preferences and experiences have expanded into a wider musical spectrum. Music has always been an important aspect of my life, and it continues to influence and shape my personal and social aspects of life. As a child I was exposed to country and Rock & Roll music from the 1960’s and 70’s. My mother was re...
The piano, created by Bartolomeo Christofori in 1709, has impacted our society by becoming a popular instrument and a popular medium for musicians to create musical masterpieces. Also called the pianoforte, the piano is one of the most beautiful sounding instruments that can range in sound from as low as a gust of wind, to as high as the shrill sound of a bird. It has evolved over time and become an amazing instrument. The piano was accepted very well in history and it has generated many changes
considered one of the most decorative and popular styles of music. Ragtime can best be described as a solo instrument style, usually consisting of a piano. As a means of income, many early Ragtime musicians would produce and sell their own music and have them published onto piano rolls in which they could be played in perosonally owned pianos. These piano rolls allow a new and large group of individuals to be exposed to the sounds of ragtime. Multiple moderns forms of music have derived form original ragtime
“Player Piano,” by John Updike is an example of light verse poetry focusing specifically upon the thoughts of a player piano. Updike effectively allows the reader to explore 'player piano's thoughts through personification, meter, rhyme, and diction. The poem commences with assonance which is the lack of vowel sounds in order to create rhyming phrases or sentences. The three-stanza poem, mostly in dactylic tetrameter, describes the player piano in creative diction, allowing the reader to experience
Matteo Carcassi - Caprice Matteo Carcassi was a famous Italian guitarist and composer. Carcassi first studied the piano, but learned guitar when still a child. He spent most of his time in Paris, but in 1823 he performed concerts that made him famous as a guitarist and a teacher. His talents were not recognized in Paris partly due because Fedinando Carulli was there at the time. Caprice is part of the Méthode complète pour Guitare(Complete Method For Guitar) Op.59, which has 3 sections. He dedicated
History of the Piano The piano has seen many sights and has been a part of countless important events in the past and present, and is said to have dominated music for the past 200 years (Welton). Throughout history, inventions come along that "take art away from princes and give it the people" (Swan 41). Not unlike the printing press, the piano made what was once intangible possible: the poorest of peasants could enjoy the same music that their beloved rulers did. The piano can be played
master of bebop and piano music Thelonious Monk. Monk opens with “Lulu’s Back in Town” in both performances and showcase some of the most popular of his songs; Blue Monk, ‘Round Midnight, Don’t Blame Me, and Epistrophy. Everybody gets a chance to shine on these songs. Every musician is allotted time specifically to perform multiple solo acts, often improvising on the initial theme of the song. Dissonance plays a major role in the performance, especially from Monk on the piano; enough dissonance to
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in the Soviet Union where she began classical training on the piano at the age of 6. When she was 9 years old, her family emigrated to the United States where she continued her classical training into her teenage years; she began to write original songs shortly thereafter. After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes, particularly the
This was a live concert in Belgium performed in the year 1957. The lead singer was Ella Fitzgerald, performed with a band of instrumentalists. The instruments in the band included the piano, guitar, bass, drums, and the trumpet. The first song performed by Ella Fitzgerald was Angel Eyes. This is a beautiful song that gives the listener a calm, peaceful feel. This song was further enhanced by Ella Fitzgerald’s soft, silky voice that creates an angelic feel to the song. Additionally
Playing the piano is more than just exaggerated hand movements and intense body language. It’s the joy of making music, the liveliness of a room full of people crowded around you while you pluck a tune, singing and smiling. Warm, like a picnic in the summer. It’s also the wordless friend, when luck strikes with an idea, or when things get hard and playing provides a short escape with its sounds. The piano is simply just a mystery. There’s a song in there, lost in the halls of those black and white
to be a folk music. The music piece is managed to be divided into three sections, prophecy, profanation, and lamentation. The song starts with a solo horn fading in slowly playing over for couple seconds until a solo flute takes the roll along with a softer drum roll leading to a gathering of bassoons and clarinets.Also, the trombone enters in a high pitch increasing the song tempo.The melody throughout the song was lead by the flutes in first and then by the violins. The symphony ends with a three-note
Most of Gershwin's early childhood was spent playing sports, which he was good at, and it interested him. It wasn't until Gershwin was 12 years old when he first felt his calling as a musician. It all started when his family purchased an upright piano and Gershwin quickly learned to play it. Uninterested in his regular academic studies, Gershwin focused primarily on studying the theory of music and harmony. Gershwin never even completed high school. Continuing his musical studies with a composer
figure is in perpetual motion: now he stamps with his feet, now waves his arms in the air, now waves his arms in the air, now he does this, now that." Franz Liszt, was born on October 22, 1811, In the Hungarian town of Raiding. Liszt was taught to play piano at a very young age by his father, who was also very involved in music. His father, Adam played the cello, and many other instruments, as he was a very passionate musician. Adam taught Franz to the extent that he was giving concerts by the age of nine
score orchestrator. He was born to Jewish immigrants. His father was born in Holíč, immigrating to the United States in 1935 to work as a set designer and art director. His mother was born to a distinguished Canadian family. Horner began playing piano at the age of five. He studied at the Royal College of Music. When he returned to the United States in the early 1970s, he attended Verde Valley School in Arizona. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Southern California
instrument. My fingers moved fluidly with the ‘click’ of each key as I navigated through each musical phrase with ease. The notes resonated and bounced throughout the room in perfect harmony with the piano. I closed my eyes while my body naturally swayed with
Schumann and Mendelssohn, who greatly influenced his style. Four years later, he emerged as a full fledged musician and began composing. It was at age 25 that Grieg composed one of his most famous and celebrated works; The Piano Concerto in A minor. The As the thunderous rolls of the timpani and the fortissimo A minor chords began this composition I could feel the confidence, power, and energy radiating from it. Throughout its duration, the piece held an air of power and energy, even during the
studious young man, an open book these two images swirl around the screen in a kaleidoscope effect, this was the introductory scene of "Good Will Hunting." This scene is followed by Ben Afflick, knocking on Will's door, when Will comes out a credit rolls by that says, "screenplay written by Ben Afflick and Matt Damon," just as the two walk side by side. This shows how perfectly the makers of this movie have everything timed, down to the credits. Also, the timing shows when the professor's assistant
his audience love it. He used the simplest and most realistic example of how it sounds when a child plays piano at the age of seven and then how the impulses reduced and he started playing better each year with continuous practice and then how
The piano lesson is an old movie based off a piano as willie boy and Lymon came into town in a truck with full of watermelons on the back to sell they came to see there old friends and family but all awhile willie boy plans is to sell the piano so that he can buy land from sutter. Bernice is not going for selling the piano at all due to it being something valuable to the family so its becomes a task for him. In addittion now there's a ghost in the house which suppose to be sutter as thw ghost appears
Race and Representation in the Film Jedda Jedda, Australia’s first colour film, created in 1955 by Charles Chauvel deals with an Aboriginal child adopted by a white grazing family. As she grows up, Jedda is tempted more and more to return to her people. Seduced by the wild Marbuck, she partakes in the film's tragedy, played out against a spectacular landscape. This essay seeks to discuss the representations of the Australian landscape as portrayed in the film Jedda, highlighting the use of filmic