Aleatoric music

history and origin of Jazz. In the New York Tribune, ‘The Mysterious Jazz’ article by Greenville Vernon written in 1919 talks about Lieutenant James Reese Europe who discovers Jazz music. The subtitle in the paper reads, “Lieutenant Europe’s Describes the Origin of the Term - His Adventures in France - Negro Music Pleases the French People - The Personnel…

Josseline Portillo Professor Ishigaki Music 9 23 October 2017 Article Analysis- Totally Tuned In The music article Totally Tuned In by Michael J. Romick from the Virginia Journal of Education talks about how the use of music to teach English can be extremely beneficial to students by bettering and understanding the material. Romick uses instances from his own experiences, knowledge, and extensive career in teaching to talk about the great benefits that music has in the learning and retention…

I. Narrative Peyton and Maxey were observed during a school band trip to an indoor amusement park. As they entered the location Peyton rushed through the door letting the door close on Maxey. As he came in the door he said, "you could have held the door Peyton". Peyton looked at Maxey, and said, "oops, my bad". They stared at each other for a few seconds and then just stood and waited. As they stood and waited for their mother to pay for their entrance to the amusement park they noticed the…

Music has been an essential part and larger than expected role in my life since elementary school. It has given me many opportunities I could have never even dreamt of and has given me the ability to impact the lives of others. Music became a part of my life when I first started playing the viola at Luther Memorial School in the fifth grade. I continued playing throughout middle school and now attend Cleveland School of the Arts, where I have been able to perform countless times and have had…

Researchers have found that music can have extremely positive effects on academic achievement in core subjects; reading, language, math, etc. In 2008 a series of essays were published; the author of these essays agreed that music is a “cross-cultural universal” (Perlovsky). Studies have found the development of creativity enhances the development of cognitive abilities and vice versa (Gouzouasis). Some sources assert that music has significant effects on the academic achievement of students of…

stage and the music, which was not immediately communicating with me. However, the longer I sat there, the uneasiness of being in a tense environment goes away and I was able to get a better picture of the music. The music can mean a lot things or remind people of different things but, what the music reminded me of what it feels like to be a human being. I was having an extremely stressful and depressing week and for the longest time, I could not feel anything but sadness but the music reminded…

Picture this a classroom where students need to draw or paint on the back of used paper, where students had to melt used crayons to make new ones. Where teachers have to use their personal bank account to get art supplies. Though school districts cut the arts for financial stability, these school boards should better support art educators to find outside income and create school-sponsored fundraisers. The 21st century in America for art education came to resolving long conflicts with introducing…

I believe our emotions act as the means of translating music and every human on this planet feels the same emotions, based on Robert Plutchik’s theory there are eight basic emotions. Emotions act as receptors of the music language, for example; Music emotion is embedded in chords; when you hear a major chord one would associate it with happiness contrary to listening to a minor cord which gives a negative…

how the music curriculum in Germany is created and utilized in a classroom setting so I can apply those strategies into my future classroom. What I plan to do with this grant is to travel throughout Germany and visit elementary schools, high school classrooms and a community music school to learn how or if they incorporate music into their education. During my research, I want to discover how music education has changed over time. Another plan is to learn if there are specific genres of music or…

Question 1: Improvisation Improvisation in music is making up the music as one plays, or freely. Improvisation does not follow sheet music like typical jazz does. However, the term improvisation is not just linked to music. Movies and television shows also have a technique with the same concept which is improve but with acting. Both of these mean the same thing, which is the artist/actor has the determining factor of what they will play or say. One genre that uses improvisation as a major…