Analysis Of Mary Grace: One Handed Pianist

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Mary Grace - One Handed Pianist
For centuries, brilliant composers released their works of music that became important part Christian churches. The result of these music works - a huge number of hymns, oratorios and other musical works. Nowadays, they use the organists and the heads of the church choirs around the world. I have attended one of Christian concerts that I would never attend myself. I have completed eight years of music school playing piano. I do not have any good memories of it for I have never enjoyed it. I was that girl playing piano inform of all teachers and parents with their kids. I have never liked it and I have promised myself that I will never go to that type of a concert. I have attended Mary Grace’s concert at Tacoma …show more content…

There are different genres of religious music- passive, and active. Passive religious music is the worship music-calm, meditation music. Active religious music is composed out of elements of some vocal- screaming and elements of hard electric guitar. Also, the active religious music has some elements of loud drums, and Compositions played by Mary Grace were in a European style. Comparing to the active religious music, passive music is composed of more “calm” medium. I have learned that worship Christian music is mostly about expressing feelings. This music heals the soul. The way Mary played her compositions has touched my heart. I have learned that Christian culture is associates with meditation and calmness. While listening to her compositions, in my head I went thought my whole life; positive and negative moments of my life filled me. Now, I do understand Christian music better, for I was able to hear and feel it rather than ignoring if due to its background. I was never interested in Christian music that deep before, today I am browsing through Christian music that represents my life though music. So far, my favorite composition is “Grace” by Laura Story. In my course (Music 106), we have learned many different types of music. In our course I have learned about phonic structure or texture which deals with the how sounds blend together and how they are organized has just a single melodic line with no simultaneous variations. In my opinion, phonic structure was released in Mary Grace’s composition though the sense oneness of music. Also, in class we have learned about the scale in music. Mary grace was playing in open scale- she was playing the highest scale to the lowest. Lastly, Music 106 course taught me the meaning of Melody which is utilizing its own rhythm to organize the pitches which I have observed the concert I have

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