Medieval Times: Music and Instruments Secular and religious music in Medieval Europe was an important part of everyday life in the Middle Ages‚ it was most important time was during festivities and celebrations. The people in those times would celebrate on any occasions from all holidays that we celebrate like Christmas‚ to even before meals. In that period of time music was more important and a great form of entertainment than it is modern time.
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effects of color and sound they developed the method of color composition based on what they termed color chords derived from the color wheel. Russell has been credited for inventing synchromism‚ meaning “with color”. It was chosen as an analogy to the musical term symphony to denote his emphasis on color rhythms. The Synchromists’ first exhibited in Munich in June 1913‚ with artwork that was controversial because of its abstract and ephemeral nature.1 According to Russell‚ color was light and the color
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them originate from similar backgrounds with the Gambus Melayu a modification of the Gambus Hadhramaut. Today‚ the gambus is recognised as a national musical instrument of Malaysia and a symbol of Malay traditional music identity (Hilarian‚ 2006). We will explore further in this essay the origins and evolution of gambus and its role in the Malay musical genre of zapin‚ hamdolok and ghazal. Gambus Melayu The slimmer and smaller pear-shaped gambus Melayu is comparable to the Yemeni qanbus. Its uniqueness
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spectacle in normal narrative film‚ yet her visual presence tends to work against the development of a story-line‚ to freeze the flow of action in moments of erotic contemplation’ (Mulvey‚ 1989:19). We could say that the Musical being a genre that relies on the spectacle of the musical numbers adds to the ‘problem of masculinity’ in the sense that the man here is also the
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MUS 603E Wenye Li Dr. Alexandra Monchick 05/07/2016 Simple but not easy: Taking Steve Reich’s Music for 18 musicians as an example After World War II‚ there were two alternative paths through the musical avant-garde. One follows the twelve-tone composing technique of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern‚ which is the path of serialism. The other is “chance music”‚ which was created by John Cage and is based on the philosophy of I-Ching. Serialism and aleatorism are the mainstream genres of 20th
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and the instrument they use. Musical instruments are a tool people can practice self-expression through music
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the frescos of Saint Sofia’s- Cathedral. Archeological researches stated that first musical instruments were made of mammoth ivory.The most widespread musical instrument of the Old Rus’ was psaltery. The psaltery was used to accompany songs that were narrating about brave princes and bodyguards. The psalterymen werewelcomed for the family holidays.During the Mongol-Tatar invasion the development of Ukrainian musical culture was stopped.The Ukrainian folk songs inspired famous composers in their work
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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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similar compositional techniques. Though there are differences found amongst the techniques of Whitacre and Lauridsen‚ a connection can be drawn between their composition styles. Through clever uses of harmonic and dynamic techniques‚ sonorities‚ and musical color‚ a connection is easily heard in both composers’ beautiful music. Each composer’s style remains present in each individual composition‚ such as Whitacre’s Sleep and Cloudburst and Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium and Madrigali; and though similarities
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Chapter 1: Musical Styles * Glissando * Rapid slide up or down a scale * Tone Cluster * Chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart‚ used in twentieth-century music. * Bitonality * Approach to pitch organization using two keys at one time‚ often found in twentieth century music. * Polychord * Combination of two chords sounded at the same tine‚ used in twentieth century music. * Polytonality * Approach to pitch organization using two or
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