Music Log Performer Comparison – Music Appreciation Day 1: Performer Comparison Part of being an informed listener is knowing which performers you prefer‚ as well as what characteristics you find appealing in a performer. These vary from listener to listener‚ so it is important to develop your own preferences. For this Listening Log‚ find two recordings of the same piece by two different performers. Listen to each piece at least twice. Then‚ answer the questions below. Hint: Solo piano is a good
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Appreciation of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” In a Station of the Metro is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris’s subway station in which the faces turned variously toward light and darkness. The poet‚ Ezra Pound‚ was famous for advocating free meter and a more economical use of words and images in poetic expression. He is also one of the leaders of the Imagist Movement of poetry. He advocated to use sharp‚ accurate‚ implicative and concise images to express concrete
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CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF ELIOT’S WASTELAND T.S.Eliot was born in the United States in 1888 and was educated there and in France before settling down in England and at length adopting British citizenship. He published his first poems Prufrock and other Observations in 1917 and all his work is strongly individual and creatively personal. With The Wasteland(1922) he established the reputation which made him the leading living poet of the English speaking world‚ though his output for some years was extremely
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Understanding and Evaluating the Arts Student Name Name of School Unit 1 IP Instructor: Date Introduction Dictionary.com defines Art as “the quality‚ production‚ expression‚ or realm‚ according to aesthetic principles‚ of what is beautiful‚ appealing‚ or of more than ordinary significance.” Similarly the course material states “Within this book a work of art is the visual expression of an idea or experience‚ formed with skill‚ through ones use of a medium.” (Frank‚ P. 2011) It should
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Part 2 Study Guide Middle Ages Dates: 450-1450 1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? The era began with the disintegration of the Roman Empire and ended with the cultural reawakening of the Renaissance. The era whiteness a fairly unorganized Europe with lots of individual small towns‚ feudalism‚ the majority of people are uneducated and illiterate with the exception of the clergy and priests. At the end of the era universities were founded‚ towns grew and with
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On my mission to find a painting that either caught my eye or would stop me dead in my tracks‚ I discovered “The Anger of Achilles.” This oil painting seemed to call me hither to take a closer look. As I walked closer‚ the painting became more clear and vivid. It was as if Jacques-Louis David was oil painting in high definition. This is a stunningly clear oil painting. So clear‚ it resembles a modern day photograph. The expression on the faces of each character in this painting drew me in even
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Every musical needs two things script and music‚ the musical that I saw at the civic center “A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum.” It is witty characters and humorous songs made it a delight to see and you left with a smile. The music was the best out of the whole play. The orchestra was small having a piano‚ two violins‚ bass guitar‚ reed one and two‚ trumpet one and two‚ trombone‚ and percussion each instrument being a big part of production. The play starts with a song “comedy to night”
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John Keats‚ a poet of the romantic era‚ composed this poem in the spring of 1819. Being a poet of the Romantic era‚ he was a Nature lover‚ but instead of looking at Nature as a guide or teacher‚ he was in pursuit of beauty within Nature. The romantic poets emphasized on emotions‚ they believed in the power of imagination and experimented with new ideas and concepts. Keats is generally considered the most tragic of the Romantic poets as he was faced by a series of sad experiences in his life. The
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the music as opposed to the performance. This appears to turn the entire idea of authenticity on its head. It can now be reasoned that musical recordings that are artificially enriched present the most authentic being of the music‚ and that performances are challenges to recapture that authenticity. If post-production editing is scrutinized in the equivalent way as Fisher uses in the example of rock recordings‚ then feasibly there is an argument to make that the aesthetic quality of the listener
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A literary Appreciation of I Wandered lonely as a cloud. I wandered lonely as a cloud is a lovely piece of writing – a poem by a nature lover& writer William Wordsworth.While he was writing ; he imagined him to be a cloud floating in the sky-high over the valleys & hills.Once he became a cloud he could see and imagine the beauty of daffodils with a great pleasure in a totally free mood. He became a cloud while he humanized the daffodils by telling that a host of golden daffodils beneath the trees
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