In the essay “Rebel Music,” Daniel Felsenfeld, is a composer, author, and teacher of music at City College of New York, that explains many dispositions in his childhood, he found a deep inspiration in music in his late adolescence. In Daniel’s high school years, the contradictory norm among his circle of friends was to adopt a rebellious style with punk, or straight edge clothing and attitudes. With their image, along came their auditory preferences, correspondingly: metal, punk or other anti-establishment music. However, one day one of his friends reintroduced Daniel to the classical sounds of Beethoven, and immediately being attracted to such music, Daniel was forever changed into a rebel, or so he thought. Listening to music in secret, it was unbeknownst to Daniel, that he wasn’t the only one that listened to classical music. As he grew older and developed his own piano playing abilities, Daniel met others like: himself, composers, teachers, and other musicians, who were inspired by classical music, just as he was. With the knowledge and support offered by these confidants and …show more content…
When one has an epiphany as Daniel did, there is a revival of one’s purpose, even if reshaped. For me such moments have existed when I have watched film. Art can have a way of evoking feelings that you may not have consciously acknowledged; feelings of hope or perseverance to believe there’s still a chance that things might work out in the end. As Daniel does, I aspire to forge some piece of beauty out of nothingness in the image of my inspirations. When establishing a piece, it is these moments of clarity, the feelings we had in those times that have the power to shape nothingness into art. Daniel uses this process to mold his music just as I use it to write my words. The pen is the sharpest weapon, whether using it to write words or notes it has the power to inspire the artist within the
The Musical Glossary & Works Cited Introduction: All About the Revolution “Take your position! Aim! Stay Low! FIRE!”
Composers have the ability to influence how we the audience views and responds to characters and issues. Through viewing and analysing ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ by John Misto and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ directed by Steven Spielberg, it is obvious that composers have the ability to impact and influence our views on characters and issues that occur. Shoe Horn Sonata and Saving Private Ryan were set in the same context of World War 2. John Misto’s Shoe Horn Sonata takes place during the war against Japan, the play focus on the lives of two women Bridie and Sheila who have been captured by the Japanese to become (POW) prisoners of war. John Misto’s play was based on real accounts from POWs, the play was to commemorate the female POWS who story was unheard of and to give an insight to the audience into what the POWs had to endure while under the japanese rule.
“How We Listen” begins by providing us with a detailed description of Aaron Copland’s background and accomplishments, then moves on to briefly describe his views and ideas that are expressed in the rest of the passage. In the introduction, we are presented with Copland’s theory that divides the activity of listening to music (specifically the classical genre) into three categories; sensuous plane, the expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane. The sensuous plane allows the listener to simply relax, take in, and appreciate the beauty of the music.
Caleb Criscoe Holly Powe MUS_101_W03 22 April 2017 The Life and Impact of Hector Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French composer born on December 11, 1803 in Lo Cote-Saint-Andre, France. Berlioz was a unique man keen on doing things differently in a time where people were used to a rather traditional style. Still leaving an impact on today’s music, Berlioz led an intriguing life with his genius not fully understood.
Meet my Jazz band. This is a picture of us in New Orleans my junior year during spring break to play Jazz. I decided upon this picture because this band has had such a profound impact on how I frame my future. My connection with music through the piano has been fostered ever since I could reach those shiny black and white collection of keys. Starting at the age of four, playing the classical music of Mozart and Bach was what my musical background was founded upon, with tangible medals and accomplishments as achievements.
Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen: A Case Study The evolution of music can be viewed as a linear timeline of key, innovative composers who have far-reaching influences upon the musical continuum and perhaps epitomises the societal views which are relevant to their time period through their canonical pieces. As a result, in order to conduct a case study into any piece of music one must first realise said piece in regards to the concurrent political climate. Between 1642 and 1651 England was characterised by turmoil through civil war, which was essentially caused over the conduct of British government. This war was between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, with the Parliamentarians being the victor.
Although both authors establish credibility, Pagila’s essay brigs forth a stronger emotional appeal; however, Brookshier’s essay is logically more appealing. In the essay “Rock as Art”, Pagila claims that people should take rock musicians as seriously as artists like composers
Julio Cortazar’s ‘The Pursuer’ tells the story of character Johnny Carter and his music critic come biographer. Both Bruno, the music critic, and Johnny have very different approaches to music and what music means. As a professional music critic, Bruno has a very technical approach to music, which is evidenced in his descriptions of Johnny’s music throughout the story: “anyone could hear its deficiencies, the breathing perfectly audible at the ends of the phrase, and especially the final savage drop, the short dull note which sounded to me like a heart being broken,” (Cortazar: 220). The very fact that Bruno can and does manipulate words to describe music is what separates Bruno from Johnny. On the other hand, Johnny approaches music as an uncontrollable passion, and an escape from reality.
Beethoven is viewed as a transitional figure between the Classical and Romantic eras of musical history. , Beethoven 's innovation was the ability to rapidly establish a solidity in juxtaposing different keys and unexpected notes to join
He consumes music omnivorously--his tastes suggest fuel rather than food--and pursues fame with such single-minded compulsion that to accuse him of escapism sounds silly, like accusing a runaway freight train of antisocial tendencies. Always the metaphors that arise are mechanical. As the great inheritor of Philadelphia pop-rock, in which rock and roll ceases to be an uncontrolled natural force and turns into a product
Musicophilia: difference or disorder? In his book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2008), Oliver Sacks presents “musicophilia” as a mental disorder that has verifiable effects in the physical and emotional health of the “victim.” Sacks uses many research summaries and case histories to discuss this brain and behavioral condition that he sees as a problem to be fixed. I suggest that musicophilia, though typically considered a phenomenal disability, offers extraordinary abilities to some individuals and, through those “victims,” to society.
According to Jeffery S. Nevid PhD through the utilization of the humanistic perspective “the 1960’s and 1970’s was a time when many people searched inward to find direction and meaning in their lives”(431). Further more, the humanistic view provides clues as to why people gravitated towards Janis Joplin, and what she represent to them. In uniquely form, there was a definite relationship between the counterculture and the emotions that were elicited from it.
Despite both being from the same school of thought, the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno found themselves debating the value of art in a world on the brink of war. The basis of Benjamin’s and Adorno’s argument was not a critique of the art itself, but rather ever-growing trend of the reproduction of art. For Benjamin, as described in, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, the reproduction of art and the novelty of film, which stemmed from technological marvels, was a natural progression and a detractor to the growing fascist presence. However, for Adorno, as discussed in “The Fetish Character of Music and the Regression in Listening”, the simplification of art, specifically music, to a mass producible
We are uncomfortable with music when we can 't identify with the emotions of a song or genre. Music evokes emotion even if we do not realize it. As stated by an English soprano singer, Lesley Garrett," Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we do not normally get to. " Sometimes we do not wish to feel the emotions music brings out in us and that is when we feel uncomfortable. Music can be the most emotional in all acts.
Music is the voice of the alluring soul and captivating sound of the heart. Music has a way of articulating feelings and emotions through a vast variety of sounds, words, and instruments. Choice in music is personalized, and no two individuals enjoy all of the same music because we all differ in some way. For example, I was born in College Park, Georgia, in a majority Black neighborhood to my mother and two brothers. I am a twenty-year-old college student that identifies as a Black American male because my ancestor are ascendants of slavery.