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    imperceptible‚ and this influences our feelings. That’s why delicate music calms us down‚ while disharmonic music turns us tensed. But if music is based too much on harmony‚ it can be boring for the brain. The length and arrangement of the pauses in a melody makes us perceive it joyful or sad. If the left hemisphere of the brain is linked to language‚ music is believed to be placed in the right hemisphere‚ regarded to be the center of the feelings. That’s why music triggers spontaneous reactions.

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    Comparing Tonight with Maria (Both from ‘West side story’) (Tonight also known as balcony scene – Tony and Maria sing together. Maria – sang by Tony.) The piece ‘Tonight’ begins in B maj; it opens with Tony stating “the most beautiful sound I ever heard” this is sang in a very recitative style; mainly monotone (D) – rubato. This makes his words seem the prominent element – stressing the drama. The gentile bassoon plays a descending line – while the horn plays a simplified version ~ this ‘decent’

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    scalic melody; ‘Shall be revealed’‚ this is one of the melismatic ideas‚ the word ‘revealed’ is elongated over a few beats with a scalic‚ descending melody; ‘And all flesh shall see it together’‚ this is the second melismatic idea‚ it’s melody is made up of a repeating‚ falling triad; ‘For the mouth of the lord hath spoken it’‚ the final syllabic idea‚ it uses a low and sustained note. The vocal line is then used in the following order: (Strings intro)‚ melody 1‚ melody 2 (with melody 1)‚ melody

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    Melody is the key component of any song. In my opinion the melody is the identity of a song. I believe music could not exist without melody: It is like having a body but not the brain to help the body function. I think the rhythm controls the melody and‚ paired correctly‚ the harmony adds a little sparkle to the piece. I think the most important thing about the melody is that it is a way for the musician to convey a message to the listeners. When we hear the song “Wrecking Ball” the melody resonates

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    petering melody lines flutter wildly like bats‚ building suspense for grand crashing resolutions. The song begins with the familiar melody on parallel notes stretching the range of the keyboard‚ before breaking apart dissonantly before forming back into a clean resolution. Then the voices split apart each playing a similar flourish before joining together and repeating before crashing together. The rest of the Toccata section is wrapped together with the highest voice forming melodies with the

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    refers to two or more independent melodic lines working together to create music. In contrapuntal music— music created using counterpoint—each of the melodies works independently as well as together. Together these melodies create a texture called polyphony. Polyphony and counterpoint have been around for about 1‚000 years and are at the root of melody and harmony in Western music. You may already be thinking about how good it sounds in contemporary popular music when the bass and lead lines complement

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    dreaming about something from the past. And‚ these emotional feelings are expressed in Groth’s poem through a variety of images. The poem begins with using “melodies” as an image. In the first phrase‚ “Like melodies draw it to me softly through the mind‚” the word “melodies” seems to be symbolic of thoughts or memories. These melodies are like a tune that you cannot get out of your head‚ a memory that he is unable to forget. In his next phrase‚ “Like spring flowers blossom it and floats

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    Bernstein- Something’s coming essay Melody Something’s coming has many examples of blue notes. These are either F G# or C‚ and can be seen in bars 18-20 in the vocal line. A tritone is a jump of 3 tones and can be seen in the vocal line ‘soon as it’‚ (G#  D). The melody is partly fragmentary as it usually contains fragment semi-tones in the rhythmic parts‚ e.g. there are two fragmented notes F# G in the vocal line‚ ‘Could it be?’ to ‘if I can wait.’ The words are predominantly syllabic in the

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    MUSICAL  ANALYSIS  WRITING  GUIDE     THE  CRITERIA     In  writing  your  essay‚  the  only  thing  you  really  need  to  do  is  fulfill  the  marking  criteria.    Let’s  look  closely  at  what  the   criteria  says.       The  student  evaluates  music  by  thoroughly  deconstructing  the  repertoire‚  and  determining  the   manipulation

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    socialist realism: called for using realistic style portraying socialism in a positive light. Relatively simple‚ accessible language‚ melody‚ folk styles. Intrinsic value in music condemned as formalism. Prokofiev: mostly diatonic melodies and harmonies make music accessible‚ occasional dissonance and unexpected turns make it engaging and distinctive; modal melodies and orchestration convey a Russian sound. This widely appealing style brought him more popularity than his modernist period. Shostakovich:

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