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Continued Exploration Blog

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 How a Music Video is Made Ever since I was a teenager in the 1980's during the MTV era, I was quite fascinated by watching music videos by my favorite artists such as Michael Jackson, and his most popular video of all time, "Thriller" and wondered how it was pulled off, and how long it actually would take to create such a masterpiece. After doing my research on this topic, I now know how a music video can be created and how it's produced.  The purpose of a video is to be released for a promotion for an album. The video is usually released before the album.  If the video gains interest, it may become viral. Therefore, the more promotion for the video, the more the song and the band will earn  money. A video is also like a short film or movie that tells a story set to music. Therefore, the narrative  tells the story to correspond with the song. The  process  of  making a video is to write a story and a script, then create a shooting schedule with a...

Music and a Fictive Dream Blog

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  Title of song: A place for us Composer song  writer: Leonard Bernstein Year composed and written: 1957 Origin: United States of America Soundtrack: Westside Story (Broadway Musical) Intro West Side Story 1. A short summary Tony and Maria's Love Story The story behind the song is an adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. Two teenage characters, Tony and Maria who happened to live in the city of New York, but from separate sides of the city. Maria, was a girl who was new and had just moved to New York with her family from Puerto Rico, While Tony was a native of New York. They fell in love at first sight with each other after they meet each other at a dance on the dance floor at a dance. But both of their families forbid them from seeing and being with each other because they were from two different cultures, and yet were like from two different worlds. Tony was involved in a street gang called " The Jets, "and his life was being threatened by the op...

Role of the Performer blog

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Munti's Role of a Performer with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra   1.Symphony No. 9 Composer: Beethoven Date composed: May 7,1824 National Origin: Vienna Performer: Riccardo Munti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra   2. Symphony No. 3 Composer: Beethoven Date composed: April 7,1805 National Origin: Vienna Performer: Riccardo Munti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra   Links to the performances:    Performance 1: Beethoven 9 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performance 2:  Riccardo Muti conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)   The performer’s role for both these pieces is to inspire and entertain the audience as well as create wonder and enchantment. The Orchestra’s performance was loud, with a beautiful blend of string and brass instruments, harmonics, and an allegro tempo which made it all the more exciting. Riccardo Munti was born on July 28, 1941, in Naples, Italy.  He has been married to his spouse, C...