Essay On Didgeridoo
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I was excited to have the experience of going to Australia, to see some traditiona aboriginal performances. I was assigned to record and write about some of the performances I witnessed.
A narrative describing your first video including the following:
Review all of the feedback regarding the videos in Assignment 6.2. Make sure have the correct information on Allocation of Performers, Texture, Melody, Beat, Instrument Classification, and Tone Color. Also, review what others in your group wrote regarding other sounds and visual elements. The narrative should seamlessly blend musical and visual observations.
The first thing I noticed during The Crane dance was that the allocation of the performers …show more content…
This performance only had 4 performers however it was similar in the fact that it had no other designation also. The texture was also another difference I noticed, The didgeridoo does not provide just a drone in the background. It is creating it’s own pattern making this texture a rhythmic polyphony “A didgeridoo player can add complex rhythmic effects to the didgeridoo's drone by manipulating his lips, tongue, cheeks, glottal muscles, and diaphragm; some particularly skilled players can even play a rhythm and counter-rhythm simultaneously” (What Is A Didgeridoo?). This rhythmic manipulation is most noticeable at 0:00 the very beginning before much else is added to the performance. However that texture changes at 1:25 when the performance becomes monophonic. The beat is faster in this performance but it stays consistent and strong throughout the piece. The tone color also seemed fast paced and the instruments had a nasally quality to them. The performers in this piece seem to not have a specific melody at the beginning instead they seem to be chanting rhythmically along with the digeridoo. At 1:25 one of the performers begins to sing instead of chanting in rhythm. This is most noticeable at This performance reminded me of a dreaming story about two brothers who had tried to escape flames by climbing to the top of the mountain, they became constellations
I was excited to have the experience of going to Australia, to see some traditiona aboriginal performances. I was assigned to record and write about some of the performances I witnessed.
A narrative describing your first video including the following:
Review all of the feedback regarding the videos in Assignment 6.2. Make sure have the correct information on Allocation of Performers, Texture, Melody, Beat, Instrument Classification, and Tone Color. Also, review what others in your group wrote regarding other sounds and visual elements. The narrative should seamlessly blend musical and visual observations.
The first thing I noticed during The Crane dance was that the allocation of the performers …show more content…
This performance only had 4 performers however it was similar in the fact that it had no other designation also. The texture was also another difference I noticed, The didgeridoo does not provide just a drone in the background. It is creating it’s own pattern making this texture a rhythmic polyphony “A didgeridoo player can add complex rhythmic effects to the didgeridoo's drone by manipulating his lips, tongue, cheeks, glottal muscles, and diaphragm; some particularly skilled players can even play a rhythm and counter-rhythm simultaneously” (What Is A Didgeridoo?). This rhythmic manipulation is most noticeable at 0:00 the very beginning before much else is added to the performance. However that texture changes at 1:25 when the performance becomes monophonic. The beat is faster in this performance but it stays consistent and strong throughout the piece. The tone color also seemed fast paced and the instruments had a nasally quality to them. The performers in this piece seem to not have a specific melody at the beginning instead they seem to be chanting rhythmically along with the digeridoo. At 1:25 one of the performers begins to sing instead of chanting in rhythm. This is most noticeable at This performance reminded me of a dreaming story about two brothers who had tried to escape flames by climbing to the top of the mountain, they became constellations