Music Essay Examples Page 74

No matter what level of musicianship one wants to achieve, one will always find that practice is an inescapable part of it. While there are some people who seem innate with natural talent and a good ear, practice is still something that is extremely important and can improve one’s skills profoundly. In order to do…

The song, “Hurt” is based on internal conflicts within a person, regret, and experiences with her “loved one”, which will lead to conflicts and regret. The author has given the signals of these thematic features by the word choice and the general tone. The lyrics are shaped by the thoughts of the character, which is…

T.S. Eliot’s ‘modern man’ is embodied through the characters in ‘The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Preludes’. His depicts a man who is forlorn and irrational, living amongst a superficial, monotonous society, in a squalid urban setting. Modernist poetry challenged the conventional style of poetry of the time, through the use of technical…

Theatre is not only a profession for playwright, actor and director Marion Isaac McClinton–he readily acknowledges that it saved his life. “It kept me sane,” he says. “It kept me focused. It was something I could look at and say it was positive.” This Minneapolis-based artist, a former drug user and alcoholic who dropped out…

These lines present an image of calmness or stillness. “Spread out” is used to give a feeling of openness. The word etherised gives a feeling of stillness, as a patient under anesthesia, which flow’s along with the feeling of calmness that was presented in the previous line. The simile can also be connected to the…

The Eve of St. Agnes has been criticised as building tension but not really fulfilling its potential. How far do you agree with this view point? The Eve of St. Agnes is an epic, romantic ballad which tells the story of conflict between the families of two lovers; Madeline and Porphyro. The Eve of St….

Subterranean rhythms Orpheus, the dauntless son of Thracian King Oeagrus and the muse Calliope, is one of history’s most renowed poet-musicians – real or invented. The god Apollo presented him with a lyre whose ethereal sounds had power to soothe savage beasts and cause rocks and trees to move. When his beloved wife Eurydice abruptly died…

The Man with the twisted lip is an unusual story from Conan Doyle, in this story when Holmes goes to visit the jail, you would expect him to produce some detective stuff, like magnifying glass, but instead he pulls out a bath sponge. He is a highly respected detective, so why did he do that?…

A partnership is developing lhai offers a special complementarity of relationship between musical and visual design With this new partnership we are learnin to compose a unique counterpoint by means of computer algorithms. I would define the algorithms that we use as the routines of computer instructions that generate co ordinated color design with musk…

In this essay I will be directing the final scene of Willy Russell’s ‘Blood Brothers’. I will use all aspects of theatre for example lighting and sound etc, etc. The time this play was written in Liverpool (where it was written) there was a lot of classing going on which in this play is a…