English musical groups

Both the standard “I’m In The Mood For Love” and Charles Strouse’s “Maybe”, a number from his Broadway musical Annie, follow similar structural alignments, with Goldings designing the A sections of the theme and Bernstein taking care of the Bs. The latter piece spreads a swinging perfume that favors the rounded post-bop trajectories of the guitarist. After…

In the United States alone, 18 million people play a musical instrument. However, this is only 4.3% of the entire population in the United States. There should be more people involved in the band program because of the countless benefits that come from playing a musical instrument. Band kids are literally the best. They receive better scores on standardized tests, including the SAT’s and the ACT’s. In addition, being in band improves your reading and comprehension skills, as well as your memory.…

What is extraordinary? The quote stating “We live in an era of language inflation,” is quite true. We throw out the terms “great”, “outstanding”, “astonishing”, etc. to describe others too often. Martin Luther King deserves to be described as excellent, a toddler who just learned to use the bathroom on their own shouldn’t. Yes, using the bathroom for the first time is quite an accomplishment, but what did it do to help others or cause an extraordinary event? Calling someone fabulous or…

In the early 1940’s, the audience members of the theater knew exactly what they would see at a musical comedy. Defined by the “Follies formula,” the American musical followed a very precise recipe that produces success every time: a chorus line of beautiful women in revealing costumes; jazzy, upbeat tunes; coarse jokes and cheap gags; and a rollicking opening number. Most musicals consisted of great numbers strung together with a decidedly flimsy plot. Even in a more narrative show, irrelevant…

I've played the clarinet for seven years. When I first started playing the clarinet I was in the sixth grade I wasn't very good. In fact, the only reason I had joined the band was because my friends and I didn't get into the same elective; they'd been forced into band, while I was one of the lucky few who'd gotten into computer science. The thought of being separated from my friends did not sit well with sixth-grade me and that's why, at the beginning of sixth-grade, I found my self sitting in…

The music of the caribbean counterpoints revolves around folk, ritual, and dance hall music in a new mode. Out of the chapter the “most important aspects of Candomble and Macumba as the main links to samba, the national dance of Brazil”. Africanisms show their emotion in brazil by a traditional dance and this takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the south where there’s colorful carnivals. The taditional music and dance of the Orixas, which consist of three drums which have three elements of music…

Henry Purcell attached significance to major and minor keys to show the listener the intense emotion behind the song. He made sure that by changing the keys the audience would hear the transition in sounds that told his story. Purcell’s changing of keys described fear, sadness, happiness and falling in love which captured the audience’s mind. Henry Purcell way of handling the keys was very clever, for the reason that he was able to draw the mind of his audience. Personally, I feel it made…

The Trombone solo last for the better part of 17 measures accompanied by a continual reconstruction of triples weighted over doted rhythms. Scholars describe the work as having qualities evocative of death and renewal. Section B is in relation to a sense of renewal. Its timbre and balance is different from its adjacent section. More specifically, the trombone with its brass qualities is comparable to the bugle calls of war. The imagery delineated through this intuitive use of the trombone…

Nadia Boulanger. While in Paris, his European explorations opened him to a big variety of music styles; yet, with the inspiration of Boulanger, he was effective in producing his single compositions that became expressions of Americanism. Copland’s musical skills went past his composition; he was also a skillful conductor, author, teacher and pianist. Copland finished composing after 1972, “It was exactly as if someone had simply turned off a faucet”, as he stated (Pollack, 4). He was later…

There were many different types of methods that we used in primary general music methods this year. Those included all the way from Kodály, Orff-Schulwerk, Dalcroze, Gordon Music Learning Theory, and eclectic. Kodály was a really big part of primary general music methods. It is widely used in everything we do. It was implemented with anything rhythmic. Which includes everything from the nursery rhymes to the most complex song in the song collection. You would use Kodály rhythmic syllables to…