According to Levitin, there are many things that exist only because of the human body and (biologically) what is inside our heads. He points out the Newtonian observation that there is no color in light. Color occurs inside our brains and it results from the interaction of observed wavelengths with our eyes. In a like manner, sound exists because of the brain’s response to vibrating molecules. Music exists only because of our interaction with it. Ironically, there are many vibrations that are out of the range of our hearing. High school students have been setting their ringtones for the last few years to a sound that adults over the age of 30 are unable to hear. If we can’t hear it, does it make noise? Well, if you’re over 30, you …show more content…
Motion pictures are not really motion at all. They are a series of still shots, put together at a rate that is beyond the capacity of our visual system to separate. Older movies seem choppy to us because their speed is too slow and we can still detect the ‘stillness’ of the shots. Once movies were shot at the rate of 24 frames per second, they went beyond out range. The result is that the visual display seems to be in motion (p. 26). Doesn’t this idea seem to be eerily similar to Zeno’s paradox of the flying arrow? Basically the paradox, from Socratic times, states that “it is impossible for a thing to be moving during a period of time, because it is impossible for it to be moving at an indivisible instant” (Mazur, 2007, p.4). What if all motion we perceive, not just motion pictures, is because the still shots are stacked too closely to each other for us to be able to resolve them visually? Is reality really nothing more that a series of moments, moving (perhaps vibrating) too quickly for us to make the distinction? If so, is time really the 4th dimension? Perhaps its motion and the passage of time is the illusion that results from
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
Although there was legitimate cause for President Jackson to believe that the Second Bank of the United States only served the interests of the wealthy in expense of the common people, I agree that Jackson’s actions hurt the United States economically and socially during this time period. I say this because Jackson’s actions to veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank led directly to Panic of 1837, which resulted in both a social and economic hardship for many citizens as profits, prices, and even wages decreased with a tremendous increase in unemployment rates.
* Listening: CD 1:1 (Beethoven’s Symphony #9) & CD 1:2 (Japanese gagaku) 3. Sounds are organized into music by people thus; music is a form of humanly organized sound * Music is a human phenomenon
In Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni’s essay “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” they put forward the central argument that film is a commercial product in the capitalist system and therefore also the unconscious instrument of the dominant ideology which produces it. In opposition to the classic film theory that applauds camera as an impartial device to reproduce reality, they argue that what the camera reproduces is merely a refraction of the prevailing ideology. Therefore, the primary and political task for filmmakers is to disrupt this replication of the world as self-evident and the function of film criticism is to identify and evaluate that politics. Comolli and Narboni then suggest seven categories of films confronting ideology in different ways, among which the second category resists the prevailing ideology on two levels. Films of this group not only overtly deal with political contents in order to “attack their ideological assimilation” (Comolli and Narboni 483), but also achieve their goal through breaking down the conventional way of depicting reality.
According to Laurence O’Donnell, “Music is thought to link all of the emotional, spiritual, and physical elements of the universe.” This proves that music is more than a simple class teaching random notes. It is a common denominator
In the podcast, Sound as Touch, Radiolab conducted a study in which parents and infants were recorded to find a pattern of common tunes in the interaction, crossing all cultural barriers. When parents of different languages expressed happiness to their infants, there was rise and fall in the melody. Sound is like touch and even scientifically this makes sense. Jonah in the podcast explains that waves vibrate and travel into the listener’s ears and more specifically moving the ear bones. This way, hairs stimulate electricity and ingrains into our brain, which results in sounds.
This section describes the cash inflow and cash outflow, NPV analysis, rate of return, and the payback period. The four different investment analysis methods listed here help to show exactly what sort of financial information we are expecting to see over the first year of business.
Without the human intention, perception, and interpretation of sound, then the existence of music would be imaginary. Music includes talking words in a way that the person creates a sound that is made with the intention of being music (Deutsch, Diana 10-13, Justus & Timothy., 33-40). Besides, people can perceive silence and sound and put them together so as to call the outcome music. In Bakan’s fourth proposition, he identifies the approach as the Human Intention and Perception (HIP) approach (Resnicow, Joel E., 10-22). In other words, the proposition tries to suggest that music is inseparable from the makers; or more specifically the people who perceive and experience it. Bakan gives numerous examples to show that music is a product of human intention and perception. This paper conducts research and gives appropriate examples to show that music is only identified as music if the person is making it has the intention for their words to be music.
Music is there whenever you need it. It’s everlasting. We hear it everywhere; the phones that take up most of our time, the tv in the background, the stores we walk in and out of, in the car getting from
The ears are one of the most complex and interesting systems thats human body has and the sounds we hear are actually in many different parts deflected, absorbed, and also filtered by our different body parts. It's then collected by our pinnae (the external part of or ears), whose dimensions further affect the sound on its way into ear. There, vibrations are translated into signals, which are interpreted by your brain. In the 1930s, two scientists at Bell Labs, Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson researched this process and what they discovered has changed and affected how we as humans understand the hearing process.
Few would argue against the idea that we educate ourselves and our society so that we have adequate means with which to understand and interact with elements of the world around us. Subjects such as mathematics, language, history, and the hard sciences are granted immediate and unquestioned legitimacy in our schools, and with good reason. We encounter each of these elements of our lives on a daily basis. We need to have an understanding of these disciplines in order to interact with them, otherwise they are meaningless to us. I submit that the same can be said for the fundamental concepts of music. Music is something that we encounter in our society every day. It surrounds us. Indeed
This drama is very interesting because I have never read a whole play before, so it was difficult to understand certain point of views throughout the story. The character Willy Loman came across as a strong, but loving in his own way kind of man. Understanding his life story will give you a reason for his antics. His relationships with everyone and the way that he reacts to things that upset him. Changes that are happening that cannot be controlled, make his life difficult. In every life there are ups and downs, some people just make better choices to make them easier.
When listening to music do you ever wonder how it was formed? We do not think about that. So how is music formed? Music is formed when a sound is produced when something vibrates. The vibrating body causes the medium around it to vibrate. With the vibrations moving in the air they are called traveling longitudinal waves. Longitudinal waves allow us to hear. By allowing us to hear, it allows high and low pressure to form called compression and rarefaction.
No matter who a person thinks invented the motion picture camera, whether it was Louis Lumiere or Thomas Edison, I'm sure they had no idea what it would become at the turn of the century. Motion pictures, has become an entertainment medium like no other. From Fred Ott's Sneeze to Psycho to Being John Malkovich, the evolution from moving pictures to a pure art form has been quite amazing. Different steps in filming techniques define eras in one of the most amazing ideas that was ever composed. Silent to Sound. Short to long. Black and white to color. Analog to Digital. All were important marks in the History of Motion Pictures. "It's different than other arts. It had to be invented"
Music itself is considered as a language. Music and language are related in many ways. Because music stimulates our sense of hearing, it is clear that music can, and inevitably does, convey information. I consider that music is, by its very nature, has the power to express everything, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Although it can be said that music usually tends to express something, this is only an illusion, and not a reality. It is precisely this, which produces in us a unique emotion which has nothing in common with our ordinary sensations and our responses to the impressions of daily life. Music expresses, at different moments, serenity or liveliness, regret or triumph, fury or delight. It expresses each of these moods, and many others, in a numberless variety of differences. It may even express a state of meaning for which there exists no adequate word in any language. In that case, musicians often like to say that it has only a purely musical meaning. They sometimes go farther and say that all music has only a purely musical meaning. My own belief is that all music has an expressive power, some more and some less, but that all music has a certain