Our family loves vacations, and usually complete one every year. One year it was a Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada road trip, which altogether took two weeks to complete. As the van rumbled through Phoenix our eyes were looking for somewhere to eat, and someone saw a sign for “Organ Stop Pizza.”
Now first, I have been playing the organ for about a year now, so the sign “Organ Stop Pizza” attracted my attention. Second, the word “Stop” actually has a double meaning, first of all it’s a pizza stop, a stop to eat. The other meaning is more hidden, however the different sounds of an organ are called stops, for instance on the organ I play I have about forty stops, and they each represent a different sound. Some of them are actually
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To my surprise fifteen minutes later all of the sudden I start hearing sounds coming from all around - organ sounds. I look up and become aware of the ranks of pipes lining various walls.
Ranks each corresponds to a different sound, or stops, so the Diapason stop will have a rank of pipes which correspond the each of the notes on the keyboard, so if I pull that stop on the organ, every time I play a note it will play that note on that rank of pipes. If I pull multiple stops at once, it will play all of the notes on the corresponding stops at once.
Suddenly in the center a manual (the place where the organist sits) comes out of the floor and rises to create the centerpiece I had been missing. This is a Wurlitzer, which generally means a Theatre organ. These are the rather unconventional organs, as they have to have the ability to imitate multiple styles so they can recreate other music, it’s for entertainment. For instance, here, they allowed you to put in song requests. And the organist played everything from Bach’s Toccata in D Moll (pipe organ, the kind in churches) to Rhapsody in Blue (orchestra) to anything in the Great American Songbook, and other genres. The other types of organs include the Electric organ, the Hammond, the Allen, or the Reed
The opening theme consists of a sinister sounding, descending organ phrase made from the notes A,
the horn call in the bassoons. We then enter the Allegro, with a scurrying in
The orchestration comprises of a standard set of instruments, including two flutes, two clarinets, two oboes, two bassoons, two trumpets, three trombones, four horns, timpani, bass drum, cymbals and strings. An additional instrument is the tuba (Chung 22). Moreover, it appears that the piano is not the only soloist; rather other instruments such as flutes, clarinets and horns make minor appearances for similar purposes.
Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 was his last and longest symphony he composed. While listening to this breathtaking piece of music, one specific aspect of this piece stood out to me; this being the instrumentation. In this symphony, many different instruments were used. While listening, I recognized many of them. A flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings make up this famous piece that is known world-wide by millions of people.
For me, I wonder how someone could have invented such a great place that could bring joy and happiness, to both your childish side as well to your appetite. Peter Piper Pizza is happiness from the moment you walk in. As soon as you open the doors you get a whiff of pepperoni and cheese. Walking towards the cash register you can literally see everyone having a great time, as well as signs of the deals they're having a picture of the pizza they serve on the side. The moment you get to the cash register and look at the menu that looks like it was made on a chalkboard you know you're in for a good meal. After ordering, you walk towards the eating section that is full of lunch tables all mustang purple, strawberry red, or banana yellow, with certain sections of the eating area full of balloons and wrapped
Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a family of musicians. It was only natural for him to pick up an instrument and excel in it. His father taught him how to play the violin and harpsichord at a very young age. All of Bach’s uncles were professional musicians, one of them; Johann Christoph Bach introduced him to the organ. Bach hit a turning point in his life when both of his parents died at the age of ten years old. Bach’s older brother Johann Christoph Bach took him in and immediately expanded his knowledge in the world of music. He taught him how to play the clavichord and exposed him to great composers at the time. At the age of fourteen, Bach and his good friend George Erdmann were awarded a choral scholarship to the prestigious musical school St. Michael’s in Luneburg. From then on, Bach began to build his career in the music industry. His first two years at the school he sang in the school’s a cappella choir. Historical evidence has shown that Bach at a young age would visit Johanniskirche and would listen to the works of organ player Jasper Johannsen. This was thought to have been the inspiration to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Studying at the prestigious musical school has help Bach network his way around and become acquaintances’ with some of the best organ players at the time such as Georg Böhm, and Johann Adam Reincken. Through his acquaintance with Böhm and Reincken Bach had access to some of the greatest and finest instruments.
Eating has been one a great joy to me my entire life. It is a huge portion of everyone’s day, and for most, happens at least three times a day. If we eat three meals a day every day for a year that is one thousand and ninety five meals! With all these meals we need a nice place to sit down and enjoy it. Whenever I get hungry, I always find myself at Chick-fil-a; well, at least five times a week. The familiar sights, comforting scents, and soothing sounds of Chick-fil-A that make it the birthplace of happiness.
The clarinet is a woodwind instrament consisting of a cylindrical wood, metal, or ebonite pipe with a bell-shaped opening at one end and a mouthpiece at the other end, to which a thin reed is attached. The clarinet has five different sections, the mouthpiece, the barrel, the upper section, the lower section, and the bell. The length of the entire instrument is 60 cm long. The mouthpiece section consists of a slotted cylinder, to which a reed is attached by a metal clamp called a ligature. The mouthpiece plugs into the next section which is a barrel. The barrel is simply a connecting cylinder to which the mouthpiece and the upper section plugs into. The upper section is a cylindrical pipe consisting of 4 holes and 9 keys placed in different locations along the pipe. On the back of the pipe there is a hole and a key that is used by the thumb. The lower section plugs into the upper section and is also connected via a special bridge key. This piece consists of 3 holes and 8 keys. On the inward facing side of the pipe, there is a protruding piece of metal called a thumb rest, which supports the entire clarinet. The bell plugs into the lower section. It consists of a cylinder that flares out into a bell shape and ends the clarinet.
I opened the box and looked at the soft velvet casing. The freshly polished wood of my instrument glittered golden brown in the evening sun. I reached for it and picked it up. The usually very light instrument seemed to weigh more than I could ever remember. I walked in a straight line up the side of the church building. I passed the graves of many of the dead as I made my way to the door.
The orchestra was well amplified throughout the Lincoln Center Opera House because it was clearly heard from our upper mezzanine seating. Sunken down below in front of the stage is where I found the opera orchestra. The opera orchestra, which is quite similar to a full symphony orchestra, was starting to warm-up as I entered the "jewelry box". In the orchestra pit I found aerophones, which included, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, as well as a flute, piccolo, english horn, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, bass trombone, and a tuba; chordophones, which included the first and second violins, violas, cellos, and a harp; membranophones were made up of the percussion and a timpani. The dynamics range from piano to extreme fortissimo throughout the four act opera. This helped the audience grasp the feelings and emotion that the characters were trying to displ...
The concept of sound in this work is very general because the sound can be from anything. Instrumentation can range from couches to beer bottles. The intention of the piece is that it can be performed anywhere by anyone, a concept that is not original of a Baroque suite. Previously, suites were only performed in formal settings for people of aristocratic stature. A good quote to summarize the ideology behind the settings comes from Stephen Kenyon, in his article “The Baroque Suite”.
Everyone’s eyes were glued to me, faces burdened with the question: “Did she really just say that?” It was 2:05 pm. A summer Sunday. The sun beat on my barren shoulders, who were soon to be covered up in the temple. My toes, fighting like siblings, for space in those sexy red heels. My left arm cradled the Holy Bible, while my alto saxophone weighed down my right. I attend the First Evangelical Haitian Baptist church religiously, from two to five pm every Sunday afternoon. Every fourth sunday of the month we conduct youth sunday in English, and on those days I lead praise and worship. As you can tell, I have an immense passion for music, whether playing or singing. It is fairly ironic though. I love music but I am severely deaf in both
The brass plays an ascending sequence, followed by pizzicato notes played by the strings, and an ascending and descending scale on the harp. Strings and oboe play the rhythmic melody, whilst the trumpet plays fanfares in syncopation. The oboe is then replaced by the flute. There is an ascending scale played by the strings, then the brass section repeats the string and oboe melody with cymbal crashes at cadence points. The orchestra then plays a loud melody with cymbal crashes and drum rolls. There is an interrupted cadence, followed by crescendo with cymbal crashes and a brass ostinato. The piece ends with a perfect cadence.
They are also called stops but we will be referring to them in this chapter as plosives. All plosives are articulated by completely closing the vocal tract causing the airflow to build up and then suddenly opening the closure resulting in a plosion. During this closure the mouth remains completely closed. The burst is followed by a short frication produced when air pressure behind the closure is suddenly released. This would consequently be followed be voicing or aspiration. The remaining low frequency energy is seen as the ‘voicing bar’ at the bottom of a
Attempting to recover from my embarrassment, I was suddenly startled by a cacophony . . . music, perhaps? It must have been music, because I glanced down to find my foot tapping away to a beat long forgotten.