Criterion C: Music Analysis

Into the Woods brings together all of the fairytales one learns to love as a child, but it brings interesting twists to their stories. Not only do these beloved character’s storylines intermingle, they work together, and sometimes against one another, for the ultimate goal: a “Happily Ever After”. The main plot of the barren baker and his wife’s hunt to break the curse the evil witch placed on their family leads them on an adventure, that gets them into many sticky situations, propels the long complex storyline along. You’re introduced to a spunky, almost bratty, little red riding hood; a Cinderella who runs from her prince; and two princes that are full of hot air. This musical leads the audience through many twists and turns with compelling

The end of a semester is the most stressful time for students because of those dreaded finals. Anyone who lived through the 1990s should know the song a young lion and his pals sang after meeting for the first time. However, as the years pass by, society forgets the simple pleasures of youth and the two words that can make all troubles go away. “Hakuna Matata” was a song written by Tim Rice with music by Elton John. This song is also a story about a warthog before he discovered this amazing expression. However, the biggest part of the song is about being carefree and forgetting any troubles that may arise. As finals approach, a student needs to revisit their childhood past and recall the “wonderful phrase:”

The song I choose for this deep analysis is Car Radio by Twenty-One Pilots. I recognized three parts in this song, meaning it has a ternary form. This analysis is divided into sections, A B A’. Each section will explain the usage of instruments, dynamics, tempo, texture, and harmony.

Music played a significant role in the lives of ancient Greeks. They believed that music fostered one’s relationship with the gods, and some instruments, such as the lyre, were created by the gods. Music and dance were also taught

The 2016 Grammy award-winning musical, “Hamilton” first appeared on Broadway in August 2015 after becoming popular off-Broadway. Its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the life story of Alexander Hamilton, for the most part, close to the original historical plot and story line. There are some pieces of Hamilton’s timeline that Miranda does leave out in his theatrical story. Contemporary actors of color along with contemporary musical genres of today are seen and widely talked about in this musical. For many reasons, this Broadway musical is stated to have significant historical value and is being considered an astonishing piece of art.

One of the recurring tropes in these songs is police brutality and corruption.Throughout all of these songs the police and authoritarian figures are all depicted as white men. Often these figures were shown using military equipment or dressed in dark clothes like special forces members. This militarized police force seems to show that police treat poor blacks in the situations of these artists as an enemy rather than citizens they're trying to protect.

I remember that when I was eleven years old and still living in Singapore, my sister had to teach a member of the family how to play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” as homework and videotape the person playing the newly taught piece. As the only other person in the family who had an idea of how music worked, I was chosen to play the song. My sister Janna hastily taught and taped me, and the whole ordeal was over in ten minutes. But this experience got me thinking, “Am I going to play and instrument and if so, what instrument?”

Giovanni father came from carina shortly before Giovanni birth. By 1548 Giovanni came back to Venice the he became principle organist at saint mark’s basilica. In 1585, after Claudio merulo left the post following his uncle’s death. The following year he took the post of principle composer as well. After his uncle’s death he began editing much of the man’s older music.

Watching many producers work their craft and learning about their diverse roles, certainly helped with my ideas and approaches for Element XI. The 8-piece band consists of highly skilled musicians that are knowledgeable of their craft, but their forte, their comfort zone, are in live shows, not a recording studio. This brought about several challenges that concerned me for physical as well as psychological reasons. The studio is a transformative experience from capturing great performances to releasing it to the listener. It's an entirely different experience than playing in front of a crowd, and it's bound to affect performances. So helping them apply skills that they've learned on the road to a completely different atmosphere was very delighting.

“Ancient” music, or the majority of music composed before 1750, is audibly distinct from the music that followed it. The reasons for this are not immediately clear. An uninitiated listener would almost certainly be able to identify music as being either ancient or not, but would probably be incapable of articulating exactly why this is the case. Analysis of the concrete changes in musical notation that took place during this transition, however, reveals illuminating details about the metamorphosis of music during this period. These developments cannot be divorced from the social and religious undercurrents of the day. As the authority of the Catholic church diminished, humanism and religious reformation began to flourish among the more secular

The music within the era begins by mirroring the religious outlook on the medieval world. The prime

It starts with piano playing a few notes at a time with a double bass being finger picked in the background. A saxophone it sounds like replaces the beginning piano and joins in. The piano starts playing short quick notes. Ray Nance then starts playing a solo on his violin. The violin solo stops. Rex Stewart starts playing a trumpet solo. The trumpet stops. Ben Webster then starts playing a saxophone solo. The saxophone stops. Joe Nanton starts playing a trombone solo while using his mute to achieve different sounds. The trombone stops.

The movie that I was chosen is The Soloist a story of a gifted musician named Nathaniel Ayers whose mental illness drove him from the halls of The Juilliard School in New York to the streets of Los Angeles. His dream is to play at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Through chance, he meets a journalist who tries to help this mentally disturbed man to get back on his feet and make his dreams come true (Bevan at al., 2009).

5 things I believe we need to work on as an ensemble is tone quality, rhythm, intonation, dynamic changes and articulation. I believe this because the judges mentioned these things more than 3 times altogether. One of the judges commented that we should blow more air as we play so we don’t go flat or sharp. Another comment was that we should know other people’s parts in the ensemble. Some people in the ensemble play their parts way too loud that we can’t hear the woodwinds when they have the melody. The ensemble as a whole needs to match pitches because we would sound like there is no balance within our parts. When we do dynamic changes we need to have our mezzo piano “kinda soft”, mezzo forte “medium loud”, forte “loud”, fortissimo “ louder”

The concert Chamber Music by Two, Three and Four was made up of three different pieces. Each of the three pieces were composed by, in order, W. A. Mozart, M. Ravel, and J. Brahms. Performing the pieces were Alicia Eppinga on the cello, Barbara Corbato on the viola, Mark Clinton on the piano, and Mihai Craioveanu on violin. These musicians performed sub-sections within the pieces known as movements, which brought their own sense of individuality to the piece while still creating a sense of unity across the board.