Gospel harmony Essays

  • Theology of Leadership From the Bible

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    This paper is an attempt to do the impossible. In a handful of pages, I will dig into the Bible to build a theology of leadership, look at history to see important influences on the pastoral vocation, and build a personal structure for my call to the pastorate. Fittingly, this paper faces many of the challenges of ministry. The job description is massive in scope, the resources are scant, and the hope for success lies squarely on the work of the Spirit. Before I begin building this theology, let

  • Adam De La Halle And Ars Antiqua Time Period

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    monophonic, then it has only a melody line and no harmony. Much of the medieval music was monophonic. If the music is homophonic then there is only one melody line, but it may be played by two or more instruments. Many of the songs that were originally monophonic were easily transformed into homophonic by add extra voices or instruments. Polyphonic is the type of music we hear today. Polyphonic is when there is a melody line accompanied by harmony. A considerable amount of Adam de la Halle's polyphonic

  • The Portman Hotel

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    Some of the problems plaguing the Portman Hotel in its inception include a lack of harmony among the workers, a lack of effort by some of the personal valets, and a lack of discipline on the part of management. The following case study uses various theories to explain these issues. The harmony problem involving the "floating" personal valets can be explained using the Fundamental Attribution Error Theory. This is when the behavior of an individual or a group is attributed too much to an internal

  • The Baroque Period: Then or Now?

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    8. Jean-Philippe Rameau 9. Johann Pachelbel 10. Giovanni Battista Sammartini (Green, 2014). The Baroque Period can be broken up into three main sections: Early, Middle and Late. In the Early Baroque Period, rhythm was free and harmonies began to emerge. However, the harmony was experimental and pre-tonal – it was not governed by a specific key. The Middle Baroque Era brought with it a variety of characteristics including the creation of the bel-cantato style and solidification of major and minor keys

  • Taoism

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    in it. Tao is sometimes identified as the Mother, or the source of all things. That source is not a god or a supreme being as with Christians, for Taoism is not monotheistic. The focus is not to worship one god, but instead on coming into harmony with tao. Tao is the essence of everything that is right, and complications exist only because people choose to complicate their own lives. Desire, ambition, fame, and selfishness are seen as hindrances to a harmonious life. It is only when

  • Principle Of Architecture Essay

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    KARACA 1 Süha Enes KARACA Senior Assist. Almasa Mulalic Freshman English 15 May 2014 THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE Nowadays, architecture has been a part of our life. Architecture depends on order, eurhythmy, symmetry, propriety, and economy. It is an application of thinking. Order gives due measure to the members of a work considered separately, and symmetrical agreement to the proportions of the whole. It is an adjustment according to quantity. By this I mean the selection of

  • Comparing the Role of the Noble Lie in the Iliad and the Republic

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    choices for him or herself without being influenced by godly power. This would stop interaction between the mortals and immortals, and with it, the warring between mortals. Plato’s logic of the noble lie – that a city with it in place will live in harmony ... ... middle of paper ... ...or war). As Plato says, the lie is, “one that requires a great deal of persuasion” (414c). With this persuasion, the mortals of Achaea and Troy could learn to live in peace and without fear of godly intervention

  • The Development of Harmony from Schumann through Brahms to Debussy

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    The Development of Harmony from Schumann through Brahms to Debussy In studying three composers, Schumann, Brahms and Debussy, it is possible through analysis, to construct a Harmonic development through time - from early 1800's to early 1900's. I will go about deducing a harmonic timeline by individually looking at each composer then will conclude with a final comparison summarizing how different harmonic elements develop with the Romantic Movement and its progression. The harmonic journey

  • Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum

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    between the amounts of beets of each section. While one of them has 200, the other one had 120 making a relation of 10:6 being really close to 3:2. Nonetheless, this is not the only way that there is a 3:2 relation in this part. Between the main harmony of each section and the repetition there is also a relation close enough to 3:2. Though the Missa Prolationum is one the Ockeghem’s composition in which the relation with mathematical ratios is seen, Ockeghem, and the Renaissance composers in general

  • Hoping Against Hope: An Analysis of Chopin’s Opus 69 No. 1

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    Hoping Against Hope: An Analysis of Chopin’s Opus 69 No. 1 With exquisite mingling in sound of quiet and agitation, fluidity and interruption, with a gorgeous melody of cautious, tightly contracting circles and sudden leaps into space, Chopin, the subtle-souled psychologist, opens his waltz. How does Chopin speak through his waltz? How does the music play the listener? Minds think through forms. Form follows content. Music’s structure matters. In Chopin’s Opus 69 No.1, the AA’BA’BA’CCDCDA’ structure

  • ROUSSEAU AND THE BATTLE BETWEEN FRENCH AND ITALIAN MUSIC

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    Rousseau’s ultimate conclusion is grossly unfounded. It would seem the French do have their own music, and Hippolyte et Aricie is an exemplar of eighteenth century tragédie en musique, combining several styles of accompaniment, texture, tempo, and harmony where appropriate to achieve maximum dramatic effect, and incorporating nearly everything which Rameau declared the French never possessed. Works Cited J. Peter Burkholder and Claude V. Palisca, Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6th ed. (New

  • Classical Gas, by California Guitar Trio and Cats in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin

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    musical instruments, voices, lyrics, and meaning. Two examples of this idea are “Classical Gas” by California Guitar Trio and “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin. In reference to music we can indentify specific aspects of pitch, including harmony and melody. Harmony refers to the relationship of sounds that happen simultaneously while melody refers to the relationship between sounds that occur one right after the other. “Classical Gas” has a melody, which means it has a hummable tune accompanied by

  • Overview of Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5 for Unaccompanied Flute

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    Density 21.5 Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5 for unaccompanied flute was composed in 1936 (revised in 1944) at the request of George Barrère for the première of his new platinum flute.Inspired by the flute’s capabilities, Varèse sought to showcase the platinum instrument’s full range of sound and explore its timbral capacity. Density is a monophonic work that is characterized by extreme dynamics, angular motives, timbral variety, and complex rhythms. During the span of sixty-one measures, Varèse exploits

  • Sexism

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    that men are more successful than women are. The story Tales Out of Medical School, written by Adriane Fugh- Berman, which is an account about a woman that chose not to ignore the differences that faced her, shows another side to the superficial harmony. Fugh-Berman faces sexism and discrimination at Georgetown Medical School where women are the minority. She sees the various examples of sexism from her anatomy instructors to the Academic Deans. There were classes that were only offered to men, and

  • Dominant Function In Kuchka's Music

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    another example of the usage of chromatic chords where the song starts in the ‘wrong’ harmony. The key signature indicates that the song is either in the key of G major or in E minor yet the pitches do not represent any one of those keys. Furthermore, the pitches largely do not represent a chord because the upper part is a chromatically descending parallel thirds or fifths until the music arrives at the ‘right’ harmony (fig. 24). The music arrives at a D7 chord in m. 14, however, another chromatically

  • The Hunger Game: The Power Of Music

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    When it comes to films, for the majority of moviegoers, music is perhaps the last element that people find out impressive or remarkable. It is easy for the audience to neglect the decisive role of music in the movie. Yet, the power of music should not be underestimated since it can either play as a magician that performs miracles for the movie or be a rotten apple that spoils the barrel. If a fantastic film is a splendid painting, music would be the subtle thing that colors the work and makes it

  • Duke Ellington: In A Sentimeental Mood

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    Duke Ellington: In a Sentimental Mood Background In a Sentimental Mood is a composition by Duke Ellington and was written and recorded in 1935. Analysis The song begins in a slow and introspective making use of a minor tonality. The original piece starts in the key of D Minor and follows an AABA form. The piece uses unlikely and unexpected chord changes, as well as a false key change from D Minor to D♭ Major in the first “A” section, even though this section ultimately ends in F Major. (In a Sentimental

  • Take 5 Analysis Essay

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    are five elements of music that were taught in class; the four that will be used in this paper are rhythm, melody, harmony, and texture. Rhythm is the element of music that deals with the arrangement of sounds and silences. Melody is a collection of pitches that are played in succession. Harmony is a collection of pitches that are played at the same time. Texture is how melody and harmony are combined within a piece of music. The purpose of this paper is to analyze those four elements of music of Take

  • Morfin 2nd Block's Narrative Essay 'Vibrations'

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    Julian Morfin 2nd Block Narrative, Descriptive Essay “Vibrations” -Tue 1.23.18 "Vibrations” When one plays a C-note on an instrument, he produces a vibration; this proceeds to what we recognize as sound. On a piano, when one presses a C-note followed by an E, this is known as a Melodic third. However, if one presses them together, it is considered a Harmonic third: all the way to an octave. As varied as the colors of the rainbow, the varieties of sounds, chords, and other musical arrangements one

  • How Did Blues Influence The Formation Of Popular Music?

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    If you play two or more notes at the same time you get something called a chord. Chords are essential to providing harmony for a song. A harmony is the chords that accompany the tunes. Harmony occurs whenever two or more pitches are played at the same time. The chord most fundamental to western music is the three-note triad. The most basic chords are called triads, and they contain three different notes