amplification of the sound volume. History Many artists‚ composers and philosophers have approached the combination between music and visual art for centuries. From abstract paintings to the 3 dimensional multimedia environments‚ the idea of putting musical notes into a color‚ space and motion to create a feeling of transcendence and poetry has long been experimented (Brougher 213). It began in the 18th century when some people attempted to associate specific colors to specific pitches. Sir Isaac Newton
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Pitch Notation In Western music notation‚ we name musical tones using the first seven letters of the alphabet: A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ F‚ G. This musical alphabet repeats endlessly. We “count” up or down in the series by reciting its letters forward or backward. To count up beyond G‚ start over with A. What is pitch? A pitch is a tone sounding in a particular octave. What is 8 above C? The answer is another C. In this seven-name system‚ each letter name reappears every eighth position. Tones eight
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science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds or both to produce beauty of form‚ harmony‚ and expression of emotion. It is said that a large percentage of old people who sing at the choir enjoy the harmony created and feel at peace. It is not really known from where music originated‚ but most probably the earliest humans to feel emotion probably found a way to express it using "organized sound". The first form of music may have come from hunting whistles - examples of these go back
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On the Town – the American Musical On the Town is a musical movie which midpoints the lives of three sailors who were on a 24-hour shore break. The movie situates around New York City during the period of war in 1944. Correspondingly‚ On the Town portrays the insufficiency of time during the World War II. Within the 24-hour leave‚ the three comrades named Chip‚ Ozzie‚ and Gabey were looking for their dream girls after they had visited the city’s best sights including the Brooklyn Bridge‚ the American
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Questions 1. What is a symphony? A symphony is an elaborate musical composition for full orchestra‚ typically in four movements‚ at least one of which is traditionally in sonata form. 2. What is a sonata? How is it related to the sonata form? A sonata is a composition for an instrumental soloist‚ with piano accompaniment‚ in several movements with one or more in sonata form. Sonata form is a piece of music in three sections‚ in ABA form‚ which are exposition‚ development‚ and recapitulation. 3. What
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"Grease" is the word when it comes to my favorite musical past-time. But the question is‚ what was it about the rock and roll era in the 50s that influenced the writers of this stage musical turned movie? Also‚ how did this type of film affect the popular culture of the past and of today? That is the basis of this paper . Grease began as a five-hour long amateur show presented in a Chicago trolley barn in the summer of 1971 and eventually made Broadway. The film version of "Grease" began almost
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dates all the way back to 1930. (Stephen Sondheim Biography.com) Sondheim is a musical theatre legend who has won eight Tony awards‚ making him the composer who has received the most Tony’s (Tony Awards Facts and Trivia Tonyawards.com.) His words and wisdom seep onto paper and put on a variety of productions. From “West Side Story” to “Passion‚” there is diversity between the shows that have come from him. Through the musical abilities of Stephen Sondheim‚ great plots and important characters have been
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European tradition during a period lasting approximately from 1750 to 1830‚ when forms such as the symphony‚ concerto‚ and sonata were standardized. How do we judge the classical music‚ and what is the musical value of classical music? I think this is the hard thing to critics about the good or bad of the things that we call it as one kind of art. We could analyze music by their elements such as the musical form‚ the harmony‚ the rhythm‚ orchestration‚ register of that piece etc. But also the
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personal design. The meaning of folk in a musical term describes the common‚ but original creation intended for personal enjoyment such as ballads or music that represents people with particular occupations or in certain circumstances. In the 1960’s folk music blended with mainstream music‚ as the Baby Boomers came of age all at once. The music of the folk revival was narrative pop music with a social conscience. Since then community-driven musical forms such as punk rock‚ hip-hip have evolved.
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