The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies.
Ash: Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures.
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©
A house is just a house for its structure and matter but when you add to this a warm caring family the house transforms into a home.
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
