Qanun: 1. What are your overall impressions of the instrument? How difficult does it seem to play? Do you like the sound? Why/Why Not? This instrument reminds me of the Chinese guzheng that I used to dream of playing when I was young. Both instruments are zither-like‚ so I believe that is why I thought of the guzheng initially. The qanun seems somewhat easy to play; however‚ I do not play any instruments‚ so I am sure I will have a hard time with it. The man in the video also said it can be hard
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In 2015‚ Steven Mackey composed his masterpiece entitled Mnemosyne’s Pool. This song is unlike any other piece I have ever heard before. I was fortunate enough to witness this song played live at the St Louis Symphony earlier this fall. With its complexity and brilliance‚ the music hooked me from the beginning notes. The orchestra began with the first movement and the strange and eerie blends of sounds harkened the audience to a dream-like remembering. The music was very dark and ominous while
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Piece 5 begins by giving a very somber tone that drew from me a bucket of melancholia that echoed deeply into my ears with each down stroke as the melody is poured out slowly into my soul. Suddenly‚ there is hope a rising sound crashes into me like a wave as each feathering high note begins to call out to me but still with a touch of profound sadness. The crashing of a drum then begins and it thunders into me a purpose‚ creating a drive as the intensity of it begins to increase along with the tempo
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In “What is Jazz Part 1”‚ I heard “Tom Vaguely”‚ “Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child”‚ “St. Louis Blues”‚ and “Picture This”. Listening to the first piece‚ “Tow Vaguely”‚ I saw a busy Monday morning in the city. People in suits and hats carried their business bags‚ passing each other by on the sidewalk. The brief bass solo in the middle of the piece gave me the image of cars crossing the streets along side the pedestrians. The short clip of the sorrow song‚ “I Feel like a Motherless Child”
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Most probably‚ fragment 22 CA was not composed during the archaic period. Its meter and especially its language -which has affinities with archaic epic and lyric diction‚ later Euripidean drama and even Moschion‚ and is full of rare words- situate it within the broader context of the ‘New Music’. The same is true about its intertextuality with archaic epic‚ Alcman‚ Sappho and Ibycus. Its self-referentiality and its sensuality were constructed to captivate the audience’s attention. It was either performed
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The piece Bikini by Dexter Gordon has four different solos. The first solo is by Dexter Gordon himself with the tenor saxophone. If I had to provide counter number for the beginning and end of his section it would be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. If I had to label it‚ it would be AABA from 00:12 to 00:48 starting with 4/8 and ending with 4/4. The second solo is by Jimmy Bunn with the piano. The counter numbers I could count were 2 and 2 and 3 and 4. If I had to label it‚ I would say it’s AABA from 01:02 to
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Aaron Copland: Quiet City On August 18‚ 2014 Live.com played a Aaron Copland ’s original Quiet City performed by Christopher Brellochs on their classical music station. Although I only heard the end of this piece‚ I decided to research the composer of this music. Aaron Copland was born November 14‚ 1900 to Sarah Mittenthal and Harris Copland. Copland received his musical interest from his family. Almost everyone‚ except his father‚ were musical beings. His mother even sang and played the piano
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Tu se’ morta is a piece sung by Orpheus accompanied by a basso continuo after he is told of Eurydice’s death. Orpheus wants to bring her back from Hell as he offers a distressed goodbye to the earth‚ sky and sun. The style of singing is simple and intended to bring a dramatic delivery to the audience. The vocal line is rhythmically free and the phrases are more irregular. The song is flexible because it is suggesting a sad and passionate farewell to the person he loves. To express this farewell‚
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Niobid Painter‚ named after his most famous glazed ceramic vase paintings‚ is one of the most well known vase-painters of classical Athens Greece and is appreciated for his soft and balanced work of art. In the Red Figure Amphora with Musical Scene‚ in the scene that is believed to be the first of the two‚ the women in the woman’s quarter of the house‚ are elaborately dressed and are preparing far a music session. The scene depicts a seated woman relaxing while fingering a barbiton. Directly above
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The dazzling crescendo pings upon your inner ear and incite the deepest imagination‚ thoughts of glory‚ of love and of hate enter your mind. Then as the decrescendo begins to flow in‚ you return to yourself. Music excites creativity in the soles of those who listen to it. There are the purists who say music died with building of the electric guitar‚ and those who oppose say that marked its birth. There is both a broad diversity and a curious similarity in the audiences‚ complexity‚ and meaning in
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