Music appreciation

I believe John Lennon would have eventually learned guitar even if his half-sister Jackie had never showed him how to play banjo because John was already into painting and poetry. Painting and poetry, like music, is a form of art and expression. Since he was an introvert and often stayed inside, he used the uninterrupted time alone to write. I think his love of writing poetry helped him termendously when it came time to create lyrics. Additionally, John's dream of making it big financially…

could happen through formal teacher instruction. Music being taught in schools can help two ways. It can create an appreciation for music and help the students form their own type of music which they identify with. The students musical identity can be developed through processes such as performance and academic study. The goal of music education is to produce strong musicians who are able to not only perform, but create and analyze music. Music in our schools is important not only to the…

The Evolution of Jazz There are tons of music genres played in America, however jazz is one of the only American genres. Jazz has a long history that has brought it to be what it sounds like now. Jazz began with slaves in the 1700s, who would sing and make music as a way to express themselves and how oppressed they felt. Later on, the music made by slaves developed into the jazz that was so famously popular in the 1920s. This jazz continued to develop into the jazz of today’s society, and is…

some form of art education, and what it can do for them in the future. For many kids today, the arts establish a foundation beyond everyday learning. The two most common types of arts curriculum is visual arts and performing arts, with a focus in music, respectively. Without some form of arts curriculum, children will not be able to see the true benefits of learning, and will not have the desire to perform to the best of their abilities. The most often recognized form of art is visual arts.…

How Music Affects Who You Are When I was twelve years old, my dad bought me my first guitar. I had no idea what I was doing when I began, but within a matter of two weeks, I already had the basics down and could play full songs. To me and my teacher, that was incredible, because it takes most people at least a month. He had even told me that he thinks I was “born to play.” Along with learning guitar, I taught myself how to play piano within a year. I began to realize that no matter what mood I…

trumpet greatly changed the future of the instrument and the music. The instrument was revolutionize, as the trumpet evolved from a valveless horn, that only played certain pitches, to a Baroque trumpet that had key holes to help tune the same pitches, to the keyed trumpet. Even though the keyed trumpet itself was deemed a failure at the time, this lead to a change that greatly influenced the modern day horn and the music.. The music greatly change thanks to the keyed trumpet’s unique…

forms of music originating from the “Land of the Free”: the United States of America. Jazz is a symbol of freedom and multiculturalism, as it is characterized by improvisation and is a mixture of African and European music. The novel demonstrates its power to connect individuals, no matter their culture or distance, and its ability to provide an escape.…

an elevated appreciation for music, unmatched by any other. Cage enjoys everyday, naturally occurring sounds because of their dynamics and their lengths, rather than the sounds constrained by musical instruments, something other composers usually overlook. This gives him the advantage to compose music in a unique manner. Cage has had an impact not only on musicians, but dancers and philosophers as well; His ideas and ways of thinking changed the mindsets of many in the world of music as we know…

he would not become fully interested in music until hearing operas by composers such as Donizetti, Glinka, and Meyerbeer performed in nearby St Petersburg. His interest grew further when one of his teachers, Fyodor Kanille, showed him the masterpieces of Bach, Beethoven and Schumann, but at the age of seventeen, his older brother put an end to his piano lessons with Kanille due to worries that he was devoting too much time to music. He continued to learn music theory and composition from Kanille…

overjoyed in anticipation of experiencing the nation’s capital for the first time in my life. As my choir started learning the festival music, I was awestruck by the dark lyrics of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ cantata “Dona Nobis Pacem” and inspired by others such as Mark Wilberg’s “Let Peace Then Still the Strife”. The lyrics were remarkable, but only seeing them as sheet music at the time, I did not entirely appreciate them or the veterans whom the songs revered. After twenty-four continuous hours…