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    skills. Music play can also help with math skills if a child learns how to play an instrument. Research has shown that child-centered musical play is a powerful medium for any young child while they explore many musical element and concepts. Music is an essential part of a young child’s play. Children are often are singing spontaneous, making sounds, and dancing while they play. This type of individual free musical

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    In this assignment, I will discuss on the Finale: Very Slowly-Largo Maestoso, which duration is roughly 10 minutes. According to my analysis, it consists of an estimate of 13 layers of musical events, marked by varying musical tones and rhythms, introduction of different orchestral instruments, and changes in musical intensity. Below is my analysis divided into sections according to the track time and variations of the orchestral events. Section 1 (00:00-01:04): The symphony begins with intense background

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    breaks someone. In sixth grade, I nearly decided to go with my gut instinct and try out for a percussion instrument for our school band. If I had gone through with this decision, it would have aimless. With the help of my former director, Mr. Davis, I was able to realize that I had made a bad decision, and decided to choose another instrument: flute. This was the beginning of my musical journey. I am now a flutist and a piccolo player who has joyfully played for seven years. Music has become

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    only instruments we needed. The church considered the use of instruments as profane. There was no musical notation as songs were passed along from person to person by rote memorization. In the secular world, instruments were used at times by jongleurs, trouveres, and minnesingers. Some of those early instruments include the "vielle, harp, psaltery, flute, shawm, bagpipe, and drums (Thomas et al.). " Those instruments were most likely used in an accompaniment capacity, but since musical notation

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    Music And Music

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    To what extent has technology influenced music and music culture? Music has played alongside humankind throughout all of history. It has brought together people, creating communities and sub-cultures, acting as a reflection of everything we have experienced and expressed as a race. However, the influence of technologies developed overtime has changed how we experience, ultimately changing culture and how we express ourselves through music. To be able to create the music we hear today has taken thousands

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    been roughly six percent of participants who have played an instrument, based on the US Census for 2015. Presently the study had 23 participants who had previously played a musical instrument. To ensure that the study results are as accurate as possible, the ratio should be split as accurately as possible meaning only two of the thirty-seven participants should have ever played a musical instrument. For people who play a musical instrument, music is going to affect the brain and stimulation differently

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    Wenu Se Goli Analysis

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    use of the musical bow specifically the umrhubhe. It will look at the history, the characteristics, and how the musical bow is used within South Africa. Additionally, a brief analysis of Madosini’s song Wenu Se Goli will be integrated into this essay. The analysis will be conducted by applying some if not all of the listening parameters. In South Africa, the musical bow is one of the most prevailing and distinctive musical instruments (Rycroft 1996, 84). There are a wide variety of musical bows available

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    Music 1. The basic property of all music is SOUND * Tone – the duration (length), frequency (pitch), amplitude (loudness), timbre (quality of sound). * All sounds have the potential to be tones 2. The sounds (and silences) that comprise a musical work organized in some way * Music is a form of organized sound * Listening: CD 1:1 (Beethoven’s Symphony #9) & CD 1:2 (Japanese gagaku) 3. Sounds are organized into music by people thus; music is a form of humanly organized sound *

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    happens twice, first highlighting each individual instrument with tempo and dynamic. The second time this arrangement is played the orchestra highlights the same melody with the various sounds each instrument makes. Closing Britten’s musical number in a fugue. After playing as a whole the orchestra plays within their own families with accommodating instruments. When I was viewing Britten’s piece I got received many impressions on each different musical family. The woodwinds, such as, the piccolo, flute

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    before symbols, and would have no way of stamping itself into our earliest history. The first evidence of music we have is tangible, the first musical instrument. For an instrument to have been created, the creator had to have a sound in mind that he wanted to replicate. In 1997, it was announced that what was believed to be the oldest musical instrument had been discovered. In “Fang or Flint? What made the ‘Neanderthal Flute’?” the author, Bob Fink, discusses the possibility of this 43,000 year

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