Xylophone Essays

  • Personal Narrative: My Special Music Concert

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    Prepared Drum. The song also featured xylophones, glockenspiels, a snare drum, and one bass. Like the first song, “Mudra” also had a creepy feeling to it. It started out soft and built up anticipation. I found the next song to be very interesting. The song called “Sharing” was written by an SIUE student, Jeffery Gentry, in 2017. The song was a marimba duet. One thing I genuinely learned during this performance was that not all the “big xylophone things” are xylophones… Who knew? “Trio Per Uno” was the

  • Concert Band Analysis

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    on any mallet instrument, it is suggested that one plays it on the vibraphone due to the “jazziness” of it, and since the vibraphone is recommended for a majority of jazz solos. Playing this piece on a xylophone or marimba would lead to this piece losing its substance because marimbas and xylophones do not resonate as well as a vibraphone. The vibraphone is the ideal instrument to play “Three Mallet Waltz”, although one would be able to play it on any other desired

  • Evolution of Timpani in Western Music History

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    Entrances of the Percussion Family in Western Music Literature Throughout the Baroque and Classical periods, one instrument can be regarded as the poster child of the percussion family. Due to its appropriation to the nobility, the timpani were not employed until Jean-Baptiste Lully first utilized the timpani for non-court associated activities. As aforementioned in Chapter I, Lully employed timpani in his operas and orchestral works roughly 50 years preceding its rise to popularization later

  • Digetic Sound In Badland

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    the sound of the water river and the animal were very natural. Then she starts narrative what she had in her mind every time that they were running away from the authority because they killed many people, which under her voice the listener hear xylophone. The author use non degetic sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action which is narrator's speech. Badlands is a perfect example because the girl every time narrated her feeling and even more

  • Movie Review: Padosan

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    Padosan is a Bollywood comedy movie, which was released theatrically in India in 1968. The movie is directed by Jyoti Swaroop, produced by Mehmood, N.C. Sippy and written by Rajendra Krishan. The lead roles in this film are Sunil Dutt (Bhola) and Saira Banu (Bindu). The movie also stars Mehmood (Masterji), Kishore Kumar (Guru), Mukri (Banarasi), Om Prakash (Mama) and Raj Kishore (Lahori) as the supporting characters. The music composer of this film is Rahul Dev Burman. The film included nine songs

  • Music Concert Analysis

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    On September 26, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. the University of South Alabama hosted the USA Symphony Band performance at the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center. The show opened with a series of energetic percussion hits of one the most famous Randall Standridge’s pieces called “Steel”. The beginning part of the composition featured powerful staccatos of the brass section, accompanied by the rest of the orchestra, which immediately produced a rather pompous and festive effect on the audience. As the piece progressed

  • Musical Autobiography

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    When I was a kid, I had a guitar. I also had a piano; I played violin, viola, and cello. I played the recorder and briefly remember playing the xylophone. Though I loved music, I had dreams of being a singer. That is until my childhood crush told me I couldn’t sing. We were in the 3rd grade and I started attending this school in the 2nd grade. He said I didn’t sound good in the 2nd grade, but I got better. From that day on, I never wanted to pursue music again. But I can’t stop listening to music

  • Giant Wooden Activity Cube Essay

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    The giant wooden activity cube is a toy that has 4 parts by the side and one above. The side parts contain a board, a watch, squares to spin and a rainbow xylophone. While the upper part of a cube contain a spin, slide and the beads. This toy improves multiple things in a child’s development. Firstly, it focuses on the cognitive side, as it makes the child think. He/she will think about things like, where to move the beads to reach to the other side. In addition, it also supports the physical development

  • Short Essay On Marching Band

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    Back when I was in the third grade, my whole grade had to play the plastic woodwind instrument, the recorder. That’s where my music career all started. After third grade, I picked up the trombone, a large, brass, slide instrument. I played trombone for the next seven years of my life. Then when I was in my junior year of high school, I switched over to the trumpet. Also I switched to the french horn that same year. Then now I’m back in my senior year of high school, and I went back to playing

  • 'You Can T Take It With You'

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    Mr.De Pinna dresses like a Roman discus thrower and positions himself for Penelope to paint his portrait. Kolenkov wears his undershirt and teaches Essie about ballerina, while Ed Carmichael plays the xylophone for her. In the climax of the mess, Tony and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, come in, in elegant clothing. Tony remembered incorrectly the day that they were supposed to come to the Vanderhofs' house for dinner. The Kirbys were surely supposed to

  • Carnival Of Animals

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    Name: Asia Lattimore Course Section: MUS 121 – 006 The piece I choose to report on is The Carnival of Animals performed by the symphony orchestra. After researching this piece, I learned that each movement represents a different animal or group of animals. The introduction represents the royal march of the lion. The piece’s dynamics starts out mezzo piano and quickly turns crescendo. You can hear the crescendo by the two pianos and all the strings getting louder and becoming more rapid. Throughout

  • Palomar College Concert Report

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    For my first concert report, I have decided to attend the Applied Music Student Recital. The musical performance was at Palomar College on February 27, 2015 from 1:00P.M.--2:00P.M. at the performance lab room D-10. The type of music that was presented at the concert was a brass ensemble, chamber music, classical, contemporary, jazz, opera, percussion, and many vocal arrangements. There was a total of eight musical Palomar College student performers who are majoring in music theory. I am only going

  • Comparing Dance Macabre And Night On A Bare Mountain

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    introduced I was expecting to hear the Double Bass being played as it would of created a creeping up on you effect. In actual fact the skeletons were represented by the Xylophone this is very clever because you could visualize the clattering of bones from the Skeletons dancing just by hearing the Xylophone. The ending of Dance Macabre it was very effective as when the Skeletons stopped dancing the wild

  • New York New Music Ensemble

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    The New York New Music Ensemble began with a bang, literally. This ensemble has been around for twenty-three years and it is considered to be “the raising standard” in contemporary chamber music. On Thursday afternoon, I saw the ensemble perform three pieces: Trio, Nutturno, and Marxville Songbook. These three possess very similar tone color and composition. The ensemble’s first piece, Trio, was composed by Donald Martino. This musician pursued his interest in music at a very young age. By age fifteen

  • Percussion Ensemble Analysis

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    The USA Percussion Ensemble performed many great works at the recent Spring Concert at LaidLaw Performing Arts Center. As a guest to the ensemble, the talented Andy Harnsberger performed a piece originally dedicated to his wife Palmetto Moon. He also performed the three sections of his sentimental work Words Unspoken. Leading up to Harnsberger, the ensemble played many other contemporary works such as Bloom by Ivan Trevino, which as the first performance certainly grabbed the audience attention.

  • Analysis Of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows By J. K. Rowling

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    It 's in 2011 in which J.K. Rowling 's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 1 has been released. The drama of on-screen action is tied together with a wonderfully composed score from Alexandre Desplat. It is in this movie in which dark times are all too common in the wizarding world and the composer must tie together the enchantment and elegance from the score the first three films that John Williams brought wonderful scores to. This film is considered to be the dramatic buildup to the ultimate

  • Wlu Concert Report Sample

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    as it accompanied their performance by setting a jolly mood. This was not like any other performance I have attended, since the variety of instruments contained a large portion of which I have never seen before. These consisted of, the Timpani, xylophone, cymbals, triangle,

  • Concert Review Essay

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    performance that I had been to. I felt the need to be captivated by it. As the players’ mallets seemed to fly across their instruments, such as the marimba, vibraphone, and even steel pan ( the only names that I did know up on that stage were the xylophone, chimes, and drums) , I appreciated having to listen to instruments I would have otherwise never heard. On one side, I payed attention to the actual music, but on the other, I watched all their movements while playing. What caught my attention the

  • Diversity Observation Paper

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    posters with mixed families and another picture of the kids around the world. The teacher had a Bullen board with the atlas and flags around it. The music center had instruments from all around the world like maracas, tambourine, shaker drum, flute, xylophone. During nap time music was playing I heard a couple of songs that had Spanish lyrics and one that had French. Lastly, the dramatic play area had baby dolls

  • Film Analysis: King Kong

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    King Kong was a revolutionary film, in the aspect of the music score it accompanied. Max Steiner known as “the father of film music,” was responsible to writing the legendary score for King Kong. Steiner made a revolutionary move in the way sound is presented in a movie by introducing “Mickey Mousing.” This concept is where the sound matches what is going on in screen, such as when the leader is walking towards the lady in the beginning of the movie; the music matches his footsteps. What is also