Franchot Tone

Arnold Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstücke, Opus 11 (Three Piano Pieces) represent his first fully atonal work, which would become the basis for moving forward in his later atonal and serial works. Schoenberg believed that music history naturally pushed forward and that tonality could not contain music forever. He believed atonality was the next step and Schoenberg admitted, “The most decisive steps forward occurred in the Two Songs, Op. 14, and in the Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11.” However, small

Woolf’s first entry (April 1919) to Woolf’s last entry (March 1941). The diary text is brought to life through Argento’s highly annotated musical setting. The score is written using a twelve-tone row which is repeated throughout the cycle in both the piano and vocal part. In addition to the twelve-tone row, dramatic motivic themes and contrasting create an emotional journey for the listener experiencing Woolf’s diary. I. THE DIARY The first movement

Trinidad and Tobago. Woodbrook is home many of Trinidad’s premier steel bands in its capital of Port of Spain. The tune is crafted together by its tight and “fit” groove, giving this track the energy it needs to shine. Bassist Zack Brown sets the tone for this piece with a pulsating bass line, followed by piano and drums, and finally the steel pan with the melody. The melody has nice pacing and space which is filled in sensibly by the piano. As mentioned before, Victor Provost’s ability to speak

Arnold Schoenberg’s celebrated monodrama of 1912, Pierrot lunaire, op. 21, offers a compellingly personal perspective on Pierrot’s allegorical relationship to the artists of fin-di-siécle Europe. So too, in his fusion of music and poetry, does Schoenberg provide what may be the most powerfully illustrative example of the character Pierrot’s appeal to artists of the era. Schoenberg’s libretto is drawn from Otto Hartleben’s German translation of the Belgian poet Albert Giraud’s Pierrot lunaire.

World War- composers and artists started to find, create more and new ways to express themselves. They eagerly began to discover the art of Eastern countries with the hope of finding new ways of expression. The changes in tonality, irregular rhythms, tone clusters, distressed and antagonistic melodies, the expressionist, abstract, unusual ideas over powers the music, the traditional structures recreated or composed with

Throughout the early twentieth century, music began to take on a new role as society started to progress and change. In society, music is an important part of culture and the forming of culture, where people can assert and preserve their histories and experiences when facing a change in social conditions. Modernism is defying convention to an extreme degree, disregarding boundaries completely in rhythm and tonality, opening up doors that would eventually redefine the notion of what constitutes music

Introduction 12 Angry Men (1957) is one of the most acclaimed feature films of all time. It was produced at a time when the United States was just twelve years out of World War II and “Leave It To Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” broadcast across television airwaves the perfection, conformity and affluence of American life that had been generated by the Great War. Additionally, this film was listed on the university syllabus as one of three films to see in regard to this course, Management 610 – Contexts