...I am like a melody. A melody is an arrangement of sounds that makes up a musical piece. It is considered the foreground to the background. No one wants to listen to a song that doesn’t have a nice melody. (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"),[1] also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody. Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs, and are usually repeated throughout a song or piece in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominantly conjunct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape. A melody is a group of rhythmic tones. A pleasing arrangement of sounds. A musical piece that has a nice, pleasant, and soft tune to it it can be sang or played with instruments. A rhythmically organized sequence of single tones so related to one another as to make up a particular phrase or idea A melody can be a song in your heart. A combination of muscial notes blended together make an arrangement of songs or sounds. Most time...
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...sections; a slow section and a fast section. The piece is in duple metre and has a pulse throughout the piece although during the first motive, the presence of the pulse is questionable (mainly because of expressive purposes). The prominent motive for the first section is SL (SL) SSSL (SL) LSSSL (SL). For the whole piece, there are a number of different subdivisions for every beat as the piece continues and develops so quickly and so often. Although, common subdivisions for the piece are two and four. The piece began slow with its first motive and elaborated and transformed until a spontaneous re-appearance of the first motive. Though seldom, the theme is extended by a spinning and varied continuation of the basic motive. In this piece, the melody tends to achieve balance. Through subdivision, it avoids growing unrest and supports comprehensibility by limitation. Thoroughly dramatic, the piece included a series of key modulations. The second section began quietly yet quick with tempo, slightly recalling a theme from the first section. The theme develops as the tempo increases as with volume with crescendos to reach a point where a seemingly new motive enters. This new motive enters after the momentum gain and outbursts in its new main theme. This theme is followed by a calm development and continuation. The piece continues on to a greater tempo and an accumulation of octaves of notes accompanied by a crescendo are played for a significant conclusion. On a poetic note, the...
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...I picked “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by Rolling Stones. The song released in 1965 and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it. The song starts with a guitar riff that consists three notes. This melody continues until the end of the song and it is very catchy. Lyrics are presented in a rhythmic way in the beginning and they have like a call and response relationship with the guitar. I choose this song for my paper because I listened to a lot of songs for this paper but this song has the most memorable melodies in terms of the lyrics and the guitar for me. The song starts with a close range melody in the first verse but it opens in the first bridge. Moreover, when we arrive to the chorus, it becomes a wide ranged melody and the chorus is definitely higher than the verse. From the verse to the chorus, this increase in the melody is building an expectation and it gives a natural feel of build up. Especially the bridge is getting higher and higher into the chorus. As a result, the melody is lifting before arriving the chorus, building a great approach to the chorus. The wide range of the chorus is giving the listeners a rebellious feel and it supports the lyrics. Moreover, there is prosody throughout the song. The song based on the three-note guitar riff and the lyrics are very similar to the pattern. The lyrics are using some long notes with some sharp, staccato notes like the guitar riff. Particularly in the chorus, two staccato notes are occurring in the same time with...
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...NOTICE TO CANDIDATE The work you submit for assessment must be your own. If you copy from someone else, allow another candidate to copy from you, or if you cheat in any other way, you may be disqualified from at least the subject concerned. Declaration by candidate - I have read and understood the Notice to Candidate (above). I have produced the attached work without assistance other than that which my teacher has explained is acceptable within the specification. Candidate’s signature: …………………………………………………………… Date: ………………………… Composition 1 (Western Classical Tradition) – Title: Stimulus (to be completed by candidate). | General details of composing (to be completed by candidate). Include exact details of how composing software was used (samples/loops/use of arrangement facility, etc). For live performances candidates must provide exact details of their individual contribution during the recording process. | SUPERVISION AND MONITORING: Composition 1 (Western Classical Tradition).The following three sections are to be completed by the candidate and countersigned by the teacher during the composition process to show development and progress. | CHECK 1Describe the planning and opening draft, including any advice received during the initial stages of the composition. | Teacher signature: Date: | CHECK 2Explain the process of...
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...octaves. To show the musical link between the two cultures I will use these two songs; Cantiga 166 (western) and Ravi Shankar- Tarana (Indian classical). In Indian classical culture the music is based around a single melody line called ragas which makes it monophonic. The song I chose to represent Indian classical is Tarana. Tarana is made by Ravi Shankar who plays Carnatic music which is one of two main sub-genres of Indian classical music. The song Tarana is a duet between a man and a woman. The song starts out with an instrument solo but as the solo progresses the music becomes monophonic. Then the singers join with their monophonic style singing which lasts throughout the song. There are also points in the song where the singers and the instruments interact in a monophonic battle. In the medieval culture music was very scared and secular but also monophonic. The song I chose was Cantiga 166. This song is singed in both the duplication of the octave and the note is sung in unison. Like the Tarana this song starts out with an instrument solo the goes into a monophonic playing followed by the vocals. The instruments are sometimes played in a monophonic style which often follows the vocals after their monophonic melodies. In both songs the monophonic melody is often repeated and followed by the monophonic playing of the instruments. So it is wise to say that even though...
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...Breno Schmidt 6/28/2013 MUS 111 Foundations in Music Reading & Listening: Prelude and Chapters 3 & 4. Chapter 3: Repetition On this chapter the author explain about all different kinds of Repetition that the composers can use on the Music. The author gave an example how composers construct musical phrases. But this also can be problematic. And they have also a three fundamental units of musical speech: Motive (shortest division of theme or phrase), Phrase (three fundamental units of musical speech) and Period (can be short or long until the harmonic come to a close. Exact repeats depends what the composer wants on the music or they can variate the kinds of repetitions. The transposed repeats are made up of exact repeats of a motive, like in the example on the chapter 1 (Haydn). Also, the author compared an example to see about function of repetitions on Haydn’s. Haydn after 2 beats of silence, the gesture repeats the same. The notes are completely the same, but the meaning now it’s completely different. On music repeat a lot times means what it matters. Vocabulary: Repeat: To say again. Startles: To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. Grunt: To utter a deep guttural sound Sublime music: Inspiring awe; impressive. Compositional: The combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole. Chapter 4: “Comma, Semicolon, Period.” On this chapter 4, the author compared music as the way we speak. When we write a speech or a poem we need to write with pauses...
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...The choice used to be an easy one. Those who could afford it chose the city. Those who wanted more space for their bucks chose the lower borough. That is no longer true these days. With sale prices and especially rents rising sharply in Brooklyn, many home-seekers are finding that popular Brooklyn neighborhoods no longer come at the discount they’re expecting. Let’s look at rentals. The June issue of The Real Deal analyzed market data and found that rents have been rising much faster in Brooklyn than in Manhattan, significantly narrowing the pricing gap between the two boroughs. In March, the median rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in prime Brooklyn neighborhoods jumped 11.3 percent from the same month of last year, according to Prudential Douglas Elliman’s report. By contrast, the median rental price for Manhattan rose by 6.7 percent. When it comes to sales, there is no longer a dramatic price difference between many Brooklyn neighborhoods and comparable areas of Manhattan. According to StreetEasy, the median asking price for a Brooklyn Heights apartment has risen 37.8 percent in the past five years to $792,500 while the median price in the West Village rose by only 4.34 percent during that same period, to $895,000. Additionally, Elliman’s data shows that in the first quarter, the median sales price for a Brooklyn apartment shot up 14 percent year-over-year, while the median price in Manhattan rose just 5.9 percent. And at least one popular Brooklyn neighborhood...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B Picture the Supply Chain Complete the chart below by outlining the digital content supply chain at Warner Bros. Entertainment. Upstream Component (sourcing/procurement) Internal Component (packing/assembly manufacturing) Downstream Component (distribution) Hewlett-Packard is the primary partner used to transform the studio’s entire film production and distribution process to an all-digital, file-based system, and to create an information technology architecture to make this process possible. The studio has a film and digital version for all its films, which also includes all of the royality rights. This is refered to by Warner Bros. as its E-Master which are stored on servers at Warner Bros. Warner Bros. in 2006 produced more than 25,00 different DVEs and delivered more than 180 hours of video programming weekly through its global digital exchange. They also produced and distributed more than 50 television series and digitized more than 6,00 feature films in its storage vaults for DVD releases. The creation of the E-masters enables Warner to utilize any channel to reach the consumer including their website and most retailers. The company also has an online Web initiative that will enable fans of various cartoon shows such as Looney Tunes to download new, interactive content, related games, and flash animations of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other popular characters. ...
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...road and never look back. They travelled from coast to coast, working odd jobs here and there for extra cash. Crashing at dingy motels on nights that seemed endless. This was his life now and he never seemed to mind. The first motel he stayed at was called Melody Inn. They always had little tunes playing in the lobby and he still found himself humming them under his breath every once in a while. The name Melody was suiting as he always found comfort in the soft melodic sounds of the...
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...You may call it Pop Music but it makes me sick! P-Diddy, J-Lo, Britney Spears, Vanilla Ice, ABBA; it's all the same to me. Just some cheap music written by an Accountant, performed by a moron and packaged for an all too naïve pre-teen audience. Perhaps you like Pop Music, I don't. It's music that tastes great, easily digested, but only to become tomorrow's shit. One week it's J-Lo and her new hit single, the clothes she's wearing, her unstable relationships. Week after she's clichéd, blasé, the butt of jokes...old-school. Now here comes (insert any name here) who is fresh, a driving force in a new artistic form, cool, hip, dressing flashy, everyone and their sister is singing their tunes. J-LO is out, (insert any name here) is in. This is the life of a Pop phenom. I hate this music because it's cheap: the melody's are too simple, the lyrics too predictable and juvenile, it's life is short-lived. One week the nation is dancing to the tune, in the next everyone denies even liking the song. Something else is in... hip. This music is created by venture capitalists who hire professional song writers or who write the material themselves. Next they hire some unknown talent and sign them to an unreasonable contract. They book time in a studio, record the song and heavily promote their “new wonder kind” to every 12-year old in the country who wouldn't know any better. They plaster their “wonder kind” on backpacks, lunch boxes, sell their 50-page biographies, and film them for an upcoming...
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...the 1980s. It is the last in a series of three compositions for soloists playing along with pre-recorded multi-track tape loops. These loops being repeated leaves the note addition and resultant melody to the performer and the performing of it has been compared to playing in an ensemble with yourself. The piece is in binary form (AB) with 4 sections within the A and B sections and it ends with a Coda. At the start of the piece there is tonal ambiguity with hints at the key of E minor but this does not become clear until the bass guitar is introduced in part two of the A section. The three chord progressions used in A-3 are C Bm E5, C D Em and C D Bm. These chords make it clearer that the piece’s tonality is modal, specifically the E aeolian mode, because there is no F# in Em (as in the D chord) but there is in the aeolian mode. The most obvious indicator that the B section has begun is the change in key from E minor to C minor- and the piece switches between these keys frequently as the B section develops. The texture of the piece begins monophonically with a single guitar which starts as a one bar ostinato and then is full by bar six by using the note addition technique. Then layers are added and it becomes a four part guitar canon where the live guitar plays the resultant melody and it becomes polyphonic overall. In A-2 the bass guitar is introduced using the same note addition technique as the guitar and it is unusually panned to both speakers. After that in A-3 when...
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...Song Style Sheets: English Songs Composer: Stephen Foster Date: 1826 – 1864 Song: “Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair” Melody: • Phrases are short and strophic • Range: C4 – F5 Tessitura: D4 – D5 • Melody is very tonal • Lyric Recitative Harmony: • Harmony is very tonal and remains in the same key • Song is in the key of F major Rhythm: • Tempo is Moderato • In common time 4/4 • Uses a lot of dotted rhythms especially in the melody Accompaniment: • 4 measure prelude, 4 measure interlude, and a 4 measure postlude • Uses primarily block chords during verses, but uses running eighth notes on the prelude, interlude, and postlude • Linear texture with contrapuntal texture on certain areas Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song was written for his wife during their separation and then was published when they got back together Composer: Stephen Foster Date: 1826 – 1864 Song: “Beautiful Dreamer” Melody: • Phrases are fairly short • Range: D4 – F5 Tessitura: Eb4 – Eb5 • Melody is tonal minus the use of the E natural in the melody • Lyric recitative and strophic Harmony: • Song is in the key of Eb major • Primarily tonal and voice hangs with the accompaniment Rhythm: • Tempo is Moderato • In triple compound meter 9/8 • Uses dotted rhythms but not as a stutter rhythm, just as extended notes ...
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...something so complicated when in actuality, it can be accomplished easily if simplified into three manageable components. Melody and chord progression are inarguably the most important part of any song. They are the foundation around which everything is based upon. Lyrics often vary in difficulty depending on the meter of the melody. It can be the difference...
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...cerebral palsy. melody can't speak and can not move. She is almost 11 and still hasn't spoken a word.I believe that seventh graders should read Out Of My Mind because it teaches them several lessons about to feel empathy for others,to be kind and be grateful for what you have. I believe that 7th grader should read Out Of My Mind because it demonstrates several examples of empathy for others. Empathy is very important,especially for middle schoolers.Feeling empathy is when someone puts there self in your position. For example teachers and parents always put their self in your position , like if you are having a problem in a subject. Empathy is mostly happens in Out Of My Mind when melody's mom defends her against Mr.Dimming.What happens is that The Wiz Kids were suppose to have a flight and melody wasn't there.The Wiz Kids left earlier on purpose to leave melody . Mr.Dimmings insults melody and says that Melody was the smartest kid on the team.He said the key word was “was”. Melody's mom yells at him and hangs up. Melody's mom put herself in melody's position. When I read Out Of My Mind I saw many examples of empathy towards melody. Another reason where this book shows empathy is when melody puts herself in her moms and dads position. Mom accidently runs over penny.It is some what both of the...
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... It seems as if the arrangement of the piece agrees with each other. What I liked about the piece is its flow. One thing I disliked is that the piece overall did not change as much as I would like. My overall impression of the piece is that I can identify elements that are still being used in modern music. * Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750) * The Art of the Fugue, No. 11 * Four-part fugue for keyboard solo or individual instruments In this piece I heard a more fluid sound and a more upbeat characteristic. The use of rhythm was used a lot in this piece. The dominant sound in the piece was recurring throughout the song. The melody was also used very well in this piece. It makes identifying the central musical idea stand out. What I liked best in this musical theme was the opening sequence. It was a simple melody but very unique to the rest of the piece. What I did not like was that the piece was very long and it seemed like it dragged on. As in the last piece I can see how this piece has influenced music over the years. Romantic Selections * Romanticism * Schubert, Franz (1797–1828) * Landler, No. 2, Waltz for piano. In this piece what I immediately heard was the use of the piano. Rhythm was used in this piece greatly. The patterns in this piece were identifiable immediately as soon as the piece began. I...
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