Aaron Copland Essay

Does the genre of the music affect the mood of the person(s) listening to it (New York, New York - Frank Sinatra, You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison - My Chemical Romance, and The Hills - The Weeknd)? I chose this experiment because everyone (or just my family) says rock makes you demonic, pop makes you happy, etc. and I knew that’s not the case. So, I decided to test it on an eighteen year old that happens to be my sister. My independent variable is the genre of the music that she

It was January 7th, 2017, the weather alert had been right, there was a pretty darn big snowstorm outside, but inside, of the Boston Latin School auditorium, the 10th Annual MMEA Eastern Senior District Festival were filled with excited spirits that were much bigger. There was a smattering of students from each school in the Eastern District, and many BLS students were part of them. A feeling of awe and admiration floated through me as I saw them enter the stage. In 4 years, I would be just like

AP 3 Summer Reading Assignment Students in AP Language and Composition (AP3) are required to arrive to the first day of school having completed the “Summer Reading Assignment.” Students are to read Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and the essays listed below. Then, complete the corresponding assignment (explained below). The assignment is to be turned in the first day of the 2015-2016 school year (August 29th, 2015). According to the College Board, “The aim of [the AP Language and Composition

Why do we choose one way of music over the other? The fact is we pick music based on our morals. For example, if we grew up with profanity then the music would tend to fit that life style. Aaron Copland in How We Listen to Music states, “music allows them to leave it, and they go off to a place to dream, dreaming because of and apropos of the music yet never quite listening to it.” This goes to show that music makes up whom we are and listening

On Saturday, April 29, 2017, I attended the Music of the Andes event at the Queens Library in Corona, the group was founded in 2010 with the name Inkarayku, a Quechua word that means “because of the Incas.” The group was led by its founder Andres Jimenez and he informed the audience, prior to the performance, that he created the group to link the past, present and future of Andean arts, through the performance of indigenous music. The group Inkarayku blends the organic power of Quechua folk songs

Bernstein at the piano. The composition was initially met with mixed reviews but eventually became a standard work in the clarinet repertoire. The Bernstein Clarinet Sonata claims many influences, including that of Bernstein’s colleagues and mentors: Aaron Copland, in his first movement, the idyllic lyrical grazioso, and Hindemith, in his opening musical line of the same movement. The parts of the second movement forecast Bernstein’s writing in his West Side Story with his frequently changing

Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible", because he was petrified of being identified as a covert communist. It was an act of desperation, "The Crucible" evokes a lethal brew of illicit sexuality, dread, and political manipulation (New Yorker). While reading Charles W. Uphams he found the subject to write about; Salem Witch Trials. In 1952, Miller went to Salem to read the transcripts for "The Crucible". Before all of this transpired Miller worked two-years in an automobile-parts warehouse. Then, he

Sleeping Beauty was a Russian ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographed by Marius Petipa. I first premiered in 1890 and was choreographed in traditional ballet style. Appalachian Spring was an American ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Martha Graham, who also danced the lead female’s role. The ballet premiered in October of 1944, and was more modern that Sleeping Beauty, but still had classical elements to it. Although both very beautiful compositions, the

“The Rite of Spring” was certainly the most controversial piece of orchestral music. The piece, composed by Russian Composer Igor Stravinsky, included lots of uncommon musical elements. But was it really that uncommon? The world-changing ballet was so controversial when it debuted in 1913, because it completely contradicted the common rhythmic and harmonic languages of most of the music of the time. Stravinsky’s music, however, was based off early classical music and other compositions written before

When Americans read the headline “Wall Street in Panic as Stocks Crash” in the daily newspaper the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, they knew that the lavish lifestyle they had been living would disappear just as quickly as the investors on Wall Street. If they had expected such a headline to come so soon, one can assume that people would have prepared for it, or at least have been cautious of the consequences. However, President Herbert Hoover, was as optimistic about the future, too; in his Inaugural Address