The Language of Performing Arts

On being accustomed the task of creating and fulfilling a mental strain based on the stimulus provided, it seemed doable and was approached by my separate and I with enthusiasm and determination. We achieved roughly what to rectify pop out too. With some effort and contribution, every(prenominal) member of the host provided a vital input into the making of our final piece. Although in on the whole convention members could have put in much effort to provide a more tidy finish to the performance, I believe the striving written was of a good quality.When given the stimulus our group came up with several ideas based on Of Mice and Men for lyrics, although only those who knew the play were enliven by this particular stimulus. The other 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 used Life as a topic for the melodic line, the lyrics were consequently written a round this.As far as music is concerned the group inflexible that the lyrics could not be written out until chords and melody were fitted into place. As I was the most experienced with music in the group it was my job to incur chords that created a sad yet effective pattern for a deep and meaningful call option. After monkey 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 transport over. Then every eighth bar a G fitted well. The rhythm was straight and of a moderate tempo, we decided working(a) with a straight 44 rhythm would be easiest and besides that would fit our melodic line off ratiocination too.We good 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 pretty sound, this was achieved by holding the first note of the first ch ord of each verse and then utilise notes which fitted into 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 grant piano and guitar parts. We felt we treasured to include 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 before 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 decided that the provide guitar should be dominant and of a more clear sound so in order to do this the rhythm guitar used palm muted power chords while the lead clearly picked the notes from the chords. This did not only prove more practical but also have a more calm and tranquil effect as intended due to the songs nature.We then decided we wanted to try and make the hearing fall in love with our song, this was ambitious but in order 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 chorus proved 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 unquestionably 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 see to it 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 another 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 speed 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 planned 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 plan 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. Little feedback was given but the audience responded all the same as the general 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 done to create a deeper scent 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.