Creative Song Assignment The Creative Song Assignment was an interesting assignment‚ because I have zero experience in mixing music. It was an interesting experience‚ because it did take me out of my comfort zone. When I first started‚ I felt lost. I had no idea what I was doing‚ so I decided to do a little research to see how I can best complete this assignment. I finally settled on using a program called Audacity and the genres of hip hop and alternative rock. I chose a program called audacity
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In the early Middle Ages‚ melodic or textual embellishments added to plainchant were referred to as prosulae. In your own words‚ summarize the types of plainchant to which prosulae were most often added and the reasons for those additions. The Book of Hymns is one prime example of a prosulae. Plainchant was being sung day in and day out by the monks‚ who had already added some slight melody‚ but was still not easy to memorize. By adding some rhythm and separation in syllables throughout the melody
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Hans Zimmer is a German born composer and music producer who is recognized as one of the most influential and innovative musical talents. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks studios‚ and works with other composers through the company that he founded‚ Remote Control Productions. Raised and educated mainly in England‚ he has no formal musical education; he says the most he ever got was about "two weeks of piano lessons." Nevertheless‚ he took an early interest in electronic musical
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The main benefit I see with Aural program notes is they “can demonstrate the most compelling aspects of the work” as stated by Feldman and Contzius (p.336) In the beginning of the piece there is a snare drum introduction. This gives us a since that the work place is very busy. The notes on beats 1 and 4 are the hammers hitting on to the metal. The snare drum helps to add the sense that the workshop is busy because of the fast rhythms you hear underneath the notes on beats 1 and 4. In measure 7 we
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The First song I will be discussing today is “Part of Your World” it is a vocal work accompanied by an orchestra. This particular song is performed halfway through at the beginning of the concert by Sara Bareilles and is completed at the end of the Show by Jodi Benson. The song was composed in a major tonality and is written is a quadruple meter. The tempo of “Part of Your World” is moderate. In regard to the dynamics‚ the song was mostly played in mezzo forte‚ or moderately loud. Except for when
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My artifact shows an understanding of melody as well as rhythm. For this activity‚ we were to create a song to the tune of a popular song while integrating music into the lesson. The melody is the way the song goes‚ or the way the words flow. The example in my artifact is the melody of my song is Sipping Cider Through A Straw. Even through the words are different‚ students will still be able to sing the song Rhythm is how the beat of the song is‚ similar to the heartbeat. Without a strong
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I decided to listen to this piece of music by Rufus Wainwright. At the start of the recording is very smooth and slow as if to build of the tension for the middle part of the song. He starts singing very slow‚ very meaningful as if he’s putting all of his heart and soul into it. Half way through the song the tension rising even more as his voice volume increases when the most dramatic parts of the song arise. He starts sound as if he’s almost screaming for the dramatization he is putting into the
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On Sunday October 25th at 8:00 pm‚ I decided to listen to a playlist from the Smithsonian Global Sound collection. The collection I selected was a forty five minute playlist called Dancing Bow and Singing strings‚ which featured southern folk music and traditional mountain songs. The first song that played was called Cindy 116 bpm created by Tracy Schwarz. It was five minute long piece and incorporated the Fiddle‚ Bass guitar‚ and the Mandolin. This song was created in 1979 and follows the format
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The second piece I decided to write a critique on was more of a contemporary ballet work. This piece was called “Water From the Same Source” and it was choreographed by Nicole Hennington. The music for the piece was also actually called “Water From the Same Source” and it was composed by Christian Erik Fredericton‚ Jason Bingham Noble‚ and Rachel Blair Grimes. The piece of music was instrumental and the performing artist was Rachel’s. The were four dancers in this piece‚ two men and two women. Nicole
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Bonnie is part of the honor choir group in her middle school and has three years of experience in singing. Bonnie needs to practice a new song she had chosen to sing at the annual talent show. However‚ the song Bonnie picked to sing is almost six minutes long and consists of a variety of lyrics and different pitches that she needs to remember. This eighth grader has exactly one week to prepare for the talent show and is worried that there is not enough time to remember all the words and pitches of
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