choosing a musical topic about which to write a difficult one. My musical interests have never been concentrated in a singular area. To aid myself in this search, I will list the areas in which I hold an interest: music education, tuba performance practices, music pedagogy, tuba pedagogy, psychological development through music, and the history of music. The field of music education is one with which I have become rapidly familiar. This statement is not to be confused with me claiming that I have an
showing the virtuosity in the styles brass instruments can play. The first piece they perform was Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich. They then played the fanfare from La Peri. At the end of the piece the tuba player was introduced and he then demonstrated many unique playing techniques on the tuba. He combined those techniques to play a piece of his composition called Fnugg. Afterwards the orchestra played Promenade form
Teacher Comment: As a part of the requirement for this course, each student must attend two live performances and submit a concert report on each. The reports should demonstrate “Active Listening” and not be merely reviews or critiques. I am interested in the student’s experience at this particular performance. There is no obligation to use fancy terminology. Just tell me what happened, how it affected you, how this experience will influence your plans for future concert attendance? I am particularly
As a musician one of the most frequent questions that I receive is, “What instrument do you play?” When I answer, the look on the persons face is a face of confusion. “What’s a euphonium?” they ask. This occurs not only to me, but to every euphoniumist who is ever asked this very question. Although the word euphonium is foreign to most people, the instrument is not. The euphonium, with its beautiful rich tone is the chief tenor soloist in the military and concert band. The euphonium is a conical-bore
comes the best show you will ever behold." There is no word to describe the feeling I obtain through music. However, there is no word to describe the pain I suffer through in order to be the best in the band either. When I switched my instrument to tuba from flute in seventh grade, little did I know the difference it would make in the four years of high school I was soon to experience. I joined marching band in ninth grade as my ongoing love for music waxed. When my instructor placed the 30 lb. sousaphone
I carry a tuba mouthpiece in my backpack. Being a girl who plays the tuba is pretty surprising to people and can start an exceedingly long conversation on music. People ask why I wanted to play the tuba, what I have to do, what music I play and who I play for. I sometimes will ask if the person can ‘buzz their lips’ and they usually give up either because they have no clue what I'm talking about or because they look like a babbling baby. Music, to me, is not just some hobby I picked off the streets
During March, the tubas are sent to an instrument repair shop to get fixed and are gone for around three weeks. Last year when the tubas came back someone did not put them in their right places so, of course, soon after school got out, Patrick and I organized them all into numerical order and neatly organized them across the wall
will higher in the sucrose and lower in the Tubas or lower in the sucrose and higher in the Tubers. Therefore water will travel in or out of the potatoes cell though its partial permeable membrane. Preliminary Method · I will firstly get 10 test tubes and to test tube racks · Then I will cut 9 pieces of potato · I will then get 3 different Concentrations of sucrose solution and add 20cm3 to each test tube · Cut a 4 mm in diameter tuba to 1 cm in length · Now I will measure
beneficial for me in more ways than I might have expected. All I knew is that I wanted music in my life, I wanted to be in the band. My mom says, that I did not choose the tuba, the tuba chose me. I have chosen the guitar and several other instruments. I also chose the genre of music that most inspires me, but it all started with the tuba. Music has affected my life in several different ways, positive and upbeat, but also in a mellow and emotional way. My grades struggled some when I first
Plus what was put in emphasis was a woman dancing in between the musicians at the left side having the yellow light shining upon her and a few of the other figures. The yellow light is shining from the tuba in the upper left corner. With the woman dancing in this piece, it may refer to Bearden’s wife Nanette since she was a professional dancer before marrying him. With the mixture of black and white races, Bearden’s African and European inspirations come
The theme that will be explored in this essay will be the dominant culture, prevailing cultural attitudes, and the mental environment/state. The two short stories that will be discussed in this essay are Marianne Villanueva's Siko and Silence. In both short stories the leading characters show signs of breaking down because of physical, but also their mental stress. Marian Villanueva's Short stories Siko, and Silance can relate in many ways. For instance the main characters of both stories seem to
Woodwinds: 1. Flute: The flute is made in the form of an open cylindrical air column about 66 cm long. Its fundamental pitch is middle C (C4) and it has a range of about three octaves to C7. Sound is produced from a flute by blowing onto a sharp edge, causing air enclosed in a tube to vibrate. The modern flute was developed by Theobald Boehm who experimented with it from 1832 to 1847, desiring to give it a bigger tone. He finally produced a parabolic (bowl-shaped) head
behind a desk, climbed up, and jumped inside the lunch kit. Then, he nibbled on the sandwich with a weird sticky, pink jam kind of thing. Thinking about jam, he hopped down from the desk, and went to the music room. He jumped on the shelf and got a tuba from
Kevin Stees is the JMU Brass Band director and a professor for the tuba, and as such, has a couple decades of experience. His solo was amazing, his skill on the tuba is extraordinary. He flitted between high and low notes with astounding ease, flying down and back up through his range. He made the instrument play notes higher than I knew a tuba could play. His performance really tied the piece together, as it provided a graceful interlude in the middle of
is fortissimo. There are periods of time where the music crescendos and decrescendos and then crescendos to what sounds like fortississimo. It sounds like there is a base line that goes on throughout the piece, and it sounds like it is played with a tuba. Also, as the piece reaches the end there is a cacophony of different instruments which leaves a person feeling that there was meant to be more, but when in fact there was not. This Jazzalogue was played exceptionally by the student band. The second
the opportunity to major in euphonium. However, due to the small number of euphonium students at most schools it is possible, and even likely, that they will study with a professor whose major instrument is not the euphonium. More often than not, tubas and euphoniums will be combined into a studio taught by one professor. And if you go to a small school, I hope you don’t have any problems with being with trombones or french horns, because more than likely, you will be grouped with them too. Universities
then that we in the parsonage were living in a separate town by ourselves, and that Aké was the rest of what I could see." Another example of childlike thinking can be found in the description of a tuba. In the parade there is a man walking with a tuba. Wole makes the association of the bell of the tuba and the bell part of a gramophone. Young Wole says, "Tinu and I had long rejected the story that the music which came from the gramophone was made by a special singing dog locked in the machine. We
On Sunday, April 22, 2018, I experienced my first evert Jazz concert. The CSUN Jazz Faculty Concert opened up my perspective on jazz music before attending this concert I had the idea that jazz concerts were very mellow and low like the type of music people would listen to during yoga. However, the CSUN Jazz Faculty Concert showed me otherwise the concert was very hyped and upbeat like dance music even so that people in the audience got up and began to dance at certain points. Although, program pamphlets
Igor Stravinsky’s ballet, The Firebird, premiered on June 25, 1910. Stravinsky was just twenty-seven years old at the time. Stravinsky was hired by Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballets Russes Company of Paris, France, to compose the ballet. Michel Fokine was in charge of the choreography used in The Firebird. This work is an example of how tradition and innovation can come together to create a piece, which has withstood the test of time. Such aspects as its use of melody, harmony, and rhythm
measure sixteen through seventeen by a sustained note. After measure seventeen the dynamics go back to piano adding shape to develop with the melodic outline. Around measure twenty-six, the ensemble gets filled out by other instruments such as the tuba, euphonium, and trumpet. This makes it go from the darker cornet sound to a bright trumpet sound. The last few measures slow down, going from about eighty beats per minute, to forty beats per minute, ending with piece with two