Music Analysis: Salve Marte By John Stevens

For the final presentation for this course, I am going to analyze one of my favorite songs, Ave Maria by Josquin des Prez. Each year around this time, my parents always took me to an ensemble shows in my town and this song was always one of the most popular songs. There are many different versions of Ave Maria by various composers in different timeline. However, I personally favor Josquin’s version of Ave Maria the most because this piece gives the vibe of Mary I always thought of; calm, bright, and magnificent rather than slow and intimidating vibe that few other Ave Maria by different composers gives. Also, I recommended this piece to my choir teacher and we sang this piece in a competition; it includes all four spectrum of soprano, alto,

Freedom should be enjoyed ,because it can be gone in a flash . Both Kate Chopin’s short story “Story Of An Hour “ and “ An Obstacle”, both story and poem discuss women's freedom and both put a message in their writings “ An Obstacle “ shows a women trying to pass but a prejudice and when she ignored it and she was free to pass. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story Of An Hour” tells the story of a woman called Mrs,Mallard learns the painful truth that her husband has died. Slowly she starts to realize that she will have gained more freedom but her husband comes back; she tragically realize that she won’t be granted her freedom. Although “ The Story Of An Hour” and “ An Obstacle “ use different metaphors, actually, both use chronological order to show the readers how fast or long their problems might last.So the story and poem of kate chopin and charlotte perkins both show a form of freedom in their writing.

Clark Terry was born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 14th, 1920; he was the seventh out of eleven children. He was a classic freelance musician, his career spans more than 70 years. During this time he created a name for himself that will forever cement him along with the legends like Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Mr. Clark was a man of many talents and during his time on this earth he was became a world-class trumpeter, flugelhornist, educator, composer, writer, trumpet/flugelhorn designer, teacher and even an NEA Jazz Master; He made flugelhorn what it is today he is responsible for its popularity. Another thing that Clark Terry is noted for is his association with relationship with Duke Ellington’s orchestra and Count Basie; he is

Hi, if you didn’t know I’m Morgan Fish. When Shave was talking about getting a new drum major this year I got excited because ever since my oldest sister, Alison, was in marching band I had always been fascinated by drum majors. I went to all of the football games so I could watch the field show. The field shows were and still are the most exciting part of the football game to me and now that I am actually a part of the show it is much more exciting. I absolutely love marching band.

The history of the American brass band is a subtle yet interesting one. Made up of cornets and saxhorns during the 1850’s the all brass band grew to a whole new level of popularity and has become a prominent feature of the brass bands of today. Leading with E flat horns is a prominent extraordinary feature of the early American brass bands. Creating a homogeneous mellow sound by mixing the timbres of these different instruments is one of the most if not the most important characteristics of the early American brass band. The changing times and the creations of different types of sound made many of the instrument in the band become obsolete which also played a huge part in the how much of the literature that can be performed in today’s traditional

The piece “Stakeout” by “The Tango Saloon” effectively uses instrumentation, harmony and rhythm to convey character in the song. The prominent use of organ in the piece contributes to the songs tense, foreboding character. The dissonance created by the organ and the use of a rotary speaker creates a thick, unnatural and disturbing timbre. The character of the song is also conveyed using auxiliary percussion. The ostinato arpeggio played on the xylophone in the chorus, along with the tubular bell strikes, shakers and heavy toms convey this character.

In 1980, Lynn relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio to join the Steve Schmidt Trio and the Blue Wisp Big Band. He was awarded a Jazz Studies Fellowship in the summer of 1981 from the National Endowment for the Arts to study with Rufus Reid.

In their adaptation of Kapsberger’s Canario, Pluhar takes improvisation to a completely jazz and world music style. Dancing to a rhythmic baroque guitar, the musical form of the piece invites individual instrumental solo improvisations including an electric Hammond organ. Further, the use of konnakol and percussion for solo improvisations takes authentic baroque performance practice outside the picture. The use of percussion for improvisation would not have been used during Kapsberger’s time. Following this observation, it may be argued that Pluhar has gone too far into mixing different genres that the jazz-spirited recording can seem disjointed. L'Arpeggiata's attempt to revive Baroque ornamental fluidness through a contemporary improvisatory style seems ineffective when the audience takes this crossover album literally. The purpose of this album is not to attempt a revival of the baroque in the original style, but to create a new eyepiece where baroque music can be viewed through a contemporary

It's not everyday that we bring the composers of soundtracks into the limelight unless their name is John Williams, and less often so when they have a degree in Systems Engineering Programming. Yuki Kajiura is a japanese Soundtrack composer who has been active since the 90’s. Due to jumping between Germany and Japan with her family for so long, Yuki Kajiura’s music went unnoticed until the 2002 animated series Noir. While Noir itself is nothing special, however, its soundtrack ranges from tranquil and combative. It is no wonder the DVD release of the series had an option to remove all dialogue and sound effects - Kajiura had created a record that was more popular than what it was meant to support. “Salva Nos” is a drum and bass track with orchestral scoring and a haunting melody that sends shivers down your spine. On the flip side, “Canta Per Me” opens with staccato strings lathered in reverb leading to an Alto

The album is a massive collection of more than 100 tracks, with length up to 240 hours. The tracks on the disc have been played with more than 600 musicians and 60 orchestras. This project

The title track opens doors for a relevant modern music that is both fulfilling and evolutionary in the way jazz is heading these days. This piece can be dark and feathery at the same time, bringing Andrew Hill’s cryptic universe to my mind. A crystalline trumpet that evokes Kenny Wheeler

If Mara and Blanchett are two main important roles in the film, then the original music by Carter Burwell plays the third crucial part in Carol. Since Nagy wrote a very efficient script saving the words from characters, these music plays the role of expressing these inexpressible feeling. Burwell chose the clarinet and oboe as Carol and Therese respectively to create a both melancholy and cryptic ambience. Piano produces the collision of uncertainty and firmness but it mainly presents the hopeful status. The beginning shot starts only with piano. But soon oboe, harp, and vibraphone begin to enter the chord and mixes with the piano. These different instruments add the tension and mystery layer by layer. This chord is the main theme music of Carol that

On Wednesday August 24,2016 in the Atkinson Recital hall location in the NMSU Campus horseshoe, Paul Blackstone, Brian Brown, Audrey Good and Gerry Wood is a group of Horn players called The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse. This laid back group showed musicians and residents of Las Cruces, New Mexico their versatile style in playing the horn. As the group came on to the stage with such formal look, they started out on a strong introduction piece called Swords of Valor composed by John Wasson (b.1956), the piece was very powerful and you could feel the way the music spoked to you. It was a world premiere and the second time the group has ever played that song. As the recital went on they showed us their different ways of playing the horns with songs like Earth song composed by Frank Ticheli (b.1958) to Blues Rondo a la Turk composed by David Brubeck (1920-2012). Each song was very moving and the styles of the songs made you think of the horn in a different way than before.

The all around idea for our reactant ment of The Glass Menagerie is to make the play less boring and take newer twists which usually are not taken in the play.Sound is very important to create mood for any play especially the Glass Menagerie. Our idea is to come up with newer music fitting in with the play so the audience can be more diverse in ideas. Also, to create the same feeling songs like Ave Maria would give the audience. The idea is to combine old classical music with newer music and create the same mood with the original songs without boring the audience to sleep.

Music is vivace, a very fast tempo, with sweeping flourishes and tremolos in the accompaniment. The strings play the tremolos aggressively, and the full orchestra (winds and brass) is used for loud, punctuating chords. The vocal line is sharp and has very precise rhythms.