Brass band

The Xavier Blue Night Jazz Band has come to Mexico City For twenty years they’ve played so grand every tune has been a ditty. Senor Salvador’s land of birth shines beneath the mid-day sun He gives the students all they’re worth in knowledge and education. The Gran Hotel is where we stay located on the plaza The second largest so they say, only Red Square has more terrazzo. Viernes: First morning the bus rolls at ten, the Trauma Hospital we play Veronica hosts us and then a quick lunch is on its…

It began with the exchange of the woodwind instruments to the brass instruments playing the same rhyme. Then it advanced as the melody piled together with moods of various eagerness until it reached the ending of pure elation. This could be attributed to the sudden dynamic changes, as there were many occurrences of subitos. It was obvious with the entrances of the percussion and the brass instruments. In addition, the ending put me on the edge of the seat with the tempo changes…

class is band class. So she then goes to her class and is asked what instrument she wants to play upon arrival. She wants to play something that looks cool and that has cool pieces in music; therefore, she looks at the drums, clarinets, flutes, and trumpets. As she believes that these instruments are the most important and coolest looking, because she has seen and heard them before in concerts. Even so, is she right? Well no. The bass clarinet is the most important instrument in a band due to…

This is the last set, this is the last set. I stand in the blistering sun with the rest of the marching band on the last day of band camp. Everyone is hot and sweaty as a beaming ray of sun hits our skin. We all have shorts, a tank top, a hat, and a pinning on. I stare at everybody and see them slouched over and eyes drooping like a beagles ears. My sneaker softly touch the concrete ground of the parking lot football field. I snap into focus when I hear a shout at the top of a metal structure.…

This style of phrasing imitates the marching style of the Turkish Janissary bands. Also, Janissary music is most commonly in duple time, which Rondo Alla Turca fulfills, as it is in 2/4. The time signature of 2/4 also…

violas while harmonizing with the cellos. As time evolved, around 1890, the African American communities in early New Orleans began jazz ensembles that played a mixture of marches, ragtimes or dixieland songs. These ensembles were primarily marching bands with sousaphone bass saxophones that would supply the bass line. As this genre…

was supposed to be made through these inanimate, unfamiliar parts. But what I didn’t realize is that I am staring at my destiny: I am about to become an oboe player. My journey to play the oboe was definitely unconventional. Unlike the other kids in band, I learned my instrument the summer before freshman year; they had been playing since sixth grade. Although, I wasn’t a complete stranger to the music world–I played the violin throughout middle school and absolutely loved it. But with the…

Music today is all because of changes then. The musicians today were influenced by those before them. Joe King Oliver influenced Louis Armstrong by training him and because of Oliver moving to Chicago, Armstrong got his start in Kid Ory’s band. Jelly Roll Morton, Joe King Oliver, Sidney Bichet, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington all changed things for musicians today. Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans and started playing piano at the age of 10. In 1904 he began traveling, playing the…

Louis Armstrong used jazz to change the music world and left a lasting effect on the entertainment industry. Armstrong was born in New Orleans to fifteen year old Mary Ann and twenty year old Willie. His whole life, Armstrong identified his birthday as July 4, 1900. It is now know his actual birth date was August 4, 1901. Armstrong’s young parents were not ready for a child so Josephine, Willie’s mother, raised him until he was five. Over those five years, Armstrong did not see much of his…

From my perspective, Chester by William Billings is genuinely a combination of tenor, melodic concordance and clashing dissonances with quite harmonious consonances which consist of fluent It is also made up of changeable levels of syncopation. Of all the things in this song that I found that is attractive to me first, I will strongly state that its complexity of rhythm that is sensitively mess but actually in harmony in different aspects. What’s more, complicated melodies in a wide range also…