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Sara Kotwicki History of Jazz Jazz is defined as “a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century”. () Jazz incorporates two major aspects of both African and European music. The instruments, like the trumpet, piano, or saxophone, are taken directly from European influence. However, the most important aspects of Jazz, including, rhythm, feel, and the extension of…

the Harlem Renaissance; he basically got jazz music out there. He played the trumpet and was a band leader. He had a very successful career and influenced the growth of jazz music. Joe “King” Oliver was Luis Armstrong’s mentor. He played the jazz cornet and was also a band leader. He used hats, bottles, and cups to alter sounds of his instrument. He was offered a position as a band leader and performer in New York but wasn’t satisfied with its starting…

Jazz didn’t start out as Jazz, it was once called Ragtime. This was a composed piano style and was the first major black music style. Jazz was an innovation from Ragtime, they had similar music in them like the piano, but Jazz added sole and also added more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical…

activities on their own. In addition to the first two examples, the performance of Jazz music at the parties. “By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitiful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.” (Fitzgerald, 40) Jazz music was considered the devil 's music, but the younger generations broke that reputation and listened to it at parties. These example show that rejection of traditions were…

As a music education major at the University of Minnesota, it is easy to oversimply my life by saying that music is my passion Its cliché, and it is what nearly every music major says when they enter the school music. When I say “music is my passion,” I mean that throughout my entire life, music has been fundamental in the formation of my identity, and it has visibly steered my life towards the path of music education. I first found a love for music in my elementary school general music classes…

popularity continued for decades, from Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis. Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and one of the central and most influential figures in jazz music. He became famous in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player. Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great skill as an improviser, bending the…

musicians that ever played. Teachers scholastic, described Mr. Armstrong in a profound manner stating “Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential artists in the history of music. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901, he began playing the cornet at the age of 13. Armstrong perfected the improvised jazz solo as we know it. Before Armstrong, Dixieland was the style of jazz that everyone was playing. This was a style that featured collective improvisation where everyone soloed at…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an English Philosopher whose work was influential especially in the eighteenth century. Some of his main works include the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, and the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. Both of these works were written in response to prompts from the Academy of Dijon. For the first discourse, the prompt was, “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts tended to purify morals?” and for the second discourse the prompt was, "What is the origin of…

imagine what type of music that was getting played at Gatsby’s parties. In the book it says: Moreover, Gatsby’s guests are, of course, entertained by cocktail music played by a typical jazz orchestra consisting of oboes, trombones, saxophones, violins, cornets and piccolos, low and high drums (p.35). They know how to play popular jazz songs, for example the “neat, sad little waltz of that year” (p.82). This shows that jazz music was being played at Gatsby’s parties. This also shows how Gatsby…

In the novel money has a big effect on the characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is all about wealth, and how money changes the characters, leading them to make bad choices. In the novel, wealth changes people by leading them to make bad decisions as shown by Daisy, Tom and Gatsby. In the novel wealth is a big theme, everything that happens is a result of money. These bad choices are made throughout the novel bringing them to a big conflict between the characters, leading to the…