Music and the Environment: Musi3041

  Earth Song —— Michael Jackson Reference List ‘Earth Song’. In  Wikipedia , 29 November 2022.   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Earth_Song&oldid=1124448511 . Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Official Video) https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Brit Awards 1996) https://youtu.be/oJj3iupbnyk

  Today in our last lecture we listened to the echo of a tambourine on campus and did something similar to a sound walk according to the walking score above. We walked from the centennial campus to the main building.  1. G/F, Run Run Shaw Tower 2. Area next to Bijas  3. Area next to fish pond  4. Trying out the tambourine's effect on the pond  5. Centennial Garden (1) 6. Centennial Garden (2) 7. 2/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower 8. Staircase, Cheng Yu Tung Tower 9. Sun Yat-Sun Steps, Main Campus 10. G/F, K.K. Leung Building  11. 2/F, Main Building

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  Our group's task was mainly to find a threshold that was able to go as far as possible without losing the connection with the music. We noticed that this assignment would allow us to do our best to capture the sound of the piece, but also to pay attention to all the subtle changes in the sounds around us. In paying attention to the volume level, the walker needs to change his or her position at all times to seek that threshold. When we are outdoors and many people are walking on the road, we need to specifically go around them and then change our walking direction. When we were indoors, Yifan and Rui walked about the same distance. When we were indoors, Yifan and Rui walked about the same distance, but when we were outdoors, the distance they walked changed because the outdoor environment influenced more factors than the indoor environment, so they paid different attention to the music. These are the feelings of our group members. Yifan: Indoors there is an elevator, and the prox...

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  Yodel Walk----Ye Zihao, Peng Jingxin, Liu Yushuo In this project, we chose pitch1 (left foot) for C and pitch2 (right foot) for G. When we hear C we lift our left foot and step on the floor to make the sound. When we hear G we lift our right foot and then step on the floor to make a sound. Then, we walk in different directions. In this group, Zihao and Jingxin are in charge of walking and Yushuo is in charge of filming.

  Link:  https://youtu.be/yE_dfdvEsyE

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. As a patriotic composer, many of his musical compositions are based on the beautiful nature of Norwegian, customs, and countryside scenery. The programmatic music , Morning Mood is one of the most famous pieces. Morning Mood is part of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt , Op. 23. In this piece, Grieg depicts the beautiful nature of a Norwegian morning. The whole work presents a peaceful and idyllic scene. The music gives the impression of being in a dawn landscape. This work is one of the required pieces in many major recitals and is also well-known as a preferred textbook theme for composition and conducting majors.  In the first part (bars 1-20), bars 1-4, the flute lightly reveals the musical theme on the dominant note of E Major. In bars 5-8, the theme is again played on the oboe. The ending s...

The 12 Transcendental Études were written by Franz Liszt, published in 1852 as a revision of an 1837 set of etudes, Douze Grandes Études , which was an elaboration on the thematic ideas in his first set of etudes, Étude en douze exercices , published in 1826. The etude chosen was the last from the 12 Transcendental Études . Its French programmatic title, “Chasse-neige”, translates to “snowstorm” in English. This etude is originally a study in tremolos. Programmatic titles to each etude were only added in the 1852 Transcendental Études but not in the original 1837 and 1826 ones, when the etude as an artistic, programmatic genre was on the rise since Chopin’s pioneering works published in the 1830s – Liszt may have intended this final version of the etude to depict a snowstorm. This etude is of typical early to mid-romantic era style – it is homophonic with a modified ternary (ABA’) structure. It employs a wide range of register with a lot of chromatic and color notes hinting or mo...

Bedřich Smetana: The Moldau  Law Vanessa Lok Tung The Moldau, composed by Bedřich Smetana in 1874, is a symphonic poem that depicts the river Moldau. The picturesque landscape portrays two springs join in the Bohemian woods becoming a river, flowing through the Czech countryside and into Prague. The cool spring and warm spring unify into a single current.      The following analysis will mainly focus on a segment of the work from 0:00 to 2:47. The piece first begins with semiquaver ascending notes performed by the flute solos (bar1 to bar15) at a relatively quiet dynamic, creating a tranquil night setting. The continuous sound of the flutes with small crescendo and decrescendo in each bar, showing fluidity and small wavy of water. It also mimics a rapid running of water on rocks in a mountain stream.    The joining of clarinets (bar16) and viola (bar28) with similar semiquaver notes with the flute, seems like illustrating the confluence of the t...

“June: Barcarolle” is one of Tchaikovsky's piano suites "The Seasons". In fact, there are 12 pieces in "The Seasons", representing 12 months, so each piece is named "Month + Title". It is obvious that “June - Barcarolle” is a depiction of the Russian landscape in June, which embodies the composer's love for nature and is based on a Russian folk dance or folk song, which is closely linked to the composer's emotions. With a sweet melody and soft harmonies the composer expresses the shimmering and rippling water, recreating scenes of landscape, life episodes and various scenes of social activities. In general, this music uses the triple meter and quadruple meter to imitate the feeling of evenly paddling Russian flat-bottom boats. Compared with most of the boat songs written in compound duple meter.The composer's arrangement is more able to reflect the mood of a light boat. Bars 1 to 2 are the introductory section, which is in the key of G mino...