There is still military interaction between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea–South Korea

This activity challenged my critical listening skills and developed my ability to appraise music and use aesthetic sensitivity while concentrating on listening to identify the music elements. It was evident that the composer manipulates all the musical elements and qualities to accurately portray the narrative of the Moldau. Elements of music include duration, pitch, dynamic and expression, structure and style, timbre and texture (REF). For example, duration includes rhythm, beat, accent and tempo, that I was able to identify with the loud, triumphant calls of the hunter’s horn, the dominating French horns, and trumpets playing sharp, rhythmic notes. Also, pitch refers to the register of the note in a sound patter (REF). I was able to identify the cheerful mood of the melody that moves in an up and down pitch. Dynamics and expression are evident in the pattern of intensity and volume of the sound with loud trumpets as the river passes the rapids or the bassoon playing low and dark sounds that I thought contributes to dramatic

North Korea, formally known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a relic of the Cold War and the world’s last remaining totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship. Arguably the most secretive state in the world, North Korea poses a unique set of challenges to the world, especially to its democratic and capitalist neighbor, South Korea, formally known as the Republic of Korea (ROK). As one of the last remnants of the Cold War era, North Korea remains an anomaly of the international system due to its unpredictable nature and disregard for international norms. With the recent bombardment of the South Korean Island of Yeongpyong and the sinking of the warship Cheonan, tensions between the two Koreas are at the lowest point since

The division of Korea into South Korea and North Korea was the result of the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, leaving the countries in disagreement with a 2.5 mile gap separating the countries. Following this, the Korean War occurred between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, making the USA an instant enemy of North Korea. In July 1953, the Korean War came to an end.

One of the significant events were at Yeonpyeong in 1999 and 2002. There were two battles that were fought between South Korea and North Korea. Tens of people died and injured from the battle. Those were little combats compared to Korean War, but these battles were telling that two Korea were still in war. In East Asia peninsula, North Korea and South Korea were confronting due to North Korea’s intimidation on bombing. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said that the modern war is artillery war. The tension among both Korea and United States was really intense in that it is almost the moment of rising of the war. North Korea is threatening America on nuclear bombing in that United Nation is strongly corresponds on their actions. Actually, both sides are almost got ready on the war and it seems to occur. Kim Jong Un was looking for the place to bomb. There were also threats that occurred recently due to nucleic bombing. North Korea is keep doing the nuclear test by firing a rocket to the space as satellite. This is nominal satellite in which they are actually doing a nuclear test. By using nuclear power, North Korea wants to get the initiative from South Korea and attract China to be their

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.

The phrases are generally 8 beats long extending over 3 – the last two beats of the first bar and the first two beats of the third bar( in the excerpt to the right).

The U.S. helped to divide the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, and then waged war against North Korea in the 1950s. Although the U.S. signed a peace agreement rather than a peace treaty with North Korea after the war, its policy toward the country changed. Instead of trying to overthrow the North Korea government, the U.S. government adopted a policy of containing communism. During the 1980’s, associations between North Korea and the U.S. start to take on a new diplomatic form. North Korea’s nuclear weapons program had become a pressing international issue

The Korean War begun far before North Korea had launched their first assault upon South Korea. Nearing of the end of the Second World War, the Korean Peninsula had been under Japanese control. Soon enough it was liberated by both American and Soviet forces, the Soviets occupying the country north of the 38th Parallel, and the Americans south of it. After the war, neither the Koreans, Soviets, nor the Americans could agree on the country's government. This resulted in the foundation of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north (Ohn Chang-Il, 23). The fact that neither the States nor the Soviets were willing to compromise on anything was a prime factor in the separation of the Korean Peninsula.

The Korean war is a conflict between North Korea and South Korea which started on June 25, 1950 until July 27, of 1953, although North Korea and South Korea still have conflicts today. Korea was split into two countries, North Korea and South Korea . This was because of Communists and Anti-Communists in Korea which prevented Korea from creating a consolidated government. Korea was split right in the 38th parallel, a separation similar to the yugoslavian separation. North Korea had attempted to take over the capital of South Korea, Seoul, but North Korea had claimed that South Korea was planning an attack on the North so North korea attacked them to overthrow their plan. Many historians had been persuaded that this Korean counter attack was

f. The song starts forte with an immediate crescendo/ decrescendo, followed by an accent mark on beat 1 mm 5. Mm 9 begins another crescendo/ decrescendo again followed by another accent. The following page brings us all the way down to a Piano, followed by a crescendo/ decrescendo and then immediately after, another crescendo/ decrescendo. Bringing us to mm 25, we are nearing the end of the piece with a forte followed by 2 decrescendos in succession to each other. There is then a fermata which allows for dramatic effect. The post fermata measure then shows a fermata and the word broaden which slows down the piece and leads you to a second fermata holding out a note forteissimo and then going back into time and ending the

“Big, Big World”, the first time I listened this music is when I was in elementary school. A girl played the music in the classroom, and I was attracted by the sweet-sounding melody and the singer’s clean and mellow voice. I only knew a few english words and didn’t know who sang the song, but at that time, I started realizing the charm of english music. Afterwards, I learned more about english and translated its lyric by myself. I tried to sing “Big, Big World” and understand the meaning of the song.

The first piece represented spring and the happiness that comes along with it. It gradually emerges from mere silence, the pianissimo dynamic, to being played in a celebratory and peaceful major key with an

The piece written at a slow tempo and has a meter of 4/4 throughout. It has a soft and small dynamic range, moving between pianissimo and piano, and a light texture. The piece is written with three staves in order to clarify and neaten Debussy’s notation. The piece has a B-flat in the key signature, suggesting D minor. The piece mainly centers around the pitch D.

The pattern of the song has a beat that repeats itself at a fixed rate. In addition to the fixed rate, the song has an accent where one beat is emphasized and this can be heard by the increased volume of that specific note. Towards the end of the song, the melodic contour of the song can be described as a descending melodic contour as the pitches descend from high to low. This is done by the artist holding out their voices for a lengthened amount of time. Furthermore, the phonic structure of this piece can be described as a monophonic piece. Monophony means that the performers play the same pitches with the same rhythms. Even though the song incompasses a wide varitey of instruments, the rhythm of the song stays relatively the same Another important aspect of the song is the dynamics. The beginning of the song can be classified as a crescendo because of the increased musical sound from the instruments, however, towards the end there is a decrescendo as the volume falls off and the artists holds on and extends the last note. The crescendo in the beginning of the song is interesting to note because the song starts off acapella and gradually the volume begins to increase when the first musical instrument comes into play. Last but not least, this piece of music contains a lot of repetition. The vocal repetition of the songs title serves as a

Moreover, DPRK’s foreign policy since the 1970s focused on forceful unification of Korean Peninsula and spreading communist revolution in the South. It has to be remembered that an official doctrine till the end of the 1970s ideologically and practically postulated communization of the south on the basis of military intervention . Since that time North Korea placed its spies in the East Asia and started sheltering revolutionists and terrorists from all over the world, among others nine members of radical left-wing group called the Japanese Fraction of the Red Army who skyjacked a Japanese airplane to Pyongyang in March 1970 . Furthermore, North Korea has been for many years developing its nuclear program and numerously threatening to use it what obviously attracts attention of the whole world .