Musical ensemble Essays

  • Song Analysis Of The Movie 'Club DM'

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    In this video we will capture the light and fun vibe the song portrays while also adding a surreal aesthetic to the performance. The sotry will be told through dreamlike performances of Yo Gotti in the fictional “Club DM”. As he moves through the club we see select girls who all exist in Gotti’s actual DM. Progression Gotti arrives at a club with a hanging neon sign that reads “Club DM”. Select girls from Gotti’s DM funnel into the club. One girl with her man catches Gotti’s attention. Gotti

  • Ethnomusicology Personal Statement

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    saw the value of music and its function in society. My undergraduate studies opened a new door for me and I was enthralled by the opportunities that presented themselves. Throughout my undergraduate studies, I was exposed to a diverse range of musical traditions and styles, and began showing interest in the study of ethnomusicology. I had the incredible honor to study under the late Dr. Maria Paula Survilla and after my first class with her knew that I wanted to continue studying ethnomusicology

  • Statement Of Purpose: A Career As A Popular And Special Programs Coordinator

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    individual rehearsals to ensure fairness and consistency for each candidate. Additionally, I worked as an Assistant Ensemble Librarian. I frequently utilized various organizational and data storage software programs and spent countless hours generating a compiled archive of the entire ensemble music library. I was responsible for preparing and distributing the music for each of the various ensembles, including transferring bowings and correcting errata. These experiences prepared me to be competent in both

  • Response To The Assistant Professor Of Music History Position At Indiana University

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    My course work has covered a wide range of topics in the various musical eras. My research, comparing Beethoven’s symphonies with the more modern compositions of late-twentieth century American composers, has provided me with the opportunity to draw connections between the different periods and to communicate difficult

  • Wiedemann Hall: Music Analysis

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    Wichita State School of Music The Wichita State choirs not only sang correct rhythms and pitches, but they conveyed a story, a message, and impacted the crowd. Just as Hans Christian Anderson said, “Where words fail, music speaks,” the WSU choir delivered on October 8th in Wiedemann Hall at 7:30. Wiedemann Hall is truly a room built for music, because of the fact that it is acoustically sound which can be noticeably heard. WSU has two choirs: A Cappella Choir—conducted by Dr. Tom Wine—and Concert

  • The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Close Relationship With The Bienen School

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    performance, I would like to work with a teacher who is willing to work with me so I can become a performer prepared for real world jobs. Bienen School teachers have the reputation of working closely with students through studio classes and small ensemble classes. For me, I prefer this close relationship between the student and the teacher, because the teacher will be my coach for the next four years. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s close relationship with the Bienen School also will aid in my journey

  • Abortion Persuasive Speech

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    Thank you, madam speaker. Thank you, honorable members. And I’d like to thank you also for agreeing to special order this to today. I really do appreciate it. This bill is very important to me and I am a co-sponsor. And um, on that same vain, I think it would behoove me to dispel any rumors about why I couldn’t be here last Thursday. I am not a singer, and I do not play the accordion. I also am not in a rock band, neither was I auditioning for American Idol last week. I do play the harp, however

  • Personal Narrative: My Marching Band Journey

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    From the moment, “If you miss the next week of band camp, someone else will be marching in your spot,” flew out of my band director’s mouth and slapped me across the face, all chances of having the best marching band season ever disappeared. Freshman year was ruined. At first, I had no thoughts, no expressions, or feelings. Then a melody of “whys?” tried to harmonize with clusters of reasons, begetting a dissonance of buzzing in my head, “Why was I being punished for going on a vacation with my family

  • The Collaborative Experience In The Chamber Orchestra Ensemble

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    Upon joining the Chamber Orchestra Ensemble here at Texas A&M International University, it served as a useful learning experience in knowing whether I would want to pursue music as a career. After completing middle school education, music as a career was supposed to end for me because the school district did not allocate enough funds in order to create a specific music ensemble program. Thankfully TAMIU’s string ensemble welcomed students such as myself under these situations, and under Prof. Brendan

  • Peter Tang And The Eastriver Ensemble: Traditional Chinese Music

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    Jesse Goldstein Dr. Weightman Honors World Music 10 November 2014 Traditional Chinese Music Peter Tang and the EastRiver Ensemble deliver an impressive sound through their fusion of Chinese traditional and folk music. While traditional Chinese music is becoming less relevant in Chinese society at the hand of more modern sound, the group keeps the tradition alive through their instruments. The instruments deliver delicate sounds that require years of training to attain, but appreciation for such

  • The Need For Multicultural And Culturally Responsive Music Education In American Schools?

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    To be fair, there has been a great deal of improvement but mostly in the area of general classroom music. The performance ensembles (band, orchestra, chorus etc.) that make up the majority of music education, particularly on the secondary level, have changed little in the decades since the Music Educator’s National Conference officially made multiculturalism a priority (Swanwick

  • Buffalo State Jazz Ensemble Analysis

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    Today I went to see the Buffalo State Jazz Ensemble at Rockwell Hall. I chose this ensemble because growing up I enjoyed listening to jazz music. My preconceived notion about the ensemble was there would be singing and instruments playing. Jazz is a genre of music that originated in New Orleans, and since it was a port city it was the melting pot of different cultures. Attending this ensemble brought back a few memories of when my mother played jazz at home. There were 6 pieces of music that were

  • Tahitian Musical Landscape

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    A model for the Tahitian musical landscape The contemporary Tahitian musical landscape can be broadly described as the sum of three intertwined musical overlapping fields as described in Figure 1 (Colson 2016, p. 119). The Cultural/Traditional field corresponds to what Tahitians name arts traditionnels. It encompasses the various genres in ‘ori tahiti and associated musics, ‘ōrero (oratory art), and hīmene (traditional a cappella singing). ʻOri tahiti includes four basic genres, ʻōteʻa, pāʻōʻā

  • Freshman Band Application Essay

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    Early into my Freshman year in high school, I attended my first fall band concert as part of the Freshman Band. After playing, I listened to the rest of the performing groups, specifically Wind Ensemble. A nearly magical/mystical feeling occurred when they began playing; a powerful wave of euphoria resonated through my ears and into my very being/core/soul. I could not understand or explain it at the time or even now, but what I retained from that experience was my desire to be apart of that band

  • The Musicals Of The 1980's

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    The musical genre, consist of films that use singing and/ or dancing as a method to explore or engage with the narrative and plot of a film. There are always two aspects to a musical, the narrative which engages with the reality of the plot and the spectacle/performance which engrosses the spectator in suspicion of disbelief in order to create a narrative reality, while musicals use basic foundations of film mediums (Movement/ Dance and Sound/Song) they express more outwardly the emotions of the

  • High School Music Review Essay

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    world of the high school music classroom. The results of this study affirm my belief that parent influence impacts the individual student’s decision to join a musical ensemble. This study also explores other factors that parents consider when advising their child to enroll in band, choir, or orchestra. Sibling experience in a musical ensemble and past regrets due to not playing an instrument in their youth are both listed as possible factors (might you look at these?). My wonderment includes rapport

  • Music Philosophy Statement

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    myself a successful teacher if my students wanted to continue to be involved in music in some way once I am no longer their teacher. I know I can incorporate a healthy balance in my classroom and in my curriculum where my students are developing musical skills and gaining knowledge while still enjoying

  • Reimagined Concert: USC Symphonic Winds

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    the Koger Center for the Arts, where the USC Symphonic Winds performed. The idea of the concert was to show how the ensemble reimaged the musical piece, or how the musical piece itself had been reimaged in the past. Many of the pieces were different from what one would expect at a symphonic winds concert, but they definitely grabbed the audience’s attention. The first piece the ensemble played was “Kill Screen” composed by Matthew Browne and you could undoubtedly say this piece grabs your attention

  • Orchestra Concert Report Sample

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    The symphony I attended was the Orchestra of the Bronx at Lehman College on June 5th of 2016. The concert ensemble included members of the string, brass, and woodwind families with a piano and timpani accompanying the performance for brief moments. The concert started precisely at 3pm and the works of Felix Mendelssohn's Overture to Fingal's Cave, Beethoven’s Symphony No.2 in D Major, and Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in a Minor. At the beginning of the concert the first piece

  • Woodwind Ensemble Concert Report Sample

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    Bob Jones University Woodwind Ensemble: Concert Report One On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, I attended the Woodwind Ensembles that was held at Bob Jones University. There was a total of nine well-performed pieces from the students that sounded very pleasant and harmonious to the ear. The woodwind ensemble consisted of various types of wind instruments such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, English horn, bass clarinet, bass flute, alto flute, and piccolo. The transition from one piece to another