Essays Tagged: "harmonies"

An Investigation into the Vocal Trends and Characteristics of Female Country Singers

the voice of a female/s. The lead singers wife Sara and her sister Maybelle did backing vocals and harmonies. A church style group, whose theme was 'God, Mom and Hope', exemplifies their certain Chri ... ds. The use of scat and trill is prominent in all of the songs, however hardly any of the songs use harmonies, they have backing vocals but this seems to be all, as again the singers are more concerne ...

(13 pages) 55 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Bach.

ents and voices, and rhythms from dance music. The melody often make dramatic and unexpected leaps. Harmonies are based on minor and major tones, and disagreement between notes is more common than in ...

(4 pages) 62 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Musicology - bebop. a brief description and history of the 'bebop' jazz style.

. It grew out of the small swing groups, but placed a much higher emphasis on technique and complex harmonies, rather than on singable melodies. There was more emphasis on the rhythm section, and phra ... f swing masters like Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines and Jay McShann. They began exploring more advanced harmonies, altered chords and chord substitutions. Gillespie and Parker experimented with unconventi ...

(3 pages) 60 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Basic paper on What Diabetes is.

is Diabetes?Diabetes Mellitus or diabetes is a metabolic disorder that results from animbalance of harmonies produced in the pancreas. People with diabetes aren't able toproperly convert the food the ...

(4 pages) 330 6 3.6 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Rock Vs. Classical Music. Pros and cons of each type of music, as well as a comparison of styles.

red for years, but it lacks the true timelessness of classical music. Classical music has beautiful harmonies that be appreciated for thousands of years. Modern rock is a shallow reflection of the tim ... undreds of instruments will make classical music appreciated by people for endless expanse time.The harmonies in classical orchestral music are impossible to reproduce with a small band of rock instru ...

(2 pages) 88 0 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

A Biography on Famous Russian Artist, Wassily Kandinsky

the music in his mind. A famous quote that he said was "Color is the keyboard and the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artists is the hand that plays, touching one ...

(2 pages) 62 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Think about the influence of laws on our lives, then write a one-page story about a day in a school without rules.

ay, the hallowed halls of Anarchy College reverberate seven hours a day, five days a week, with the harmonies of adolescent gossip. This ranges from the ordinary chatter between students, to mobile ph ...

(2 pages) 25 0 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

This is a Music Critique on an Iwukuni Japan Baroque period Orchestra.

ions in the air. The resulting textures were complex and gorgeously melodic, with almost subliminal harmonies.William's dynamics were inspiring; this was apparent in the Marche pour les trompettes ...

(3 pages) 60 1 4.5 Dec/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Sounds of Music

In music there are a variety of instruments that display the color of harmonies, when they are played in an orchestra or a band. The ranges of their sounds spans from the ... ch instrument have.Despite the colors and the multiple sounds these instruments provide through the harmonies they emit, music would lack meaning without independent melodies that express complete tho ... alf octaves from middle c. The function of these instruments is both to express phrases and to emit harmonies. Since their sound is more likely to be loud and alarmist they carry the opening and closi ...

(7 pages) 41 0 3.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Slow Movement from Haydn's 'Emperor' Quartet OP. 76, NO. 3

playing the melody. The cello and the Viola have similar rhythmic parts that are playing important harmonies to the violin 1 part. The second violin is harmonizing the melody.Variation 1 is a duet be ... e melody throughout the variation. Violin 1 is playing sets of semiquavers which give the different harmonies in this variation. Most of the notes in the violin 1 part are in intervals of 3rds and 5th ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Stephen Sondheim's Contributions to Musical Theatre

as they used to in the days of Gershwin and Cole Porter. Due to the unusual rhythms, intervals, and harmonies in Sondheim's music, actors must work when they perform in a Sondheim musical or learn a S ...

(2 pages) 21 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Late 1960's.

album I have chosen to study is 'The Doors' by The Doors and to do so I will analyse the melodies, harmonies, instrumentation, production and arrangement of the album.The late 1960's brought about a ...

(5 pages) 57 0 4.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Duke Ellington

arlem" (1935), Ellington emerged as a distinctive composer for his ensemble, employing the rhythms, harmonies, and tone colors of jazz to create pieces that vividly captured aspects of the African-Ame ...

(2 pages) 17 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Sounds of Music

In music there are a variety of instruments that display the color of harmonies, when they are played in an orchestra or a band. The ranges of their sounds spans from the ... ch instrument have.Despite the colors and the multiple sounds these instruments provide through the harmonies they emit, music would lack meaning without independent melodies that express complete tho ... alf octaves from middle c. The function of these instruments is both to express phrases and to emit harmonies. Since their sound is more likely to be loud and alarmist they carry the opening and closi ...

(7 pages) 33 0 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Viennese School

le keeping certain similar characteristics, music became lighter and more complex, and melodies and harmonies became more complicated with more separate parts happening all at once. The instrumentatio ... c during the Classical Period.Orchestra music and other music groups often had complex melodies and harmonies with the melody sometimes traveling back and forth between different groups of instruments ...

(3 pages) 11 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Gnostic Religion

g Shui work it is a particular design that makes you feel you are in the room. With all the special harmonies you can actually make you think you are the object. I come from a Italian ...

(1 pages) 1159 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Letter Of Intent

g Shui work it is a particular design that makes you feel you are in the room. With all the special harmonies you can actually make you think you are the object.I come from a Italian background and fa ...

(1 pages) 37 0 4.6 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Baka Family Life

er told the story of the chimp that stole the mother's baby all joined in with the choruses or with harmonies and with percussion accompaniment. This communal music making constantly helps to strength ...

(2 pages) 3505 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Music Ownernship in Today's World

people?        When one thinks of music the first thing to come to mind are rolling harmonies and flying melodies, that or booming bass; all are created by artists, one by themself or ...

(6 pages) 27 0 2.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Music and Culture

The synchronism of a variety of instruments along with a variety of tones from screaming to calm harmonies is what makes rock. Unlike other music rock music can bring many moods, and is from a vari ...

(2 pages) 19 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays