I have studied music before at SFA. I believe I was a sophomore in High school and a freshman in college at the time. However, I have only taken one course in my college education and technically I am a senior. The course was MUS 140: Intro to Art Music with Mr. Lagraff. He was a very intelligent professor and I enjoyed learning music from him. We went through the different eras of music, learning about Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and other important composers of those times. The experience was great in my eyes because he would notify us about going to musical concerts at SFA. The concerts were rather interesting and the music played by other students was well rehearsed. Going back to Elementary, I cannot recall the name of my music teacher but she was a sweet lady with short hair who had every student play the accordion. If could not purchase one she gave one to you because she really wanted everyone in the music class to participate and learn the music. She also awarded prizes to everyone who memorized certain songs that got harder as you successfully played them to her, and of course I was one of the few students who actually practiced all the songs. Another thing I remember about my elementary music experience was joining the choir. I loved this experience because even though I could not sing I loved to sing. One of my favorite moments was when we had a choir performance after school and everyone in the program practiced so hard for it. I don’t remember all the songs but I
"On those nights that I missed him most I listened to music" (Alexie 3086). Woven throughout Sherman Alexie 's work, "Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock,” is the theme of music. Its presence is a faint drumbeat of life, felt throughout the piece. It not only accompanies moments of sorrow, such as when the narrator listens to music while he is longing for his father, but encompasses every variation of emotion available to man, and because of its extraordinary influence on the characters, it takes on human qualities. Through music 's multidimensional effect on characters and its personification, Alexie highlights music’s everyday influence in life, suggesting that it is inescapable and necessary to the human experience.
I decided to take piano lessons at a young age. I have shared my music by playing piano at local churches and nursing homes. Platteville High School offers an outstanding music program. To prepare for my senior year, I learned alto saxophone and cello. I had never played an instrument other than piano and I thought that it was a good challenge. As part of the band program, I am also learning xylophone for an upcoming concert. This year my schedule includes Band, Orchestra, Cantorum and Music Theory. I hope to become involved with music in college as my schedule
Music. When I started in the band in 8th grade at Saints Francis and Clare, I didn’t really want to be there. It was just another class, in another day, of my last year of school. This began to change after I realized all of the amazing people I met in the band. Band led me to be happier and become friends with people who I never even knew I would meet. It has even lead me to a path that I would like to go into in the future. I love music and band so much that it has made me want to teach it or join a band as I go into college and just for the rest of my life. Through music I have even had the opportunity to meet some very amazing people, and I have been able to work next to some of those people.
When I was in fifth grade, I was caught between two worlds, playing a woodwind or string instrument. If I played a woodwind instrument I would have to blow in it to make music, but string instruments are played with a bow to make music. After much thought, I decided that the violin was the best instrument for me, because it has a beautiful, unique sound, plus the possibilities are never-ending. I could receive a compliment from a teacher, or even get accepted to the symphony.
Bono once said, “Music can change the world because it can change people”. Music has changed me into the person I am today. I believe that music heals my life problems. I remember running around in the Blockbuster video store my parents owned, always drawn to the music section. Although my parents weren’t heavily influenced by music, I branched out and discovered a whole new world. I found myself getting my first MP3 player at age 7. Although The Jonas Brothers and High School Musical were less influential in my life, it did expose my mind to music.
“Musical is a universal experience. With few exceptions, all humans perceive musical pitch, tone, timbre, and harmony. We listen to music to relax, to help us think, to celebrate, and grieve. Our emotional responses to music have been noted in literature, poetry, and drama. The power of music to evoke an emotional response is used by advertising companies, film directors, and mothers singing their babies to sleep. Early education teachers are familiar with using music and rhythm as tools for learning language and building memory. (Foran, 2009) Several musical melodies are used in grade school to learn information. Music is used in my math classes across the world to enhance the learning process of formulas. English classes use music help children learn prepositional phrases, adjectives, adverbs, noun, and etc. However, after most scholars reached a certain grade level, using music to achieve new heights academically became a technique of the past. Most instructors didn’t bother using music in order to help retain information. It was almost as if it was forgotten about. But, if music is so important why isn’t it allowed in most classrooms today? Many teachers are not fond of music in the classroom. To many, it is seen as a distraction. Is it the type of music a person chooses to listen to? Would it be different if the music chosen by
Learning music was not a challenge for me, especially since I grew up in musically gifted families. Honestly math came easy for me, mostly because I was taught to keep up with the tempo of the music. Thankfully playing in the band came naturally for me and I liked the challenge in trying to learn an instrument. My school performed at a couple of competitions and a few concerts as well. I continued playing until my sophomore year in high school, I lost interest in high school; it seemed like it was more of a chore rather something to enjoy and the students made it difficult for me to perform so, I forced myself to leave. Before I quit the band in my sophomore year I joined the culinary arts club and the art society. I always loved making food, I started cooking around 6 to 7 years old under supervision of course. Slowly my parents had me help-out in the kitchen, then they let me practice making baked goods and later, they started to let cook by myself. I watched cooking shows too, and I would just read the cooking books for hours just to know if we had the ingredients
Music has impacted my life in many ways. Through music I have learned that you can do and have whatever you want as long as you put the work and effort to try. As a little kid, I have never been competitive, until I came in contact with the trumpet. When I join my middle school band I learned how to be the best at something and started to learned how to be competitive as I started moving up in high school and going to competitions. Wanting that made me put so much dedication to it. Countless of hours have been on practicing the same things over and over again, giving myself no limits on what to practice. Music basically has showed me how much effort you have to put in, so I can get closer and closer to achieve my goal. As a result, I joined
Music for me in middle school was something that I was teaching myself. The music program was underfunded and didn’t have many students, so we were given free range with what we wanted to play and preform. So essentially, I didn’t learn anything. It was fun in the beginning, but after a while of playing
Music is defined differently for each individual. It is the universal language that speaks to us all, but in different ways. It is one of the few genres that can instantly transport a person back to the past. Music is also an art of sound which expresses ideas, thoughts, and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony. It is the design of giving structural form and rhythmic pattern to combinations of sounds produce instrumentally and vocally. To me, music brings a sense of calmness, happiness, and peacefulness. Music is the absolute bread of life because it feeds my soul.
Certainly above all, I believe music is a meticulous figure that can shape or define a person. Subsequently, I believe music has done that to me, being such a malleable person, in more ways than I've accounted music to be. In such a disguised manner it has affected my moods, daily actions, energy, and etcetera.
Music impacts my life a lot. For example, music helps me exercise; it also helps me relax, and music can tell the story of our generation.
Throughout my education, music has always been an important class to take. In general, I love music so taking music-oriented classes has always been enjoyable. Due to my dad being in the military, I attended many schools growing up. I moved the most during my Elementary School years so I have a lot of different music class memories. From Kindergarten to second grade, I remember my music class being very hands on. We would learn to play instruments such as the xylophone and smaller instruments. We would sing and dance and since I was living in Germany for those years she would include German songs for us to learn. Outside the music room, my kindergarten teacher Ms. Gregory would play tons of music and we would do activities that
The introduction of Donald J. Funes' book Musical Involvement addresses the topic of music as an aesthetic experience. The preface to the introduction is the realization that truly listening to music requires an active response, and this type of listening is not innate. All throughout the day we are bombarded with music and every day sounds, most of which remain in our periphery. It can be difficult to focus on a single event such as a concert, lecture or any other situation that requires a quite environment because we can attend to around seven sensory inputs at any one time, including our internal conversations. Suddenly our periphery senses can become distracting to the point where they detract from the single auditory source we are
Media takes all forms of shapes, from video games to music it influences people daily because we are always surrounded by it. Music especially impacts individuals because in a lot of ways it can say what we want to say in times when we as individuals cannot say it. In those times we lean on music to help us understand the hardship we are going through, or as a mechanism to face our feelings or to block them out. Interpersonal violence which is defined as an individual using power over another in the form of violence whether that be emotional, physical, or sexual. With the many forms of interpersonal violence it’s apparent that it has been expressed in the form of music for quite a while, and sometimes not always in a preventative way. By