Modern Instruments And Reading Off Their Own Sheet Music

The font of the text on the front cover, and throughout the book for that matter, is in an untidy scrawl that is both important - in that it is in a bold font and is a demanding colour (either black or white) - and is informal, imperfect, personal and human - in that it is handwritten. These aspects combine to show the picture-book

Margaret Bent,"The late-medieval motet", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music. Oxford University Press, (1997) Pg. 44

“An introduction to Samoan music is an introduction to the Samoan people as a whole (Moyle, p1).” Music had a strong, complimentary presence in traditional Samoan life, and is still a powerful presence today. Although, now, the traditional means for Samoan music has evolved along with it. Traditionally, music was the medium used to tell stories, depict lifestyles, emit warning signals, and to transmit many other things for tribes inhabiting the island. Without the need for a powerful method to transfer signals with the aid of technology; modern day Samoan music has modernized and changed to focus more on the storytelling during a performance. Traditional music in Samoa was a product derived from how they lived their everyday life while blending their voices into song,

The piano, created by Bartolomeo Christofori in 1709, has impacted our society by becoming a popular instrument and a popular medium for musicians to create musical masterpieces. Also called the pianoforte, the piano is one of the most beautiful sounding instruments that can range in sound from as low as a gust of wind, to as high as the shrill sound of a bird. It has evolved over time and become an amazing instrument. The piano was accepted very well in history and it has generated many changes in the music industry. The piano was also used a lot in society and has had many applications grow from it. Without it, many classical masterpieces as well as modern songs wouldn’t have been possible.

Museums add new context for artworks, since historical items were not made to be in modern museums. A Pair of Sensing Angels by Circle of Bernaert Orley are two ‘one by three foot’ oil painting on wood from 1535-1540 that depicts two angels. When looking at “A Pair of Censing Angels” we can infer the subject, the value the painting held, and how the meaning alters in its present setting. This visual analysis will describe the artwork, analyze the formal elements used, and how the formal elements of the work and display affects the viewer.

The visual elements in a work of art can be made up of various different types of elements. “Composition, harmony, proportion, light, color, line, texture, mass, and motion are all part of the vocabulary of sight. We tap this vocabulary, and the patterns that go with it, when we compose or frame images”. The visual elements that are portrayed in the engraving of “Ullysses at the Table of Circe” by Flaxman consists of lines, shape, space, texture, and color. “Viewers bring to the act of seeing individual sets of conscious and unconscious reactions that affect their response to the visual stimulus put before them. This is the beauty of images, even in their most minimal form— such as a single line”. The lines that are used in this work of art are

For my concert report, I chose to attend a University Chambers Players performance. Within this classical genre of music, the pieces performed were all homophonic in texture and each melody introduced was supported by chordal accompaniment. All of the pieces performed ranged from an eighteenth to twentieth century time period, and furthermore, each performance employed the use of western world instruments, such as the piano, cello, violin, and viola.

Today, I’ll be going on over how to read music. It’s a completely different concept from anything you’ve ever learned. It does look like a blur of lines at first, but soon you’ll be able to get the hang of it and create music yourself beautifully.

What made the “Polish Rider “different was you see a single man maybe in his late 20 on a side white horse yet so plain but it was powerful to me! I like his posture in the picture, I was not sure what his mission was in the picture but it spoke to me and I like the overall structure of the painting both painting however did feature harmonization of a goal that the renaissance was trying to capture of both paintings. Even the “Polish man” to me was seen as a noble historic figure, even though the picture was plain to me, I know behind the painting is history and there is more than meets the eye. Even though I can’t understand and the more I try to understand the “Polish Man.” That what intrigues me more about the painting, that I can’t understand it. The museum to me offered more than enough context of European culture. Providing many concepts to the broad horizon of the many different artists featured in the museum focusing on decorative arts and what European artist had to offer to the many admirers of the fine arts in this century. The exhibit also had a few rugs from Persian, the rugs were so smooth to me they felt like velvet with the soft silk around the rug. Just looking at the rug I like the designs on embodied in

Many ensembles across the world dedicate time to learning and performing early renaissance music. When practicing music not from this era, it is easy to perform it incorrectly and not give the work the justice it deserves. Ensembles that do not take careful time and consideration to study the style of early music and the techniques they must use when performing these pieces, ultimately fail when attempting to perform early music. When performing early music, such as Canzon Septimi Toni a 8, musicians must study the styles and techniques musicians in that time period implemented, reciprocate the tone, timbre and articulations used in the renaissance era for this specific work, transpose the piece to their instrument, and know the differences between early and modern instrumentation needed to perform the piece.

Nicoló Paganini was a famous Italian violinist born in the midst of The Enlightenment. He wrote a set of 24 Capriccis for the violin in the early 1800s, the most famous of which is the final caprice, simply referred to as “Caprice No. 24”. The final caprice exemplifies Paganini’s bold style and technique, which was a natural byproduct of the musical liberation that took place during the Enlightenment. His work would inspire musicians for centuries to come.

The Mona Lisa has to be one of my favorite paintings of all time and has lead me to use this specific painting as a topic for this paper. Not to mention the love I have for Leonardo da Vinci. I, myself have always been drawn to da Vinci’s paintings and all of his other achievements that he has given us during his life. I, like Leonardo da Vinci love art and science just as much as it seems he did. He shares a love of art and a fondness for science. It also seems that he loves a good mystery, and the Mona Lisa just happens to be one clouded in mystery. And I too love a good mystery.

Sheet Music is most of the time a sheet of paper or multiple pieces, on each page there are line with notes on them. To some these papers are hard to read with many convoluted directions that only the composer can read, but to the musically challenged, sheet music is away for everyday people to be able to create something beautiful. Some people can hear a song then sit with an instrument and play what they have heard; other people can only see what they want to play. Many people have taken time to collect sheet music and keep record of songs creations. Sheet music is also a way of sharing music from one culture to another without the use of works.

During the 13th century of India, composer, Śārngadeva wrote the Sangītaratnākara which is proclaimed to be the most influential piece in Indian Classical Music (Śārṅgadeva). Within this book, Śārngadeva explains both types of Indian music, the Hindustani and the Carnatic. It is believed that this book had major impacts on many musicians of the 13th century and changed Hindustani Classical Music as a whole (Śārṅgadeva).

Music from all over the world presents a range of musical theories. Some of these are documented in writing whilst others are transmitted orally. Discuss and give examples with reference to both Western and non-Western music.