Essays on Musical Piece

The first musical piece Alvin Lucier: Exploration of the House gradually develops from the beginning, starting with a low peal of bells. It is difficult to follow the motive of the musical piece throughout the melody as it changes constantly, losing its reiterative process and becomes unrecognizable from the third minute. The rhythm alters to charming sounds of tender tones and then changes again to the other melody at 5.50 minutes. In the modern world, there are so many contemporary concepts of the art that it becomes complicated to determine what art is. The process of art is something ...

Introduction

The choir members of “The Diocesan Choir, Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong” and their conductor, Dr. Allison So, always strive to improve the performances of their choir and make the rehearsals enjoyable and worthwhile. Therefore, they engage in numerous rehearsals to polish and polish their techniques and musicals. For this assignment, I observed the choir rehearsing a piece titled “Holy Is The Lord.” Effective planning is crucial for both group and individual rehearsals. The conductor, as well as other choir members, can employ various strategies to make the choir rehearsals meaningful and enjoyable for all the involved individuals. Essentially, ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is common knowledge that every well-educated person should know, understand and appreciate music. However, no matter how well aware of various composers and genres people might be, many of us find it difficult to feel it. There are numerous examples of musicians who can technically perform a piece, but when you listen to them playing, you realize that you might as well listen to a robot. Only the emotion behind the melody gives music a truly human feel and makes it a universal human language that will be understood all over the world. Thus, it is extremely important ...