It was the time when the term "salsa" was coined and Celia Cruz earned the respect of its players and…
Requiem became increasingly popular throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. This was helped in part by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although Kubrick and MGM didn’t compensate Ligeti for his music, the film would bring significant public attention to Ligeti’s work. Eventually, Requiem would be played on British airwaves, including John Peel’s eclectic radio program, and future films.…
Certain music genres have been associated with particular ethnic groups. This is the case of Jazz and African-Americans as well as Tejano and Mexica- Americans. In the article Tejanos and the Making of the Texas Jazz Festival, 1959-2013, Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. describes how minority ethnic groups influence one each other and how such influence is seen through music, especially jazz and Tejano music. During the historical study, San Miguel Jr. attempts to analyze the tendency Mexican Americans have had about adapting different music genres to their Mexican origins.…
The event that I decided to go was BYU Baroque Ensemble, a production made by BYU students, taking place at Madsen Recital Hall Harris Fine Arts Center on November 3. The idea of making a baroque orchestra is where musician get together to make a perfect composition of music, the baroque orchestra is made up mostly of stringed instruments, when you listen you feel something different that makes you see it from another perspective, you just can’t stop listening and focus on every note that the musicians are playing. The type of instruments that were utilized in conjunction were the basso continuo, played by a viol, cello or bassoon. Other parts were added between the melody and the bass by a keyboard instrument, usually a harpsichord or organ and the development of tonal harmony, in which the melodic voices movement remains under the functional chord progression.…
The world underwent many changes between 200 C. E. and 1000 C. E. In the region of the Americas, Teotihuacan fell in 750, while the Anasazi culture flourished and grew from 700 onwards. The Tiwanaku and Wari controlled the Peruvian Highlands in the Andes between 600 and 1000. Between 800 and 900, the Mayan centers were abandoned in the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Mississippian cultures began to develop in the 900’s in North America. The Toltec founded their capital of Tula in 968.…
The Conquest in 1492 brought a number of changes to Latin America. In particular, art in New Spain was largely influenced by its European counterparts. As a result, a number of artists were trained in European painting styles. Miguel Cabrera had this upbringing in the art world. In this paper, I am going to examine the composition of his painting Don Manuel Jose Rubio y Salinas, Archbishop of Mexico (Fig. 1), along with providing information about the subject.…
The songs and music are mariachi bands originally used often towards women with romantic themes. Later, with the change of society, mariachi began with the songs of revolutionary heroes or contemporary…
Mariachi music was always present in my life. Since I can remember, my family would always support my uncle’s performances since he was in a Mariachi group. My father would cry listening to Vicente Fernandez sing “Por Tu Maldito Amor.” My husband sent me serenata as an anniversary gift. In the beginning, I hated Mariachi music.…
Many of these movements not only affected Chicano/as people but also affected the music. As historical forms, songs of the Chicano movement have assisted and will continue to assist as a historical lens through which familiar and non-familiar audiences can understand the revolutionary demands of Chicano community during the 1960s and the 1970s (Ramirez, 385). Many song lyrics disclose of topics of resistance and the journey for political justice. Chicano rock and roll musicians worked to stay away from single category genre by including rock, popular, folk, and ethnic music. While Chicanos were including different sounds of music together, the issue with identity was still present.…
The Hispanic culture influence on music, art, and dance varies on location, people, and time. “Music and dance are very important elements for special occasions and everyday life” (Hede, 2013). Different celebratory events such as birthdays, weddings, graduations, and parties involve music, dance, and food. “During these gatherings music and dancing is the centerpiece of the culture’s identity” (Martinez, 2015). Holidays can last many hours to days.…
The Baroque era style of music was between 1600-1750 and applied to art and architecture before music. The baroque era consisted of humanism which included universities and the invention of geometry and the laws of physics, renaissance trends, arts and economics, and values of art and music. The general music styles I learned about the Baroque era style of music include emotional expressiveness, a sense of drama and dramatic contrast, and increasing ornamentation and virtuosity. During the 17th century, Baroque era music goes from polyphony to transforming into homophony which is one main melody supported by accompaniment basso continuo. Vertical harmonies, new instruments like the harpsichord, and rhythm, because more and more important and composers start to only have to write bass note and key.…
For centuries, song and dance have been a vital part in creating and expressing a community’s sense of identity. Through each, members are able to pass on traditions, make political statements, and express themselves. The tango and salsa styles of music and dance are prime examples of mobilities in Latin American music that help foster a sense of identity among the smaller communities, although each required international attention before earning recognition from its home country. Each style of music is a special hybrid of all kinds of influences, demonstrating a deep history that can also give some insight to the social outlook of the times. Despite the time gap between the emergence of the two styles (tango first appearing in the early 19th century while salsa came into the scene around the 1970s), both styles have contributed a significant impact in establishing a sense of identity among Latin American music.…
As In many Bach pieces the crowning point in the figuration is a complete scale shortly before the final cadence of each half. The character of the courante is defined by the figure corte in the opening theme. One does not expect to find such writing in a courante, and although in principal following the French version of the dance, the movement uses few of the traditional melodic or rhythmic formulas. The bass in m.3 is clearly a 6/4 and when a new motivic idea is introduced by the treble in m.9, it is imitated by alto and tenor at intervals of five quarter notes.…
Mofe Adeosun When It Changed – Joana Russ “When it changed,’’ is a story about a society of women living on the planet Whileaway, different from planet Earth. A plague wiped out half of the population, including all of the men. Fortunately, for the society, the population that survived was a group of the most intelligent women, who through a scientific breakthrough were able to have children. They are optimistic about their future and aim to thrive at their own pace. Their society is one in which women of all strengths, talents and abilities have come to live peacefully and at ease with one another, without being looked down on as subordinate to another person.…
Rubén Darío was a revolutionary for south America, his inspiration was greatly influenced by both french as Spanish cultures. Darío described Modernismo as “new generation of American writers [with] an immense thirst for progress and a lively enthusiasm”. He creates musical poetic illusion through the repetition of sounds in his work. In his poem ‘A Roosevelt’ written in 1904 and extracted from his set of work ‘Cantos de Vida y Esperanza’, Darío repeats certain sounds in order to create a musical effect ‘ moderno,sencillo y complicado’. He uses allusion by comparing Roosevelt to a hunter “cazador”, setting a clear image of modern vs primitive, this image is further portrayed by the divide Darío sets between latin America and North America ‘Eres los Estados Unidos’.…