Music

=MYP4 Music=

Juanes

 * Colombian Musician
 * Grew up in Medellin, Colombia during the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's reign, during which the city had the highest homicide rate in the world.
 * Was a member of the Colombian heavy metal band Ekhymosis which was influenced by his passion for Metallica
 * Became a solo artist
 * First album //Fijate Bien// was released in 2000 and won three Latin Grammy Awards
 * Known for his humanitarian work in Colombia with the victims of anti-personnel mines
 * Married to Karen Martinez 2004- 2007 and had three children
 * Performed at a relatively large Peace Concert in Cuba during 2009.
 * Discography
 * 2000 Fijate Bien
 * 2002 Un Dia Normal
 * 2004 Mi Sangre
 * 2007 La Vida... Es un Ratico
 * 2010 P.A.R.C.E.

Seven Nation Army Analysis
This song is in 4/4 time and each repetition of the riff is 2 bars. All values indicated are in bars. The song's tempo is 125 which by most standards puts it into the range of //allegro.// Verse Chorus Verse Solo Verse Chorus
 * x4 Bass
 * x4 Drums
 * x16 With Vocals
 * x2 Pre-Chorus
 * x8Chorus
 * x2 Build Out
 * x4 Bass
 * x4 Drums
 * x16 With Vocals
 * x2 Pre-Chorus
 * x16 Solo
 * x2 Build Out
 * x4 Bass
 * x4 Drums
 * x16 With Vocals
 * x2 Pre- Chorus
 * x8 Chorus

Pop Song Structure
(Intro) Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Bridge - Chorus - (Outro) Optional Sections
 * Interlude
 * Pre-Chorus
 * Vamp
 * Solo

Developmental Workbook 10/18/11
I have been practicing our song and I like how it is turning out so far. I feel that I have progressed a lot as a songwriter and composer throughout this unit. I mostly wrote the music and several others mainly wrote the lyrics. I have found this project to be both challenging and easy at different stages. My role is to play piano or guitar in the song and provide much of the musical aspect to it. I am comfortable with what I am doing and I hope others in my group are comfortable with what they are doing. I have also attempted to write a song on my own but I wasn't satisfied with how it turned out.

Developmental Workbook 11/1/11
I can't wait to present our composition for this next class. I am confident in my ability to compose the music and I think that it has turned out fairly well. It has a good amount of dependence on the other members of my group though and I hope that everyone is able to do their part. This has not been an easy assignment for me because I have had to coordinate many aspects of our group myself.

Developmental Workbook 11/2/11
In my group, I wrote most of the melodic and harmonic parts to it. Andrew and Ariela helped come up with a good beat, and them Calypso and Taylor wrote some lyrics and figured out how to include them into the song. Our song was pretty easy to perform and the overall product sounded good I believed. Not much was challenging for me but maybe working as a group and coordinating different people. Writing the music was mostly easy I found. I played piano for the performance. I am very comfortable with piano because I have been playing it for seven years. I feel that my composition skills have improved so I have defidently developed as a composer.

My Final Song
media type="file" key="Return Home.mp3" width="240" height="20" This was my final song that I composed along with my friend Madison. To be honest I'm not very satisfied with the final product because I think that the tempo varies in different parts of the song, and I don't really think that it has anything interesting to say. In fact, there's nothing about the song that's interesting at all since it's practically the same chords over and over again. The instrumentation was good, but I don't really know if I like the guitar effect and the drums sound real fake. The random vocal noises during the solo weren't really very necessary. The song is composed in four four time. My intention with the song was to think of things that sound poetic and put it into a song. I was also trying to find a style that was reminiscent of the grunge movement during the 1990's.

Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg says, "Now I have said it, and they may burn me." Schoenberg feels now, that if he were to die, he would have expressed his opinion. He has shared his views for music with the world. He also does not seem to care about what other people may think of him or his music and accepts this criticism. He plans to eliminate the preconceived ideas and anticipations of classical music. Arnold Schoenberg plans to make music simpler and at the same time express more emotion. He wants to really create music that captures the complexities of human emotions. He feels that not only is there one emotion that humans are experiencing at any given time, but that these emotions somehow overlap. He also wants to change the technical musical aspects in his pieces as well by eliminating motivic work.

Reflection

 * Personal understanding of the Expressionist style
 * Rationale for choice of image
 * Rationale for choice of instrumentation
 * Rationale for manipulation of musical elements

The expressionist style was a musical movement during the twentieth century, started by Arnold Schoenberg and continued by his students known as The Second Viennese School. This musical style involves a true expression of feelings. Arnold Schoenberg devised f ree atonal composition during the years 1907 and 1908. During which time he composed pieces for the Second String Quartet. Musical expressionism is said to revolve around the ideas and work of Arnold Schoenberg.

I chose my image of the angel and death because I thought it invoked good emotion. I liked that the painting wasn't very bright, and that it involved death. I chose to work with this painting because I wanted to do something relating to death since it is a complex emotion. It has various stages of it and different complex variations but as a whole, there are certain repetitive feelings and memories.

I chose to use bass since it has lower pitches in its range. This creates a more mysterious and curious feeling. It is mystifying just as death is, since nobody is quite sure as to what it feels like to die. The man kneeling at the bedside is probably experiencing these feeling. There is a guitar coda since I wanted to somehow show that this woman, although no longer with the man is in a place of rest. and alleviation.I can tell that she was in pain since the man obviously knew that she was in pain and had experiencing this for some time.

I believe that my composition turned out decently. There were some elements of the recording that could have been improved with better quality recording software. I believe that the general feeling and timbre of the song is good. I feel like the tempo could have been a little bit slower to convey a greater feeling of sadness and pain for the man. The levels of volume and the dynamics were accurate to the message I was trying to convey throughout the song. My song had a monophonic texture which I liked since it was simpler.