2/23/07

i wont keep it inside, freak out, let it go...

Today has been a fun filled, bongo hitting, piano banging , Cymbal Bashing, Maraca Shaking.

Just a little glimpse inside of 20th Century music and the things we get up to on a friday afternoon.But, no, the point of this entry is that, in 20th century music, we listen to obviosuly music from the 20th century and how composers use any musical sound they could get and make music, and how they do this and of course, trying it out for ourself.
Today, Tony played us a piece by Byrars called 'Jesus blood hasn't failed me yet'...He was asked to compose a piece for a documentary about 'Life in pubs'. so he went round the pubs recording the sounds, and then he came to this one pub, and there was a tramp sitting in the corner completley sober, singing 'Jesus blood hasn't failed me yet'. He got back to the studio and played it on repeat to see if he could use this, byars left the room and when he came back he noticed something - The people who were working had all became more quiet and stoped hurrying around - there was even some people crying in the corners.
Some peoples comments in my class when Tony told them this was like..."why, does it say 'i'm gonna kill you?'...no, it was just that the music had a kind of emotion to it that you think, and relax.
The piece was then played - There was silence (Not very often in my class)
There was one comment from the floor, which was..
"I thought it was really powerful!"
I glanced around the room -and found nearly everyone with their heads down!
And for some reason that touched me today and i just wanted to share, so sorry if all that music talk has bored ya!

The other thing being is that, I took in my University letter today, as i was asked to yesterday, well when Fiona came in today i gave her the sheet, everything was ok, until sh saw 'your piece must be 5 minutes long'...yeah! So after that fiona was trying to learn a new piece so she has to do movements from a few pieces, and yeah, mines aint even 5!

3 comments:

Laura Whispering said...

There's a video on youtube of two swans trying to walk on ice to that piece of music... tis nice.

Watcha gonna do about your piece? xo

Sam Davies said...

Aow cute :)

Just hope that it's ok, i don't have one that i can learn in like 5 days :( My piece wasn't 5mins long last year, they didn't say anything. Tried to tell Fio that,, but she was still in freak out mode, haha! Poor Girl!

xxx

Laura Whispering said...

But if they ask for five minutes... =/ Is it worth the risk? lol