https://youtube/watch?v=zbrGELiZSlM So … I have eventually passed the course of Music 105, the course I took because of a thought that it seemed to be easiest one among the courses of the required Humanity area; the course that I had to say “what the … heck… he, professor, was thinking of when giving us the tricky quiz like that” - sorry professor Gould - and the only course I thought of dropping it after almost failing the first quiz. However, I wasn’t able to do that, neither because I wanted to face challenge nor I liked this class, but because I did not have other choice. This was the only class fitting my schedule. However, I gradually felt something interesting while have been seriously studying it. What did make me conquer this tough class? Finally I found that no matter how tough the course was, but how much I liked it and how big my thirst for the knowledge about human development thru music made me pass this tough class. This is my last assignment showing my daily music activities and what I sense about music after finishing this course. What I feel about music is besides of funny and entertainment purposes, music is about human emotions. Indeed, it is to communicate, to reach out from your own deep inside humanity to the humanity of others in its highest aspirations. In other words, it is the voice, either a whisper or scream, of each ethnic, generation, and culture to call for peace and hope, and to unite people together. Accordingly, music gives listener the hope of peace and, in contrast, the peace of hope. Hence, listen to what you like and seek what pleases you. I’d like to offer you to listen to a romantic song of a very famous Vietnamese composer whose legacy is over 800 immortal romantic songs. The song is a voice of the author of someone’s lost love. By using a very high context language combining with simile technique, its lyrics seem like a mixture of the abstract style in painting art and the impressionism music in the early years of 1900s. The song started by minor tones to portray a girl whose lips are more effulgent than sunshine. The grief hidden in her eyes is like the sorrow of the raining sky in which her little bony shoulder is similar to the faint wings of a lonely flamingo flying far away. Let’s listen to the prelude, the sound of random and scattered notes dropped is like drops of rain falling into his waving life. Using of serial technique being composed by repeating rows of tones of chromatic scale with a little changes of notes within each row makes the song is easily sensed without being monotonous. Let’s pay attention to the change of the tone from minor to major that is like a transition from his memory of her to his torments and regrets for her leaving. Now, let’s enjoy the song. I hope you might “hear” rhythms of the rain and “see” a rainy sky under which a lonely and little flamingo’s flying precariously to a undetermined distance… Finally, thanks professor Gould for what you did towards the class.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:17:53 +0000