Scripted Music Scores

During a musical performance many elements to be looked are not easily recognized by the average critic. A musical performance has multiple interactions taking place between the music, text, performers, audience, and space that all can contribute to a great performance. Overwhelming majority of the audience does not realize so much can be looked at during a single performance. At a performance by the University of Maryland Marching Band I was able to analyze the Musical Sound, Contexts of the Performance, and Interpretation of the Performance.

The first section of this paper will examine or describe how the creation of the Fairlight Computer Musical instrument by Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie in 1979 changed the production of music forever but

Music is a significant element in most lives it takes a role in most cultures people believe in. Music contains a variety of elements within different genres such as the pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre and the texture. Different voices and different kinds of instruments produce a variety of frequent

For centuries, music has been an important and influential part of people’s lives. Music can evoke so many emotions, ranging all the way from fear to surprise (Mohana). As a style, Celtic music seems to be the most well-known music “genre” worldwide. Between the instruments used, the different styles, and the most famous musicians Celtic, music is an iconic art-form that is used and heard around the world, but in many different styles and instrumentations.

Name: Steven Adamson Specific purpose: To inform my audience of how music is produced. Central Idea: Music production is a complex process to result in the music that we listen to. This process has changed with technology, making it both easier and more difficult in different ways. I plan to tell you about the technology and programs used to produce music today and how the pieces are brought together to form a complete song.

Doctor Andy Hildebrand spent 18 years in the field of seismic data exploration. He used signal processing, audio, and a mathematical model called autocorrection to map the layers below the Earth’s surface to find drilling spots for oil companies. Geophysicists, like Hildebrand, use this technology to send sound waves into the Earth and record their reflections with a geophone. Hildebrand, who was also a classically-trained flautist and had never listened to pop or rock music, realized that his equipment could also detect pitch. Thus, Auto-Tune was born (Anderson, 2013). Today, almost every recording artist relies on Auto-Tune to fix their mistakes. The real question is whether or not you have to have talent to sing anymore in this world of computerized music. In this piece I will discuss how Auto-Tune works, the history of technology in the music industry, and the controversy surrounding this technology.

The goal of all music today is to evoke emotion from the listener. Society has undergone transformative changes in the way music is marketed to consumers. Today’s music utilizes tools and techniques to target the emotions of consumers. The Industrial Revolution first initiated the technological changes that would go on to significantly alter the delivery of music. From sheet music to digital downloads music has been streamed through the airways.

Title: Performing: Realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation Description: Using pieces currently integrated into classroom instruction or musical pieces studied independently, students will select specific sections that exemplify technical/stylistic/artistic challenges to overcome; work toward improving the performance quality of identified challenges; demonstrate and document processes for addressing the challenges; demonstrate and reflect upon achievement.

Today’s time, music notation and printing is simply easy to access and obtain. With exact notation on how music should be portrayed and performed. In today’s world we don’t realize how fortunate we are to have this luxury. Music notation and print has come a long way.

Technology and music have a strong correlation and as technology has improved, so has music. Technology has allowed music to be expressed in so many unique ways and has also inspired people, like myself, to learn more about the evolution of music throughout the years. Therefore, for my final music project, I chose to do the creative option and decided to compose my own music through a music software called, Garage Band. It is a technological support that allows people to play around with pre-made loops, recordings and a variety of sounds from different musical instruments (Preve 11) . I was further inspired and motivated towards creating my own music after going through the readings from class and thought about how creating my own music using

Two persistent and basic questions surrounding music are (1) what is a musical work1, and (2) what is the thing that makes something a piece of music?2 To answer these questions, philosophers have relied on several ontological theories that purport to answer these, and other questions, of importance in the field of music.

A given instrumental performance exists as a gateway to the original work rather than being the work itself and as such a given performance is two works rather than one. In Philosophy of Piano Playing: Reflections on the concept of Performance Thomas Mark makes the claim that a performance and a quotation are similar in concept, but performance requires an assertion. With the nature of assertion this account of a performance of an existing work becomes two works of art rather than one. However, while Mark is able to separate a performance from a quotation the nature of quotations greatly limits a performance of a pre-existing work.

One, the performer should be able to distinguish indications that are scanty for the instruments that the notations may be showing. In that all the instruments that the performer is using fit in the kind of that they are playing. They should also look out for the effects of the musician that may need working on for the actual performance (Donington, 131).

Finally, the last element is the emphasis on improvisation: the ability to extemporaneously compose on an existing melody. This is often considered as a chance to show off for the performers. Through improvisations and ornaments which were both elaborated by the extemporaneously composition of performers added interest and differences between music and even the same piece of music might sound different.

The creation of music is still disputed; however its early forms consisted of simple beats, rhythms, and melodies that would often mimic the human body’s natural sounds (Gough, “The Origins of Music”). These simple patterns eventually grew more complex over time, mixing different patterns with different characteristics. These complex