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A setting where music is performed in Houston is downtown at the Discovery Green. Here live music performances are done outside in the open for people to see. Some of the music that is performed is by urban music. This type of music has different instruments like the bass, piano, trumpet, drums, among other instruments and the vocal singer. With the singer there also might be backup singers. The stage at which they perform, is outside where the people can sit anywhere they want. The people can…

“When words fail, music speaks.” ~ Anonymous Music, known as the world’s “universal language,” is something that is used in many different forms to convey various forms of emotion. For example, music can convey emotions through the usage of the film industry with the composition of film scores. Furthermore, orchestral music serves as a form of music in which emotions can be conveyed as well. Though rarely seen, music can also convey emotion to those who sneak illegal drinks, such as men and…

because people love to hear piano, or music in general, at my church. I played this piece at the candlelight service as the postlude. I learned that if I just play with my heart and not worry about anything, I play much better and with so much more emotion evoked into my pieces. I, one day, could become famous for my talent. I choose to play piano for my church. I did this because I’m really talented in piano. My Christian background and piano background led me to choose ‘What Child Is…

Twenties”, the Jazz Age was named for the prevalence of jazz music rather than the wealth of the time. The Jazz Age was an age of prosperity, prohibition, dancing, parties, and robust, lively music. The music that was born during this era was entertaining, refreshing, and it reflected the feelings of the decade as a whole. The Great Gatsby is a novel of unexpected events, animated tempo, and improvisation; all things that are valued in jazz music. However, this novel critiques the values of the…

Music has always been world music, it’s not just old concert pieces from dead men of the past. Here we like to think of world music as music from outside the United States, but in other countries we become the other people, we become the world music to them or at least part of it. My dad when I was growing up listened to a lot of jazz. He grew up in south Louisiana, moved to north Louisiana and then finally moved to Texas, so he grew up in a culture of jazz. We always had some kind of it playing…

Taking an online music lesson was the most feasible in my situation because of time constraint and also how expensive music lessons can be in Palm Beach County. PianoOnlineBlog was the source of the piano lesson. The instructor who was a female started the lesson by explaining the key objectives that were meant to teach the student a greater understanding of playing the piano. The objectives were as follow: • Sitting at the piano • Distinguishing high notes from low notes. • Combination of…

gaining experience and insight on music, I was offered the incredible opportunity to prepare a group of students for a district wide music festival in Brooklyn, New York. At first, I was incredibly nervous at the thought of mentoring students of a completely different background as me; they grew up in inner city Brooklyn, and I grew up in the suburbs of Piscataway. I didn’t know if I would able to reach the students to truly connect with them, and teach them to love music like myself. However, I…

Since I barely have the music sense, listening and writing about jazz music was my biggest headache from the beginning of class. It is hard to use words to describe wordless music that is being heard. Yet I still learned the origin and the evolution of jazz music, its African American background and the different style it changes into. The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz…

Charles R. Ciorba and Brian E. Russell are Professors of Music at University of Oklahoma and University of Miami, respectively. Ciorba and Russell discuss the acquisition of jazz theory and the types of students that are most likely able to acquire that knowledge and apply it to jazz improvisation. Ciorba and Russell begin by pointing out the problems of traditionally acquiring knowledge in jazz theory, which was almost entirely trial and error (sec 1.2). They then discuss the importance of…

The music class called Art of Active Listening caught me by surprise. During the beginning weeks of the first semester, I was nervous about where this course will take me. I entered college with no background knowledge of music but was excited to take on a new challenge. This course never involved music notation or theory which was very beneficial for me. This course did provide skills and techniques that I can use throughout my everyday life. Some critical points we covered during the semester…