Music Appraising
As previously
mentioned, some of the music
written by Karl Jenkins has been used for
commercials. Listen to the following example of
the piece of music called Adiemus. A portion of this
music was used for the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society commercial.
Excerpt
from Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary
An image from the Cheltenham
and Gloucester advert
Listen to the music again only this time consider the following points:
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Texture
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Instrumentation
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Feelings and emotions
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Any other points of interest
What did you notice? (Click here for answers)
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Texture: builds up, is superimposed
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Instrumentation: voices, recorder type instrument, strings, percussion
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Feelings and emotions: calm, gentle, soft
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Points of interest: voices are using phonetic sounds and not singing words, repeated sections, female voices.
