Essays on Piano

Arch 386

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Architecture is an important part of man’s contribution to the built environment and several styels have developed over the years. There have been several architects who have contributed important and crucial public buildings over the years but nobody has come to the forefront of such styles as Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers or perhaps, Norman Foster.
After World War II, the new style of “High-tech” architecture was born. Two brilliant well-known architects of this time period are Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. These architects incorporated elements of high tech industry and advanced structural technology into their building Continue reading...

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Although rape and sexual assault are serious offenses, public discourse about these issues fail to clearly address the problems that victims go through even after these atrocious acts were committed against them. In reality, despite public acceptance of rape and sexual abuse as crime and the mandate for the punishment of those that commit these acts, the overall public response to these crimes are underwhelming to the point of bringing about detrimental impact on the life of victims. On one hand, we have a system that fails to prevent rape and sexual abuse and protect people and victims alike Continue reading...

Anton Weber (1883-1945) was a music composer and conductor from Austria. He studies music in Second Viennese School under the mentorship of Arnold Schoenberg. After completing his tutorship from Arnold uses an advanced language in the Passacaglia, that is more distinct orchestra work. He becomes an expert in the technique of total serialism to design pitch organization and other dynamics of music. Anton's late work applies piano, concerto, and the symphony as traditional techniques of composure. Anton manages to make thirty-one compositions during his lifetime using the uses Spartan twelve-tone technique. The twelve-tone technique uses four groups of three Continue reading...

Jazz is a unique style of music that took development in America during the early 20th century. It made a widespread popularity particularly in the urban areas such as New Orleans, and it served as a social-leveler and unifier. Melding both black and white citizens, Jazz became the basis for social dance music and the provided the early opportunities for public integration (“Jazz”, Encyclopedia.com). The music also helped stir up the national mood particularly during the Depression and the Second World War. The most remarkable period of the development of jazz is during the 1940s and 50s. During those Continue reading...

The Class Name

It`s hard even imagine our current musical life without such magnificent and diverse genre as jazz music, with its light tunes that are easy to listen, on the one hand, but with its possible complexities and progressive ways of composing and playing on the other. The aim of our current research is to discover the history and roots of jazz music, how the genre has developed in New Orleans, what it was influenced with, and what did the cultural and social variety of this city change in the cultures of various nations. Today we`re also about to Continue reading...

Schumann’s ‘Dichterliebe’ is one of the most important song cycles in the history of music and its sixteen songs are all essentially great works. The final song is a beautiful one called ‘Die alte bosen Lieder’ where the strands of romantic art come together in a beautiful manner. This paper will attempt to argue that the song is an important part of Schumann’s artistic style and that the marriage of words and music is almost perfect.

Structure and meaning of the poem:

‘Die alte bosen Lieder’ by the famed German poet Heinrich Heine, is a dark and brooding poem in a typically melancholic Continue reading...

Question 1Neue Mozart Ausgage, Series 4: Orchestral Works, volume 7 for Sinfonie in D nach de Serenade KV 204.

Question 2
A. Measures 1-9 are organized in the form of a small ternary. This is explained where the exposition section is modulating period that ending with an authentic cadence in A major. The development section modulates back to the D major and ends with a half cadence (Eisen, 1).
B. In measure 9, there is a repetition of the cadential idea. In measure ten to 20, there is an 8 note motive measure 21, on the other hand, is an augmentation of the 8 note motive (Eisen, 1).
C. The tone is low at measure 9 the 16th Continue reading...

Early French cinema provided the art of film with many innovations, among them creative usage of camera techniques that allowed the medium to set itself apart from theatre. In the case of two of the most prominent examples of this genre of film – Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game and Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise – the camera is used in intensely creative ways to indicate everything from the subtle humor of class conflict to the brutal and tragic accidental murder of a human being. These films are particularly influential in the use of camera technique to Continue reading...

“The day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water or gas -- and friends will converse with each other without leaving home." (Alexander Graham Bell in a letter to his father in 1876; taken from PBS.org)
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland and had two more brothers that both died of tuberculosis (Library of Congress), Melville James Bell, who was older than Alexander, and Edward Charles Bell, who was the youngest in the family (Bell Homestead). His father, Alexander Melville Bell, as well as his grandfather Continue reading...

The first movements of piano concertos by J.C. Bach and W.A. Mozart
Mozart’s piano concertos are said to among his best compositions. The Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 is testament to this. This graceful composition has three movements and uses small orchestra comprised of instruments from all four classes. The instruments are two flutes, two bassoons, two clarinets and two horns as well the instruments from the string section like the violin.
One significant difference of Mozart’s concertos was refusing the harpsichord and clavichord. He started to compose sonata concertos only for piano with orchestra, Continue reading...

Making a remix EP

Background of the study
The 21st century has seen a transition in the music industry in the sense that musicians have had a tendency of pirating music that belonged to a different party. This has been encouraged by the public listeners that have developed a passion for unoriginal music. As a result, musicians whose songs are remixed normally come to some sort of agreement with others with the interest of remixing their songs on order to legitimize the procedure.

Statement of the problem

Despite the formal agreements between original music owners and prospective second owners through remixes, there has been a debate on Continue reading...

D.H. Lawrence "Piano"
The title of the selection is "Piano" and the author is D.H. Lawrence. First publication date was in 1919.
The poem is set in the dusk, and the place is cozy without external distractions, so that the main character can indulge in thinking about past. The singing of a woman takes him back to memory that is pleasant. The room where they are located is comfortable, so that he can relax enough to receive mental images.
The main character is a man who is grown-up but feels nostalgic about his past. He how safe and protected Continue reading...

Props are important in plays because they help in revealing important information about the characters, the themes, and the plot of the play. Props include all the physical objects used in showing the flow of the play and directing the readers or viewers about what the play covers. Props open the eyes of the viewers into the significance of certain occurrences hence they spice up the play. The use of props in the two plays, Hedda Gabler and The Importance of Being Earnest, categorically places the plays in high ranks about the message, characterization, and plot for the plays. Continue reading...

The term Ethnography has been used to refer to the art and study of various aspects of cultures through observation as the main method of collecting deductions about the culture. Consequently, Music Ethnography is concerned with the study of Music as a form of culture through observation of a traditions’ portrayal and practice of the art of music.
Further Music Ethnography is particularly concerned with the study of the role, the meaning and practice of music within social groups and communities. The community of interest shares common social behaviors and cultural concepts that are expressive in their music that Continue reading...

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer, teacher and one of the most prominent representatives of the Second Viennese musical expressionism and composer school. Alan Berg was a student and a follower of A. Schoenberg, who was Alban Berg’s teacher in years 1904 - 1911.
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his works characteristic of expressionist artists thoughts, feelings and images: dissatisfaction with the social life, feelings of helplessness and loneliness. The hero of his works can be expressed asa little man, driven to despair by a hostile environment of bourgeois society. Continue reading...

The themes of racial segregation and frustration against the African of the black community run as the dominant theme across these stories. There are the plight and the issue of slaves being mistreated by their white or colonial masters. It is important to note and record and mention that these stories articulate the issues mistreatment against the people of color because there is no aspect of fairness and equality. Most of the stories begin from the background of zero economic wellness. Thus, most of the characters in these stories are sacrificed as slaves or domestic workers where they are Continue reading...

When it comes to the topic of slavery, one’s heart immediately jumps up and cries out for justice. It is a dark mark on this country’s and the world’s past. What makes August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson so interesting is that the Charles family’s ties to the time period are so close, they not only remember who owned them, they know the family personally. It is this fact that creates the dilemma of the first act. Boy Willie wants to sell the family’s piano in order to buy the land of the Sutters, Continue reading...

The composer I have chosen to write this paper on is American Roger Zare. Roger is a composer from Florida who started composing at the age of 14. He learned multiple instruments at a young age including the piano and the violin. Roger has written solo, chamber, choral and full orchestra works. He has earned numerous honors including being the winner of the 5th annual Trio Anima Mundi Composition Prize. The work I chose to listen to is “Geometries” written in 2010 by Zare. The instruments that are included in the production of this are the clarinet, violin, cello Continue reading...

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Ludwig van Beethoven is undoubtedly one of the most important and well-known unprecedented music composers. From an early age, Beethoven put significant aptitude, freewill, and inflexible peculiarity on display. His unusual and overwhelming personal characteristics are reflected in his compositions and music. Without a question, Beethoven became known as the most advanced and greatest classical music composer. According to Goethe, "I have never seen so intense so concentrated an artist” like Beethoven (as qtd. in Ludwig 247). It is not possible for a listener to not stir by Beethoven’s divine and soulful music. His exceptional Continue reading...

August Wilson met success as a play writer after experiencing various odd jobs and dropping out of school after facing intense racism. In a way, the drama is a personal piece of expression for him. The Piano Lesson focuses on the lives of two siblings and an ancient family heirloom dating back to their great grandfather’s time. The drama revolves around their bickering over the piano that what should be done with it. Boy Willie and Berenice, the two siblings, and their story focuses on the migration of Africans and the problems they faced during whole life but Continue reading...

Two Kinds is a short story by Amy Tan in the book The Joy Luck Club. Tan writes about the intricacy of a daughter and mother relationship who migrated from China to America. The short story is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-mei. Jing-mei lived in American and her mother believed that, as long as one lives in America, he/she can be anything she could ever wish to be and therefore, she was working hard to find her daughter’s talent. Jing-mei’s mother constantly tests her daughter for any talent, but any time she tries, no talent is Continue reading...

George Gershwin was one of the most prolific composers in America for the twenty century, excelling in the field of popular song compositions and classical compositions. He wrote a lot of music but the pieces that made him famous and also remained in the history of music as representative for his own style were two orchestral compositions like Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris and also the opera Porgy and Bess.
George Gershwin was born in 26 September 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. Gershwin came from a Russian and Lithuanian Jewish heritage and he was the second Continue reading...

Renaissance has the connotation of a rebirth age after the dark age. It signifies changes, improvements, and development of a culture or a country from the chaos of the dark ages. One revolutionary cultural movement that happened in the span of 1920s is called as the Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance was previously referred to as the New Negro Movement which is named after the anthology in 1925 by Alain Locke. The new African-American movement that included their cultural expressions all over the urban areas of the North eastern as well as the Midwestern part of the United States that Continue reading...

Music is a reflection of the soul. When we are sad, we turn on some ballad and it seems that music empathizes and supports us, makes it possible to throw out all our emotions and make the right decision. Music relieves loneliness and adds confidence. It fills us with energy and sets the rhythm of life. Music is always with us. Each event is reflected in the music: with music, people confess their love and celebrate holidays. Heartfelt music is folk. It transmits all joy and tears of people. We understand everything it wants to tell us, regardless of Continue reading...

Historic jazz style represented by Johnson P. James

“Old fashioned love”
Composed in the year 1913 and later recorded by a person known as Cliff Ukulele Ike Edwards in the year 1923.
Johnson James and Fats Wallers
General characteristics of the historic jazz style:
Johnson P. Also known as the “Grandfather of the hottest Piano” was a jazz pianist who developed during the period of transition of ragtime. Ragtime is also known as the music that he performed from the written scores only and also had another attribute of rhythmically and more relaxed developments of the normal piano. As a result, it later becomes to be known Continue reading...

The music concert was held in 101 queen street north Kitchener at the center at around 7:00 pm Saturday, November 27th, 2014. Different music instruments were played accompanied by various types of music. The hall provided an excellent atmosphere, very soothing and magical. Many symphony concerts have been known to be conducted in this chamber and honestly speaking it gave the concert an amazing vibe. The hall was not that big, but it accommodated at least 100 member audiences plus the performers. Before the show kicked off, it was evident enough that it was going to be extraordinary with Continue reading...

Music and its association with the medical field

There is a substantial amount of evidence based on the therapeutic benefits of music, some of the evidence dating back thousands of years ago. Many civilizations such as India, China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome have documented the role of music in the medical field. It was during World War I and II where the first ever clinical setting based on music therapy was conducted. The study was based on the therapeutic effect of music in soldiers to relieve pain after trauma from war-based injuries. These studies led to the foundation of music therapy in different fields of the medical Continue reading...

One of the most acknowledged composers in the Civil War of 1861 to 1965 was the Sousa Band. The leader of the group has depicted a unique integration in their work. Sousa is regarded one of the best and successful musician. In his argument, entertainment music was much important when compared with music meant for education. This is one of the philosophies that guided his work as a composer and more so a real musician (Bierley, Paul, 44). His first work can be dated back in the 1910. During this time, he put into book “mission in music” . In Continue reading...

Bianzhong is an ancient Chinese musical instrument that consists of a set of bronze bells that are played melodically. The set of bells used to function as polyphonic musical instruments and evidence shows that some of these bells have been dated between two thousand to three thousand six hundred years of age. These set of bronze bells used to be hung in a wooden frame that would be struck with a mallet (Ye et al, 98). The bronze bells were important instruments in China’s ritual and court music in the ancient times along with the chimes known as “ Continue reading...

Engineering

Describe the world you come from
I am a single child in my family because of this I got much attention from my parents. My parents took education seriously because they knew it was the only key to my success in the future. I have had a perfect attendance record since first grade except for missing classes for special occasions, sports and performances. I learned to the play the piano at the age of six, I practiced every day and this helped me in being determined as well as establishing a good work ethic. I attended Beaumont High School Continue reading...

Wynton Marsalis is a truly unique figure in the world of jazz music. He is internationally acclaimed as not only a musician, but also as a composer, bandleader, and educator. He is arguably the first musician in the world to compose and perform music over the complete jazz spectrum including compositions that characterize the roots of jazz in the New Orleans tradition, bebop, modern jazz He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz
Similarly, the characteristic skill and sound specific Continue reading...

For our music class, we had to attend a live Jazz concert. There were many several concerts, which we could choose from, both varied from on or off campus. The recommended concert that we chose for this this semester was on Thursday, November 13th in Gusman Concert Hall. We attended a “Jazz Vocal II Ensemble & Jazz Vocal III Ensemble”. The directors for this ensemble were Sherrine Mostin and Eliot Weeks. There were 2 Jazz Vocal Ensembles that consisted of different people playing and supporting during the concert. There is some information regarding these two excellent Ensembles
Jazz Vocal III Continue reading...

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky was one of the most representative and brilliant composers from the twenty century and had a big influence on the development of the modern music. He wasn’t known only for his skill as a composer, he was also recognized as a pianist, conductor and a great and valuable musician. Throughout his composing career, Stravinsky have experimented many styles in composition using different rhythms and harmonies but musicologists clearly defined three stylistic periods in his musical evolution. The first period was between 1908- 1923 and it was called “Russian period,” the second period was between 1923- 1953 Continue reading...

Monday, the morning lecture covers concentration. The music director provides lengthy music tracks. I do a report on the day’s exercise, and it gets a recommendation. I understand that the mastering of concentration can reveal the hidden elements in music that makes it melodious. Tuesday, I polish on the learned piano chords. The music director demands that no reference should be in any learning materials. I confidently play the pieces of music. My music director is surprised by how well I combine both the simple and complex chords. I enjoy the presentation and feel my confidence well built. Continue reading...

1. Introduction
This research paper provides a comparative analysis of Rhythm and Blues versus Rockand Roll music.In the 1940s,the rhythm and blues music was recorded by the African-American musicians and it was sold to the African-Americanpeople. Rock and roll music and (RNB) Rhythm and Blues are very popular in the world.The comparative analysis aims at increasing the understanding of (RNB) Rhythm andBlues music and rock and roll music. TheRock and Roll music refers to the genre of music that originated from USA in the early 1940s and developed into the rock music in subsequent years.In the early 1940s Continue reading...

Question One

According to Vario, for the content of the music produced, the words that are used in the new music do not explain in clear terms the nature, peculiarity and the essence of the accented singing. Vario says the words seem to be a circumlocution that is calculated to show that they wish to confuse them and not that they are disposed to regulate all things with rules founded on truth. Vario also that says the singers do not use the right tones and do not know how to carry the voice. Luca says the accents in composition have remarkable Continue reading...

Jazz is one of the most popular genres of music that has been entertaining people for a long time. Jazz is believed to be originated in last years of nineteenth century in different parts of the United States of America. Jazz emerged due to rich ancestral and artistic fondness of African American community. African Americans have been practicing various types of music in their traditional ceremonies and jazz is the modern, experimental and organized version of their fond for the music. Storyville of New Orleans sheltered jazz music where jazz witnessed new heights. This paper intends to discuss jazz Continue reading...

Introduction

The Pre-lude and Fugue in C major, BWV is a composition written by J.S Bach. It appears in the book “The Well-Tempered Clavier” as the first prelude and fugue. This book comprises of a set of 48 preludes and fugues that were authored by J.S Bach. The prelude part of this keyboard piece consists of 35 bars and is also characterized by broken chords. It ends with a single C major chord. However, some artists over time have added extra bars inside the piece in order to add a personal touch to the piece or to alter its progression. Continue reading...

1. One of the most important events from the American history that had also an impact in the popular music was the war for the civil rights who was led by Martin Luther King.
2. The second event was Woostock.
3. The perception of black people music change from the earliest style in the nineteen century by getting under its umbrella a large range of musical genres like ragtime, jazz, blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, hip-hop, soul ,dance and techno.
4. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American TV variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan and the show hosted Continue reading...

Two Kinds is a story found in the book ‘The Joy Luck Club’, written by Amy Tan. The short story is about the conflict between a mother and her daughter who are clearly separated by things such as age, culture and perception. Jing-Mei Woo is the main character, and it is clear from the beginning that the high expectations her mother has over her affect her way of life. Through the unfolding events that the author gives, we get to understand the course that events took. In essence, whereas Woo saw Jing-Mei as a prodigy in piano playing, Jing-Mei Continue reading...