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Listening to this piece brings back many memories from a high school All state year that Dr. John Lynch was conducting the band. I remember seeing and hearing this piece for the first time, loving every moment of rehearsal and simply relishing in the moment. Throughout there is such beauty and richness reminding me of Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed. The opening idea is beautifully orchestrated and the bells chiming allows for my imagination to wander to depict a scene of a town amidst…

Sing a Song of Significance: Keyword Definition Argument Everybody loves music. Everybody loves the performance arts. Combining those two facts create an extremely popular genre of entertainment known as the musical. However, combining those two aspects might be more challenging than one might initially suspect, as the idea of a musical is surprisingly difficult to categorize, and the reasons for their existence must be analyzed in order to properly identify their role in modern entertainment.…

Johann Christoph Denner created the clarinet soon after 1698 (Barrett, G. 1999) (Adullah, M et al. 2015). The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a single reed. A clarinet has many different keys, and each of them helps produce a different note. “The keys were of brass, sometimes of silver and the springs were of brass.” (Barrett, G. 1999). It is an instrument that is somewhat quiet compared to others, but it can be played loudly if the player desires. “While almost every other woodwind…

Cool jazz is type of style of music that brought up from the United States after World War II. Cool jazz became popular during 1949-1959 and was considered the forefront of its time. What made Cool Jazz so diverse in its nature was its soft tempos and light tone. Cool Jazz was known for its large venue of players in a band, its mixed instruments and smooth rhythm. Jazz musicians at the time where moving away from the complexity of improvised solos and into a more arrangement and compression.…

How many people move to Hollywood and actually become famous from singing, this is a song with a character named Eddie and the song was made by Tom Petty. After arriving in Hollywood California at the age of 18. He got a tattoo and he met a girl who taught him guitar, and so the sky was the limit for him.”Into the Great Wide Open”, a story by Tom Petty, explains the life of a rockstar, using a changing tone, in a believable way. “Into the Great Wide Open” tells the rise and fall of Eddie, a…

In this article, “Changing Values in Cuban Rumba, A Lower Class Black Dance Appropriated by the Cuban Revolution,” by Yvonne Payne Daniel, quotes “To say, ‘We're all the same’ or ‘There is no racism in Cuba,’ is to mask difference and potentially to permit prejudice and discrimination to fester. Rumba illuminates the problems of the state in its attempt to link respect and prestige among all Cubans. Rumba performance, visually affirms the persistent reality of its origins in the nineteenth…

bit of former African American and European American music. The history of Jazz spans over a period of a hundred years, including a very wide range of music, making it very difficult to define. Jazz makes good use of improvisation, and the swing note, as well as many aspects of harmony, American popular music, the brass band, and African musical elements such as blue notes and ragtime. Although the origins and basis of jazz originally came from within the black neighborhoods of the United…

Over the rainbow is an important song to America. This is an important song to America because it has deep roots to Americas history. There are many updated versions of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. One of the most famous versions is the one with the ukulele by Israel K. Somewhere Over The Rainbow is a ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. It was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. The song…

They’ll call it a mystery, but we’re gonna call it Victory. We’ll be writing history, it’s gon be victory. This stanza, from the featured track ‘I See A Victory’ in the movie Hidden Figures, gives a basic overview of the theme. Hidden Figures a non-fiction novel by Margot Lee Shetterly, follows the stories of three black women who aided the U.S in the victory of the space race. It follows the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine G. Johnson, and Mary Jackson, who each contributed in their own…

Adele is the best singer of the current generation with extraordinary vocal facility and capability to pass on the enthusiastic of the music to her audience. She is a motivation to individuals from all kinds of different backgrounds and her intense vocal range helps to build her reputation. Her profound sound has made her a global accomplishment with hits like "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like you" and "Hello. There are a wide range of elements which forming Adele reputation as diva:…