------------------------------------------------- My Musical Auto-Biography Music 103 Giovanni Classen BMCC Dr. Bethany Reeves They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To me, composers paint a thousand pictures through melody, rhythm, and artistic lyrical ability. As I’ve grown, music has been a major part of my life; whether through culture and getting together with family, grabbing an instrument (I played the “Güiro”, a Latin instrument, in which I grabbed a metal object which resembled
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had their own take on music and have significantly aided the progression of music composition in the twentieth-century. These three composers are Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg and Claude Debussy. I will assess their compositional styles by investigating in to some of the structures they used and the meaning and thinking behind their movements and symphonies. Gustav Mahler (July, 1860) was a late-Romantic composer and was a huge influence on modern music both with his music and his conducting
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Paintings, sculptures, photography, literature, music all fall under the steeping topic that is art. These categories in itself can be sub-divided into numerous bulky sub-categories or genres. Nevertheless, whatever be the form of art, it can be proved that unless their audience is able to comprehend the content of the painting, the greatness of the piece of art cannot be truly defined. To illustrate my point, let’s take a very peculiar example from music, a particular genre called grunge, a derivative
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I attended a concert at the Jemison Concert Hall. The performance consisted of two pieces that were both met with enthusiastic applause and praise. The first piece that was performed was the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece was written Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. The piece was divided into three movements with
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There are many instructional strategies to catch student’s attention. Over the years music has been a big influence in teacher’s classrooms. Music is a great way to engage students in fun learning. Teachers have even had great success creating songs of their own. Many teachers take popular songs and incorporate lyrics about their lessons. We all know that children love to sing, so what better way than to turn music into something educational. It has been a generally accepted fact that children
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Application essay My love for music began when I was around 14 years old, an age when i’m not yet understand every aspects of music like pitch, tone, rhythm, notation, but only the music itself. I was compelled by how music affects our heart and soul, how it can expess feelings words normally can’t. But mostly I’m interested in how to create such music that can moved people just by listening to. My passion in music grows ever stronger. But as much as I love it, pursuing music is not something that can
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their life experience. It also allow us to study human culture and like what is happening in the history and how all the culture is being past from our ancestors to us. Since human have been born, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and improve our world. These methods of expression are the major expression that is being taught under humanities to us. This knowledge of the human experience in the past help to give us the opportunity to feel
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My guitar foot rest is a multipurpose foot rest which is one of a kind. I believe Treble Cleft Musical Instrument Co will not hesitate to choose it. Here are some of the reasons why my foot rest is perfect for the music department. Situation: The foot rest has a heel of 75mm and an adjustable toe of 140mm and 170mm. it slopes upwards heel to toe. The foot rest can be folded to a box but is still easy to store. It is stable and can survive in a high school environment. If there are ever any problems
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Feelings about the concert We have just finished attending our third concert in Fenway Center last Thursday. It’s an amazing concert, and all of us should give a performance in this concert. Since I came to America, I have attended three concerts, and I feel that this is the best concert I have attended. Comparing with those two concerts I have attended before, I have more feelings about this concert; and I want to share my feelings with you. In this concert, each of us gave our performances as
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