Sonata for Two Pianos in D major

PANPACIFIC UNIVERSITY NORTH PHILIPPINES Tayug, Pangasinan Term Paper In Communication Skills II Second Semester S.Y 2009-2010 The Role of Music in Learning PREFACE This term paper explains the relevance and role of music in learning. It also shows the benefits of listening to soft music in stimulating our mind to do certain tasks. It also discusses the study and research of some people about the goodness of music to

numbers which specify the chords to be played above it. Musical works containing a continuo part helped to convey harmonic support of chords under the melodic line (The Baroque Era). Kamien (2008) states that basso continuo is usually played by at least two instruments: an organ or harpsichord and low melodic instrument like the cello or bassoon. Kamien (2008) also adds that “the organist of harpsichordist plays the bass part with the left hand which is also played by the cellist or bassoonist. With the

speech. It was sung by a soloist with only a simple chordal accompaniment and was, thus, homophonic; the Camerata rejected polyphony because it would obscure the all-important text (Kamien, 2008). Together with the opera, the oratorio stands as a major development in baroque vocal music. Like opera, the oratorio is a large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra usually performed during the Lenten season in the oratory, from which its name was derived; it is usually set to a narrative

with music and rated they liked the music selection in the experiment, had a significant decrease in comprehension. This study indicates that a student’s music preference may be distracting if played while studying (Anderson & Fuller, 2010). The final two studies tested subjects with various levels of musical training to asses a possible relationship between intelligence and music (Giovagnoli & Raglio, 2011; Schellenberg, MUSIC AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OVERALL INTELLECT 2011). While one study used

are well known for their use of drum beats to access healing powers both within themselves and for the people they wish to treat (5). It has been suggested that in the meditative state—a state of extreme awareness and internal mental calmness—the two hemispheres of the brain become synchronized in brain wave production, rather than generating signals of varying frequencies and amplitudes. It would thus make sense that the repetitive nature of chant, and the underlying beat of music, is central in

incapable of completing spatial reasoning tasks, such as cutting and folding paper. As there have been no studies that have tested on babies, results showing improved cognitive ability in babies after listening to Mozart simply do not exist, which is a major flaw of the research claim that ‘listening to Mozart makes babies smarter. The studies conducted since the original in 1993 have been indicative of some validity

each era. Not only did the tone and subject matter of the composed pieces change, but so did the ways in which it appeared. As the world advanced, music progressed from simplistic church music to complex and challenging orchestrated pieces. The major eras in which significant musical changes took place were, in chronological order, the Renaissance Period, the Baroque Period, the Classical Period, and finally, The Romantic Period. Each era is marked with a specific style of music that coincides

The number indicates the pitch class in which the first note of prime and inverted forms of the row is to be played, or the last note of retrograde and retrograde inverted forms. So for example I2 is an inverted form of P0 that has been transposed two semi-tones up. Through these rules it is possible to see the fundamental idea of serialism, composition that moves away from the traditional tonal relationships of notes, while creating new relationships through pitch, order, numbers and intervals.

Symphony No. 7 in A Major (Op. 92), completed in 1812, might have been one of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s most popular pieces. The seventh of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, its premiere concert (December 1813 in Vienna) was performed at a charity concert in order to benefit the soldiers who had been wounded a few months prior in the battle of Hanau. It was performed three times in ten weeks following its premiere. During the time of the symphony’s premiere, Vienna was still distressed due to being taken

works took a step back from the grand movement of the Baroque era, the composers and artists of the Classical time period did lay out a tuneful and elegant style in their music and art. Out of the Classical era came many renowned artists and composers, two of those whom are artist Sir Thomas Lawrence and composer Ludwig van Beethoven (“NYU”). In the year of 1769, Thomas Lawrence was born to his parents in Bristol, England. Though he was born in Bristol, Lawrence grew up in Devizes and later on, in Bath