https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1 en-us 2017-11-22 20:01:39 UTC 2017-11-22 20:41:57 UTC hello@padlet.com jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209546375 I strongly agree with Ratliff's argument of linking. I do believe that every piece of music is using the instrumentals to connect a sound to a feeling. If music doesn't make you think or feel something, then what is its point at all? Ratliff's link in Arvo Part "Cantus in memoriam of Benjamin Britten" is a great example because it is very similar to natural patterning. He used patterns like water and feathers falling because the music has to end some time. It could be described as a leaf, but it would not mean the end of a natural pattern. It would mean the death of one. These comparisons are spot on in my opinion because I feel myself walking down a leaf ridden road with a pond and many natural aspects all around living harmoniously when the violins rise and fall or the cellos wean in and out of my ear or the bell ringing softly behind everything. Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D minor" holds a lot of weight itself. The opera singing over the string parts is chilling because it is so overpowering and in a minor key. It gives off a sense of foreboding, death. This is because it was Mozart's last song, and he put a lot of dark emotion into it. He is coming up on death, so he puts how he feels nearing death into music. The key only adds to the terror because the song never becomes comfortable. It is constantly scary, flat, and disheartening. This piece would be nothing without Mozart's emotions put into it, and it certainly portrays those feelings in a disheartening way. ]]> 2017-11-22 20:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209546375 jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209547837 2017-11-22 20:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209547837 jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209548860 2017-11-22 20:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209548860 jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550358 2017-11-22 20:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550358 jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550477 2017-11-22 20:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550477 jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550580  “I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” ]]> 2017-11-22 20:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550580 jarodh22 https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550691 "...When the notes are collected there, heaving like bullfrogs, unable to go anywhere else, the piece ends on a last bell tone.) It implies natural patterning...patterning that is not only sequential but interwoven...like ripples on the water."]]> 2017-11-22 20:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jarodh22/nk39d0bd0rd1/wish/209550691