Baritone saxophone

1. The first piece of music I listened to for this assignment was Lohengrin, prelude to Act III composed by Wagner. The song was written for a scene for a wedding between a hero and heroine. The instruments in this song include a full orchestra and it is an orchestral piece. In my opinion, the song had a variety of feelings and sounds. For example, there is one part where it is mainly or entirely woodwinds. During this section, the music sounds very peaceful and light. After a while this…

ensembles that are mixed up with young and old, male and female. The University Jazz Ensemble II is directed by Jerry Tolson. The assistant conductors are Arabo Bey and Jake Daniels. On the saxophones there were Adam McIntyre on alto, Davis Hale on Alto, Jake Daniels on tenor, Nolan Aud on tenor, and Jeff Endly on baritone. Playing trombone was Arabo Bey, Billy Engelman,…

CONCERT ATTENDANCE REPORT My taste of music varies from rock to pop, but mostly I gravitate towards rap music. So have a strong taste in rap I have attended a few shows and also seen many live instrument performances as well. Not until I took this class have I considered attending a jazz concert. When I looked on the pages given to us on events nearby, there wasn’t any that seem to catch my attention. Until I heard that CGCC was holding a small jazz comb. I thought I’d give a shot and plus it…

name suggests, predominantly of wind instruments. Woodwinds like flutes, piccolos, oboes, clarinets, bass-clarinets, bassoons and contrabassoons as well as brass instruments like trumpets, french horns, trombones, euphoniums or baritones and tubas are joined by saxophones, percussion…

director, this allows them to get a good idea on how to run their own program. It also gives them more experience with the instrument. Part of a music education degree is learning each instrument. This includes trumpet, flute, clarinet, saxophone, tuba, baritone, percussion, and other sub instruments. Learning each instrument is important because it allows directors to understand what it is like to play that instrument. It helps them understand what it should sound like, how to fix it, and will…

create this top-charting recording. Firstly, Ray Charles recording of I Got a Women music aspects allows different sound for various genres come into play and this allows the music to have the blues/soul structure. In the recording, there are saxophones…

I started playing Saxophone in 4th grade. To this day I still don’t know completely why wanted to start playing that particular instrument. But when you think about it, a lot of promising things come from meager beginnings. I started playing Alto Sax. When I started playing, well lets just say that just getting an individual note out was difficult. During 4th grade I lived in Hagerstown, Maryland. It was small town but I lived near family. During the first few years of my playing I didn’t play…

By the 1940s, most of the jazz music scene was Swing Jazz, it was classically structured harmonies, commercialized big bands and it had limited room for improvisation; most of the bands at the time were limited in uniqueness. Such a borderline bland music scene proved fertile ground for Bebop, but what started as a musical form unknown, or at least not meant to be known, by the public, played in afterhours of nightclubs, was revolutionized by the alto-sax player, Charlie Parker. Despite his…

Dale Davis on the bass, Zalon Thompson & Ade Omatayo as backup vocals. Robin Banerjee on the guitars, Nathan Alan playing the drums and Xantone Blacq on the keyboards. Also, Henry Collins on trumpet, James Hunt played alto saxophone and flute and Frank Walden on the baritone saxophone. Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983,…

the Flutes were Piccolos, which are small flutes pitched an octave above a regular flute. Clarinets, straight cylindrical tube with a flaring bell and a single-reed mouthpiece, were also played using finger holes and keys. Alto, tenor, and baritone Saxophones were visible with their single-reed mouthpiece and a usually curved conical metal tube. Trumpets which are soprano brass instruments that are equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch were heard. There were also the brass…