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Performer: James Brown Career Span: 1960-1990 Location: James Brown was born in South Carolina but was raised in Southern Georgia. Band Members: James Brown’s first band consisted of members from his Gospel Based group from the 1950s where his career began as a musician. After his hit of “Please, Please, Please” they changed their name to James Brown and the “Famous Flames.” In 1970, Brown hired some young musicians to form his new band. BIO: James Brown was born in south within a…

In this essay I will discuss the incredible works of the composers that have contributed to the music world and compare Program Symphony to Symphonic Poems and Impressionism to Expressionism music created by these composers. Program Music and Symphonic Poems are similar in that they play onto the imagination of the listeners of the mental pictures of the scenes or characters as they listen. Both genre are based on telling a story or poem. Although they have these similarities…

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian neoclassical composer born on June 17th, 1882. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia. Stravinsky died of congestive heart failure on April 6th, 1971 in New York, New York. He moved many times in his lifetime, but ended up gaining citizenship in the United States. Stravinsky’s musical influence came from how successful his father was with the bass. His household was full of musical and theatrical influences. He took piano lessons and studies music…

During the Enlightenment period, Europeans began to see themselves as the most rational and thoughtful people of the land and particularly ruined the reputation of Turkish people using musical exoticism emphasizing and theatrical musical stereotypes of the Turkish. Exoticism popularizes a trend influenced by different ethnic groups or civilizations. Musical Exoticism in particular is very interesting. It is intriguing how, in the 1700s, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart used his musical talents to help…

resembles the happiness that would complete Gatsby and his dream. Furthermore, Gatsby continues to learn more about Daisy since their split, “her voice is full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it… High in a white palace, the king’s daughter, the golden girl” (citation). The five years apart gave way to Gatsby setting high expectations of Daisy that disappointed him a little bit. Nonetheless, his big house and nice car was…

1 in D major, “Titan,” was performed next. It was much longer in duration than the first piece. It showed uniqueness in that it incorporated everyday sounds into the music, such as bulge calls, bird songs, and dance tunes, which provided for a very wide variety of tone colors. The symphony began with a thick-textured undertone in the strings and a two-note “hunting call” in the woodwinds, which persisted throughout the piece. Also present was a bright fanfare in the trumpets, followed by a light…

The Dave Brubeck Quartet, comprised of Brubeck on the piano, Paul Desmond on the alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on the bass, and Joe Morello on the drums, released the album Time Out in 1959 (Time Out). Even on the first listen, one can see how revolutionary this work would soon become. Opening with “Blue Rondo A La Turk,” Brubeck’s Quartet immediately presents a rhythmic, swingin’ tune featuring 9/8 time. “Kathy’s Waltz” explores polyrhythm and “Take Five,” arguably the band’s “titular” work…

and wave-like rises and falls in volume clearly portray a suspenseful, brooding scene of a stormy sea. As if the ocean itself fills the auditorium, the orchestra shakes the ground at every crash of the waves, when the percussions let loose and the cymbals ring. This sensational use of volume truly activates the imagination, successfully fulfilling the piece’s function as a…

categorize it as blues. There seemed to be a lot of improvisation by the guitarist while he performed his solo. It was my favorite part of the song; it was really cool to see it. Another interesting aspect of the tune was the drummer; he used the cymbals and the high hat, while serving as the timekeeper for the song. Song number 2: “Once I Loved” had a Brazilian sound to it. It had the same tempo and feel as the first song. The main difference between the two was the bass, there seemed to be a…

“Walking Point”, is a poem published in the Iowa Review written by Terry Hertzler. While flipping through the journal, the poem did not seem interesting at all but I decided to read it anyway. The poem is a free verse poem that consists of seven tercets. The whole first stanza focuses on describing a young child. When I first read the first stanza, I thought that the poem would be about a young boy going on a walk or an adventure given that there is a whole stanza focused on him, and that the…