Music Is A Form Of Art In Which People Paint Pictures With

This speech is Karl Paulnack’s welcoming address for incoming freshman students. He addresses that music isn’t apart of arts and entertainment rather music is an invisible force that helps us piece ourselves together. Paulnack believes that music is an essential part of life and goes to prove it by telling his experiences with it. He describes the first moment he truly understood music and the impact it has on people. Paulnack portrays the day after 9/11 after he struggles to find any meaning in being a pianist. After a long time of questioning himself he observes the city and notices something. He sees that in this time of grief and sadness people are singing. From this he learned that music is a form of expression, it allows people to express their feelings when they have no other words to describe them. Paulnack goes on to describe what he says was the most important concert of his life. He and a friend were playing a concert at a nursing home. During their performance, one man began to cry, it was at that time Paulnack knew the man was a veteran. After Paulnack and his friend finished the piece, they announced that the piece they were playing was Aaron Copland's Sonata, which was a work

Overall I actually enjoyed the piece more than I thought I would. It had a nice tempo that allowed listeners to be engaged and even when the volume dropped the violins played a softer texture as if they were inviting you to listen closer and pay more attention. Generally, the theme was also joyful which I took notice of and enjoyed. Lastly, I didn’t notice any musical mistakes, and thought the piece was well played.

The partricular piece is very upbeat and outgoing. As the music continues the song continues to grow faster resulting in a vibrant folk dance. The Nashville symphony did a great job performing this piece and portraying the light-heartedness and fun that Enesco intended.

But Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin are merely the main course in a musical meal including everything from "Piano Man" to "Summertime," set within a dramatic framework that loosely tells the story of both artists’ childhood and teenage struggles to master their musical

The pitch of the music was normally low and every so often they would use a high note or two. Dynamics in the music I would say was pretty much mezzo forte , because it was loud but not that loud. The music had a mellow type of tone color, like it wasn’t something that spoke

The group was a full orchestra, with some extra instruments for certain songs. The instruments include violins, violas, and other instruments in the string family that I’m not completely sure about. The brass section was made up of primarily trombones and trumpets, with a few french horns and one baritone in the ensemble. The woodwinds had a few clarinets, a couple oboes, and some saxophones. In the saxophone section, the majority were tenors, while a few were altos with one being a bari sax. The percussion section was pretty standard, much like what you’d see in any orchestra or wind ensemble. A notable extra instrument I saw was a harp. Many of the pieces had some solos for the harp and violins, otherwise the harp could be heard faintly during

The first piece of music performed was the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Minor. The melody of this piece was very conjunct and smooth. The pitches fit together well and were played staccato, but in the Air, portion the melody became more legato. Since a suite is a collection of dances this is very metric. It is very easy to find a beat and tap your toe to the beat. Every movement of this suite was very easy to find the beat. I believe the piece was in a quadruple meter because the continuo, played by the double bass, could be counted into four. The dynamics were very moderate staying within the range of forte and piano, which is typical of the baroque period when this piece was written. The piece was polyphonic and each section had their own parts that worked together to make the piece. The piece could also be considered a call and response in the Bouree and Gigue movements. The violins and woodwinds would play a part of the melody and then the brass and bass would come in with a short response to their melody.

It was a very mellow song that is soft and light and very joyful. The piece is in G-Major. The piece sounds like something you would hear at a dance recital. The reason it sounds like this is because it is a ballet from “The Nutcracker”.

The vocalists varied from scene to scene but in total, there seemed to be about 22 vocalists in all. Seeing the choir being fairly massive, in relation to the size

La Valse begins on a low note, but higher playful tones come in. It sounds like a waltz in the beginning; it has ascending and descending notes with a beat. Then after a few moments, La Valse becomes more dramatic sounding. Drums and other instruments add a strong and loud sound to the music. Towards the end of La Valse, the music becomes dark and ominous. It is loud and a low tone.

On September 20th, I attended the piano concert called “Eye Ear I Hear” performed by Professor Jennifer Blyth at the Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. The concert was present in a unique way that integrate music and written text are combined together in order to convey the audience a sense of unconstrained free association. The concerts mainly consists of two parts – the music works with polyphonic textures created by composers like Bach and Rzewski in the first half, and those pieces with recent technological developments which represent the modern American culture in the second half. I have been greatly impressed by Professor Blyth’s concert and would

It starts with this lyrical primary theme at the beginning, then moves to a rhythmically driving transitory section that leads into the second theme defined by these dotted eight and sixteenth note patterns. The development begins with the flute playing these military sounding phrases before playing around with some of the primary material. The recapitulation brings back the exposition, leading to a very gentle and delicate ending. Drawing upon some of the livelier sections of the first movement, the second movement, Scherzo, zooms on by. Though it is written in a fast triple meter, the placement of some accents create a cross rhythmic feel between the flute and piano, which only serves to heightened the driving nature of the piece. There is a moment when all the running figures stop to give way to a slow and wafting melodic line, before jumping right back into the heat of action till the end. The third movement, Andante, is very lyrical and serves to contrast the first two movements. The movement begins with a very expressive melodic line played by the flute which transforms into these sensual sixteenth triplet passages that weave in and out of the piano part, and returns to the opening character at the end. The fourth movement, Allegro con Brio, is fast and exciting. The most demanding of the movements, it calls for precision in rhythm while also maintaining a driving character. The beauty of the movement

On 5/7 at 4pm I went to SDSU to see my first symphonic concert. The SDSU School of Music and Dance presented to us with both a concert band and a symphonic band. The first half of the wonderful show the concert band played 4 pieces of music, and the second half the symphonic band played another 4 pieces of music. The 8 pieces of music were as follows; Fanfare of the bells by Mark Lortz, Instant Concert by Harold Walters, Among the Clouds by Brian Balmages, Overture for Winds by Charles Carter, Inchon by Robert W. Smith, Election Day by Frank Ticheli and Angels in the Architecture also by Frank Ticheli.

The literal meaning of the word 'music' according to any dictionary is: 'art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in a harmonious or expressive way.' But music has a meaning which is far broader than this. Music is life. Music means Self-expansion and oneness. It is an art by itself. Art, in any of its forms, is generated by a person, or a group of talented yet usually ordinary people, that express, willingly or not, an opinion regarding present times. It is not a want; it is a need. If you try to imagine yourself without it, you are bound to feel incomplete. For many of us, it has become a necessity of our lives. Music has no boundaries. Music is the

What truly is Art and Music? Is it something that an individual made just to express their imagination? The practice of Art in any form has created foundations of what is today a “society”. One may not know this but the aesthetics of “Art and Music” in Criminal Justice plays a vital role into the human psychology; allowing to regress the mind of a criminal or a detainee. In becoming a Homicide Detective, it is imperative to have a calm atmosphere when someone is being interrogated in order to get a clear confession or information about the matter in hand.