The Aesthetic Pleasure of Art: The Elements of Art 1. Line- Can be endless, diagonal, horizontal, thick, thin, way or straight. A line is made using a writing tool such as a marker, crayon or pencil. 2. Space- The distance around, above, below, between and inside of things. 3. Value- The lightness or darkness of an object or color. 4. Texture- How the object (art) looks or feels. 5. Shape- Natural or geometric. Can also be the length or height of an object. 6. Form- The depth
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class. A few minutes after 8 PM the conductor walked out, and then he talked about the program that was going to be played. He then got into his position and picked up his stick and began to conduct Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. The music starts off slow and smooth as it felt like doves flying the sky in a Disney movie. About two minutes into the piece Ingrid Fliter begins to play her piano solo. While she was playing she looked so calm and poised. I tried to picture myself in the
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Assessment in music classrooms” As many American students have a difficulty to reach a goal of testing standard makes music teachers are required to add the reading and writing skills in their classrooms. Maria Stefanova has provided some options to solve this problem in the article called “Developing Critical Thinking and Assessment in music classrooms”. It was published in May, 2011 by American String Teacher. In the article, she presents five classroom strategies to fill the gap between music and literacy
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The Genius Trane "[Charlie Parker] winked at Coltrane, and said, 'I like your name, my man. It reminds me of a quality brand of English muffins" (Thomas, 37). J.C. Thomas, in his book Chasin' the Trane: the Music and Mystique of John Coltrane, provides the reader with a background of the life and times of John Coltrane, going through various aspects of how he got started, his influences, his conflicts, and other pertinent areas. Throughout the book, Thomas supplements his commentary with hundreds
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genre known as performance art. Instead, it is a mix of all three forms.’ (Breslauer 1994). STOMP is a group of artists, who uses simple building blocks and every-day objects to create something complex, a strong effect performance which involves music and movements. Through sinks, stiff-bristle brooms and garbage bins as percussions they give rise to intense rhythms and energetic choreography. The idea behind ‘Stomp’ is universality. The show has no words, no traditional melody. They communicates
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Prelude of Lohengrin 2e Planche Henri Fantin Latour was a French artist from the 19th century. He used music as a way to create most of his lithographs. This lithograph is a visual representation of a piece of music by Wagner. The artist uses certain elements of art and principles of composition in order to convey this very deep and wondrous event. The event in question is a beautiful scene in which a saint is surrounded by angels. Several of these angels are playing trumpets and
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Music Appreciation Concert Report The University of Texas at El Paso Music Department presented a piano recital featuring Oscar Macchioni on Saturday, December 7. Dr. Macchioni born in Argentina is a very prestigious pianist which has performed all around the world. The program featured the keyboard instrument known as the piano. The music pieces played were Adagio from the Oboe Concerto in D minor, Faschingsschwank aus Wien op.26, Sonata in C-Sharp minor, and four different movements from the
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isn’t recognizable from first glance. In Jazz I feel that there are two things that are the major overtones of the novel. The first is the different affects and types of desires and the other would be the comparisons that can be made back to jazz music. First I want to touch on her concepts of desire. Morrison is theorizing the nature of desire; particularly African American females desire (Cannon, 235). The desires of the two main characters in the novel are what give the story its flare and captivity
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food, delicious drinks and exciting live entertainment. Club IT’s Mission and Primary Clientele The primary clientele of Club IT is a younger crowd of people. Club IT plays a variety of music but the general genre of the music is focused on electronic, hip-hop, techno, MP3 and live music bands. When Ruben and Lisa remodeled Club IT, they focused on using open spaces and vivid and lively lighting to draw more of an upbeat crowd of people rather than developing a quiet and relaxing environment
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“They frankly admit, however that they feel completely at sea when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made”. Alan Copland stated this in his book, What to Listen for in Music, and I couldn’t agree more. So to better understand his teachings, I listened to two different musical pieces and shared my thought of how they were art rather than entertainment. “It must be nice” by Lyfe Jennings is the first song I listened to and the instrumental really caught eye. “Why a good melody should
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