MUSI3041 Assignment 6 : Agnes Wu
Music environmentalism:
Metallica's Countdown to Extinction
*I do not own all the video clips and music
Full recording of Countdown to Distinction:
Assignment 5 June: Barcarolle_________Liu Yushuo
“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...
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