Thursday, January 28, 2010

Power of the VOID

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

I put the VOID before 'citizen' because that whole paragraph wraps up into that one word, therefore, as the paragraph nears to the conclusion, the listeners will get excited to find out how the sentence will end, just like when you're finishing a book.

I put the tension there also because when it says 'global' before the VOID, since 'global' means the world, parents especially will get tense to know how their child/children are going to contribute in school globally.

The moment of silence here will get the listeners' attention because everyone will want to know how this esceptionally educated school will effect the students. Parents will want to know how their students will change and what good things the school will give to the students.

Finally, the VOID before 'citizen' will make the audience very curious and tense because there are 3 adjectives before the last word of the paragraph. This will feel like a crescendo to the climax since the adjectives create the word to be more interesting and when there is silence before the climax word, the audience would be questioning a lot about what is happening.

Composers create tension in music in many ways. Here are the three ways composers create tension adn strong VOID in their music.

One way is to have unexpected rests, rests especially before this huge climax and after a huge crescendo, just like Mozart did. This will surely make the audience wonder what happened to the climax.

The second way to create VOID is to take away many instruments to not play in a certain section, so that the audience will feel this empty space in the music and will want to fill the empty space of music.

The final way to create strong VOID and tension into the audience is to fade away at the end of the music. As one part stops after the other, when it gets to the conclusion of the music, the audience will be very surprised and wondering if there is another part of the music left...another part of the music for the huge fortissimo (climax).



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