Folk music

was studying law and economics in the University of Moscow, which he later gave up at the age of 30. Kandinsky’s enthusiasm in colour and symbols led to his interest in psychology. At this point, his piece mostly reflected the region’s folk art. Soon, his love for music was seen. He was exposed to skills such as pointillism and fauvism. The most important piece was the blue rider,…

Greater Hartford Campus. The program began with Vientos del Sur, which is traditional Bolivian song that translates into South Winds. The sheer energy of that first chord from the acoustic guitar marked the beginning of a night of beautiful cultural music. It opens up with the quick strumming of the acoustic guitar and later follows the bass pipes and pan pipes. The piece sets with a major key in common time. The disjunct melody gives off a jumpy sound that gives an imagery of gusty winds. This…

years, social changes have been brought due to an increase in diversity of immigrants. Now, while society tends stereotype swedes as lederhosen-wearing yodelers living in a cold, depressing climate, their culture is in fact rich with diverse fashion, music, and bright temperate weather. People associate the art of yodeling with Sweden; however, this assumption…

audiences humored laughter. In fact, I was the only person to step on stage for the entire performance who was of the male gender. What does this mean, why is it special or uncanny for an entire ensemble to be made up of exclusively women? What does music do to change implications and assumptions on this matter? What are we expecting? This entire situation I found myself in seemed to be nothing more than a happy accident. KaeRenae Mitchell emailed me mid-semester to…

Annotated Bibliography Cepeda, María Elena. 2010. Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom. New York: New York University Press. • This is a scholarly book which explores how music functions as an alternative way for U.S.-Colombians to define and express their identity. The image of Shakira as the “idealized transnational citizen” will serve as a strong foundation for my exploration into Shakira’s global appeal and image. In addition, this book will be essential as…

Music is part of our lives, we listen to music all the time one way or another. Music can bring many kind of emotions and at times it reflects our feelings. But not only that, music is also really influential in many positive and negative ways. The kind of influence that I will be referring throughout this essay is the powerful influence music can bring to us in our understanding of race and ethnicity. This is call pop-culture “the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other…

western classical music. Having been developed and patented by instrument creator and businessman Adolphe Sax in 1846, the saxophone had already missed out on much of the literature and masterworks written for other wind instruments centuries before its time. Additionally, much of the major classical musical works written for the instrument happened during its constant refinement development in Europe; allowing the saxophone to have more of a foothold in the originally American music idiom of…

toward music was recognized early on by his father, who was his first piano teacher. His father exposed the young Liszt to music by taking him to concerts. It was around the age of six he started piano lessons with his father. At age nine, Liszt made his first public appearance as a performer, playing a concerto by Ries. Several noblemen of the region took notice to Liszt and offered to pay for musical studies in Vienna. Liszt soon began studying the piano under Carl Czerny and music…

the members who are dedicated to both chamber music and are individual soloists, while also teaching and mentoring woodwind performers. Purvis and Neidich also transcribe and compose arrangements and even compose their own works and perform them in their concerts. The members were all dressed nicely in black tuxes and Wincenc in a gold skirt. They all were actively engaged in the music, however Wincenc seemed the most enthusiastic and her passion for music showed throughout the entire…

The music on the first of these CDs was sampled from all over Africa and for that reason there were a huge variety of musical styles in the CD. The second CD was a collection of music from the Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest, and most of its music held a consistent, though very foreign song style. My final CD sampled African blues musicians from all over Africa as well as the United States. This CD also had a wide selection of musical styles due to the different cultural and…