Emily's Student Blog

  Lost song: Exploring and Traveling Theme.  For my blog post for this assignment, I was pretty excited to talk about this song. As a long time lover of the Lost series, but only the first couple of seasons, I really wanted to talk about the songs. Decided which one was almost impossible as there are so many good ones that really show the feelings and emotions of the movie series. Life & Death theme was definitely one of my first options but then I settled with Exploring and Traveling.                                                    https://youtu.be/JiQX2JwYliI  This song, and all the others in the television series, was composed, orchestrated, and produced by Michael Giacchino. Giacchino was born October 10, 1967 and is quite a famous musician and composer in other movies, series, and even video games. "Giacchino's film scores include several films from the Mission: Impossible, Jurassic Park, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Star Trek reboot series; seven Pixar Animation

 I know many may also blog about this talented performer so just bear with me. Lindsey Stirling is an American song writer, dancer, and violinist. I don't know anyone who doesn't know who she is but for the sake of the blog, we'll talk about her. Lindsey grew up as the middle child of three daughters. Because of financial reasons, her family could not afford full violin lessons. So she started half lessons at the age of five. Stirling's popularity took off when she went on America's Got Talent with her violin and dance. After becoming a quarter finalist on the show, she was disqualified because many believed she wasn't talented enough to dance and play a violin. She was devastated at that news. But she didn't let it get her down. In fact, shortly after that, cinematographer "Devin Graham contacted her in hopes of collaborating on a YouTube video together" (Wikipedia). This video boosted her popularity and into making music videos for her YouTube ch

Mongolian Throat Singing.  For my Musical Trip blog, I wanted to go into Mongolia. More specifically their throat singing. While it is more commonly known as Tuvan throat singing due to the people of Tuva, Siberia, and Mongolia practicing this kind of singing. "Throat singing originated among the indigenous Turko-Mongol tribes of the Altai and Sayan mountains of southern Siberia and western Mongolia" (Britannica).   Originally it came from male herders as a way of sounding like nature and their surroundings. It was forbidden for women to throat sing as it was believed that it would cause infertility. Lucky, that belief was overthrown and now there are many women throat singers.  "The popularity of throat singing among Tuvans seems to have arisen as a result of geographic location and culture. The open landscape of Tuva allows for the sounds to carry a great distance. Ethnomusicologists studying throat singing in these areas mark khoomei  as an integral part in the ancien

                                                                                     Introduction For this blog, I decided to go with the hurdy-gurdy instrument. This interesting instrument can be traced as back as the 9th century. Many believe that it originated from the fiddle but there is little to no evidence for this claim. But what exactly is a hurdy-gurdy? Good question. Unfortunately, the answer isn't quite simple. Wikipedia puts it like this:                                                                                                                              "... a mechanical  string instrument  that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned,  rosined  wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a  keyboard  that presses  tangents —small wedges, typically made of wood—against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like m

                                                   "Escala - Palladio"- 2nd Musical Analysis.  My second music analysis is about the Escala's version of Palladio.                                                                        https://youtu.be/aDYwXMNm7F4    This song was composed by Karl William Pamp Jenkins in 1995. It's name has caused a lot of discussions as to why it w as called "Palladio". Which is simple to find out. It was inspired by a sixteenth-century Italian by the name of Andrea Palladio. Jenkins was inspired by the mathematical harmony and architectural elements of Andrea Palladio's work. After Jenkins published Palladio in 1996 an English string quartet, Escala, "recorded a version of Palladio in 2009 which featured on their self-titled debut album..." (Wikipedia). Later it would be released as a single and peak at number 39 on the UK Singles Chart. It stayed in the top 40 for a week.  Escala's version is composed by

                                                            "Demons"- 1st Musical Analysis Blog  Everyone has different tastes in music. Certain tones or the way a song brings back certain memories. For me, I like songs that resonate deep inside. Such songs that well long after it's ended, still vibrates in my soul. So for this assignment, I decided to write about "Demons" by Imagine Dragons. The song was written by Alex da Kid, Ben Mckee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Wayne Sermon, Josh Mosser, and produced by Alex da Kid. It was released in January 28, 2013. Although quite short, at only 2:57, it was by no means cast aside easily. Logging 61 weeks on the Hot 100, "Imagine Dragons became the first act to have two songs that spend at least 60 weeks on the chart. (Radioactive spent a record-breaking 87 weeks on the Hot 100 (Songfacts. ) In the music video, we see various characters with personal hardships. "The meaning imposed is that most don't see beyond t