Reflection On Being Canadian

Being Canadian, I am surrounded by Canadian artists more often. In our culture, that kind of music is what majority of our society listens too and enjoys. In the duration of the course, Jazz and the type of music I listen to are very different in terms of tempo, beat and the flow. In the music I listen to today, they have lyrics and we understand the meaning through the words that are being said then just the music playing in the background. In Jazz music, there is rarely any lyrics and the feeling is mainly understood by the instruments conducting the music. I have learnt that we can understand the feeling of music through just listening to the combination of different instruments. The combination of different instruments creates a soothing tempo and the soft flow creates the feel of relaxation. However, the music that I can relate more to is the music I listen to now a days. This is because, I listen to it so much more often and the topics that are sung about I can relate to, and it’s more modern in the sense that the songs are more upbeat and the have catchy tempos even when the song is somewhat sentimental.
Even though Jazz is not my favourite genre of music, this class has influenced me and …show more content…
In my opinion, New Orleans Jazz was more old school than Modal Jazz. New Orleans Jazz was created in the early 1900’s which means it was just the starting of jazz. The tone and rhythm was much different than Modal Jazz in the sense that, there was a more rag type rhythm in New Orleans Jazz than Modal Jazz. Modal Jazz to me, was more upbeat and although the instruments were the same between both the jazz genres they had a different way of playing it such as the pitch and the rhythm was different. The reason that jazz had intrigued me the most is because there is so much variation and so many instruments that are played together in a melodious way and it’s easy to listen