Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Tension And Release In Music

"The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education (silence) that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen."
-ISKL's Mission Statment

I think the silence goes best after the part about ISKL "providing an exceptional eduacation," because it adds tension to the piece. Becuase it goes before the words that describe what an ISKL student should be like, it separated those words from the part about ISKL "providing an exceptional eduacation" to it's students.

Tension is stress, or confusion, in this case created by major differences in music. Adding tension to music makes the audience think more about the piece and the performance, and keeps the audience much more interested. Composers can create tension by creating surprising and shocking changes to their music. Artists can "dissobey" rules in regular music to create tension. Release is when all the questions created becuase of the tension are answered, usually at the end of the piece. Composers can create release by putting a ending that would be expected by the audience, so they are calmed after being so confused and surprised for so long. When Composers create tension and release in their work people are much more interest, and usually enjoy the preformance more.

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