Clarinet

experimenting with different instruments not available to them in the past, they created a unique sound that was a potpourri of their indigenous West African beats, blues and improvisational melodies. They formed jazz bands typically consisting of a “cornet, clarinet, trombone, tuba or bass, piano, banjo, and drums” (Britannica). One of the first jazz bands that arose from the New Orleans’ jazz scene was the Original Dixieland Jass Band. They were the first band to ever release a jazz record,…

It 's a familiar story, kid wants to learn to play the guitar and parents say no they don 't have the money for lessons. At least that 's the way it was for me when I was growing up. Hi, my name is Ken. I am the youngest of four and when my oldest sister wanted to play the guitar my parents bought her an electric guitar and amp. Well that lasted about two weeks, at that time I was too young to know much about playing music much less playing the guitar. I do remember the noise though. That…

The Controversy of Women Percussionists and their Exclusion from Batá Drumming Batá drumming is a religious ceremony over five centuries old of Yoruba origin. The purpose of the ceremony is to call upon Orishas, or deities using the drums. There are three drums that participate in the communication with the orishas during the ceremony. These three drums are Iya (mother), dedicated to the Orisha Yemaya, Itotele (father) dedicated to Oshun, and Okonkolo (baby) dedicated to the orisha Chango. Iya…

in the strings are moving rapidly in an ascending pattern that creates the sense of turmoil. The use of the dynamic piano is compellingly used because it creates anticipation in the listener. Later the tension is resolved when the melody shifts to clarinet and everything else dies away and the melody sounds sweet and hopeful. The melody builds from there and ends with a very strong cadence. From there a very dissonant, dramatic melody starts up that paints the picture of being caught outside in…

The Big Bad Monster The beast was vicious. He came out of the shadows to reveal his hideous face, He had large red eyes and demonic horns on his head . He snout looked like the one of a giant bull . His entire face was covered in thick black scales when he opened his mouth it revealed several rows of large pincer of teeth. His body was bulbous and his horns sticking out randomly from his scaly skin. His devilish eyes pierced through my soul from the crack in my closet door. I would often put…

Ever since jazz was born in 1895. Everybody started to have their own taste what jazz is the person that listens to it. Now jazz has evolved into a culture where we can play jazz the way we like it. The real timeline of jazz style development has evolved so much its spanned or stretched for 3 centuries. When it comes to different styles of jazz, people might tend to think which style they would enjoy the most between these categories of jazz. For example, ragtime, classical, hot jazz, Chicago…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a great and famous Austrian musical prodigy of the seventeenth century who wrote a wide range of symphonies, operas, concertos, and sonatas, and has left behind a legacy for people to embrace. Proposed into a life of music, the virtuoso was born on January twenty-seventh, 1756 in the city of Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a violinist that served as an inspiration for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his musically inclined older sister, Maria Anna…

I even learned a new language, the language of music. My parents didn’t enjoy this new language as much as I did at first, not until I had been playing clarinet for three years. They liked going to my concerts at my school I motivated my brother to learn to play drums and touch up on the piano. I enjoyed my science classes the most (after music). This was where I learned how much I adore chemistry, how easy…

In the musical “Where’s Charley”, the main character, Charley, dresses as his aunt, Don Lucia Dalvidorese, to chaperone his and his roommates dates. The show was set in the late 19th century and for the two young women to stay with two young men they had to have a chaperone. Charley’s aunt was supposed to arrive the morning of the lunch date, however she was not there. By using the costume from his school performance, Charley dressed as a woman and pretended to be his aunt, after Jack gave…

“Where words fail, music speaks.”-Hans Christian Andersen (Phillip). Jazz was not born on a specific day. It formed over years of slavery, pain, and discrimination. Jazz music led to the exploration of the pain and troubles of slaves and African- Americans went through during the course of many years. Slave music is the basis of jazz music. In 1619, the first slaves arrived in America (Shmoop). Slaves could not speak poorly of their masters, so they used songs to speak in code (History). Often…