Personal Narrative-A Music Analysis

Perhaps the most tangible benefit of music education for students is the increase in their performance in the classroom. People often say, “Music makes you smarter,” but where is the evidence? As South Dakota State University’s Professor Kevin Kessler eloquently stated via email, “How were you

Throughout history music has played an important role in society, whether it was Mozart moving people with his newest opera or the latest album from the Beatles. Where would society be today without music? With schools cutting their music programs, the next Mozart may not get his chance to discover his amazing talent. Music programs are essential to education. To fully understand this one must understand how music helps the human body, why schools have cut music programs, and why people should learn music.

Throughout the many years of time, music has been associated with the lives of humans. Ranging from the oldest recorded music in 1888, The Lost Chord, to Motherese, or the way that mothers “sing” to their babies to communicate to them, to our modern music of radio stations blaring our favourite song while we drive from place to place. Music has found its place within human lives, intertwining its existence with ours. Incredibly enough, humans have found a way to harness music with our very hands and create elegant melodies from tools. Beginning with instruments that look like a guitar, instruments that look like a flute and instruments that look like a drum, we began making controlled music with rhythms and harmonies. As years passed and civilization began to grow, musicians came to be. These ancient musicians played music for others on the instruments that they would make and performed for many.

While music has played a critical role in my ability to be a effective writing assistant, I

I have loved music since I was born, it has always been there for me. Although I love all genre of music my favorite has to be country music. You can interpret so much from one verse of music. From kindergarten to fourth grade I was in the school talent show singing. I loved getting on that stage and showing people what I could do.

Scientists have established the existence of strong links between music and personal development. They claim that playing an instrument can increase the student’s sense of achievement, self-esteem, confidence; persistence, punctuality and discipline (Gardiner et al. 1996)

Since my sophomore year, I have been a member of my high school’s coed a cappella group The Jewel Tones. That year we had begun working with a completely new music director, specifically one following in the footsteps of an innovative woman who just finished her 16 year career at the school. Everything was new and challenging. But, we decided to take on a new piece that was more daring than ever before.

Although my interests are numerous, my passions are very few. First and foremost, I have a passion for classical music. There is an indescribable sensation I feel when hearing Johann Pachelbel’s Gigue, “The Variations of The Canon,” preformed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. For three minutes and two-seconds, I was mesmerized and I realized why I persuaded my mother to buy me his CD. His music, in its grandeur and consonance is perfect, the climax of coloratura repertoire, hitting every F note with glorious precision as the forty piece orchestra projects their brilliant voice. The last movement of Beethoven’s “Pastorale” symphony overwhelms me with the simplicity of its majestic melody repeating itself through crescendos, building itself to toward a climax, only to resolve with a final electrifying current rendered by a solo French horn. However, the feeling composing this music lacks parallel. When I hum Mozart’s melodious lieder, I can hardly control my shivers, convinced Mozart wrote his famous song cycles especially form me. My love of classical music has been enriched, and has reached a point where it defines me, and its hold on me is unshakeable; to neglect it would be impossible.

All the points get crossed while I was in my music class, and it is moment when I realize that the light instrumental music can calmed me from hyper impulsive state and gives me the insight and idea while I need to slow down to thinking the solution to handle tricky problems. Even since then, I change my study habit from fixed studying hard to flexibility studying smart, and I will always turn on the light music whenever I need to work on my paper or to looking for solution to approach to solving problem or to relieve my hid pressure from the school and family when I was exhausted.

If my life had a soundtrack, right now it would be playing banjo music. We pulled into the rocky driveway of our new house in Freeburg, Pennsylvania, and all I saw for miles was corn, cows, and woods. It was a miracle my cell phone still worked, because I felt like I’d fallen off the face of the planet.

Have you ever made something from nothing? Drawn air into your lungs, and made magic come out? I admit that there are many kinds of magic in this world, but few are as intimate as singing.

Being a musician will sharpen your mind and hone your focus. The intense mental stimulation and concentration playing music, requires will power and exercises your mind.

Did you know that kids that are in band are generally smarter and more successful? It’s because more of the brain is active when kids are in band. The more the kids think about the music, like counting the beats, the mathematical side is used. Some people even say that they are smarter because they learn to be more organized and usually learn different types of concentration. They have to memorize more information. My paper is over becoming a high school music teacher. I want to become a music teacher because I want to see kids grow to love playing an instrument and doing something that I think will help them become better as a person, better at having responsibility and doing something that I personally love and would love to teach.

Once a leader who has the threshold capabilities receives the right opportunities, success is still far from realized. The next defining factor on the road to greatness is how well an individual capitalizes on every opportunity. Since leaders must be able to take advantage of a situation at a moment’s notice, practice is essential in order to build the requisite readiness. Gladwell places an enormously high value and emphasis on practice and even goes so far as to claim that it, rather than talent, is the single quality that separates the good from the great. He cited a study of music students at Berlin’s Academy of Music where the researchers found vast gaps in the number of hours practiced by the professional soloists when compared to musicians who simply went on to teach music. Gladwell (2008) claimed that, “The people at the top don’t work harder

Additionally, the workflow of authoring and performing score-based interactive music will be modified in a way that the score itself plays an active role during the live performance of the piece. In Western Music, staff notation plays an active role during the live performance in the pursuit of communicating a complex musical idea created by the composer. All essential performance information is carefully detailed in the score parts, so the score plays two roles in the communication system: a passive role encoding musical ideas during the composition stage, and an active role during the actual performing of the piece. If any of the performers does not have access to the score, then the communication fails. In this proposal, the score will play an active role in the