(min 5 mins, max 10 mins) 

Plan a micro-teaching on Final Exam Scales, choose only ONE KEY, either D or E minor, but all types must be included. 

For example, if you choose D minor, so you need to teach Scales in both Natural and Harmonic, Contrary Motion in both Natural and Harmonic, Chromatic Scales and Arpeggios.

Submit Date : Week 9 - 26/6/2020 (before 12pm)

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Name: Nur Hamizah binti Harmizul
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Name: Adeline Jetol 
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Different topics on each week and marks will be given based on involvement.

Submit Date : Week 6 till 14 -  Every Friday (before 12pm)

(min 5 mins, max 10 mins)

Plan a micro-teaching on how to harmonise a simple melodic line (e.g. Happy Birthday, Rasa Sayang) in Key C ONLY.

Submit Date : Week 14 - 30/7/2020 (before 12pm)

Melody line (Assignment 3)
1. Name: Ezra Rahel Jimal
 No. Matric: D20191088901
   Song: Ode to Joy
   Youtube link: https://youtu.be/KRd-bLqZc6I

2. Name: Fresno Luiz Anak Milan
   No. matric: D20191090343
   Song: Auld Lang Syne
   Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/MYz8D8_bx8s

3. Name: Meioviera maikol
   Song: Are You Sleeping
   YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/fzj5BvPTiIE

4. Name : Ahmad Aswad Bin Mohd Nor
   No.Matric :D20191088904
   Song : Tepuk Amai-amai
Youtube Link : https://youtu.be/31kk_2swnOg

5. Name : Mohammad Amirul
              bin Samil
   No Matric : D20192091775
   Song : Anak Itik Tok Wi
   Youtube Link : https://youtu.be/JtBiomJDqUc


6. Nama: Akmal Ihsan Bin Ismail
   Song: Ikan Kekek Mak Iloi-Iloi
Youtube Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC2jYSbYjzw&t=19s

7. Nama: Visi Sianturi Binti Azmi
   No Matrik: D20191088899
   Song: Merrily We Roll Along
   Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/XKdCJCvjXG0

8. Name: Yusmalina binti Mohd
             Yusof
   Song: Old MacDonald
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/GHhArOI6v3w

9. Name: Nur Hamizah binti 
             Harmizul
   Song: Five Little Ducks
Youtube Link : https://youtu.be/73KDrAm8l9Y

10. Name: Amirul Zikri bin 
              Shahidan
     Song : Song of the fjords
Youtube link : https://youtu.be/TycbKNFKgFc

11. Name: Zhang Shanshan 
    Song: Da Yu (Big Fish Begonia)
youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83VWiCy4ou8

12. Name: Muhammad Ijmal bin 
              Zaharin
     Song : Silent Night

13. Name: Jr. Aindreas Parasdin
     Song: Burung Kakak Tua
     Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/ifbCPEpK5Pk

14. Name: Cassandra Mayvellina 
              Samrie
     No Matrik: D20191088892 
     Song: You Are My Sunshine
     Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/HcmKjSAuVEI

15. Name : Adeline Jetol
Matric No: D20191090342
     Song : Jinggle Bells
     Youtube Link: 
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Name : Akmal Ihsan Bin Ismail
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Name : Jr. Aindreas Parasdin
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- To play a piano efficiently, it is so important with how we sitting on the stool 

- We need to sit properly so our hand, arm and finger can move freely without having a difficulty to reach a key  

- By sit properly, sit tall and straight on the stool
*Figure 1
- Knees need to be slightly under keyboard; your feet need to flat on floor and your right foot may be slightly forward

2. Hand position
- The hand position also important for the finger to curve
- Before positioning hands, the stool must face piano squarely; not too far and not too close just perfect for the hands reach the keyboard
- The arms need to hang loosely from shoulders. Stiff arm will probably make things more difficult
- Elbows need to slightly higher than keys and make sure it straight and in the 90 degree position
*Figure 2

3. Curving the finger 

- Stiff arm will make fingers follow their rhythms and for his matter, we can exercise our arm and finger by hold up both hands with wrists floppy
*Figure 3

-  Move finger loosely by imagine touching something fluffy
*Figure 4

- The finger should be nicely curved and on their tips and it shouldn’t be able to see the finger-nails
- Curve your fingers by imagine it hold the bubble gently so it doesn’t break
*Figure 5

- Another method we can practice with friend by put your finger to theirs and with curve hand, imagine like you touch the keyboards
*Figure 6

-  This exercise could extend the flexibility of the finger to curving without failing to do so

*All figures is on this link: https://padlet.com/ijmalj21/dzun0zi56hh0ae4d *

 

  -First you need to adjust the height of your seat to ensure that your elbow are not too high or too low and your fingers can reach the keys.

 

  -Your feet must be flat on floor. Make sure that you feet can reach the paddle and when one of your feet pressing the paddle, your other feet slightly close at the back to the other one that is pressing the paddle.

 

  -After adjusting the height of your seat, please put you seat not too close or too far from the piano. Put it where you find comfortable.

 

-After that sit in the middle of the piano. Your body must not bend because that will put your hand in the wrong posture. Sit tall but not stiff. Slightly lean forwards but make sure not too close towards the piano.

 

-Sit in the middle of your piano. Make sure that you try to reach the last keys of your piano by crossing your right hand to the left and your left hand to the right. If your hands can reach the last keys of the piano. Then you got the correct posture.

 

  Your hands position play a big role too in curving your fingers. 

 

  - For Instance, when your elbow are too low and you try to play the piano, you will find it uncomfortable, hard to move your finger freely.

 

   -Make sure your hands slightly high so that when your playing the keys you are more likely to reach the furthest key comfortably.

 

For a beginner they may have a problem to curve their finger and tend to be stiff while playing the piano. So this are some of the tips so that you will be able to curve your finger comfortably while playing the piano.

 

 - Firstly, try to hold things that have circle form such as bottle, small ball. When you have a grip of this things, it will helps you to naturally form a C-shape.  If you try to place your hand over the keys, that your correct position.

 

- Imagine you are holding the small ball when you are practicing. Make sure your finger are not stiff. Do not put fingers in tense.

 

-Practice this daily and you will likely to improve and make curving fingers naturally.

 

 

*Listen to the pieces at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQw3DvqEbxI 

For someone who like to hear and play a pieces from a minor key, my other favorite pieces is from Russian pianist, Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857); Nocturne in F minor “La Separation”. Most of a nocturne I hear is about a dreamscape kind of mood and it made it to look like almost fantasy dreaming. For this pieces, it is still feeling like dreamscape kind of fantasy but it look almost turn into reality. I can depicted from this pieces is about a lovers bemoaning their impending separation and not realizing they will never see each other again yet they know enough the separation will happen. By saying so, if we look into the beginning of the pieces, they remind themselves in the good days about how beautifully the relationship when it begun but i can feel his sensitivity every time the narrative comeback into reality or about what will happen later. Every slur or tied note on the pieces show how the narrative try to slow down the time and keep longing in the dream sequences. Which the next progression on the pieces, the narrative deep diving more into the dream by thinking what happen to him or to his lover when all of this happen and every possibility of “what if..” moment. The arpeggios or the broken chord really add the colour of his dream by showing how his heart beating from it. The pieces continues by making it increasingly loud with a little bit faster tempo to shown the narrative need to accept it somehow and comeback to the reality and appreciate it while it lasts instead. The pieces ends with the narrative trying to hold a days until the separation begin. I really enjoy the deep emotional or how delicacy from this song. I’m already starting to learn this pieces I have to admit that this song is not that easy to play especially to interpret the feeling to what it supposed to be. In addition, Glinka could have used this theme to craft a great opera. 

*Listen to the pieces at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnw8-YnHWeU 

 

 

The second pieces that I love the most is Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 which is also a greatest composer and pianist of all time. This pieces, Rondo Alla Turca popularly known as the "Turkish Rondo" which is more to classical style is actually the third and final movement from his Sonata No. 11 K331 for piano . The pieces was composed in 1783 which was in Classical period. I love to listen to this pieces because it is in minor key and it sounds like a marching song. It is also considered as intermediate level which is also challenging for me.

 

 

 
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Playing a piano with a right technique is a must to all the pianist including me. This is to ensure that when we play the piano our brain can take a pace from what we trying to learn. As for me, i will start first with polishing all scales from major, minor, arpeggios etc. Next for my fingering exercise, i always practice with Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises book. It is good for strengthen up my finger and my brain to play more efficiently. I might as well find another book or eBooks from internet for another version or reference to exercising my fingering technique.

 

Before i working on the pieces, usually i will practising my sight reading as much as i can since i always have a bit problem with my sight reading skills especially on these days. I usually will working from the simplest one to the hardest one as long as it is still from my range/grade. Choosing the right pieces is considerable need to look at too. As for now, i am working on the new pieces from Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque IV: Passepied. What i do is first, I will study the basic thing like the piece’s dynamic, articulation, tempo etc. next i will study the right finger for each note and play separately first to make sure i familiar with the sound and tempo. As for the tempo i will started to play slower and gradually to the original tempo. In addition, i usually recorded myself while playing piano so i know at which part or which section i need to look into and fix it. 

 

The most important pianist and all musician always need to have is discipline. As for me, i usually take 3-5 hour per day and 2 or 3 times per week. Since i am not a major in music, i always try regularly play piano and my regime is like i will play both either one and half hour, two hour or two and half hour (depending my free time) for all scales and sight reading and the pieces. For the pieces, i will practicing for 3 pieces; one that i already knew and play before, one from my favourite pieces and one for the pieces i never played before. I will take those 3 to 5 hour straight with resting in the between of divided hour to practicing my piano skills to keep it fresh in my mind. 

QUESTION : PRACTICING CONSISTENTLY SHOULD BE A MUST FOR EVERYONE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE JUST STARTING TO LEARN A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, OR POLISHING UP AND MASTERING A COMPOSITION. YOU ARE TRYING TO IMPROVE MORE IN PIANO PLAYING FOR THIS SEMESTER. THEREFORE, SHARE AND DESCRIBE 3 PIANO PRACTICE TIPS THAT YOU DO TO IMPROVE YOUR PLAYING.

 

1. I set my own practice time.

- Firstly, I would choose the most suitable time in a day to practice. Usually I would practice in the morning. I would take 1 to 2 hours to practice. The more time you practice, your skills will improve eventually. Make sure to set your practice time properly. If possible practice without any disruption that can ruin your spirit to practice. In my case, I would prefer practice with a friend that have more knowledge about piano than myself. 

 

2. Practice scales

Try practicing all of the scales to train your fingers. Your fingering would improve so much that you would not have the time to think which keys to press. your fingers would naturally play the piano with the right posture and scales. Try to play the piano with both hands. In my experience, my left hand could not adapt quickly with the fingering so I try to play with both so that I can play the scales with the right fingering. You can start by playing the piano from slow to fast. For a beginner like me i tend to play much slower than my friend because I always get confuse with fingering but it is okay because when you always practice the scales you would naturally play with faster tempo.

 

3. Try to play piano while singing

 Choose a random song to play. You can practice with the song that you have choose and try to write what chords that had in the song. This can boost your confidence to play the piano. You will be proud and enjoy the result later when you practice with more passion. Playing and singing at the same time actually not easy because you are multitasking, it takes time to truly master it. But by doing this you can improve so much. Try to play the basic or simple chord at the beginning. Try it with many more song so that you are familiar with the scales and chords.

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As everyone know, sight reading is the one of the big challenges need to be play by musicians and this include for pianist. Not everyone have a gifted to sight a score perfectly in one swoop, rather they had struggled enough that leads to de-motivation or some of them need a rigorously  training session to master the sight reading. Fear not, with a right technique and right plan will make you to take a right path and start practicing again.

 

For a starter, I need to emphasize that you need to figure it out your fingering technique on the keyboard. To do this, I always start to play a scales first so I know where or what finger should I put on the keyboard based on the score without you need to see the keyboard. My teacher once said that “the less distraction you put on the sight reading, the better”. If you keep looking the score and look at your finger back and forth, you probably will lose the focus on the note that you need to play. 

In my opinion, examine your sight reading material is important to make sure you on the right score so you know which level you can start with easily. For myself, I would prefer to play a score start from easily to the hardest one that I can play repeatedly for each level of that score.  To do that, start looking and study at the pieces like the rhythm, key signatures tempo and etc. Simple rhythm with simple key signature and tempo usually are the one that we can look as an easier way to start sight reading

 

By meaning familiar with the scores is to memorize how it should be play or how it sound. To do this you do not need to follow the original tempo at first but you can start slowly like familiar with the left hand first and follow by the right hand. When you comfortable enough you can start play very slowly both hand and let see from which point you need to be improve more. By doing so, you need to mark any point or any important details that you need to emphasize or to look into on the score so you can do better next time you play it again

 

Although for the beginner player, sight reading is a hardest thing for them to do as they are not yet familiar and comfortable enough to play or right guessing which key need to press correctly without to the score and your finger back and forth. Daily practicing is a must if you want to play fluently. You need to put the safety net out of the way you playing a piano not drastically but slowly adapt our mind to play without it. We are learn something to make a mistake, actually it is good to make a mistakes because from that point we can fixed our weakness so we can do better in the future. 

Question: Often, mistakes are made in rhythm and tempo when playing piano pieces, such as wrongly counting a 3/4 bar as 4/4 (rhythm error), or also rushing and unsteady when playing from bar to bar (not following a steady tempo). By taking example of your selected bars from Track 1 or Ping Pong piano pieces learned, demonstrate with or without using piano on how you practice achieving correct rhythm and tempo.

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Question: The slur and the tie are quite similar in terms of the symbol but played differently. Can you explain the difference between playing the slur and playing the tie, in your piano pieces?

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Slur is a type articulation that needs to play in connected and smooth manner. This annotation could be two or more notes of the same or different pitch or it could be as far one note to another bars depending on the pieces we will play. While tie, is a articulation that show two notes of the same pitch. When the annotation show a tie, the first note will be played and held for the duration of both notes depending on what time signatures or beat of that pieces. These two are a very common musical marking we always see on the pieces and it is drawn as an arc-shaped line connecting to other notes depending whether it is slur or tie. 

Most beginner pianist is confused between these two articulations. The way I see this, for slur, I would think that this annotation will be different to each arc will be point or it will simply jump and move far from the first note it marks. In addition, this articulation will never be at the same pitch and it probably will point from next two notes to the far as it want. The things with slur, we do not and cannot held the notes and it must be play accordingly. 

For tied notes it is different from the slur. Ties only happen when the note sit next to each other whether on the same bar or next to the bar. Generally, tie is bind together so in the music context, tied notes acts as one note with their rhythmic values added together. This would mean when I see a tied note, I need to hold and count together the note has been tied till the next note (depending on the time signature and beat). The tied notes will always be place at the same pitch and the same note.

*Picture illustration as shown below

Question: What is the difference between staccato and legato? Describe in your own words. After that, demonstrate with or without using piano, on how you practice staccato and legato correctly. 

 
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Question: In your opinion, what elements in a piano piece, that makes it sound like a happy piece, or a sad piece? Explain 3 factors that make a piece sound happy, and also 3 factors that make a piece sound sad. 

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Let’s start with the genre that i like most which is a song from a sad pieces. In my opinion, three factors that makes a pieces sad are the tonality which what key signature they used, genre which the performance direction itself and also tempo. Tonality is the key signature or scales that used in one’s music. Usually sad pieces, the composer will always choose the minor key to express the mood, i might add that to make it interestingly sad they would play around or improvised it from the enharmonic scales due to the raised from the 7th note. I think it makes the pieces make a solemnly sad. Next, the genre or performance direction. Each of pieces will directly us to play what kind of mood of those pieces would be. As for the sad pieces, they probably choose a mood or genre such as “lacrimoso”, “grave”, “traurig” or “grieve”. As we all know all this example refer for us to play in the sense or mood of sad and this is where it got factor number three which is the tempo. As a sad pieces, there will always in the slow pace, probably from the adagio to the moderato, at 40 to 60 BPM per beat at best. 

 

Happy pieces on the other hand, three factors that makes it sound happy are the rhythm, articulation and of course the tonality. For the happy pieces, it contra from the sad pieces. As the tonality, they usually will pick from a major keys. Any major keys will make a pieces sounds levitated and as adventurous as it may be. Another two factors might work together to make a sounds perfectly happy. As for rhythm, happy piece would be more into smooth and consistent rhythm or a pace that express happiness and peace or I would say a mood to dance a “happy tunes”. For the articulation, I would see more into the pitch and the volume which is the happy pieces tend to have a relatively high note as in the range that we always sing as well as dynamically would changes in the process or the journey of that pieces. This would be confused with any other genre but when you hear the happy pieces, you can differentiate from any those genre and there is a distinction range that make certain pitch and volume to be in “happy” mood. 

 

Question: To play a piano piece more meaningfully, students need some imagination, based on the background of the piece, or creating the story behind the piece. Choose one favourite piano piece that you like to listen to OR play, and create or tell the story behind the piece.

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The opening of this pieces can be show as how the narrative want to share his feeling to everyone who may someday would read his writing. He started with his writing with saying “Have you ever been with someone so long, so long you got attached and today those person is longer with us in this world? Have you ever think what would it be or how to feel or how to react this kind of tragedy?”. He continues with how great his life with that person during his or her lifetime. How he hold every cherish moment with that person for as long as he live. When he was with that person when he or she was alive, this question is already came in his mind like “how i cannot imagine one day that you will no longer in my life, how i cannot fathom the fact that when that time has come, you will leave me with our memories together; how you hold my hand, how big is your smile. how you looking into my eyes...” he denied it the thought at some point and keep on live his life. 

 

One fine day, tragedy happen and it happens without he prepared to come up with a term the fact that what he ever think all this time has come to reality. This is where his world crushed into pieces and this is where all those point he made all this time reimburse but this time he cannot grasp any feeling yet only the memories came to play on his mind. The sadness is there but it is not focusing only to be cry out loud. The thing what makes he upset is how he regret not to spend so much time even longer with that person, how he should asking his or her wellness. He continue; “Have you ever been with someone so long, so long you got attached and today those person is longer with us in this world? I always think of this but o’ how i do not expect this day would come to my life. We always been together. We always sharing our feeling. We always promise to look up each other but we are falling apart and starting to neglected our feeling. We had to go in different way. Until today you are no longer with me, how i missed how great we are, how great we can be. Now you only left me nothing but your voice, your laugh and all the pictures we taken all this time”.

 

This thought kept play on his mind but as a human, sooner or later he need to come up with a term and let it go. The pieces ends his writing by saying “appreciate what you have in this world while it yours. Do not waste any more time because to have a regret feeling is not the best you can have. Regret is something we would feels everyday but to have one with point of no return is so devastated.  We might never know what happen tomorrow let alone in future as we never know who will leave from our life tomorrow and it could be today right in this moment”

*Listen the pieces at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_dSI0gVbp0

 
Ties

Firstly, the ties is used to connect a note next to each other where they lay at the same stave (the same pitch). The using of ties will add the note value of both note where the second note will not be played. Instead, both of the note’s value will be added up making the duration of the note longer with just one press. So, we can say that ties only can be used for the notes that sits next to each other and both are in the same pitch. So, when we see ties, do not play the second note that was tied. Just hold the duration of the note since the first note tied.

Slur
For slur, it is used to indicate how a melody or a phrase should be played. Slur simply represent legato or play the melody smoothly and sounds like it was connected when we play the following note. Rather than playing the melodies normally, playing a melody which uses slur makes it more beautiful and charming because of the connected flows of notes. This require us to play the pieces in a manner opposite to staccato playing. We can achieve the playing of slur by making sure that the flow of the notes is connected and followed right after the previous note.

TOPIC : STACCATO AND LEGATO

 

Hello everyone, I am Adeline Jetol. This week forum topic is about articulation. So today I’m going to teach the Staccato and Legato. The forum question is “what is the difference between Staccato and Legato”. 

 

So Staccato is another Italian word that means “sharply detached or separated from the other notes”. the symbols to indicate that a note or chord is to be played with staccato articulation is a dot above or below the notes(or chord).When a musician sees a staccato marking he/she play the note with a very short, detached attack. This means that the note will not ring out but instead will have a very quick decay. 

 

The meaning of legato is the music is to be played in a smooth and flowing manner, without any breaks between notes. Playing the piano in legato style means that each individual note has some connectivity to the next note. In written music there are symbols that tell the musician the he/she is to play a particular musical passage in a legato manner. These symbols are called slurs or phase markings

 

When you play staccato just pretend that you are touching things that are hot because of the heat, for examples, touching a hot cauldron or kettle that still boiling. Apply it while you play staccato on piano. Your finger immediately leaves the key without sustaining any sound like when you remove your hand immediately from touching the hot cauldron. Depending on how you play, it can be depressed all the way down before release or halfway down. The faster you can get your finger off the key, the more time your brain has to look to the next key, eliminating errors and adding a smoothness while you are playing.

 

Producing a completely smooth and connected tone at the piano is one of the trickiest things to achieve. So this is some of the way to play legato. First, rely more on finger pedaling. Finger pedaling is the idea of holding down certain notes longer than their notations to simulate the effects of the sustain pedal without actually using the device itself. Finger pedaling is highly effective as it creates a seamless, smooth, and connected sound.

 

Always remember playing staccato is a lot like a woodpecker pecking its beak on a tree-short, jumpy pecks. You can tell which notes are staccato as they have dot below or above the note head. As for legato, playing legato is playing the notes smoothly one after the other. Play with one key after the other, but only release your finger once you have pressed the next one.

 

That is all from me , Thank you.

TOPIC : EMOTIONS OR MOOD

 

Hello Everyone, I am Adeline Jetol. So this week forum is about emotion or mood. The question is “what elements in piano piece,that makes it sound like a happy piece or a sad piece ? Explain 3 factors that make a piece sound happy and also 3 factors that make a piece sound sad” So today I’m going to explain about emotion that makes a pieces sound happy and sad.

 

First you must know what is emotion. Emotion is something that causes sad, happy ,angry or fear. An intense mental state that arises subjectively rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes.

 

There are 3 factor that make a piece sound sad and happy.

3 factor that make a piece sound sad is ;

1.The term of minor chord

-minor key is heard as sad. The minor key is opposed to the major key and it’s perceived by us without being aware as if there was something wrong,hence sadness or restlessness.

 

2.Slow tempo

- if we realize, sad song always had slow tempo in it. Tempo refers to the speed, or pace, of a musical piece. As with modes, tempo is also used as a way to express emotions. Slow music potraying sadness. Now it should be noted that fast and slow tempos can be used to indicates other emotion.

 

3.Low pitch

-Low pitch always indicates for sadness. If we hear a song that has lower pitch and the tempo also slow that when we know that indicates for sad emotion.

 

3 factor that make a piece sound happy

1.The terms of Major chord.

-Major chords are tied to happiness. Its produce happy sounding chords. I remember the chord progression I, IV and V(1-4-5). Each one of these chords is a major chord, and they work together in any order to create a happy sound.

 

2.Fast tempo

- Music with fast tempo evoked positive emotion, such as happiness,excitement,delight and liveliness. For example up-tempo is aterm used to describe music that is cheerful and has a fast tempo.

 

3.High pitch

-It is like when we are talking, when we talk with high and lively pitch it shows that you are very happy or excited. In music, we can hear that the song with high and lively pitch produce a happy sounding.

 

That is all from me, Thank you.

TOPIC : IMAGINATION

 

Hello everyone, my name is Adeline Jetol. As for the final forum, the topic given is about imagination. Every musician must have the ability to imagine so that you can be one with music.

So today I’m going to share about one pieces which is a modern composition titled
“River flows in you”. I'll be talking about the background of this song and what I feel as what I imagine during I listen to this beautiful masterpiece.

This song was composed by Yiruma a korean pianist. Yiruma real name is Lee Ru Ma. Born in 1978, he started playing piano at the age of five and moved to London when he was 10 to pursued his study at the Purcell School of Music. He later attended King’s College,London where he studied composition and released his first album.  Internationally known, as he played on many sold-out concerts in Asia Europe and North America. 

The song is from one of his album First Love, released in 2001. The song is quiet some time now. The piece written in A major. Structured more like a pop song than a classical piano composition. The title of the songs can be defined as finding your inner music, falling in love or the feeling of desperately needing to find something. The pieces become more famous when the song was featured in the “Twilight” movie as the soundtrack.

The song actually has mix feeling it can be either sad and happy. The song start slowly and gently progresses with playful speed. In my imagination, it feels like you are walking near a river and you just appreciating the nature beauty. The sky reflection on the rivers and the sun’s rays. It feel like you are escaping the busy life of town and find calmness in the nature. The wind are blowing your hair smoothly and your closed your eyes to feel the cold breezes. This song will most likely give calmness in everyone heart. 

 

https://youtu.be/7maJOI3QMu0

 

Thank You.