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
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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
... religion really is. It's the love of thy neighbor and loving the little things in life. It's connecting to one another, and being tolerant of one another. This musical exemplifies the culture of the new millennium.
Marian’s spectacular talents flourished with the support of her family and friends. At fourteen years old, Marian’s choir director, Alexander Robinson, moved her from the youth choir to the adult choir. Robinson was in shock of the young girl’s ability to sing any part of any hymn whenever she was requested to do so. Marian showed so much potential to the congregation of he...
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one the world’s well-known choir since its one of the prominent and oldest. The choir started out as an insignificant group, but rapidly began to be more popular as the years progressed. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a chorus of 360 men and women in total. They have entertained millions of spectators by performing in places such as at the “World’s Fairs and expositions at inaugurations of U.S. presidents, in acclaimed concert halls from Australia and Europe to Asia and the Middle East” (Mormon). “In 1929, the Choir began broadcasting Music & The Spoken Word on radio” (Mormon). Now they have various radio and television stations. The Mormon Tabernacle has been broadcasted live all over television and several social media sites. They are also known as “America’s Choir” because people all over the world enjoy their harmonious music. Each member has a distinctive voice and their belief in god, makes this effort to influence others through music. The choir is “an ambassador for ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” their music surpasses the traditional restrictions, which led to numerous people bonding universally through music. The Choir performs at least two sessions per year, and they also have a demanding calendar which they must follow. The Choir grew successful by the aptitude, commitment and dreams of its leaders. Every single person in the choir and others outside the Choir helped the Choir be cultivated and helped them develop into the enormous Choir that they are today. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir also has a school where students train known as The Temple Square Chorale. They aid students by assisting them with their vocal skills and music reading skills. When a...
Being a pianist presents itself a variety of opportunities, two common ones being playing in a jazz ensemble/band, or accompanying a choir. One may choose to be one, the other or both at the same time. However, there are distinct comparisons and contrasts between the two. Both are vastly different from each other, each harboring distinct qualities, yet there are similarities between the two.
The first time I attended the Episcopal Church in my hometown with a girlfriend, I was shocked by the complexity of the melodies the organist played, by the sheer, tuneful competence of the singing. Until then I don’t think I knew it was possible to worship God in cadences and keys actually indicated in a hymnal.
Many people across the world are affected every day by the gift of music. To those of us who let it into our lives, we truly view it for what it is. Unfortunately, not everyone realizes how powerful it can be. For me singing was something that I was always good at; I never really took it to heart. I never understood when people would talk about how music had changed there lives; I just didn't see how a few notes put together could affect anyone so deeply. It wasn't until last April when our choir was chosen among a select few to perform at Carnegie Hall that I would understand the indubitable impact of music.
Christian Music has many effects on society today.The latter mingles titles from Top Christian Albums and Top Gospel Albums to offer a comparative view of the religious music market (“Over the Counter”).In the early '90s, its artists began borrowing from more relevant styles of music and fashion to promote their words of praise (“Over the Counter”).
Lebuta, Joseph A. & Smith, Deborah A. Music Education: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. (1997) Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall.
Music is a form of art which blends melodies with words to produce a piece that communicates with people’s thoughts and emotions, by stimulating their senses and thus extracting responses. Gospel, a distinctive genre of music, makes use of sounds and words to praise and worship God. It is also used to teach the teachings of God in an entertaining and captivating manner. Gospel music not only fills people’s hearts with hope and joy, but also relieves their stress and comforts them. One of the most influential figures who has played a major role in the flourishing of gospel music is James Edward Cleveland. Cleveland was an accomplished vocalist, performer, composer, producer, philanthropist, preacher, choral director and pianist; hence earning titles such as: “Crown Prince of Gospel” and “King of Gospel Music.”
When it comes to classic musical instrument, piano is definitely one of the names that pop up in your mind. Indeed, after its first appearance around the year of 1700, piano has never left the stage of high culture and top class performance. Till today, three hundred years have past since it was first invented. Surely, a lot of changes have been made during this long period of evolution, the designers learnt to utilize better materials but the basic inner mechanism have stayed the same. However, the outside appearance of piano did changed a few times throughout the course of time. The first piano borrowed quite a bit of its look and design from the harpsichord because it was invented by Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, an Italian harpsichord maker. (Powers, W. 2008) Namely, a noticeable amount of improvements have been made during the evolution of the instrument base on the demand of the time and arena. In this essay, stringed instruments with keyboard which are in the
2. Early Afro-Christian music differed from work songs in that the content in Afro-Christian music was more religious. Not only that but it was more melodic and musical because it was sung rather than “hollered.”
In all relationships and situations, we find that restrictions pop up and fade at the most inconvenient times. We can’t control those we love and we certainly cannot change them. All we can do is sit back and hope one day, they will see the truth and we will support them. Throughout Wilmer Mills’ poem “Diary of a Piano-Tuner’s Wife”, the speaker demonstrates several situations where her love and commitment has been pushed to its limits and has been questioned. She is pushed beyond reasonable distances and wants to help but is stuck and can’t provide reasons for what is happening. I can relate to this since the day I turned 8 and everything changed. I suppose we have to accept what has happened is over and done, and hope that one day, someone
...nt ideas were practiced. These differences in faith are shown through the music because in Play of Virtues the message is teaching about good and evil and is very god fearing. In “Sing Joyfully” the music is more about praising and being alive which reflects that period of individualism and a sense of redefining oneself and letting go of the harsh rules they used to follow. The differences in these pieces of music allow us to look back on society and see how far it has grown and changed since then. The transition from the strict and limited views of the Middle Ages to the open and thriving society during the renaissance has led to more transitions into societies that value creativity, expression, and a mixture of cultures. The influences from these previous eras and their cultural contributions helped to create the vast and amazing music we are able to have today.
The pianist is a film made in 2002, directed by Roman Polanski and it circles around the life of Waldyslaw Szpilman which was played by Adrien Brody. This movie is a true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, during the 1930’s, was known as the most talented piano player in all of Poland. As the Second World War begins, Szpilman becomes subject imposed to the anti-Jewish laws by the Germans who want to take over Poland. By the beginning of 1940’s Szpilman has witnessed his world/the community go from piano performance halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw. In addition, Szpilman was obliged to suffer the calamity of his families’ exile to German concentration camps, at the same time he is recruited into a forced German Labor Compound by a police guard named Itzak Heller, who had earlier captured his brother in jail. Then he goes hiding in buildings/apartments, but sooner or later ends-up looking through blown-up/burnt buildings at night for food and hiding throughout the daytime. Then one day, a Nazi Officer by the name of Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, discovers him in a building looking for food. Szpilman tells the captain that he is pianist but Hosenfeld doesn’t believe it. So Szpilman proves to Hosenfeld that he is a pianist by playing it on the piano. Szpilman starts out by playing a solemn and concise version of Chopin’s “Ballad in G Minor”. Hosenfeld impressed by Szpilman’s playing of piano, helps him stay alive, but later runs away from the building he is in when Russian army advances. Later it is shown that Hosenfeld is captured by the army and put in concentration camp where he hears the name of Szpilman and tells an officer that he knows Szpilman, after that we are given the assumption that Hosenfeld died in the camp. On the other h...
I recently attended the Energizer Church a denomination associated with The Pentecostal churches of Australia. The service began with a worship song called Man of Sorrows by the Hillsong Church it was a very uplifting and holy spirit filled song. The service also had a rhythm to it songs, then worship, then praise songs, which was good. I also noticed that the music had a slower beat, tempo while they were doing the worship section of the service. The instruments that the band used to be a Piano, Synthesizer an acoustic a bass and two lead singers the tempo was comprised of a soft melody. The praise section of the service consisted of a fast speed tempo. My analysis of the worship section of the service was completely different from the Catholic Church I attended. The songs of the Holy Spirit Church I attended were traditional hymns and the instrument they used was an old organ. The difference between styles is what I also noticed that each song mainly consisted of traditional hymns similar to the song In Christ Alone. The Energiser Church band performed the following ...