Essays on Quartet

Thelonious Monk is known as one of the most gifted jazz musicians. He was the pioneer of bebop and his influence as a pianist and composer had significant effects on different kinds of music (Monkinstitute). Music of Thelonious Monk is based on Ingrid Monson’s and Paul Berliner’s work (Solis 3). Nevertheless, Monk is famous for his improvisations, which are so outstanding that a jazz critic Whitney Balliett once pointed out “His improvisations were molten Monk compositions, and his compositions were frozen Monk improvisations.” (Deveaux 169) Thelonious was born in North Carolina on October 10, 1917, but his ...

1 - Steve Eckels This music makes me feel relaxed and calm, as the melody is the embodiment of patience. It is very monotonous and tranquil, but there is not a feeling of being bored while listening to the music. The man uses rapid musical transitions changing the tempo, which makes the music colorful and bright. 2 - New Big Sky Singers It is so dynamic that I cannot sit in one place. The rhythm is mixed, so the sounding is very unusual. The music makes me feel so vital, as if I am full of unquenchable energy. 3 ...

Randall Tweed, D.M.A is the musical director of (GSO) concerts having the 75 members orchestral with the members of the music and the non-music from the community. The choir is formed by the 55-65 singers and the majors in the music are mostly dedicated to the music teachers and the community musicians. Notably, the band performs in the regular venues like the remarkable concert music series and the noted church series. Alfred E. Sturgis acts as the master chorale director; the chorus of the symphony performed the masterworks in the choral-orchestral which represents the different revitalization and repertoire contemporary ...

Twang

Twang is a five-member traditional country and western band from Montana. Their sound is reminiscent of country and western music of the 1960’s and ‘70’s that was infused with steel guitars, and the rhythmic sound of foot-tapping guitar licks that people easily got up and danced to. As I watched the video I found myself tapping along to their sound and being taken back to the days when country and western music came from the real roots of the genre. Their music is upbeat and reminded me of the days of Porter Wagoner and Asleep at the Wheel. ...

Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 movie Requiem for a Dream is perhaps one of the most harrowing depictions of the cycle of drug abuse ever put on film. Following four main characters – a strung-out drug addict with big dreams (Jared Leto), his supportive but suppressed girlfriend (Jennifer Connolly), his wisecracking best friend (Marlon Wayans), and his lonely, starstuck mother (Ellen Burstyn) – Requiem for a Dream showcases the many different ways in which drug addiction can ruin lives and demolish dreams. Through the use of Clint Mansell’s harrowing score, Aronofsky’s quick-editing techniques, and bravura performances from all four leads, Requiem for a Dream ...

War is always a complicated issue, particularly with regards to wars being fought in nations not directly involved in the conflict. Public opinion of their nation entering dramatic conflicts – risking the lives of their citizens and killing others – depends largely on cultural factors that can shift and change depending on history and context. While World War II was a largely well-supported conflict, given the attack on Pearl Harbor and the undisputed evil of the Nazis, the Vietnam War had a decidedly more complex reaction. These anxieties are also reflected in literature; Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five capitalizes on the Vietnam War tension experienced ...

George Gershwin was one of the most prolific composers in America for the twenty century, excelling in the field of popular song compositions and classical compositions. He wrote a lot of music but the pieces that made him famous and also remained in the history of music as representative for his own style were two orchestral compositions like Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris and also the opera Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin was born in 26 September 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. Gershwin came from a Russian and Lithuanian Jewish heritage and he was the second child ...

Wynton Marsalis is a truly unique figure in the world of jazz music. He is internationally acclaimed as not only a musician, but also as a composer, bandleader, and educator. He is arguably the first musician in the world to compose and perform music over the complete jazz spectrum including compositions that characterize the roots of jazz in the New Orleans tradition, bebop, modern jazz He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz Similarly, the characteristic skill and sound specific to Marsalis ...

- Memphis is the home of the music genre rock n roll. An example to support this is the observation one of the genre pioneers came from the place. He grew up there and requested bar owners to let him in their clubs so that he could listen to their music. - Sam Phillips was behind the sun Records. The studio gave the people a platform to air their view and oppression through the music. The studio did not discriminate and thus was a voice of the minority and civil rights. - A. the musical style of Elvis Presley ...

The A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare explores the love possibilities and impossibilities surrounding the marriage of Hippolyta, and Theseus. The play is interconnected through a series of love celebrations covering the whole land with Hermia disobeying the instructions of her father on whom she should marry. The story rolls down to Puck trusting the love-in-idleness flower in order to get her some love from Titania. Hermia and Lysander also escape to the forest with the hope of eloping (Shakespeare 260). The scenes of the play bring forth a mixture of love feelings that drive the reader to evaluate the ...

Introduction

In his Streichquartett, Beethoven takes motivic material generated in Theme Groups 1 and 2 of the sonata exposition, and expounds upon them in the different transitional sections of the piece. By utilizing these distinct motives in different textural and harmonic contexts, Beethoven creates a strong sense of unity within the piece as a whole, while also designing a unique identity for each section. The plan of this paper is first to identify the different areas where Beethoven borrows the motivic material and thus make explanations of the differences in existence as follows: Structural, harmonic and textural. The paper takes a vital interest on ...

The Orion Saxophone Quartet was started in the year 1989 by Jeff Benedict and Charles Richard. Both were products a saxophone studio belonging to Harvey Pittel. This studio was situated at the University of Texas. Being ardent fans disciples of Pittel, they wanted to replicated the expansive rich voice of their boss-Pittel in their music. Therefore, they decided to settle in Los Angeles and formed a group to play good music. In their search, they got a perfect match from Adrian Adams and Ken Foerch who had proved a perfect match in music conceptualization and tone matching. Orion Quartet has the aspirations to ...

The Detroit riots influenced the writings of Joyce Carol Oates. Violence is a frequent theme in her novels and her masterful depiction of how her characters experience the negative conditions in life often leave most of her readers sad but satisfied. The succeeding sections shall describe the Detroit riots and discuss the works where these are most evident. The essay begins with a brief biography of Oates and concludes by reiterating the role that the social conditions in Detroit play in her works.

Biography of Joyce Carol Oates

According to the Academy of Achievement, Joyce Carole Oates has already written at least “56 novels, over 30 ...

"The concert was in the LACMA ( Los Angeles Country Museum of Art). Sundays Live. The program played by The Lyris String Quartet. Musicians were Alyssa Park(violin), Shalini Vijayan(violin), Luke Maurer (violin) , Timothy Loo (cello). The atmosphere at the LACMA was electric as the Lyris String Quartet took the stage. There was a sense of expectancy in the air and I felt that I was set to witness a truly fine performance. The attire of the musicians reflected a certain sense of detachment since the girls were dressed quite casually while the boys were a bit more formal but certainly not ...

In Slaughterhouse Five, the main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a soldier who becomes unstuck in time, beginning to experience every moment of his life at different points, jumping back and forth in the time stream. As a result, he encounters the unfortunate aspects of the past, and the terrible boredom and fearful death of his future. Billy is fatalistic, constantly feeling as though his life will not amount to anything, and that he knows exactly how everything will end. Because of this, Billy's own sanity is called into question at various points throughout the book, as he uses his ability to ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict is a battle involving the Jewish nation of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East regarding the region called Palestine. The expression refers to the political strains and overt fighting involving the Arab society and the Jewish people in the Middle East that have existed for more than a century. The name ‘Palestine’ has been linked variously and at times contentiously with this small area. Both the geographic region known as such and the political standing of the expression have undergone changes over the course of time. The Palestine region, or a fraction of it, is also called ...