1. Yes. Pronunciation of Mika was terrible, haha.Can you believe they pronounced Mika M-eye-ka??? I was like "What!??? OUTRAGE!!!!" Haha.
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Question 4 was good too. I used tone colour as my other concept, what did you guys write about?
I'm not sure to be honest. I would say bright works well for the first one.Can I just ask what could've been written for question 1a).
I wrote bright, dry and brilliant. People asked me why I wrote dry and I said that the stringed instrument thing had a dry tone...but I suck at tone colour.
Is this write or not?
I thought about writing kazoo, but a little ounce of intuition told me that 12-century music would probably not be arranged with a kazoo part XDI'm not sure to be honest. I would say bright works well for the first one.
I wrote:
1. Bright, metallic, struck with mallets (glockenspiel).
2. twangy [probably not the best word to have written but oh well], string instrument, strummed (mandolin) [yeah, haha, what the hell? First instrument that came to mind, okay. I know it's wrong].
3. buzzing sounding wind instrument (kazoo).
Now I was probably completely wrong with the naming of all the instruments because it was a medieval piece (I have no idea what the hell is up with the kazoo thing). I didn't know whether to name what instruments I thought they were because generally when we were taught tone colour in class we would always mention performing media when listing tone colours. Tone colour is, to my knowledge, what the instrument sounds like, how the instrument is being played and what instrument is being played.
I thought it was a mandolin too :S though I think I'm wrong.I'm not sure to be honest. I would say bright works well for the first one.
I wrote:
1. Bright, metallic, struck with mallets (glockenspiel).
2. twangy [probably not the best word to have written but oh well], string instrument, strummed (mandolin) [yeah, haha, what the hell? First instrument that came to mind, okay. I know it's wrong].
3. buzzing sounding wind instrument (kazoo).
Now I was probably completely wrong with the naming of all the instruments because it was a medieval piece (I have no idea what the hell is up with the kazoo thing).
I thought about writing kazoo, but a little ounce of intuition told me that 12-century music would probably not be arranged with a kazoo part XD
I thought the string instrument was a lute but who knows??? I thought that was the hardest question on the test.
For the last one, once I realised I had to write and not just listen to the awesome song, I talked about pitch as well. I thought there was a lot talk to about in terms of the modulation from minor to major in the chorus and the wide range across the instrumentation.
Thought I went decently well, but hopefully I'll better than I expect (what usually seems to happen).
@gifted: I thought dynamics was part of the concept you were meant to talk about?
I used it to notate the rhythms in the second version of They Took the Children Away or whatever it was called. Just the vibraphone ostinato and snare/kick rhythm. Do they normally provide it??I didn't. Only two people out of my class of 10 used it.
I probably should have used it though.