Analysis of The So-called Laws of Nature — a piece follows the idea of minimalism and classical music style The So-called Laws of Nature is a minimalist music composed by the American minimalist composer David Lang in the year 2002. The piece is in a 32-minuets large scale, and written for percussion quartet. There are three parts in the piece. According to David Lang’s performance notes, the first and second part can be played independent of the other parts. If the first two parts are played together, the part 3 must be played. The instrumentation in The So-called Laws of Nature is unique--three distinctive instrumentation organizations are presented in the piece. In the first part, each percussionist has assigned to 7 graduated woodblocks or other pieces of wood. In the second part, each percussionist has 7 tuned pieces of metal, 3 graduated toms, 1 rock bass drum with foot pedal, and 1 brake drum or other nasty piece of metal. In the third …show more content…
The first part “The So-called Laws of Nature” was premiered on the Bang on a Can Marathon at the 2001 Next Wave Festival at BAM. The second part was premiered in October 19, 2002, by So Percussion Group at the Miller Theater, New York. Analysis of Part 1 Part 1 develops with messy wood percussion sounds--well-organized materials are hidden beneath messy sounds. On the one side, the composer followed minimalism style to develop and organize motives and materials. On the other side, he kept the classical musical structure to unit the piece as a whole. There are three large sections in Part 1, including A section, B section and A’ section. These sections constitute a traditional ternary form. A section is from measure 1 to measure 451, B section is from bar 452 to bar 845, A’ section (recapitulation) is from measure 846 to the end. Each section also includes some smaller parts. The structure is shown below. (Ex.
under Part 2 or it is the more explanatory version of Part 1. To complete the Part 1, there are
Beginning solely by a haut instrument, Susato successfully conveyed a bright sonority to the first dance [Susato, Three dances. 0:00-0.06]. Added percussion instrument at the seventh second, the music was given its first touch to be vivid and plump. It was performed by outdoor woodwind bands including tabor, cornetto, sackbut, shawn, and tambourine. Though there are three dances contained in Susato’s work, and dances flowed from one another, it is not hard to distinguish because of their clearly full-stops between each part. Three dances, composed during Renaissance period(1551) by Susato, is a three rondes music in binary form(A-A-B-B). Its repeated melodies were played by permeant improvisers at that time to help enrich the music with colors
parts, which are independent of one another: Part I is designed to familiarize you with the
This plan ensures that the organization has highly competent employees in a range of areas. It can be referred to as the Organization Entry Plan. This plan is developed in accordance with employee competency required in different operations. In order for this plan to be effective, accuracy, and the mission of the cooperation should be at the forefront. The recruitment, selection and on board process plan is a key element to the success of the organization.
In this book wars article, I will be comparing two books on the commonality of their main characters. They are both young adults, although one is a boy and one is a girl. Book one is Evolution, Me, & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande. Book 2 is Erak’s Ransom: Ranger’s Apprentice Series, Book 7 by John A. Flanagan. They are both about a young adult facing varying challenges in life, and becoming an adult.
Section two marks the beginning of a different theme which is shown by the transition from a
In his book, The Nature Principle, Richard Louv talks about how nature is a natural resource to many of the problems we as humans are facing today, if we would just go outside and take advantage of it. Louv talks about how we (as American’s) have increased our use of technology vastly in the last ten years. While this is not comply bad, it does have negative effects on our physical, emotional and spiritual being if not kept in check. Louv goes on to share that, “the more high tech we become, the more nature we need” (Louv, 2011). Think about a time you have sat in your office for hours on end, working on your computer, at last lunch time came and you went outside for just five minutes because you forgot something in your car. In just those few minutes of going outside, you might have noticed a slight increase in your happiness level. Can you then venture to understand how this could be applied to children, or even increased with taking more time to enjoy nature? Richard Louv challenges his readers to not only be in nature, but to live with nature (Louv, 2011) .
Last week we read Jeffrey Kripal’s The Super Natural, in the text he mentions, “We are not our physical body; we are spirits, and as such we are immortal and we are destined, lifetime by lifetime...to evolve into ever higher levels of consciousness and so return to God”. Through investigations of various worldviews and the ‘real’, I am discovering evidence and support for that which I feel and know to be true and real for myself. Particularly throughout that last few months I have grown more aware about the colonization of knowledge, not just in context to religion and power, but the overall institutionalized control of power/knowledge dynamics in place such as language, culture, and education. The quote above provided by Kirpal assists in backing where my worldview lies, and the ever expanding and dynamic composition of my minds eye.
Sonata V of John Cage has binary form which consists of small-ranged irregular phrases. The piece as a whole does not have a distinct melody. The first section has a smooth, repetitive rhythm, and percussive sound of prepared piano is ethereal. There is a regular pulse throughout the first section, and the pulse is delayed in some places with a couple of extra notes (“Sonata V,” 0:12-0:16). The second part is more like the developmental part of the Classical sonata form. It is more dissonant and irregular, and there are pauses between some phrases. The piece as a whole differs from Western music in almost every aspect. Some parts of the piece resemble African drumming (“Sonata V,” 0:47-0:52). However, Cage was actually inspired from Javanese Gamelan, an orchestra of metallic percussion from Indonesia (Forney et. al., 374).
This work was composed during the Classical period, 1750- 1820. One aspect of the classical music style beign applied to this work includes the reoccurance of two or more contrasting themes. Another is the use of short and clearly defined musical phrases. Lastly, this piece, on a purely musical level, was simply more to hum along to. This type of melody took over the complex polyphony of the Baroque period.
Natural law has a lot of strength and weaknesses, but what is natural law in the first place? Natural law is a universal guide for judging the moral values of our choices, and looks at human in a way that says we at the end of the day know the right thing to do. Weaknesses for natural law are many, one of them is to see good automatically found in nature but the question begs to be asked is everything in nature actually good. Aquinas thought that all people searched for God and this is why they found good, but that wasn’t true back then and definitely isn’t true now. Another weakness is that having babies is important in natural law so does this mean that people who are incapable of having babies our unnatural. It is believed that moral
The Middle Ages is filled with a variety of different authors. Whether it be poets, novelists, or short story writers, these authors focused on certain topics in their works. The theme of religion is very prominent in the stories of Middle Age writers. One Middle Age writer, Chaucer, creates stories that have a heavy influence of religion and are like the parables of Jesus. A collection of some of Chaucer’s works are called The Canterbury Tales.
The two disciplines of mechanics and music are often viewed as contradictory as the freely flowing and emotional music contrasts with the predictable and emotionally frigid movement of machines. In the poem “Machines” by Michael Donaghy, he tries to show that there are more similarities than differences between the two and that they are both a parts of life. He relates this to the human experience and crafts the theme that to find balance in life, a person must keep moving forward.
According to Montesquieu, law signifies the relationship between man and the nature of things. In this respect, our author has divided laws into two classes; natural and positive laws. Natural laws are laws which are derived from God himself - “laws by which He created all things”(19). These such laws are consistencies observed through the physical world, in relation to mankind. In this premise, Montesquieu claims that all beings have similar inherent characteristics of sensation and emotion. Instead of knowledge uniting the natural man, a commen sense of emotion first united us; “United by sensation...by knowledge”(19). With this regard, our author theorizes that all of mankind, since the beginning, had laws derived from a sort of inherent sense of justice. Montesquieu then creates a short list of natural laws in relation to man.