Pyotr Llyich Tchaikosvsky was born May 7, 1840 in Vitkinsk Russia. Tchaikosvsky attended Imperial School of Jurisprudence, a boarding school in St. Petersburg. Tchaikosvsky is most known for playing the piano. One of his most famous pieces was the Nutcracker. He was one of the few homosexual composers. He had no children. He died November 6, 1893 in Saint Petersburg Russia.…
In the song “La Chicharonera” by Narcisco Martinez, his style of accordion playing is described as a polka, which is an upbeat couple dance in 2/4 time. This is a stark contrast to Esteban Jordan’s song “Cumbia de Chon”, which is…
The men both wore navy button up short sleeve shirts and black dress pants. All of the dancers wore nude ballet shoes. The piece began with one male dancer standing in the downstage left corner. There was a line of light from where the dancer stood alone all the way to the upstage right corner of the stage. The dancer that started on stage began dancing when the music started and then he stopped and stood still on stage.…
The first piece was Intègrales by Edgard Varèse (1883-1965). Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. He was innovator in 20th-century techniques of sound production. According to the www.allmusic.com, his concept of "organized sound" led to many experiments in form and texture. He was constantly on the lookout for new sound sources, and was one of the first to extensively explore percussion, electronics, and taped sounds. Intègrales was composed in 1925. I think this piece is very modern, and is a work for wind, brass, and percussion. I am not really enjoying this piece because it is a little noisy for me. The second piece is Coptic Light, and the composer…
The dance starts in the center of the stage as if they were continuing their conversations and then traveled to upstage in a straight line. The females and males were dancing as a due. Each duet contrasted one another in terms of tempo. The performers traveled in a circular formation with one male standing in the center. His solo was movement that was performed from the beginning of the piece with more twisting of the foot around himself.…
Zapateado is a form of dance associated with son jalisciense and son jarocho. Originating in Spain, it is comprised of singers driving their feet into the floor to create a syncopated rhythm. “In the dance the movements of the performers often represent the farm-yard courtship described in the verses of the sones. (mariachi.org)”…
April 20, 2016, my oldest daughter and I attended the Moscow Ballet’s performance of Don Quixote, an everlasting favorite, at Three Rivers College. This is a classic ballet that has grown in popularity over the years, of which three acts can brilliantly convey every human emotion possible. It is a ballet with which I am vaguely familiar; I have seen it performed on television a few times and at the age of eleven I was thrilled to see a live performance. Don Quixote is chalk full of minuets, jigs, marches, and waltzes, mostly up beat and light-hearted with fun entertaining melodies as to correlate to the comedy. This particular viewing did not have an orchestra, but rather recorded sound. This aspect was suitable for the Tinnin Fine Arts Center…
In the first section started on dark stage, only dancer has a spotlight. Music was soft and smooth. We could hear only piano while dancer was walking forward in straight posture with graceful movement. Started with smooth then mixed up with sharp and pedestrian movements. She uses long white scarf on the floor by showing to us hard work. In dance we say ”low” level. For example, she scrubs the floor, uses as a headband representing to carry something. Emotionally sad ness, she worked hard, she contracts in pain, she flutters her hands like captive birds and she tried to get out of struggling life, but she never gives up. There is pain here as well as power, and the music, so oddly modern to me. In…
The timber was worm, and smooth. Moreover, the texture of this movement is likely to be homophonic because many note and the main instruments were the woodwinds that have the main melody. I enjoy this movement Precisely because it is more emotional; they end this movement with slow short solo woodwind instrument. The third movement of this piece was titled Song of the Blacksmitb. The speed of this movement was Moderato, which makes it faster than the firsts movement; also it has some fast note. In this movement the timber was between brassy and harsh. Addition, in this movement all the lines was played at the same level since it very short movement, that makes it polyphonic. Nonetheless, the forth and the last movement of the first piece was titled Fantasia on the Dargason. This movement started with solo French horn. This movement has combination of the texture the monophonic and the polyphonic because there was some notes that the entire instrument played at the same level, on the other hand, there some note that one instrument has the main melody. Moreover, in this movement there were two times when they play solo the first combination the French horn that has the main melody and the tuba, the second combination was the piccolo with trombone. The tempo was…
After listening to Balicky Bon by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, I’ve come to the conclusion that while the song contained elements that could be considered “hip hop”. It contained beats, rife, that remained were more reminiscent of traditional jazz or nouveau jazz than “hip hop”. Unlike Jazzmatazz by Guru who seamlessly blended jazz and hip hop, Balicky Bon failed to accomplish the task by not experimenting with alternative beats and rhythms. The rhythms, beats and up tempo of Hypnotic Brass are consistent with most jazz music with some slight modifications and elongated beats that should be considered a variation of traditional jazz.…
This is an amazing energetic piece by the presented of these instruments: piano, cowbell, timpani, maracas, voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass). The tempo throughout the piece are rallentando and fast tempos. The piece sounded strong, powerful, harmonizing in between the instrument, but also chilling at the sacred movement where it got slow and a bit softer. Overall, the dynamics where mezzo forte, forte, tenuto, crescendo, and sforzando. The word that have been repeated the most throughout the piece was “silliza” with a loud (forte) by the voices singing. I have enjoyed this piece and love it because it sounds really energetic, strong, happy, fun, and exciting. In my opinion, this is an good ending song where all the choirs get to sing together before the concert…
The last piece conducted was “A Child’s Garden of Dreams” by David Maslanka. The tone colors of this piece had a pinging and jingly. There was much imitation in this piece and it reminds me of a twilight movie. The rhythm was long and smooth. The tempo was played in andante and the dynamics started in mezzo piano and crescendos to mezzo forte.…
From my early childhood, all the way until now and I am sure to the future and beyond I have been fascinated by music. I have loved to listening to, playing, singing, and writing music as well. I can vividly remember when I was very young in our family room we had a stereo and my family and I would dance and play along to music. I specifically remember The Beatles and The Eagles. I had a small plastic snare drum that I use to use until sadly I stepped on it. Both of my Uncles played music and were in a band themselves. My Uncle Ed was a drummer and my Uncle Ronnie was a guitarist and a singer. I remember going to concerts for their band a t a young age as well.…
What are the key differences in the forager and agricultural lifestyles? In what ways did these two groups interact? Answer 1: The key differences of the forager and agricultural lifestyles consist of several things.…
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