The Language of Performing Arts

On being given the task of creating and comeing a poem based on the stimulus provided, it seemed doable and was approached by my host and I with enthusiasm and determination. We achieved nearly what to set out also. With some effort and contribution, every member of the pigeonholing provided a vital input into the making of our final piece. Although all sort members could bring put in more effort to provide a more tidy finish to the performance, I believe the song write was of a good quality.When given the stimulus our stem came up with several(prenominal) ideas based on Of Mice and Men for lyrics, although just those who knew the play were inspired by this particular stimulus. The different stimulus was Dustbowl Days by Nicole S.Porter and this again provided vague ideas for lyrics.The group however took more specific ideas from Dustbowl Days and apply Life as a topic for the song, the lyrics were therefore indite around this.As furthest as medication is concerned the group fixed that the lyrics could not be written out until harmonizes and melody were fitted into place. As I was the most experienced with music in the group it was my job to find chords that gived a sad that effective pattern for a deep and meaningful song. After meddling with a E, D flat minor, G sharp minor, B chord progression for the verse I finally came up with just a simple A minor, F change all over. Then every 8th stuff a G fitted well. The beatnik was straight and of a chequer tempo, we determined working with a straight 44 rhythm would be easiest and besides that would fit our song better too.We practised improvising melodies over these chords until the group agreed on one fitting better than the others. To do this we took notes from the chords and practised singing them over the top of the chord to try and create a sad yet beautiful cloggy, this was achieved by holding the get-go note of the first chord of each verse and then utilize notes which fitted in to the scales of both chords for the rest of the verse.Two members of the group then wrote the lyrics while I taught the other two members the chords and appropriate softly and guitar parts. We felt we wanted to implicate more instruments to give a thicker texture to make the song deeper. The piano part consisted of a simple set of notes (A, C, E, F) linking each chord onwards each change over. These harmonised very well as the notes were taken from the chords.The timbre of our song was very important to all members of the group and we persistent that the lead guitar should be dominant and of a more clear sound so in order to do this the rhythm guitar used ribbon muted power chords while the lead clearly picked the notes from the chords. This did not barely prove more practical but also have a more calm and tranquil effect as think cod to the songs nature.We then decided we wanted to try and make the audience steady down in love with our song, this was ambitious but in ord er to do this we intended to take advantage of the G chord every eighth bar and create a hook from it, this we achieved and although the singers did not harmonise with each other they did harmonise with the chord creating a hook line.A emit prove quite difficult to make as our verse had come to us so quickly we were puzzled as to what to do. As the verse was in a minor key we decided the chorus should be in a major key. We came up with possibilities for a chorus and decided it should definitely consist of C major as the first chord as this fitted the well with the song. Certain members of the group then wrote more lyrics and insisted they had to be the lyrics for the non-existent chorus this made writing it an even trickier job.After agreeing to all meet up and work on the chorus during a free block only two of the members of our group turned up, this added insult to injury and we finally decided as a group we shouldnt spoil our song by adding some other melody and set of lyrics which were of poorer standard to the verse and instead we should simply just have a guitar picking chords C, D Bb, and G. This didnt turn out to be too badly and fitted the song well, and after speeding the tempo of the chorus up it fitted the song well.The transition from verse to chorus was immediate and very smooth, and then from chorus to verse it was paused with a two beat rest.As far as the performance of the song went it could have been better, the picked intro went as intend as with the fist verse and chorus, but one of the members of our group had decided to change the structure of our song at short notice, therefore the song did not end properly as not all group members had been informed of the removal of one of the verses. The part of the song that did go to visualize was played pretty well and with little mistakes. Intentions were met as far as the audience were concerned although our mistake was noticeable it was not really commented upon. elfin feedback was given b ut the audience responded all the same as the world-wide tranquillity of the song was felt by most.If we got the chance to make and perform a song again I would insure more harmonising was make to create a deeper feel in timbre, and possibly more instruments were used including drums to maintain time. I would also ensure all group members were at rehearsals as appose to just two, this would mean more work could be put in to a shorter space of time.