Christian music

Jesua Calderon John Phillip Sousa was not just a musician he was a great one. He thought all about the kinds of bands he wanted to do and were popular during that time. He also turned into a band conductor. One more thing that happened was that he became a well known musician. Never underestimate your dreams no matter what the cost. Sousa decided to look over the type of bands he wanted to do. Once he decided that, he named his band the “Sousa Band”. He also made it sound like a…

Music has been around for as long as we known humans have been around. Music Education became a part of the American culture in the early 18th century. During this time most schools only taught singing, piano, and theory. With the creation of the Academy of Music in Boston many of the tune books, textbooks, and study text that we still use today. Some of the famous music educators and authors of theses books would include Samuel Holyoke, Francis Hopkinson, William Billings, and Oliver Holden. As…

second soloist’s timbre that is dark. As the second soloist enters the music changes, the key shifting from major to minor. The second soloist sings in a lower register and saddened tones. Todd’s warning “You will learn,” is followed by two rising notes of hope, only to fall back down again with two notes of sorrow. A woman enters, her melody is chromatically inflected, and follows a downward spiral. After she is given money the music changes, thick tones of brass enter, the tempo of her lyrics…

for maritime and terrestrial trade in that century, with people would be moving in and out of that city and exchanging information, they were aware of the latest progress or technology being made in the world and more importantly about the latest music being published in Europe. As suporting evidence, among the three cities in the New World to have an opera house, (New York , Havana, New Orleans) New Orleans had the first one built on American soil in…

trumpet is part of the brass family and consists of valves, mouthpiece, lead pipe, tuning slide, and bell. Playing the trumpet requires a technique called “fingering”, which is a term for the fingers you need and valves to press down on, to acquire a music note. Sound is created when one perks their…

high school and college career, I had a specific group with me along the way: musicians. In high school, I was in the marching band and the concert band. In college, I was in the orchestra and the pep band. Band for me wasn’t about playing the music. Music, to me, is just a hobby. What these group of musicians gave me was a sense of family. We would spend hours upon hours together with a common goal. In high school, that goal was to cheer on the football team or entertain a crowd. In…

Goossens. The style of music is Nationalistic music. The melody played by the trumpet and other brass instrument played harmony. The rhythm was sharply detached and it has a steady, slow beat, but at the middle it speeds up and shifts into a smooth. At first the melody is low with all of the brass instruments mixed together, but later when more instruments get blended it gets both louder and the melody gets higher. The meter was really hard to measure in this kind of music. The dynamics were…

The phrase “band is life” is thrown around between each member of the band. To an outsider, the phrase might be a little strange and not knowing the context of it might be off putting. The phrase to each member roughly means this is what I really enjoy being apart of and I'm proud of what I'm building. Another phrase used by the band at Center Hill is “What does it take to make a marching band great?” and the response of the entire band yells back “Pride!” and they repeat what two times and…

the mood between vocals. Another one of my favorite songs is Downeaster “Alexa”. The topic of Long Island fishermen was a very interesting one. I like the folk feel the song has. I like the way verses move from high to low in pitch. The background music…

master of ceremonies to finish speaking, I surveyed the hall and found my grandparents greeting guests with infectious excitement. I thought how grateful I was to receive an opportunity to play Carnatic violin in a concert hall in India. Carnatic music is a devotional art form that originates from South India. I grew excited and impatient, not nervous, because I knew how hard I worked to get there: practicing for hours, convincing my brother to keep taalam (the beat), listening to recordings,…