Musical notation

Classical Music: Is it Relevant or Not? Julia, a teen music lover, on one of her classes, is required to listen to classical music. Upon listening, she concludes that it is too boring for her taste despite being a music lover and thought to herself, “Why do I need to listen to classical music? What is the purpose of classical music? Is it really relevant to our music industry today?” Unbeknownst to her, classical music exists and is studied and performed for a reason. What is classical music? According

most commonly define it as the ability to read and write, in the verbal sense. But there is a wide range of literacy apart from that, which also requires mastering a set of crucial skills. One such example is musical literacy, which is the ability to read, write, or appreciate music. Musical literacy is not all that different from the verbal kind. Leonard G. Ratner, when speaking of 18th and 19th century music, writes "Both language and music had their vocabulary, syntax, and arrangement of formal

concerts that during the past millennium, classical music has been created by some of the musical mind the world has ever seen with Beethoven, Mozart and many more. The wide of Range of genres that these great artist composers, including orchestral, instrumental, choral and opera. The era’s the music used the two theory of natural and pleasing variety and The two ideas that can be traced in all the elements of musical technique rhythm, dynamics, tone, melody, texture and form. With the styles of a classical

Coda by Dorothy Parker has a negative connotation on the view of life. It is accurate to describe this as someone who is very pessimistic, or even a little bit depressed. Therefore I made the tone of my melody very dark and not inspiring to reflect the personality of the poem. In each subsequent bar I decrease the initial note down by a note to represent how the author believes that there is no reason or motivation for living life. It is seen in each bar that I begin an upward trend with each initial

Fantasia, a Walt Disney film from the year 1940 is a strong example of hermeneutic composability because the orchestrated music was written with a story in mind. To accentuate this, an animation was paired with the music to illustrate the idea the composer had in mind. The conductor of the orchestra says, “What you are going to see are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists” (Fantasia). He specifies later that, “these [animations]

it through verbal exchange and writing. While it is common to use the language in stories and education, another commonality is through music. Music and songwriting is an art that creates a story by combining words with rhythm and in some cases, musical instruments. With the love for music and singing, my choral director, Michael Ushino, made an impact on my life through the articulation of music. Freshmen year of high school, the beginning of adolescence and responsibility, I chose the elective

plan on giving it a try. But after a first-hand experience, I realized that a personal experience could craft one's musical taste. My musical taste was altered by a single car ride. It was about two years ago when my current boyfriend picked me up for our first date. As the car pulls up, I could hear his radio: I mentally conceived to myself "What did I get myself into?" The musical composition that started playing as I got into the car was "Dream On" by Aerosmith. At first, I was sitting on the

Two days?! How was I supposed to complete a large project for Ethics class in two days? As it turned out, I was out sick with the flu the day the project was assigned. Of course I asked for an extension, but my teacher told me not to stress about the assignment, for was confident that I could complete it in time. I love school projects; I love putting in the effort to make something extravagant, but how can I be expected to finish this in two days- and on the subject of mass incarceration nonetheless

In a world surrounded by phones, computers, and other technological devices, information is always just a click away. School work has become more clicking and typing, and less reading and writing. When kids get an assignment to read a book and do a book report on it, laziness kicks in, and they go to the internet to look up a summary. Then what they do is copy and paste other people's writings into their paper. What a majority of kids do not know is that this is considered plagiarism and it is illegal

It all began in the December of 1st grade. My parents took me to Disneyworld and Seaworld as my Christmas present. Before we left the grand amusement park, there was one last show available. We bought the tickets and sat down. One after another, talented ice skaters filled my eyes. They looked so elegant, gracious, and perfect. It was then I came face to face with my new beloved hobby: ice skating. After two years and a lot of hard work, I signed up for my first competition. Ice skating is amazing