Author: rtompos

Oratorio is a large-scale musical composition on a sacred or semisacred subject for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. It is usually based on scripture. Opera is defined as a dramatic work in one or more acts, that is set to music for singers and instrumentalists. A musical is a play or movie that has singing… Continue reading Differences between oratorio, opera, musical, and libretto

The cool thing about making music on apps is that you can visually see how rhythm works. The app, drumbit, has rows for every individual sound a drumset can make and columns that determine the rhythm of the set. As you choose which box to make the beat in, the music is created from left… Continue reading Making Music with Apps

When we create, we don’t actually have to invent anything, because we use things that already exist and create something unique with them. We take things that are already there, like language, notes, and tangible things, and we group them together to come up with something new. It is like our activity to take a… Continue reading What it means to create

The concept of if the Bible has a single meaning was intriguing to me, because I think that the Bible’s meaning is relative to the reader, and also its correlation to music has a relationship with each reader, but the relationship is always unique to the one who is experiencing it. We talked about how… Continue reading Does the Bible have a single meaning?

It was interesting to learn that chants are very common forms of religious practice in religions like Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. Although chanting sounds more primal than music, is actually very similar, has melodies, notes, and has been used for ages.

In the first class, we learned about how music correlates with The Bible and how humans have used music for all of time to communicate, express emotions, and tell meaningful stories. It was interesting to learn that the very first instrument was actually the voice, then came the lyre, and the flute was not very… Continue reading The Bible and Music