create descriptive impressions‚ not necessarily to draw clear pictures. The music is not designed to explicitly describe anything‚ but rather to create a mood or atmosphere. This is done through almost every aspect of music: melody‚ harmony‚ color‚ rhythm‚ and form. Melodies tend to be short in nature‚ often repeated in different contexts to give different moods. In terms of color‚ notes are often drawn from scale systems other than the traditional major and minor. These include pentatonic‚ whole-tone
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Beethoven‚ String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor First Movement: Adagio‚ Ma Non Troppo E Molto Espressivo (Not too Slow and Very Expressive) Second Movement: Allegro Molto Vivace (Fast‚ Very Lively) The opening movement is characterized by a fugue; the melody was introduced and then taken up by the other strings to create an interwoven effortless piece of art. The texture is very similar to Bach’s fugues in that there is less improvisation but rather a theme and rules that are followed. The beginning starts
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twentieth century music is melody. This new music moves away from the traditional melodic line that previous musical styles had developed. Modern composers have also rejected the traditional harmony structure by developing two new forms of harmony. The melody of twentieth century music is a constant or scattered line of notes with no direct tune or phrasing. This type of melody contains large intervals and very dissonant sounds. One reason for rejecting the traditional melody is the goals of the composer
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CUMBIA Cumbia is a traditional form of music and dance originated in Colombia ’s Caribbean coastal region; its roots come mainly from Africa‚ in fact the name of this traditional dance its comes from the African term cumbé which means revelry or party. However‚ Cumbia is a musical and cultural fusion of Native Colombians‚ slaves brought from Africa‚ and the Spanish. Today Cumbia is the national dance of Colombia which gradually has evolved around this music and came to be known as the Cumbia dance
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recorded the album "The Anthem of Idiom"‚ "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)". From the definition of the Webster Dictionary‚ swing involves a departure from the written score by maintaining the underlying beat‚ but playing the melody between and around the beat in a fashion other than it is written (Pg. 2121). More commonly‚ swing refers to what we call "big band" jazz of the 1930’s- music performed by groups which generally featured several of each instrument and playing
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Intro: From the day that we were born we ’ve been heading down a track Sometimes it ’s made for good sometimes for bad But if we look behind us there ’s a wave coming down Carrying us forward to a new age Chorus: What about the world around us How can we fail to see And now that our fathers have gone And we ’ve been left to carry on What about the age of reason Verse: So why can ’t we be still why can ’t we love each other Is kindness an ancient skill buried by our blindness
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The music had refrains and musical pauses. The tempo was upbeat and the melodies both featured crescendos. However‚ the differences outweigh the similarities as Vivaldi’s Spring was one piece where Nickelback had to perform three songs to match length and composition. Also Spring played several soft slow melodies and Nickelback did not have a comparable part. I immensely enjoyed both presentations. I chose Vivaldi and Nickelback because they
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The Power of Music -Charles‚ Chloe & Lee “Somewhere over the rainbow‚ way up high‚” the melody echoes in my room. The song has a magical power that refreshes me. It is surprising that there is not definite proof of the power of music. The power of music has been studied for a long time‚ but since it is a rather abstract subject‚ this power is not easy to define. When human beings are born‚ they experience new sights‚ smells‚ and sounds. Like the sound of whirling wind‚ rain drops‚ footsteps
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other composers; indeed‚ even Scott Bradley used the technique in his scores for the Tom and Jerry cartoons. After the First World War‚ many composers started returning to the past for inspiration and wrote works that draw elements (form‚ harmony‚ melody‚ structure) from it.
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The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown The book "The Art of Rock and Roll" by Charles T. Brown basically proposes methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able to develop techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about it. It treats rock and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots throughout the book. Chapter one discusses the elements of rock and makes four assumptions. Assumption one states that rock is a legitimate art
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