https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6 Padlet Number 7 en-us 2017-10-22 06:12:07 UTC 2025-03-13 23:45:49 UTC hello@padlet.com JohnsonDylan98 https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199319696 Ben Ratliff's position on the importance of the single note is that a single note being played over and over and over again can remove the effect that repetition has on you during the piece. Sometimes, repetition can cause the listener of a piece to doze into thought with the repetition being the background music, and the dozing dream being the new and non-repetitive portions of the piece. A single note can be the revolving part of a huge breakthrough in the story line that the piece is trying to convey. If the listener is placed in the musical trance that repetition puts one in, the composer or artist can remove that trance by placing a note that starts a revolution such as an alarm clock. While the brain tries to focus on the motion of the piece, the single note brings the listener back to "square one" so-to-speak. Take "Thelonious" by Thelonious Monk as an example. In this piece, a single note is played with revolving notes that climb up and down and attempt to complete phrases. The phrases can never be completed, however, because the revolving note is too agitating to the listener. This is the note that pulls you out of your trance while listening. Another example of this is in "Funeral March" by Chopin. Two single notes are exemplified in this piece. A sharp and C sharp are continuously played with very little pause. This forces the reader to figure out the meaning of the notes. ]]> 2017-10-22 06:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199319696 JohnsonDylan98 https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199320106 "if a musician can make one note, one sound, that he feels happy with, it's a good practice session."
(Ratliff, 72)

"Those repeated notes are the performer, or the subject of the song; they represent a person, a will."
(Ratliff, 7]]> 2017-10-22 06:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199320106 JohnsonDylan98 https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199320979 Chopin's revolving around the A and C sharp causes your trance (as shown in the picture below) to break.

Credit: Google Images]]> 2017-10-22 06:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199320979 JohnsonDylan98 https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199321196 Thelonious Monk writes a piece about himself (himself being the never changing piece) this picture represents the feeling in his piece.

Credit: Google Images]]> 2017-10-22 06:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199321196 JohnsonDylan98 https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199321311 I included this version because you can visually see the A sharp and C sharp. ]]> 2017-10-22 06:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199321311 JohnsonDylan98 https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199321366 Thelonious Monk's "Thelonious"]]> 2017-10-22 06:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/JohnsonDylan98/vv3k6198iyo6/wish/199321366