...said, "I would teach children music, physics and philosophy: but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning." Frequency, note progression in a scale, rhythms and beats, vibrations, composition, timing, expression, harmonies, tone, orchestration and melody all trigger different learning experiences within the brain. Clinical music therapy can be used as a vital tool, for improving the quality of life in individual's suffering from deficiencies in cognitive, motor, emotional and social behaviors. Music affects many parts of the brain. The auditory cortex disseminates volume, pitch, speed, melody and rhythm. Lyric memory and sounds, along with imagery associated with sounds, and...
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...WILLIAM BYRD Gradulia Andrea Campbell MUSC 311 Dr. Hugo Oct. 19 2012 Introduction William Byrd was one of the best English composers during the renaissance era. He is one of the greatest known Elizabethan composers of scared music and one of the main writers for the virginals. He wrote many different forms of music that were popular in England at the time. Some of these include sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard, and consort music. He was known for taking main music forms and giving them his own identity. Since Byrd lived for a long time, he encountered many forms of vocal and instrumental music in which he gave his own style. Many of his pieces reflect the emotions he was feeling during a certain time. The biography of William Byrd can be seen through his early life, personal life, professional life, and of course through his publications. Biographical and Background of William Byrd William Byrd was born in 1543 in Lincoln, London. He was the son of Thomas Byrd. He had four sisters and two older brothers, Symond and John, who were both choristers at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Throughout his younger years, Byrd was greatly influenced by music. He grew up in the Chapel Royal where he studied music with Thomas Tallis. After Byrd spent many years at the Chapel Royal, he continued to stay with Tallis as his assistant. Byrd had a love for composing and stringed instruments. In 1563 he was appointed organist and master of the choristers at the Lincoln Cathedral. Seven...
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...advice of a competent legal, tax, accounting or other professional should be sought. The author and publisher do not warrant the performance, effectiveness or applicability of any sites listed or linked to in this Ebook. All links are for information purposes only and are not warranted for content, accuracy or any other implied or explicit purpose. www.LearningToPlayPiano.net 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents...............................................................................................2 Chapter 1 – Why Play the Piano?......................................................................3 Chapter 2 – Looking at the Piano......................................................................4 Chapter 3 – The Home Keys and A to G...........................................................4 Chapter 4 – What Are Scales?...
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...alternative. This piece will explore the effects of musical therapy for lessening symptoms of depression through evidence-based practice. A clearly stated and answerable clinical question is a critical step when developing a research study. To assist in developing the question a PICO principle is used. This principle identifies four key elements to consider, which guide and structure the answerable clinical question. The elements are: Population, Intervention, Comparator and Outcome (Hastings & Fisher, 2014). PICO question development When treating the elderly (aged 65 and older) with symptoms of depression (P), does engaging in a complementary intervention such as music therapy (I), in comparison to anti-depressant medications (C), have a greater effect on decreasing the symptoms of depression (O)? Identifying the population determines the target patient or process of interest. In this case, geriatrics or older adults (aged 65 and older) with depression is specific and marks it achievable to locate information that is relevant to the clinical question. The intervention is a guide to the best practice to be assessed, for example, music therapy as being an effective alternative to improve symptoms of depression. A comparator is essential to review the most effective form of practice, for instance, reviewing anti-depressant medications as the most or least effective practice. Finally an outcome is provided to clearly understand the success of the clinical question...
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...Movements in Music 6Famous Composers of the Post-Romantic Period IMPRESSIONISM * 1890-1940 * The Impressionist music style was found during the ninetieth century to the beginning of the twentieth century in France * The Impressionist style was a reaction to the romanticism style * It wants to make an impression, not clearly describe the tone of the music Characteristics * It uses whole tone scales as opposed to major and minor scales as the romantic style used in the past * It involves a lot of dissonance- chords weren’t used to relieve tension as they had in the past * It includes short melodies that have different moods throughout each piece Claude Debussy * August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918 * French composer * Music was not centered around one tone or pitch, he used symbolism * Used many parallel chords and unprepared modulations * Music was usually about events that occurred in his life * Clair de Lune was one of his most famous works * Considered the Father of Impressionist movement in music * Formulated the 12-tone scale and changed how instruments were used for orchestration * Entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 10, he won the 1884 Prix de Roma at the age of 12 * He sought a style of composition that was free from conventional musical forms and often used descriptive title. * His music was usually about events that occurred in his life * Musical works * Image * Jeux * Madame Bovary Maurice Ravel...
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...primarily folk rock. Folk-rock is described as taking “the simple, direct songwriting style of folk music” and then combining it to a “prominent rock & roll backbeat” (Pop/Rock, n.d.). Some of the more distinct parts of folk-rock “is the chiming, ringing guitar hooks, coupled with clear vocal harmonies” (Pop/Rock, n.d.). Therefore most folk/rock is primarily composed of release patterns. During the 1950s and ’60s, American folk music became more and more popular (Holden, 2007). It was inevitable that folk music would become intersected with more mainstream styles of music like pop and rock.. Rock music also was transformed by its intersection with folk. Although previously rock “had been perceived...
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...ivory keys. After I scan my music, I shut my eyes and play the first note or chord. The music takes me on a journey, and allows me to transform from scared and nervous to completely relaxed and confident in the music I am playing. The first sounds of the piano lead me into a place of serenity, and prepare me for the vocals, which I begin shortly after the piano introduction. As I take another breath, I produce my own vibration and begin to sing. As the words and melody of “All of Me” by John Legend resonate through me, I am caressed by an everlasting bliss. At this moment, my brain detaches from reality, as if I am in a dream. Sitting on a chair performing with a piano backing up my voice and expressing myself through music is a place where I am nothing but content. With each note I play and word I sing, I feel enlightened. It is special that I have a place to engulf myself in, my own little haven. I lose myself and all of a sudden it’s the last note. I look up from the music and the keys, and the roaring and clapping from the crowd snap me back to reality. Throughout my childhood I have been brought up with music. It has been something generations of my family have used to cope with any difficulties that came their way, express themselves, and to learn more about who they are as a person throughout their life. My mother grew up with music playing throughout her home continuously. As she left her home, she went on to be the lead singer of a band throughout her college life at Michigan...
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...Music, know one really knows how it affects us in life. It affected me since the first time I ever touched a key on a piano, moved a slide on a trombone, strummed a string on a guitar and heard the sound of a drum after a quick hit. Last year in October The University of Memphis held a march with the mighty sound of the south and invited high schoolers to go play and march with them on the field. The morning I had to wake up super early which was kinda different from my normal Saturdays of sleeping in till around noon unless it’s competition season which ended early last year. As we arrived people were already there and getting set up and talking. Then the band director came out and greeted everyone as we stood in a weird circle around him....
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...How did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart change music? That is what this research paper will be about. To me, Mozart’s music is at level of perfection that is unreached by any other composer. Unlike most composers where a composer would only excel in one aspect of music, Mozart excelled in all aspects of music. Mozart had melodic grace like Handel, harmonic complexity like Bach and intellectual developmental techniques as well as emotional content like Beethoven. Mozart also reigned supreme in all styles of music including: fugue, sonata, symphony, concerto, opera, choral music, cannon and cetera. Mozart could do anything. However from what I have learned, there is something deeper inside his music moving as a fundamental undertone throughout his music and ability. As I analyzed the works of the other great composers of this time like Bach, Beethoven and Handel, I noticed how these composers methodically and systematically wrote their music. For example, the sharp melodies and odd intervals in a Bach fugue suggest that his melodies are harmonically born. Bach wrote his music with a harmonic mindset and writes his melodies so that they fit his harmonies. In the opposite way, Handel wrote his music in a way that his harmonies are derived from his melodies. Beethoven had a very logical approach to his music. Starts off with a short theme and that forms the basis of the rest of the movement. So in saying all this, what I mean is their music was manageable. However, with Mozart...
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...Introduction Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German pianist and composer. He was a figure in Western art music in Classical to Romantic era transition. His Compositions He was taught music and often soundly beaten by his father Johann - a music teacher and by a fellow composer Haydn after he moved to Vienna in 1792. His hearing began to deteriorate in his mid-twenties, and by the last decade of his life he became almost totally deaf. He gave up performing and conducting in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from this period. His symphonies were composed as follows: Symphony 1 was composed in Key C, symphony 2 in key D, symphony 3 in Key E flat and titled “Eroica”. ”Eroica” helped redefine symphony as a genre of music. It was first performed in 1804. Symphony 4 was composed in Key B flat, symphony 5 in C minor, symphony 6 in Key F and titled “Pastoral”. Symphony 7 was composed in Key A. Symphony 8 was composed in Key F and symphony 9 in D minor and was titled, “Choral”. The ninth symphony included a chorus. It was very popular since it was with this symphony that a composer used choral voices in a major symphony. His opera was titled, “Fidelio”. It was composed in the ‘middle period’ of Ludwig’s career and it went on through many revisions and rewrites. By the time of his death, he had the following compositions: 1 Opera, 9 Symphonies, 31 orchestral works, 77 choral works, 87 Songs and 92 chamber pieces. He...
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...struggling throughout the years I’ve been in school to pass an English or composition class. I did, however, find one subject that I could connect with those subjects that helped me understand and progress as a reader and a writer ¾ Music class. As a kid in elementary school, we had basic music classes, and my first memory in a music class was learning to play the recorder. Our teacher taught the class how to hold, and position each finger over the holes of the recorder to make different sounds. At this age, is was hard to harmonize, considering it was our first year learning an instrument. There was no reading or writing when it came to playing the instruments, but with music, a story can be made. For example, half the class would play our recorders in sync with one another, and other students in the class would play percussion. With the rhythm of the music combined, the feel and sound of the music gives the audience a feel of a different environment, such as feeling as though you are taking a journey through an Indian village, or celebrating the first fourth of July in America. As I progressed through the year, music classes turned into singing as well. In order to know the words that we were singing, we had paperback music, which had music lines, notes, and words for us to...
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...across the keys creating a word of my own invention. My eyes were closed I did not need to see to know which note came next nor which chord to use for a harmony. This song was my own a tale of my life. Composing is the only outlet I have ever needed in order to get thoughts and emotions off my chest. I take comfort in the art of written music that I have created. There is always a symphony in my head playing to fill the discomfort of silence and if I listen hard enough eventually everything has a song. Songs and music tell stories they start, have conflict, have a climax, and then have some sort of ending. Music has the power to change lives, bring people together, and express what words cannot. Plato once said, “Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”...
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...MARKETING CASE STUDY OF JUSTIN BIEBER Justin Bieber is signed by Island, Island Teen, RBMG, schoolboy and def jam record label. They are all universal music groups. One of the main record labels Justin Bieber was signed by is Island record. Island record is a major record label, which operates as a division of Universal Music Group. Island records was found by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica and has been located in the UK since 1962. The record brand consists of three brands in the world; Island UK, Island US and Island Australia. This is mainly due to the labels significant legacy. Over the years, the company have managed a wide selection of popular musicians such as Demi Lovato, Tiao Cruz, Avicii and many more other famous singers. Furthermore, Island Record also own subsidiary labels such as: Apollo Recordings, Teen Island, Mercury Records and many other labels. Island Record market their bands and artists mainly through websites, by updating regularly on band and artists. Justin Bieber is a songwriter and singer. He produces pop, teen pop and R&B music. His target audience is teenage girls between the ages of 12-19 year old; this is because most of his songs contain cheesy pop lyrics, which attract the attention of girls. Also, he produces songs that are deep and many teenage girls are able to relate to: e.g. most of his songs are related to heartbreaks. Justin Bieber became famous through YouTube. In early 2007, Justin Bieber was aged...
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...Katie Tousignant ENG 215: 5XA Gothic Art/Music Symphonie Fantastique Hector Berlioz composed the Symphonie Fantastique in 1820. Between 1930 and 1855, he made quite a few changes to his original composition. In the 1845 version of Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz set out to depict a few important scenes in the life of an artist through the music. He split the symphony into five different parts: dreams, a ball, scene in a country-side, the march to the scaffold, and dream of a witches Sabbath. In the 1855 version, Berlioz put a little more thought into the artist’s life. The artist became a musician, one of “of morbid sensitivity and ardent imagination poisons himself with opium in a moment of despair caused by frustrated love.” (Austin) The musician takes a dose of narcotic and while it does not kill him, it puts him into a deep sleep, whereupon his thoughts and such become musical thoughts and images. The symphony itself seemed to have a great impact on the general audience. In Memoirs, Berlioz said “Three movements of the symphony, the Ball, the March to the scaffold and the Witches’ Sabbath caused a sensation. The March to the scaffold in particular took the audience by storm.” (Austin) Obviously, the audience of this era greatly enjoyed most of Symphonie Fantastique. The two parts they did not like prompted Berlioz to edit his symphony even more. The symphony itself had even greater impact, through it, Berlioz helped to “usher in the Romantic era that would characterize...
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...What I Hear When I Listen to Billie Holiday’s “Billie’s Blues” Tyler Brady Intro to Music: Term Paper Dr. Burns In the 19th century, a very prominent genre and musical form emerged from the Deep South of America; often defined as a repetitive and poetic music structure derived from jazz, blues music became an influential role in the astounding American identity. On the basis of originality and artistry, Billie Holiday is noted as one of the most influential jazz and blues singers. Throughout a dark life of poverty, drugs and adversity that arose from sexism and racism, Billie Holiday turned to her passion of music and singing. One of “Lady Day’s” most well-known pieces was recorded in 1936 and was titled “Billie’s Blues” This piece is structured as a 12-bar blues piece with a short introduction and six choruses. Throughout this blues song, there is a repetitive and invigorating harmonic pattern present. “Billie’s Blue’s” reflects a very laid back style through Holiday’s signature “lazy” style using many jazz embellishments such as blue notes; moreover, these melodies sung by Billie Holiday, as well as the two improvised solos performed by Bunny Berigan and Arty Shaw, are extremely artistic and original. In despite of a poverty stricken life filled with drug abuse and adversity, Billie Holiday was able to establish herself as a prominent blues and jazz singer; she was able to display this in “Billie’s Blues,” a 12-bar blues piece, with exceptional use of harmony...
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