6. What types of choral ensembles are appropriate at the high school level? A senior level concert choir would be an appropriate high school level ensemble. This ensemble would be audition based with both men and women. These students have the highest musical and singing achievement. Another ensemble would be the chamber singers ensemble, which a group of selected singers from the concert choir. This group is smaller and does music that would be less effective in a larger group. A general mixed
to gain national recognition in the 19th century, as is probably the best-known Chinese traditional music-theater in the West. Though known to the West as Peking opera, it is referred to in China as "jing ju," translated as "capital theater." This musical genre contains such diverse characteristics including virtuosic singing in romantic scenes involving young lovers, stylized battle scenes at land our at seas featuring spectacular acrobatics, comical slapstick often with underlying themes of political
Mrs. Bartle employs a little bit of four of each of the methods shared in (the vocal pedagogy) class. She uses a lot of the Westminister method but borrows from the others. The others she borrows from are Christiansen, Fred Warning and Wilson/Klein. Much of what she writes, is from her own life’s career experiences as a choral director. The first subject she deals with is the director’s attitude. A director should have a positive attitude. (p. 3, Bartle) In chapter two she discusses the development
Music has always had a large influence in my life. From the time I was a child, I loved turning on the radio and dancing around. As I grew older, I found that I could harness this musical energy and began to clean while listening to music in a creative mix of dancing and putting things away. I began to apply this method I found that cleaning became more desirable and I actually had a desire to clean if not, just so I could listen to music. I can’t recall when I first had the idea to apply music for
Musical group “Twenty One Pilots” Today, Twenty One Pilots is one of the worldwide famous American musical groups that adheres to the alternative hip-hop and rock genres. It was formed in 2009 by three college friends: Tyler Joseph, Chris Salih, and Nick Thomas. After they realized their debut album “Twenty One Pilots”, they gave a concert in their hometown- Columbus and then started touring through the Ohio state. But, after two years of existence, the group was about to fall apart, because Salih
concert, and I was in charge. No, I was not president of the church choir, I was the "musician's representative!" I had not an inkling what that meant, but, sure enough, my ignorance would not linger. I was to be in charge of organizing all things musical, from equipment to musicians. The musicians seemed almost ready. The choir still had three songs to learn, but with rehearsals every night and impromptu performances in the dining halls, on the shuttle buses I felt generally confident. As a
Oregon Student Activities Association (OSAA) State Solo has been a major competition for many collegiate high school musicians over the state of Oregon. Students all over the state compete with a solo in front of three judges that come from all over the country. Each competitor has to have three original copies of their solo to provide for the judges. I have competed in this effortful competition for two years now. It has been a prodigious competition to compete in because it shows how well you have
When planning for the choral program in schools, a conductor should consider the following: concert planning, school schedules, courses that conductor wants to offer, budget, number of voice parts, auditioning voice parts, and the overall process of working with adolescents. The first factor the conductor must look at when planning trying to decide when a concert can be planned. For example, all concert dates should be planned in advance. The Director needs check with the community, all-school calendars
Imagine being able to send me on a trip that I could learn three important lessons from: music performance skills, social skills, and cultural information. Luckily, a trip like that exists! The American Music Abroad program has sent over 36,000 high school musicians around the world so they can share their talent with different audiences. In 2018, the AMA Gold Tour will be traveling to 5 different countries to perform: Austria, Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Before the AMA Gold Tour leaves
Over the four years that I have been in choir, I have contributed to the choir in more ways than just my voice. I have participated in numerous fundraisers for the Music Department, in which I had sold things from chocolate bars, to cheese and summer sausage, to Sonic gift cards. The Music Department recently had a fundraiser to raise money for their trip to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall next year. I took the time out my day, on a beautiful Saturday morning, to test drive a Ford F1-50 to help
instruments used in these theatrical productions included violins, guitars, and harps. It was to this time, and to these instruments, that the origins of the modern mariachi can be traced (Mexico, The Melting of Two Cultures, 1991). The modern mariachi ensemble originated in the Mexican state of Jalisco where traveling groups of musicians would play for hire in haciendas. During the Mexican Revolution which began in 1910, they were unable to perform in the haciendas as they had in the past and were forced
Amaru means “shining serpent” and Shakur is Arabic for “thankful to God.” For most of his childhood his crack addicted mother shuffled Tupac between the ghettos of Harlem and the Bronx. Young Tupac began his performance career with the 127th Street Ensemble and then enrolled Baltimore School for the Arts where he was educated in ballet and acting. Tupac was forced to drop out of the school because he had to move to California with his mother, where his criminal career began. He left his house at the
Gris's greatest achievements. The portrait of Josette is based on his studies after Corot and Cezanne. To perfection he seemed to create a stunning mixture of the foreground and the background. This beauty is accomplished through color patterns that ensemble different spatial planes. The blacks which are used around the bosom, butox and leg are used to enhance this women's shapely figure. The transparency does not result in an illusion of depth instead it acts as something to join the planes together
the attention of King Louis XIV and initially served him as "composer of instrumental music” (Straughan (a)) He soon took over compositions of entire ballets. (Straughan (a)) “Some time before 1656, he also took over responsibility for the string ensemble called the Petits violons, which he transformed into a group widely renowned for their discipline and artistic excellence.” (Straughan (a)) A clever diplomatist and thorough courtier, he completely won the royal favour, and in March, 1672, he succeeded
school in Figuras starting at the age of nine, Dali became a class daydreamer. He also dressed differently from the others, preferring to wear a dark blue jacket which buttoned at the neck, a loose bow tie, and baggy trousers. Dali complemented this ensemble by maintaining long hair and sideburns, and by carrying about a cane. Salvador Dali began his painting career at the age of eight. His parents allowed him to continue his artistic interests because of the influence of the Pichot family, a family
paced music played around 1885 in St. Louis. Scott Joplin was born in 1868 and lived until 1917, but has done a lot in his life span. He was one of the first African Americans to be know as a composer. Born in Texarkana, Texas to a large family with musical background, he began learning to play the guitar and beagle, and gained free piano lessons by showing such fast progression to his teachers. After death of his mother, he left the house at age fourteen. He learned much form traveling through Mississippi
On Sunday afternoon November 21, 1999, at 2:00 p.m.at 419th Concert Worldwide, 330th in New York, 218th in Carnegie Hall I attended a MidAmerica production that presented the New England Symphonic Ensemble. This concert contained several different compositions by large groups of musicians, including an orchestra band, and chorus. This concert was divided into three different parts. First there was the Vivaldi which was divided into 12 sections. Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse was the music director, Raymond
young Francie Nolan. She is an imaginative, endearing 11-year-old girl growing up in 1912, in Brooklyn, New York. The entire story revolves around Francie and the Nolan family, including her brother Neelie, her mother Katie and her father Johnny. An ensemble of high relief characters aids and abets them in their journey through this story of sometimes bleak survival and everlasting hope. As we find out, the struggle for survival is primarily focused against the antagonist of this story, the hard-grinding
These skills that I thought were so useless were put to the test on a chilly Tuesday night in March. The evening started out normal enough, tennis practice and little bit of sparring in Tang So Doo class. That night the instrumental solo and ensemble contest was being held at HHS. Even though I am not a member of the band, I was asked to help out. I was involved in a saxophone quartet with Nolan Cmerek, Mandy Bever and Haley Benson. The four of us warmed up together and patiently waited for our
then pour all their energies into making sure this is true. The child then decides that this is what life is like. The oldest child believes that their hair has to always be perfect with a hair bow that is the exact shade of their carefully chosen ensemble. Their schoolwork reflects th...