For my piece‚ I chose “Parody‚” an exceptionally challenging and lengthy four-mallet marimba solo‚ composed by Jesse Monkman. I chose this particular piece because of my extensive experience in both practicing and performing it during my senior year in high school. Due to this being my last year‚ the director of our band encouraged me to choose a more challenging solo than usual for the State Solo and Ensemble Festival‚ and after considerable research‚ I discovered “Parody.” Although this piece demanded
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Due to this scene being Shakespearean‚ the rhythm was in iambic pentameter‚ which meant a quick‚ darting pace at certain points reflected the characters erratic thoughts and fuming temper. A slower‚ steadier tempo that revealed a calm‚ collected and altogether more devious side to the character nicely contrasted this. What symbolic meaning was created using objects or settings? Through out the performance symbolic meaning was created through repetition of the
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The Fundamentals of Being a DJ Abstract Keeping a crowd dancing on a dance floor is an acquired skill. Many djs attempt this feat but consistently fall short of the feat. People enjoying a party dancing are unhappy when they and everyone around them are not interested in more than one consecutive tune played by the dj. This paper discusses the art of keeping the people on a dance floor dancing. How to Keep a Crowd Dancing The thought of being a dj crosses the mind of many music aficionados
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Music is a wide range of creations that everyone is the world gravitates to. Learning about popular music in America‚ even some around the world‚ I chose two concerts to attend that were completely different from each other‚ in terms of performance‚ genre‚ and audience appearance. The first concert I went to was held in the Ted Constant Center at Old Dominion University‚ hosting Hip-Hop and Trap artist and songwriter Lil Uzi Vert. He’s categorized as an charismatic‚ hyper‚ and a naturally entertaining
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understand the words in most of the songs‚ the melody created an expression of calmness and meditation. Very relaxing and calming to make a connecting to what they were worshipping. The tempo of this week’s music was grave and adagio. I found most pieces hard to listen to‚ because I was bored with the tempo. The Dynamics of Kyrie was piano to mezzo piano. It started off soft and then gradually increased to moderately soft. I believe crescendo would be the correct dynamic that this song fits
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I did hear a pattern which means it had a meter. The dynamics was soft because if I remember correctly it means a small amount of instruments or singers. The tone color was a violin and flute. There was a theme since it kept repeating itself. The tempo was Rubato. I can hear a chord that was all I was able to make out. The song is not pleasing to the ears so there was no consonance. I was having a hard time with the texture but I think it was polyphony. The song had low density‚ and there was no
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Listening Journal #1 Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 in C minor is one of the most popular compositions in classical music of all time. The tempo of the traditional symphonic performance was much slower than its modern/contemporary counterpart. The traditional orchestra’s tempo was moderato which means Moderate in terms of speed of the beats. The modern performance’s tempo was much faster and livelier. The reason for this is that the modern performance consisted of electric guitars and modern technology
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learn to “shake it off” and she starts singing in a happier‚ stronger tone. Hence why I believe this song has not one‚ but two tempos. The very beginning of the song where she is acoustically singing with the piano in a dark husky voice has an adagio tempo‚ as the song gets happier and Florence gains strength and vanishes all her haunts and worried it becomes a very vivace tempo. The pitch held throughout the song is quite high being at an F major scale. The texture in this song is homophonic. Lastly
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and the texture was homophonic. This song “Autumnal Flower” was written and performed by Allison Haag on the piano‚ in remembrance of her cousin that recently passed away. This piece was classical. The texture was monophonic‚ with a moderate tempo. I felt the dynamics of this song was both moderately soft and moderately loud at times. The form of this song had a variation and repetition to
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questioning all of the issues presented in the song by asking‚ what if these things (education‚ money) fail you? What would you do then? The tempo of the song is fast to stay true to the hip-hop genre but the song is unorthodox because of the issues contained in the lyrics. A listener would expect artists conveying a message to use a slower tempo to clearly present
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