage was Jazz Combo Four, directed by Charles Owens. The group consisted of Ryan Sanders (alto saxophone), Mar...

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... Beethoven's death, Ludwig Nohl discovered the original autographed tab for the song and transcribed it to what we now know as Für Elise (8). This piece of music can be described as a Bagatelle, a short piece for a piano. During the time this song was dated, Beethoven was also writing many other bagatelles as well, but could be said that it was written towards the ... be seen during the late 1800's, making the piano a platform for music more accessible. Due to this increase, the style of bagatelle was common among newly written songs for the piano, Für Elise being one of them.Not much ...

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... and back again. Star wars main theme, by John Williams is a great example of the use of sound. The degrees of sound dynamics used also give the music a feeling or mood. As in the imperial march, there is the loud (forte) and softness (piano) of musical sounds used to create an atmosphere of depth and involvement. We know which pats refer to Darth Vadar as they ... moods and emotion giving the music a feel, a life, and storyline. The atmosphere is created using different instruments and sounds of different quality, smooth or bluntness to make a scene. For example the violin is often refe...

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