Essays on Musical Instrument

Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall is not only a home for the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, but also the pearl of this city. The building project was created and financed with the participation of wife of the world famous animator Walt Disney. The architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall was Frank Owen Gehry - one of the main ideologists of modern deconstructivism. It is worth noting that deconstruction is a style, which is characterized by a complete repudiation of the typical geometry of living space. This architectural style denies monotonous lines and boring multistory office buildings. Architects of this ...

Thaddeus Cahill, a young lawyer and part-time inventor of mechanisms for piano and printing machines, lived in Washington D.C. When young, Cahill experimented with transferring music that was performed on traditional acoustic instruments over long distances via telephone lines. However, the sound was too weak for large rooms. Electrical amplification has not yet been invented, as well as radio tubes. A radical idea to solve this problem came to Cahill in 1893: he wanted to get musical sounds directly from the electricity itself, or, more precisely, with the help of a special system of electronic oscillators. So, telharmonium was ...

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Music as sound: What is played? The musical instruments employed in the music’s performed above were pianos. Each musical instrument was played by a single player. Hence, the total group comprised of only the three players. The Hornbostel & Sachs instrument classifications classify the musical instrument being played by the performers i.e. the pianos as chordophones. This is due to the fact that the sounds produced by the pianos were as a result of the vibration of strings stretched between fixed points (Winckel 14). The musical texture in the music’s was homophonic. This is due to the fact ...

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Ludwig van Beethoven is undoubtedly one of the most important and well-known unprecedented music composers. From an early age, Beethoven put significant aptitude, freewill, and inflexible peculiarity on display. His unusual and overwhelming personal characteristics are reflected in his compositions and music. Without a question, Beethoven became known as the most advanced and greatest classical music composer. According to Goethe, "I have never seen so intense so concentrated an artist” like Beethoven (as qtd. in Ludwig 247). It is not possible for a listener to not stir by Beethoven’s divine and soulful music. His exceptional piano ...

Introduction

Kora is a musical instrument that was used in the ancient times by rulers of West African Countries, and it is still utilized by the Mandinka people of West African countries. It compositions comprise of a large calabash that is half covered with a skin of a cow and consists of a long hardwood neck. The cow skin is strengthened by two handles that run under it and makes a double freestanding bridge. The composition of Kora Mamadou Kouyate makes it a diverse music instrument that does not fit into any category of music instruments but rather to many and is classified as a double bridge harp. ...

For our music class, we had to attend a live Jazz concert. There were many several concerts, which we could choose from, both varied from on or off campus. The recommended concert that we chose for this this semester was on Thursday, November 13th in Gusman Concert Hall. We attended a “Jazz Vocal II Ensemble & Jazz Vocal III Ensemble”. The directors for this ensemble were Sherrine Mostin and Eliot Weeks. There were 2 Jazz Vocal Ensembles that consisted of different people playing and supporting during the concert. There is some information regarding these two excellent Ensembles Jazz Vocal III Ensemble ...

Steel drums or what we called Steel Pan were originally created on the island of Caribbean, Trinidad in year 1930s.However, Steel Pan’s history can be traced back to the confined Africans who were brought to the islands during the 1700s (Steelpan-steeldrums-information.com par. 1). They had taken with them components of their Africa lifestyle such as the enjoying of hand percussion. 2). Hand drums are percussion at Africa called Membranophones. These drums became the main percussion gadgets in the yearly Trinidadian event festivities. In year 1877, the judgment English Government prohibited the playing of percussion in an effort ...

Background

This is a review of the second concert that I have attended in the U.S. I have attended several musical concerts and I have already been aware of the different styles that the bands use or may use for their performance. I have also been exposed with the types of music that could be usually associated with particular places. With that in mind, I would like to let the reader of this report know that I already had set expectations before I went to that concert.

Concert at University of South Alabama – Department of Music

The concert I attended was scheduled last Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 7:30 in the ...