Bill Fontan An Internationally Reputable Composer And Pioneering American Sound Artist

This activity challenged my critical listening skills and developed my ability to appraise music and use aesthetic sensitivity while concentrating on listening to identify the music elements. It was evident that the composer manipulates all the musical elements and qualities to accurately portray the narrative of the Moldau. Elements of music include duration, pitch, dynamic and expression, structure and style, timbre and texture (REF). For example, duration includes rhythm, beat, accent and tempo, that I was able to identify with the loud, triumphant calls of the hunter’s horn, the dominating French horns, and trumpets playing sharp, rhythmic notes. Also, pitch refers to the register of the note in a sound patter (REF). I was able to identify the cheerful mood of the melody that moves in an up and down pitch. Dynamics and expression are evident in the pattern of intensity and volume of the sound with loud trumpets as the river passes the rapids or the bassoon playing low and dark sounds that I thought contributes to dramatic

Talking about the performance art at that time, ‘Theater of Found Sound’ by Christian Marclay is one of the most popular works. (Fraenkel Gallery, 1979) He admitted the fact that he is under the influence of Marcel Duchamp and attempted to proceed experiment on composing phonograph records and turntables together. This fresh way in dealing with voice has arouse the awareness of musicians and artists in the following generation.

The great and respected Aaron Copland was an American composer known for his ballad scores. In his essay, “How We Listen To Music” Copland wanted avid music listeners to realize that you can not just be dazed. His mind had sorted out three planes of listening for us: the sensuous plane, the expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane. He simply defined each plane, illustrating it, and then contrasts between the three. With this people will be a cautious of their music surroundings.

Another popular philosophy of music education discussed in this weeks reading, is that of Bennett Reimer, the teacher of David Elliott, known as the Aesthetic philosophy. This philosophy is “an experience-based philosophy of music education is one that focuses on and cherishes all the many ways music can be experienced and all the many music’s offering the special experience music provides.” (Reimer, 2005, p. 69)

Through studying and analyzing ‘Maestro’ ,written by Peter Goldsworthy, and by viewing and analyzing the film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ directed by Tim Burton, it is evident that the composers of these texts allow the audience to see distinctive experiences with our eyes as well as with our minds through distinctively visual. The many visual, written and literary techniques have the ability to create a significant and impacting visual.

The interpretation of Tempo, Dynamics and Expression through Instrumentation in three recordings of Vittorio Monti’s ‘Czardas’

Williams’ music was influenced at an early age beginning with the music of his father. Growing up, his musical stylings were altered because all of the amazing composers and conductors he had the pleasure to meet during his time working in Hollywood. Without these individuals,

As the project develops I will explore more tribal water rituals as these rituals can be based around water and the spiritual power of water and sound (music), such as the tribal woman of Vanuatu. As I am personally not of these tribal decent, I will use what research I can on these performance ritual, to generate sound using modern methods, such as an electric guitar, effects pedals, computer based music modification and Video. I will explore the similarities and achieve a representation of water flow in the form of sound, music and video.

Aaron Copland is arguably one of the most important 20th century American composers. His uses of texture and tonal settings have contributed greatly to the way people think about film scoring and orchestral composition. During his life, he was at the forefront of his style, and his legacy is quite immense, including the founding of not only the AMC but also, with his passing, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. He was at times a critic, mentor, and above all, a chief organizer of what was and still is “America’s music”. Copland was born November 14, 1900, in New York. The son of Jewish immigrants, his cultural background, as well as his early childhood, contributed greatly to his musical and business dealings.

The first part of this response is to try and identify why John Cage received so much criticism from lovers of traditional music and post war modernists. Cage adopts chance techniques in his compositions and this makes things go awry for him in regard to being referred to as a composer, most critics consider him more of a music philosopher than a composer. Especially after the 19-hour performance of vexations which sadly did not amuse many. The randomness of his compositions makes it hard for him to establish his authority as a composer.

Tony Cragg, known as one of the world’s most foremost sculptors, is a British man born in Liverpool on 9 April 1949. Working with materials such as stone, wood, glass, stainless steel, aluminium, cast bronze and cast iron, Cragg employs found objects to find new relations between people and the material world. Tony Cragg’s artworks are constantly involved in a process which connects physical representation with his philosophy. Cragg’s work, which is forever evolving, has been created to define and explore regeneration. His themes not only show a process of contrast in regeneration, but also demonstrate a principle of self-belief. Inspired by the connection he makes within his artworks, my artworks explore the relationship between people and the musical world which is symbolized through objects that have been discarded throughout the years (objects that people may store away such as old cd, records, cd players, record tapes etc.)

John Cage lived a very interesting, non-traditional life that allowed him to form his outside of the box philosophy on music that questions the very definition of music. After exploring many different careers in the art world, he decided to compose music and through a winding, tumultuous road, he rose to the top of the classical music world. His life greatly influenced his music. His study of Buddhism and working with the choreographies of Merce Cunningham allowed Cage to discover the other side of music, silence. Cage and his philosophies not only changed music for the better but also changed the path that all types of art for the good; without Cage’s philosophy on silence, musicians and composers would be doing their jobs differently.

The film that I have chosen as a case study for my final paper is: Pan’s labyrinth (2006) by director Guillermo del Toro, and it is a case of real-fantastic cinema. Here I present my essay entitled “ The narrative power of sound in Pan’s labyrinth “of Guillermo Del Toro . It will analyze the sound design , the identification of its elements, the ways in which they are presented and their interrelations, to understand and explain how these elements work together in conjunction with the visual image, to support the narration of the story. Consequently, this research seeks to answer the question: How does the sound in the film ‘Pans Labyrinth' relates to

John Milton Cage Jr, is arguably one of the most controversial and influential composers of the 20th century. His works have pushed the boundaries on what it means to make music, and they have forever changed the way we think about music in general, and what it can possibly be. Cage was one of the composers who decided to challenge the standards of music in his lifetime, and he is one of the pioneers of avant-garde music. He started his music career during the peak of Abstract Expressionism. He has made countless works of music and almost all of them have made an impact in today’s music. John Cage has undoubtedly left such a huge footprint on today’s modern music, and it’s safe to say that today’s music wouldn't be the same if it wasn’t

Music is a very powerful tool. It has the power to bring happiness or sorrow. It can stir up old memories that someone has forgotten. In Berlioz’s case he uses one of his most famous pieces, Symphonie Fantastique to tell a story. Berlioz combines the use of instrumentation, rhythm and dynamics in a stunningly effective way that conveys to the listener a tragic tale of an artist, whose true love didn’t reciprocate his feelings leading him down a path of self destruction.