Rhythm And Meter Of Music Chapter 2 Summary

22.  By the 14th century a new system of music notation had evolved.  It allowed a composer to specify almost any rhythmic pattern.  Were beats now divided into two or three parts or both?  Was syncopation used? Both and yes

It comprises recurring pulses and accents that create identifiable patterns. Also, without rhythm there is only the rise and falling of tones (119). The song is the same measure repeated over and over in slightly different ways. There are two characteristics that tend to change throughout this song, tempo and the dynamics. Tempo is the rate of speed of the composition (120). The song begins in the tempo Lento, slow, and begins picking up speed and rising to andante, moderate, tempo. Dynamics is the degrees of loudness and softness in the music (177). In this particular song the tempo and dynamics build off each other. When one changes the other changes with it, creating layers to the sound you hear and making each note pleasing to the

Susan Griffin writes her book, A Chorus of Stones: the Private Life of War, in a way that makes it into a blend of memoirs, history, and psychology. She includes three sorts of history in the writing: world, family, and personal history. With her own personal history, she writes about and describes her childhood and life which interlaces with her family’s history. The lives of the characters in her essay bring about the larger world history and the events that occurred.

Often music is consisted not only by sounds made from musical instruments, but also by voice and verbal messages. The structure of the voice, or as Roland Barthes describes it ‘the grain of voice’ is the element in a certain piece of music which is responsible for creating the emotions when listening. The grain and the lyrics make the signified and carry out the message. The vocal part of music is formed of words, text, which communicate and make the representation and expression of what it is sung - talked about. According to Barthes the emotive modes of the voice and the changes of the tones from low to high is what delivers the final message and makes us feel the music. (Barthes, R. 1977 [1972]).

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

In addition to the elements of music, musical concepts such melody, harmony, and texture are also important to “The Piece of Resistance.” The song’s melody was played in a smoothly, connected manner, which means it is best described as a legato. This smooth melody resulted in a consonance harmony in the piece. There is a distinct main melody played throughout the song played by the drums being accompanied by the other instruments. Ultimately resulting in the different sounds competing for attention, which is a characteristic of the piece’s polyphonic texture.

In the passage, the narrator characterizes a young man by the name of McTeague. The narrator reflects his attitude of subtle admiration of McTeague through diction, detail, tone, and syntax.

Baldwin also uses the motif of music to signify that the effects of suffering lead to people improving themselves. Sonny began to comprehend that his previous ways were not going to get him anywhere positive in life. For example, when Sonny reflects to the narrator about the person that he used to be, Sonny tells the narrator “ I don’t know how I played, thinking about it now, but I know I did awful things, those times, sometimes, to people” (41). Additionally, in the end of the narrative, Baldwin creates a remarkable shift in the tone of the passage. During the time of Sonny playing Jazz with his band once again, he was brought a cup of scotch and milk. Sonny took a sip of the drink and put it on the top of his piano where “ it glowed and

Artist, Kesha, co-wrote and sang the song titled “Praying.” In the video that she created for the song she shows us, the audience, what she went through during her healing process from the sexual and mental violence she received. Through many methods, such as religious references, Kesha took us through her journey through ethos, logos, and pathos.

The story of And the Soul Shall Dance is a play of Japanese immigrant cultural. In the deserted area of America in the 1935’s one family in particular has been able to make the best of their situation and kept the upmost happiness in their family. While another family consist of a very abusive husband to his wife Emiko. Emiko fights her way to get back to Japan where her family and true love awaits her. During this time the great depression left a sense of poverty and relations between Japan and the US which turned rancid leading to Japanese Americans and laws that restrict them from their rights of property. And the Soul Shall Dance “refers to a line in a song Emiko sings about what happens when you drink a certain green wine”.

Chapter 6: The lyrics refers to a women who is her own person and doesn’t need to depend on others. In this chapter it starts by talking about the curse the guitar brought upon Johnson, it was such a strong curse that it made him crazy up to the point that he tried killing himself. That’s why Robert Johnson left the guitar on Thomas car on purpose passing down his bad luck to someone else thinking that it will free him from the pact he made, in the end the guitar chose Victor since he was the most messed up which was something the guitar could feed of on. The people in the Reservation did not like that both white women and flathead women were in the band since it they weren’t Spokane Indian and the white girls were just pure trouble. The

•Counterpoint—a very complex and rule-bound type of polyphony in which the resulting harmony provides the tonal organization for the music—is used extensively.

The song "The message" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five depicts the struggle of young black adults growing up in society. The struggle to make it out of poverty can be compared to survival of the fittest in a jungle. Only the strong would survive and adapt to the changes to fit in. Trying their best to make a betterment with whatever little society offers. Being a young black African American in the early 1980's was not easy. It was easier to live the fast life and gain fast money by being part of the drug community. Drugs, guns, and money was glamorized and this is what the young adults looked at as a means of getting rich. In the songs, a young man talks about how he is trying hard to hold on to the little bit of sanity he has left in his soul. He talks about the struggle he endures while trying not to get pushed over the edge. He was born an innocent child who's blind to the ways of mind kind. Growing up he faced many challenges and had to fight

“The Rite of Spring” was written during the Modern Era of music. The characteristics of music during this period used nonsymmetrical patterns in the meter based on five, seven, eleven, or thirteen beats per measure. The meter could shift constantly changing the flow of the music. Composers started using sharply contrasting rhythms simultaneous , this is called polyrhythm. Early modern composers wrote melodies in relation to the instruments instead of the voice. Harmonies became more complex during this time. Composers used stacked chords adding as much as seven notes to one chord. These chords were highly dissonant and were known as polyharmony cords. These chords redefined the tonality and needed new ways of organization in music. These chords also could make distinctions with the dissonance and consonance in music.

The animation of classical music began to increase; the transition was a natural growth of what comes before. Never before in history had it been possible to move from one kind of tempo, to another so naturally, with such grace. The kind of rhythmic transition is the touch stone of classical style (Rosen 60). For the classical composer, the Perpetuum Mobile1, where adding it, creates another challenge the composer has to overcome to achieve the added desire to break up the rhythmic texture of the piece and to create the tension required to add a dramatic force.