Essays on Baritone

1. Considering the “Stabat Mater”, it is necessary to state that the sounds of male and female vocals are heard, creating a harmony and polyphony between each other. The choir consisting of traditional male and female voices represents a classical approach towards performing a classical piece of music composed and written specifically for choir performance. As for the song “With arms wide open” performed by Creed, it is an example of traditional rock music performance with a baritone-voice vocalist leading the song accompanied by the musical band consisting of guitar, bass and drums. The overall sound appears to be ...

In 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 30 years old and was already considered a world-renowned musicians for his many concertos, sonatas, symphonies and chamber pieces (Bakalar, 2009). During his relatively short career, he died at age 35, he would go on to compose eighteen operas. The Marriage of Figaro, or Le Nozze di Figaro as the original Italian has it, is one of his most important works for several reasons. In the first place it is considered in and of itself to be a masterpiece. After it’s premier the periodical Wiener Realzuitung said of Mozart’s music, “It contains so ...

Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams:

- The Vagabond - Let Beauty Awake - The Roadside Fire - Youth and Love - In Dreams - The Infinite Shining Heavens - Whither Must I Wander - Bright is the Ring of Words - I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

Christian Nova: baritone

Frank Garvey: piano Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of my favourite composers and his Songs of Travel is one of those evergreen works which you return to time and time again. The interpretation by Christian Nova and Frank Garvey was particularly enticing with the diverse ...

Steel drums or what we called Steel Pan were originally created on the island of Caribbean, Trinidad in year 1930s.However, Steel Pan’s history can be traced back to the confined Africans who were brought to the islands during the 1700s (Steelpan-steeldrums-information.com par. 1). They had taken with them components of their Africa lifestyle such as the enjoying of hand percussion. 2). Hand drums are percussion at Africa called Membranophones. These drums became the main percussion gadgets in the yearly Trinidadian event festivities. In year 1877, the judgment English Government prohibited the playing of percussion in an effort ...

Activities

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was vice president of the Korean Club, an organization which sought to bring together Korean students, as well as educate others in Korean culture. The club was created in 2009 by myself and my friend, who acted as the president. While participating and running this club, I organized several activities to introduce Korean culture to the rest of my school and community. I taught basic Korean expressions and the Korean alphabet to my classmates and teachers. What's more, I served my fellow classmates traditional Korean foods, like Kim-Chi and Topokki. The ...