Essays Tagged: "piece of music"

Adam De La Halle and the Ars Antiqua Time Period

transformed into polyphonic. Much of his polyphonic work was set for 3 voices or instruments. If a piece of music is monophonic, then it has only a melody line and no harmony. Much of the medieval mu ...

(2 pages) 35 0 4.7 Oct/1996

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

Modern Music Composition

is also a very alternating subject of study. You have to keep up to date when you wish to compose a piece of music. This is strictly due to the progression of music in this day in age. If you fail to ... e composer at the time, at which he or she wrote it. The 'attitude' sets the overall feeling of the piece of music. If you fail to pass the feelings that you felt while you wrote the piece of music, y ...

(5 pages) 102 0 4.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Music As A Motivator

ey motivate our creativity,imagination, health, and culture. Whether listening to your favorite piece of music or going to amusic therapy clinic, music motivates us profoundly.    ... ey motivate our creativity,imagination, health, and culture. Whether listening to your favorite piece of music or going to amusic therapy clinic, music motivates us profoundly.    ...

(15 pages) 458 3 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Bach.

BACHHave you ever heard a piece of music that brought you to very boundary of reality? Such music could be a current rock song ... k song, a beautiful ballad, or a pounding symphony. Chances are good that it may be one of the many pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. This man's unparalleled form and genius set a new standard ... whole new world of music to its listeners.Unquestionably, Bach had a style unique to itself. Every piece of his has an individual style to it that made it easily recognizable as "Bach". He, without d ...

(4 pages) 62 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

"Four Seasons" by Vivaldi.

Antonio Vivaldi's, "The Four Seasons", is one of the most popular pieces of music ever composed. It is regularly used for commercials and television Shows as well as ... different tune for each season so one can hear the differences between each part of the year. Each piece of music was composed in different tunes: Concerto No.1 in E Major, which was "Spring", Concer ... eeling into them. Composers or famous Baroques that took after Vivaldi's works had to create mature pieces such as "The Four Seasons." In the concertos, many sounds are heard but the techniques of the ...

(4 pages) 124 0 4.3 Jun/2003

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

Music Critique Quartet Opus 110 No 8 in C minor & Quartet Opus 74 No 1 in C major.

cians forced the audience to focus on the music and the program offered two interesting and diverse piece's of music that created two very different atmospheres.The first piece of music that was pl ... t and second seat respectively while Yuri Djachencko played Viola and Amy Tucker played Cello. This piece followed the strict structure of a Quartet, having four movements, Allegro moderato, Andantio ...

(2 pages) 32 0 3.0 Jul/2003

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

The Significance of Rhetoric in Music.

r think to yourself "Yeah, right." After all, when was the last time any of us heard a "persuasive" piece of music? Non-the-less, I ask you to bear with me and hear me out. Although rhetoric and music ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Andrew lloyd webber.

rted to play the violin. When he was six he composed his own songs, and at the age of nine he had a piece of music published in the magazine Music Teacher. It was Andrew's aunt Vi, who turned him on t ...

(4 pages) 58 1 3.9 Dec/2003

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

The Era of the Waltz King

s of all ages into the irrestible passion fordance. I have always been enchanted by the mesmerizing piece of music known as the"Blue Danube" and have decided to broaden my knowledge on one of my favou ... n my knowledge on one of my favouritecomposers of which who has composed approximately 550 fabulous pieces,(Stevens,2004) Johann Strauss was born on October 25, 1825 to Johann Strauss Sr. and A ...

(6 pages) 32 0 5.0 May/2004

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

Antonio Valvaldi The Four Seasons Review

"Four Seasons" by VivaldiAntonio Vivaldi's, "The Four Seasons", is one of the most popular pieces of music ever composed. It is regularly used for commercials and television shows as well as ... different tune for each season so one can hear the differences between each part of the year. Each piece of music was composed in different tunes: Concerto No.1 in E Major, which was "Spring", Concer ...

(4 pages) 63 0 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

My love for Rossini's Williem Tell Overture

William Tell -This piece by Rossini is a rather devious piece of music. For the most part the listener is put into a po ... ather devious piece of music. For the most part the listener is put into a position that the entire piece will be rather melodic and peaceful, but in an instant all of that changes and throws the list ... of how music can create a vivid memory of life, with it as the background. I have always loved this piece because of how dynamic it was and because of its connection to me as a child. My parents were ...

(1 pages) 34 0 2.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

What I have learnt after reading "Twelfth Night" Act 1 by Shakespeare

came o'er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets,' the reapeating of same piece of music which can feed the duke's passion, it is directly comparing with the breathing of tho ...

(4 pages) 13 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Six Broad Categories of Instruments

Music is the universal language of culture. The emotion evoked from a piece of music inspires people all over the world. Music is constantly changing with society's views ... hestra. Eugene Bozza seemed to "specialize" with the woodwind instruments. He has a number of study pieces and concert solos for the woodwind instruments. He also created a saxophone quartet, woodwind ... lfgang Amadeus Mozart had the clarinet concerto. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was one of the earliest pieces with the piccolo as well as John Phillip Sousa's "Stars and Strips Forever."There are five fa ...

(13 pages) 51 0 4.5 Nov/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Viderunt omnes by magister leo

at he meant. After all, there would be recordings and piano rolls of his actual performances of the piece. Not to mention a standardized notation system to guide future performers. Alas, no such music ... y viewed it as an 18th Century tradition.1 This bias, along with a need to have an easily learnable piece of music, tended to simplify, rather than embellish, the standardized arrangement. True, it co ...

(4 pages) 1933 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Gershwin

omposers/musicians that have greatly contributed to modern music. Therefore, I decided to analyze a piece of music ?Rhapsody in Blue?, which affected music in 1920?s and still impacting the music worl ... rk for Jerome Remick, George had his first song published. ?When you Want Em You Can?t Get Em? this piece was not an instant success for George, but it attracted attention from other great composers. ...

(5 pages) 24 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Drama Presentation Task one One of the first things we

through music. We did this by closing our eyes and thinking about what kind of emotions fit with a piece of music. The teacher played a cassette of different types of music and we had to write down w ...

(12 pages) 1780 0 0.0 Feb/2008

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

Ivan Sanchez's Untitled

use. All the art is intriguing in its own way, but one inparticular catches the audiences' eyes.The piece is untitled at the moment, even though Ivan painted it while still attending the Art Institute ... ut still smiliar in which they all rise to meet the fingers of the one touching the art. Notes in a piece of music make all the difference in the world, and in this piece of art the same applies. Add ...

(2 pages) 1322 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

rchestra in school and had to play a lot of his music. I am sorry but I do not remember which exact pieces we played. I played the violin and was 1st chair 1st violin.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born ... chair 1st violin.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. He wrote his first piece of music by age six. By the age of eight he wrote his first symphony. Many consider him to be ...

(1 pages) 10 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Analytical essay about Polus and Socrates in Plato's Gorgias

or pleasurable purpose, relative to whatever the object is used for. For example, one would call a piece of music admirable, only if to the it is pleasurable, and a law only if it is beneficial.4 Any ...

(4 pages) 13 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Neurological Sonata: The neurology of music. A creative research essay for a Biology/Neurology course at the University of Chicago. (May be used for any mental, neurology, psychology course!)

ta show, for example, that music dependably conveys certain sentiments: what we feel when we hear a piece of music is remarkably similar to what everybody else in the room is experiencing. Promising d ... hat music is a universal language. Rather of asking volunteers to make subjective judgments about a piece of music, scientists asked them to manipulate the song—in particular, its tempo, volume and p ...

(7 pages) 34 2 5.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health