Emmaneul Mensah Caitlin O’Neil Music 150 3 – 31 – 2010 Midsemester Paper The performance by Lowell Lieberman Concerto for Clarinet, orchestra, and the Beethoven Emperor Concerto by Jon Nakamatsu, piano soloist was quite a spectacular performance. Both performances were very entertaining and professional as well. In the commencement of the show, I was anticipating seeing some kind of unexciting show, but as the show progressed, I found it to be very interesting through their interaction with the audience. I became very attentive to each performance they displaced and often found myself drawn in by their performance. Both musical performers incorporated unique musical elements such as melody, harmony rhythm to mention a few.
“When we love a piece of music, it reminds us of other music we have heard, and it activates memory traces of emotional times in our lives. Your brain on music is all about, as Francis Crick said, connections.” What is music? Many of us have distinctive definitions of this complex term because it plays a unique role in each of our lives. Daniel J. Levitin, the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, looks at music from a neuropsychological perspective. How music affects us is connected through our brains neurochemistry, our mental associations with the music, our culture, and our spirit, which are all mentioned in this scientific journey.
Music is beneficial in many ways; Goldsworthy seeks to demonstrate his ability as to join together individuals and their past. Music is displayed as negatively and positively, symbolically used. The piano is evident many times throughout the novella in order to display the physical benefits of the musical instrument. While music is used metaphorically in order to portray messages from an experienced Keller to a naive Paul. Music enables the past of Keller to be explored while providing a future for a
On the repeat, the soloist joins the orchestra.) VOCAL MUSIC OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OPERA 1) 2) 3) 4) DRAMA THAT IS SUNG IT COMBINES VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH PEOTRY AND DRAMA, ACTING AND PANTOMIME, SCENERY AND COSTUMES IT USES A) SOLOISTS B) ENSEMBLES C) CHORUS D) ORCHESTRA E) SOMETIMES DANCING ELEMENTS OF OPERA A) RECITATIVE (EXPLANATIONS NECESSARY TO THE PLOT) B) ARIA (RELEASES THE EMOTIONAL TENSION. THIS IS WHERE THE SINGER SHOWS OFF THEIR VIRTUOSITY C) OVERTURE (USUALLY BEGINS OPERA AND NEW ACTS D) INTERLUDES (KNOWN AS SINFONIAS DURING PERIODBOCCUR BETWEEN SCENES) E) LIBRETTOBTHE WORDS SUNG DURING THE OPERA WERE WRITTEN BY ANOTHER PERSON CALLED A LIBRETTIST) ORATORIO 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) DESCENDED FROM THE RELIGIOUS PLAY-WITH-MUSIC FIRST ONES WERE SACRED OPERAS LATER ONES LEFT THE STAGE LARGE SCALE MUSICAL WORKS (GENERALLY BASED ON A BIBLICAL STORY) PERFORMED IN A CHURCH OR HALL WITHOUT SCENERY, ACTING, OR COSTUMES
Groovy, funky, and upbeat, all of these songs were very catchy and definitely made you want to nod your head and tap your feet. The band closed with a jam called Soul Sold Seperately, a slow jam that really slowed the pace of the concert and the pace of the night. An intro of the keyboard led way to the
Some of his most famous songs include; Binary, Alone Together, and Now in Our lives. The song Binary is an up-tempo, groovy song, as well as his last recording. It has a strong, rhythmic beat with many changes of tempo and rhythm throughout the piece. Each musician has the opportunity to show their
Even though part of his inspiration came from personal problems, he proves that no matter what happens in life always continue and follow your dreams. Tchaikovsky’s music has inspired me to go beyond the notes and play the piece musically as well as to determine what the composer was feeling and experiencing during the compositional process. Due to his extraordinary work, Tchaikovsky has helped me develop my own creative and intellectual skills in an entirely different way. He has increased my respect for composers and artists. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky may very well be one of the greatest composers of all time.
Romantic artists, musicians, and writers responded to the social, political, and economic changes in the 1800s by conveying their feelings and views in the work they were creating. The Romantic musicians of this time admired the ability music had to communicate deeper understandings without words. It created a level of passion and power that could not be reached by others. An important musician of this time was Beethoven. His music was alive with
He would use his voice when talking with other people and they would write back in his books. His music was considered very off-beat, but the royalty still loved it. He once stated his music was for a later time. His final piece, The Ninth Symphony, is considered one of the greatest musical pieces of all time. Despite becoming deaf, Beethoven managed to maintain his excellent demeanor and popularity among the royal class.
The music was generally fast and the sound was very brassy to me. The purpose of the songs they were playing seem to be expressing a mood to me, as if the audience should be very awake and alert. It was not calming at all but I'm not sure it was supposed to be! I would say that the overall unifying principle of the entire concert is the range in melody. The choir put a spin on the way I ever looked at lyrics but the melody that they created was both high and low, they just stayed in harmony even when they weren't all singing at one and it was guys vs girls.