The distinct contrast of rhythm between different parts are the most impressive to me. ... This piece was characterized by the irregularity of rhythm, Crescendo and decrescendo alternating frequently, and the distinct tone of Korean drum.On the contrary, the second piece Seoljangu Garak featured various rhythms of janggud. ... The highlighting part of the conversation-like rhythm changes two Kwaenggwa cumulated in the final movement. ... As I forging through my own path of music listening, alternative-rock mostly, I find that I am more interested the rhythm department of a song---the more I l...

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Musical Selection #1: Dreaming, op. 15, no. 3 by Amy Beach Musical element #1: Rhythm: The tempo was predominantly fast. ... Musical Selection #2: Children's Corner Suite, Movement 6: Golliwog's Cakewalk by Claude Debussy Musical element #1: Rhythm: Frequent tempo changes. ... The rhythm, dynamics, and melody made it a very light-hearted piece. Musical Selection #3: Intermezzo, op. 116, no.4 by Johannes Brahms Musical element #1: Rhythm: The tempo was predominantly slow. ...

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" 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 a more flowy structure depicting the tuner's jubilant mood at having saved the piano and how the piano can now produce music and rhythm which in turn r...

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Fats' band was known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm'. ... His ability to combine a melodic swing style and back it up with a fortified rhythm was what raised the bar for upcoming piano artists. ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. And although he did not seem to be destined to become a composer, music soon became very important to him, displaying multiple talents in performance and composition. ROBERT SCHUMANN ~~* HIS LIFE *~~ In Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 Robert Alexander Schumann was to bookseller father, Friedrich August Schumann, and mother, Johanna (Christiane Schnabel). By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. And although he did not seem to be destined to become a composer, music soon became very important to him, displaying multiple talents in performance and composition. ROBERT SCHUMANN ~~* HIS LIFE *~~ In Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 Robert Alexander Schumann was to bookseller father, Friedrich August Schumann, and mother, Johanna (Christiane Schnabel). By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; ...

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Scott Joplin was known as the king of ragtime. He was born to a former slave on November 24, 1868 near Linden, Texas. He stayed in Texas until the 1880's when he moved to St. Louis. While studying there he formalized ragtime. This style can be described as a unique blend of European classical sty...

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George Gershwin (1898-1937) George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1898, was born the second of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz, Russians who immigrated to New York in 1891. George and his family lived on Manhattan's lower east side in a poor Jewish community. After ...

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When looking intellectually at songs of the rock and roll genre, it is rare for a song to stand up under close scrutiny. Many songs of said genre are little more than a catchy riff overly repeated and inane lyrics about relationships. When looking for a song that has been truly orchestrated the fi...

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In Amy Tan's "Two Kinds," Jing-mei struggles with her mother's high expectations to be a youth prodigy through constantly bucking and opposing her mother's wishes. Along a similar path, the mother in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" holds practically the same high standards as the mother in "Two Kinds." In ...

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For most of my life I've always wanted to see an orchestral performance in person, but the prices for most of the classical concerts I've heard about were usually out of my budget range. Thankfully, my peers here at the university offer a number of these concerts free of charge, and thus, I am very ...

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It is noted that if you looked back at Beethoven's composition notebooks that " he would return time and time again to some simple little melodies, change the notes, modify rhythms, and eventually produce on of the striking themes that are part of his famous symphonies (Samachson 109)." ...

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For example, Rowell Schillinger, (a famous composer and musical teacher of Gershwin) suggested an array of procedures for deriving new scales, rhythms, and structures by applying various mathematical transformations and permutations. ...

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