...I was probably 7 or 8 when I first saw Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" on MTV. We've all seen the video -- the four members of Queen on an all black screen. The song didn't make any sense to a second grader. I appreciated it a lot more when I got older -- a song about a young son telling his mother he killed a man and nothing really matters to him. The song was popular again when it was featured in "Wayne's World" and it was exposed to a new generation. A bunch of us were singing in a bar recently! It seems like even if you don't like the tune, you still know the words -- even the word "Scaramouche". Even though it was released in 1975, Queen's Freddie Mercury started working on the song in 1968. The original title was "The Cowboy Song" (Chester, 2015). He carried in his head and on a lot of scraps of paper. According to Brian May, no demo was recorded (Savage, 2015). He also said that as a rock band, it was exciting to go full tilt. Brian didn't write that riff -- Freddie wrote it on piano. In the early to mid '70s, Progressive Rock was reaching its zenith with bands like Yes and Genesis. Queen had already embraced progressive rock as one of their many influences. "Bohemian Rhapsody" parodies many different elements of opera by using bombastic choruses, sarcastic recitative and distorted Italian operatic phraseology("Bohemian Rhapsody,"Wikipedia). An embryonic version of this style had already been utilized in Mercury's earlier compositions "My Fairy King"...
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...Songs are an arrangement of poetic expressions applied into a musical composition. Most are expressed as narrative poems familiarizing the audience of an event that occurred. However, beyond narration, lyricists have implemented other idiosyncrasies of poetic devices into the lyrics. The 1980’s rock band, Queen, have three top selling songs: “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, and “Somebody to Love.” Within the lyrics, constant forms of repetition, various rhyme schemes, and narrative stories can be discovered. Repetition can be located within the lyrics of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, and “Somebody to Love.” According to the text, repetition is to carry again or repeat (Roberts 791). Doing so creates emphasis...
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...An American in Paris The movie I watched was An American in Paris. I chose this because I enjoy more of the older style musicals and it is interesting that in this time period that people were not one hundred percent focused on the war, but on musical entertainment. The 17 minute ballet sequence was incredible. It seemed like it would never end, yet was able to keep you entertained. It took one month to film and cost $500,000 to produce that one scene. I saw this question and was curious of when this scene would appear and I was surprised to see it was right at the end. The scene follows Jerry through Paris and he runs into a lot of people on his “trip”. It is like Jerry is in this dream/reality recapping his relationship with Lise. There are many types of dancing featured in these last seventeen minutes. From every scene, it is like he enters a different world inspired by famous artists. Jerry is in this constant struggle of his relationship with Lise and tries to win her back with his dancing. It is astounding that no words were sung or spoken; it was just pure musical instruments and dance. There were hundreds of dancers, not just Jerry. It looks very technical with all the dancers, but they all make it look so easy. A giant highlight in that scene is the vast amount of outfits. Their outfits are magnificent and everyone is wearing something very unique to that time period. The person that brought this scene and the whole movie to life was George Gershwin. George Gershwin...
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...Undoubtedly, the musical composition Rhapsody in Blue can be determined as one of the most recognized elements in terms of the jazz development in the 1920s; the composer, George Gershwin, combined the solo of classical pianoforte, the spirit of concert hall, and encouraging style of jazz in order to create the best-known piece of American concert music. Speaking more personally, I think that not merely the overall mood of an instrumental part underlines the uniqueness of Rhapsody in Blue but also the way how composer delivers his main messages; the stream of consciousness or “open-ended” ideas are the central reason why people frequently reinterpret the author's thoughts in entirely different ways. From my perspective, George Gershwin composed...
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...Wenxiao NIU Club Paper - HM212 It was a real pleasure to be a part of the first Hart School Big Event and do voluntary community service at Camp Still Meadows. I were assigned to clear the stable and see horses there. Since the community service is not so popular in China, I really gained a meaningful new experience in my life. The most important thing I learned from this event is volunteer service spirit. Nowadays, everyone who live in the modern society is so busy and independent that we always lament the coldness of the modern society. But some of us are still willing to help others and improve society without expecting reward, fame, benefit or privilege. As the old saying goes, “There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.” There is no doubt that volunteering community makes a contribution to our society and the people who are in need. Our personal efforts are limited, but we can make great contributions to our community. What`s more, serving the community as a volunteer is also beneficial to the ourselves. We can get a great chance to improve our communication skills with different people when providing help for others. I got to know many classmates a little better and felt more involved when I left. Also, we may get in touch with different kinds of environments as well as broaden our horizon. I learned a lot about many different sorts of subjects related to horses including everything from riding to physical care of the animals to management of barns...
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...Ariana Duenas Wednesday, 17 October 2012 Music Report “Rhapsody in blue” On September 29, 2012, the symphony Orchestra at Moorpark College had their first concert of the fall semester with special guest the horn player, Jennifer Bliman and Esther Keel on Piano. The Symphony Orchestra collectively performed three pieces during the concert. The hall was much more crowded than I expected. At the beginning of the concert, the orchestra was seated on the stage; the men wore tuxedos, and the women wore black dresses or pants. The concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra, and then the conductor made his entrance and gave a brief description of the piece that was about to be played. Alexander Borodin’s piece Symphony No. 2 in B minor was composed in the romantic period. He was a member of the group of composers called The five (or "The Mighty Handful"), who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music. It has a homophonic texture and its genre is classical music. There is a wide variety of instruments used in this piece. Among the wind instruments (woodwinds and brass) heard were bassoon, oboe, French horn, and trumpet. The strings played included the violin, viola, cello, and bass. Finally, the percussion instrument used for this piece was the timpani. This movement is broken down into four sections by tempo: Allegro, scherzo, andante, and Allegro. The allegro section begins with a fast introduction at a forte dynamic. This section is in a B minor...
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...Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Bohemian Rhapsody is a song by the British rock band Queen and it’s written by Freddie Mercury who is the lead singer. The song consists of six sections: an intro, a ballade, a guitar solo, an opera, hard rock and an outro. The song changes a lot in its style, its tone and its tempo, which is very unusual for rock music. Therefore it’s one of the most known songs even today. After Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991 it became the number one on the charts for five weeks. The intro The song starts with a cappella harmonies and describes confusion between reality and fantasy. When the piano starts Freddie Mercury starts singing “easy come, easy go, little high, little low” which embraces the dreamy atmosphere. By the end of the intro the famous cross handed piano starts in the key of Bb. The ballade The lyrics starts with a guy who’s telling his mom that killed a man with a gun which he truly regrets and by doing so he’s ruined his life. He tells her to move on as if nothing really matters and perhaps he should take charge of his own life. When he mentions that it’s time for him to face to truth and he doesn’t want to die it’s almost as if someone else is going to be responsible for his life. He’s coming clean with the things he’s done in the past. In this section, where he confesses, the music has a kind of sad tune and we can feel how depressed he is. The piano still continues the same pattern throughout the first stanza but with some small changes...
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...sound that nice, like in our band it is not usually tuned and you hear lots of imperfections. The way they played it sounded perfect. Another thing I learned was that German Opera music sound’s melodious and pleasant, not loud and ear-shattering like I thought it would be when they announced it. I didn’t even know you could play opera on instruments, I thought it was something you did with your voice, and singing. I also learned that a coronet is a song which sounds very royal, it sounded as if I was walking in a castle, at a ball or a formal party. I had many favorite parts to this performance. Overall, I enjoyed how they played in sync, with beautiful tone, and how well the performance was. However, the part when they played Bohemian Rhapsody was my favorite by far, but it also contained my least favorite part. The song has been one of my favorites since my childhood, so I immediately liked it. The song was accurate for the most part, but some places sounded too quiet compared to the real song,...
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...Mountain Dew: Selecting a New Creative Mountain Dew is a Carbonated Soft Drink Invented by Hartman Beverage Company in 1940. It’s Bright yellow / Green in color and has more sugar, Citrus flavor, and Less Carbonation as compared to the other soft drinks available in the market. It was taken over by PepsiCo in 1964 and now stands 3rd in the soft drinks category (Bruce 1) “Do the Dew!” This was a long time tag line for the Mountain Dew brand. In 1995 marketing managers for Mountain Dew realized the tag line had lost consumer interests, understanding this they changed the direction of the creative. Though the creative changed, the target market for Mountain Dew remained in line. Mountain Dew’s ad campaign between 1995 and 1999 did not live up to the brands expectations. PepsiCo decided that in 2000 Mountain Dew would be featured during the Super Bowl rather than Pepsi. This was an enormous feat, as the Super Bowl had been an influential event for advertisers for decades. It was already October 1999 for the marketing executives and decisions had to be made to get the production started. Only three advertisements were going to be chosen, two to be played during the Super Bowl and all three throughout the year 2000. There were ten initial concepts proposed and five remained. Scott Moffit, the Marketing Director for Mountain Dew, was the least senior executive and first to evaluate the concepts. Throughout the years PepsiCo managers paid close attention to music and sports as these...
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...Vivaldi's Spring Concerto (within the “Four Seasons” set) is comprised of three movements, from allegro to largo and back to allegro. The first movement ends at roughly 3 minutes 15 seconds, followed by the second movement ending at about 5 minutes 35 seconds, and the third movement concluding the concerto at 9 minutes and 12 seconds. It is a violin concerto that has a tutti made up of multiple violins, violas, cellos, bass and harpsichord. From the first movement to the last it starts with a fairly basic ritornello form (excepting the free form of the second movement), falling back to the main theme every so often in repetition and carrying what is generally a homophonic texture. The dynamics are highly contrasting based upon the depth of the major/minor key. As the portion of the piece falls into either chord primarily, be it major or minor, it tends to increase in dynamics, boosting the intensity and directly influencing the mood. During the transition, there seems to be somewhat of a fall in dynamics, with a clever drop at certain points to inherently draw the focus of the listener, along with various crescendos and decrescendos leading up to and trailing away from roughly the mid-point and end of each movement. The beat varies throughout all three movements, typically quicker in the first and the last and more subdued and slowed in the second....
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...Hunter Lee Mountain Dew Case 10/16/12 For Pepsi Co. and BBDO to choose a specific advertisement to place into a slot during the super bowl; there has to be a varying degree of analysis on different aspects to decide which ad’s to place in the slots. Certain criteria need to be satisfied by the ad that is selected; it needs to hit the target audience, get across the correct brand image, have the correct brand symbolism, needs to be a “Story” in a sense, have a good product integration, and be in line with the campaign extension. If one of the ad’s can fall into line with these certain criteria all while “symbolizing that drinking Mountain Dew is an exhilarating experience” (Gopalakrishnan). BBDO is going to need to give Mountain Dew certain ad’s choices that are based off of certain filters that are factored into the decision that Mountain Dew makes. The first is that the ad’s need to expand to new customers also while still appealing to the current users. The selected ad needs to communicate a universal appeal. As well, the creative should bring out the product benefits: energizing, quenching, and great taste, emotional benefits: exhilaration and suiting to an irreverent, daring and fun personality. The outlying problem for Mountain Dew is selecting an advertisement that suffices all these criteria, but will be able to differentiate itself from the rest of the ad’s during the super bowl. Considering the super bowl advertisement market is possibly the largest...
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...With have many books, websites, greatest hit albums, video collections, box sets, and even a stage musical about them, Queen has made a seismic effect on the music industry (“Queen”, 2006). Queen’s song “Bohemian Rhapsody” helped the music industry realize its future in music videos (Wainright, 2013). They are a very successful band, with 18 number 1 albums, 18 number 1 singles, and their legacy being continued by famous artists like Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert (“QUEEN If any act stole [...]”, 2015). Even now, about 40 years after they were initially formed, Queen is still finding new ways to continue their success. Recently, Queen toured with Adam Lambert, and even though Freddie Mercury wasn’t there, Brian May says that “the show is not an imitation” and it will be “all the things people look for in us”. Adam Lambert has been a Queen fan all his life, but recently he joined the band as their lead singer (Green, 2014). Meanwhile, drummer Roger Taylor...
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...Final Mixtape Songs: 1. Bob Dylan- Like a Rolling Stone 2. The Beatles- Hey Jude 3. Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run 4. Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter 5. John Lennon- Imagine 6. Bob Dylan/Jimmy Hendricks- All Along The Watchtower 7. Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven 8. The Beastie Boys- Fight For Your Right 9. Radiohead- Paranoid Android 10. Nirvana- Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Bob Dylan – “Like A Rolling Stone” Written in 1965, Bob Dylan’s most popular song is often cited as one of the most influential songs of the twentieth century with its accusing lyrical content delivered through Dylan’s nasally warble. While the ‘60’s are often remembered as a decade of free love and liberation, Dylan’s question of “How does it feel/To be on your own/With no direction home/A complete unknown/Like a rolling stone,” seems more menacing and sneering, as if implying that these places that this generation has idealized might have been a little harsher than many people are willing to admit. The layered composition of the song was an important stepping-stone of Dylan’s transition of acoustic folkie to world famous bandleader. The Beatles – “Hey Jude” The most popular song by the most popular band to ever exist is a slow-burning ballad written by Paul McCartney that was released in 1968 and stayed at Number One for nine weeks. The verses, which were supposedly written by McCartney to comfort John Lennon’s son Julian during his parents’ divorce...
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...24, 2016, E-Team Week Seven, Day One; “-me from LIT 2?” Katie Hehn asked. “What’s up, Sam? I missed ya buddy.” Says a ginger kid wearing a denim jacket over a worn “Save Ferris” shirt. “Well if it isn’t Mister Sideburns himself, what’s new Will Ross?” 2015, Crew Session B: Ah, Crew year, two weeks of me trying and failing to overcome my own introversion. I mean, it was less “trying”, and more “lounging-in-the-Yurts-or-the Pavilion-on-my-phone-in-my-free-time-when-I-should-have-been-interacting-with-people”. Point is, I did not make many friends that year is what I’m trying to say. The one friend I did make I’m still pretty tight with today. William Ross is basically me if I had any talent, aside from a killer air guitar duet to “Bohemian Rhapsody” during kitchen inspection. (OK, that “basically me” comment isn’t exactly true; I don’t think I could fit into the “punk” scene as well as he does, plus I’m way less chill.) Dude has basically the same taste in music and sense of humor as me. July 24, 2016, E-Team Week Seven, Day One; “Bring it in, my dude!” Will Ross enthusiastically replied. “Hold up, it’s Bill Wertsch!” June, 2016, E-Crew: I made many friends during Orientation week at Camp Ernst, from the ever sardonic Teo Fernandez to the petite misanthrope DJ, but no friendship came close to the sophomoric sophomore Will Bertsch, I mean, we were like glue. We actually met in LIT 2, but didn’t become true friends until O-Week. We became fast friends over our shared love of...
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...practice troop down to the football stadium with our usual antics, we climbed the stairs to our familiar practice field. Only, we were greeted by several “graces” as the day carried on. First of all, as we were passing through the gate, a small deceased rabbit was lying on the grass to greet us. Quite a memorable start, eh? With that set aside, we pushed on as we normally would; but, before lunchtime, we were visited by geese. It’s a bit difficult to keep focussed when there are large birds flapping around the field. Talk about a fully loaded morning. After lunch, the infamous lip sync battle took place. Just as the T.V. program is full of ridiculousness, we band kids made it just the same. From “Stayin’ Alive” to “Fergalicious” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” to “Tarantulas,” every section made themselves look even more like fools. If any event could prove how crazy the band kids were, this event would convince anyone. Sadly, the rest of the day carried along as normal (except for a small, unfortunate asthma attack). All we had left was a full run of the first movement that we had been practicing for all of band camp. As the last run of my career of band camps, I gave this performance every ounce of strength I could muster. And those three minutes passed as quickly as they came. With all of this energy running through my body, I exacted every change of direction, felt every hit, and played every moment with outstanding power. It truly was an exhilarating run. With all of rehearsal wrapped...
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