Karis Miller Bob Pedersen Music Appreciation November 5, 2012 Berg/Debussy/Stravinsky Chicago Symphony Orchestra The concert video that I watched was called Berg/Debussy and Stravinsky with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Pierre Boulez with soloist soprano Christine Schafer and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. On the video the full orchestra played three different composers musical works. Alan Berg, symphony selections from Lulu, there was also Claude Debussy’s Le Jet D’eau
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accented by the trumpets staccato sound. This was the crowd favorite; everyone was dancing in their seats; including my teenage daughter that I brought to the performance. My daughter had been around Jazz earlier in life but had not experienced the music lately. My daughter was just as in the moment as everyone else. Sanchez had worked the crowd into a frenzy. At this point, the timbalero became more prevalent and was striking the cymbals at every count. This was the lead into the congueros solo.
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Introduction to World Music Professor Glenn McMillan 1003 M Room gmac@mec.cuny.edu Office Hours Appointments Only 718 270 4929 Music 100 Please leave email Introduction to World Music Syllabus-Spring 2013 This course is an introduction to music and to the musical mechanics from a global perspective. There will be three aims: • to increase the students understanding of music, including its elements, structures
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Through Pravaz’s discussion on the Globalization of Musics in Transit with specific detail of the Transnational Samba, we can learn a lot about how an art form rooted so strongly in one culture can have such a profound presence in another. The Brazilian samba traveled with the migrants as they moved to Canada. The Brazilian music genre has been gaining worldwide popularity since the early 1900’s, but it was in Toronto, Canada that capoeira and samba are especially celebrated. For that reason, Pravaz
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Art may come in the form of painting, music, theater, cinema, dance and sculpture. Art is not limited to these categories, but these are the most common. As a child, my first exposure to art was in the form of music. Growing up in Western Kentucky, bluegrass played a large part of my life. My grandfather taught me to play the banjo and guitar starting at the age of 4. I first experienced painting in elementary school beginning in the 1st grade. Cinema has always been a part of my life, but I had
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attention because it was made to make music by many different bars hitting each other. The Cavalcade sculpture made by Wendell Castle is mahogany, lacewood, poplar, cooper, and gold leaf. The dimensions are 53 ½ by 21 ¼ by 17 1/2. This was made in 1989. There are many different shapes that has it owns color and identity. It wasn’t supposed to be symmetric because it makes a unique attack on gravity. The base of this piece is a blue green color and then a black longer piece that looks like it could
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Donald Medina Dr. Stroud MMUSG 101 8 February 2014 Guillaume de Machaut During the medieval era life was tempestuous for the average person; the Black Death ravaged Europe, the Roman Catholic Church was in power, and climate change caused many crops to fail often leading to famine for many towns and countries. Even though times were tough, music and song provided a welcome distraction to the many problems people were dealing with at the time. Guillaume de Machaut was not only a clergyman during
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enough seats so that no one would have to involuntarily stand. People kept coming and going, but the sensation did not change and the music stayed the same. The diversity of the audience was what made the café feel “authentic” as two audience described. Young, middle-aged, old, Black, White, Brown, Asian, American, non-American, etc. were all enjoying the same music, drinking the same coffee. Nodding, tapping on their coffee cups, humming
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Choreographed by David Parsons to a piano and fiddle duet by Kenji Bunch, the dancers were outfitted by Mia McSwain in what I assume was solid black pants and short sleeved shirts. The dramatic lighting by Howell Binkley consisted of complete darkness except two side spotlights that illuminated about a marley-wide space across the stage. The concept of this piece was absolutely captivating, due
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through my words, song and pictures Why did you select the piece of music that you did? I selected a piano cover; I believed that the best song to help my story flow was to include a piano cover sound track. Explain how the overall impact of your piece has been affected/ enhanced by the images, music and narration? The photos involved in the photo story were a mixture of black and white photos and coloured pictures, the black and white pictures I used to make it back my message of it being something
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