Blood Music

“Classical music isn 't so far apart from pop music”. From last class we made a comparison that Jay-z between Haydn and who I believe that is similar to Franz Joseph Haydn is Drake. Drake comes from a musical family, but Drake grew up with music in his blood. For example His father, Dennis Graham was a drummer for legendary rock star Jerry Lee Lewis. One thing that they both don’t have in common is that Drake before he was a rapper, came to fame by playing wheelchair-bound Jimmy Brooks in seven…

Lead by jazz director Marko Marcinko, with Jazz being one of my favorite forms of music, it was an honor to listen to Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble. Unfortunately, since I didn’t get the chance to listen to it live, I made sure to wear my beats headphones so I can hear every last instrument clearly. Instantaneously when the band started to play, I felt like I was in a 1920’s New Orleans club. The harmony was very upbeat and dance like, I began to tap my foot to the three beat tempo. The band…

1. Music is a profound art form that is often employed as a survival mechanism for Black people, especially those who experienced the Maafa (West Africa Enslavement Holocaust) that needed to lighten their heavy load, ease the physical and psychological pain of fieldwork, backbreaking work, and outright brutal suffering. Later on in history the descendants of Africa in the global Diaspora (also, on the continent of Africa) listened to music passionately during social gatherings; they dance and…

John Philip Sousa is one of the most famous music composers. Born in Washington D.C in the mid-1800s, this music inventor is very well known by marchers. Mr. Sousa has composed 136 military marches. Not only was he a terrific song writer, but he also invented the widely used sousaphone The son of two immigrants, John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. on November 6, 1854. John was thee third of ten children and his parents’ names were Antonio Sousa and Maria Elizabeth. He began his musical…

Music: The Benefits and Effects it has on our Emotions According to the dictionary, music is defined as “an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.” An art form of sound that no person can physically see, touch, or taste, though this art form affects the listener in the deepest ways. Human emotions are affected by all of our senses, though sound allows us to communicate and understand different parts of the world. From the moment we enter this world, our ears are…

Sunday, June 21st, I went to see the Dallas Symphony Orchestra perform “The Music of John Williams and Hollywood’s Great Composers” at Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco. The concert was held in the church’s worship room at 6:30pm. This was a great place for the DSO to perform because the audience and the orchestra were very close and, in a way, felt more personal. The show included fourteen pieces: “Overture to Captain Blood by Korngold, ‘Tara’ – A Short Poem for Orchestra from Gone with the…

band was introduced to me by an English teacher from highschool whom I had the biggest crush on. I connect with this song because it reminds me of the relationship I had with this teacher. He stole my heart at first sight, introduced me to beautiful music, and showed me a band that forever changed my life. In my junior year of highschool, my English teacher was going away for a week to get married. He told my class one of his really good friends is going to be substituting for…

high valence and low arousal. At the same time they have rated Nat bhairav raga as low valence and high arousal shown in figure 2 a . Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) was used to measure the participant’s mood associated with selected music listening. The positive affective scoring results revealed alteration in mood before and after listening to both ragas. While positive affective scores increased before and after listening Dharmavathi raga, this was not noted for Nat bhairav raga…

On October, 27, 2016, I watched the Folk-Rock band, Hurray for the Riff Raff perform music through an online broadcast at, www.npr.org/music. Hurray for the Riff Raff is an American folk-Rock and Americana band from New Orleans, Louisiana. The lead singer is Alynda Segarra. She grew up in the New York, Bronx where she developed an appreciation for doo-wop and Motown. She would attend hardcore punk shows at ABC No Rio regularly when she was younger. She left the Bronx when she was 17 years old…

This is important for developing meaningful bonds amongst people and societies Through music and movement, we become actively engaged and convey our feelings. It is a form of communication and puts us in touch with our thoughts and emotions. We are able to express sympathy, affection, love, and honesty. This contributes to the development of a culture by binding people together and building relationships. Music and movement can positively affect our mood, ease difficult tasks, reduce friction,…