Cornet

Louis Armstrong was a lot of things while he was alive. He was a singer, a soloist, a film star, a comedian and also a fellow trumpeter (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). He wrote many hits during his time such as Starburst, La Vie En Rose and What A Wonderful World (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). Throughout not only his career, but also his life, he faced many struggles. Living in the early Nineteenth Century was already hard enough for a young black man but even harder for a young black…

articulated with tutti figures thru many different instruments. Immediately following that in measure twelve, we hear the inversion of that melody in the clarinets and alto saxophone. The inversion is then repeated in the upper woodwinds and in the cornet. The original fanfare, original theme, and the inversion of the theme are then all passed around the ensemble. It is not until measure forty-one until the second theme…

He was unhappy everyday, and did not speak to anyone. After he gets his cornet, he was so excited that he can speak effusively with Marian. Marcellus Washburn was the Mayor and the owner of pool table in town. He was against Hill, because he incites the parents to believe that the pool table will led the young boys to the world…

Coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald himself, the Jazz Age was the period that The Great Gatsby was set in. Synonymous to the name “The Roaring Twenties”, the Jazz Age was named for the prevalence of jazz music rather than the wealth of the time. The Jazz Age was an age of prosperity, prohibition, dancing, parties, and robust, lively music. The music that was born during this era was entertaining, refreshing, and it reflected the feelings of the decade as a whole. The Great Gatsby is a novel of…

Ian McEwan’s Atonement explores the highly enthralling themes of war and the subsequent horrors, corruption, and the power of language and story-telling, a theme prevalent internationally or otherwise in every piece of literature. McEwan utilises and vast plethora of techniques and literary conventions in order to allow a deeper insight into these predominant themes. McEwan uses techniques including imagery and pathos to powerfully illustrate his Realist view of war. Within part II and III,…

In the passage from chapter three of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author illustrates Gatsby’s parties to be extremely flashy. From the previous chapters, the rumors of his wealth were well spread throughout everyone’s ears, his lavish parties allow everyone to be overwhelmed by his luxurious and pretentious. Nick was one of the few people who was actually invited to Gatsby’s party. Although he heard many rumors about the party, but he was still amazed by the party when he first…

The Peer Mediation program was started sixteen years ago by John Cornet, a phoenix high school teacher.The program is designed to help students at our school who are involved in any type of disagreement to come to a peaceful resolution on their own accords. Some of the many topics that the club helps with includes gossip/rumors, depression, bullying/harassment and friendship/relationship issues. The program also helps in crisis intervention, which is when a time sensitive crisis affecting the…

Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong once said, “Music’s my language. One of those trips over the world, maybe the musicians can’t speak with you, but play ‘Struttin’ with Some Barbecue’ and they’ll know their parts and chime right in.” (UXL Biographies) What Louis Armstrong means is that no matter what language a person speaks, music is universal. For a young man who grew up with, at the very least, a spotty education—this fact is important for Louis Armstrong. What he may have lacked in formal…

music properly so they used to add some variations to the music they played. The famous cornet player Buddy Bolden was the first to be considered a Jazz musician, and formed his band in 1895, this is the date you could use to name it a symbolic date of birth of Jazz. There’s no documentation of Jazz during the next two decades, although it is known that Jazz progressed at a slow pace. Freddie Keppard succeeded cornets Bolden as the most prestigious in New Orleans, but was quickly overtaken by…

This report summarizes a concert performed at the Lincoln Center in New York in March 2016 by a Dixieland band “The Gotham Jazzmen”. This report will highlight the origin of the genre and the band, the characteristic features of Dixieland, The contribution of “Gothan Jazzzmen” to the genre, and an overview of the concert. When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It…