Music appreciation

how Jazz became its own type of genre in music. Jazz ascends smooth beats in the ecstatic sounds that changed Jazz in 1950, which is modern day Jazz. The book contains great detail, giving us information by writers and veteran artist on their perception of Jazz. Ted Gioia covers the historical events of Jazz up to the year of 1995. Publisher from Oxford tell the exciting stories of how many Jazz legends today began their career spirit in performing music. It tells so much about how Jazz was…

The chapter “How We Listen” in Aaron Copland’s What to Listen for in Music addresses three different ways in which we listen to music. The first plane is the “sensuous plane”, the second is the “expressive plane”, and the third is the “sheerly musical plane” (Copland 7). As Copland discusses and critiques each plane, the reader quickly realizes that they gravitate towards certain planes more than others. While this piece is somewhat opinionated, Copeland thoroughly justifies his claims, allowing…

Edwin Gordon is one of the several influential educators in the music education field. Gordon is well known as a researcher, educator, and creator of the music learning theory. He has also made important contributions to the field of music education by creating music aptitude testing that can be used in the classroom for all ages. Gordon began is education career as a string bass performance major at Eastman School of Music where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After graduating…

good fortune to live through the richest musical eras: the sixties’, seventies’ eighties’, and nineties’. During the time my parents were in college and dating, they went to Air Supply, Bee Gees and ABBA concerts together. I remember that the first music I ever heard was my mother’s collection of vinyl records and cd’s. I grew up listening to Robert Plant, Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury’s God-like vocals, Led Zeppelin’s head-scratching lyrics, David Bowie’s many stage personas, and Angus Young’s…

Music is important and precious because it is a universal thing - anyone and everyone can listen to any type of music and just enjoy it, no matter the language boundaries or what anybody else thinks of a certain type of music; it still gives the same message. K-pop is a musical genre that originates from South Korea and has recently gained popularity due to its boldness, catchiness, and uniqueness. It is something people have never heard or seen before - it’s an interesting twist to music…

Kylee Kerhulas Mr. Ousley Music Appreciation 2 February 2017 Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn was an eighteenth century Austrian composer of the Classical period. Haydn was born March 31, 1732; in Rohrau, Austria to Mathias and Maria Haydn. Haydn displayed musical talent at an early age and his parent sent him to be an apprentice to Johann Matthias Franck, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, to train as a musician. He learned to play both harpsichord and violin and received…

Proctor. "How important is music education?" Journal of Singing, vol. 69, no. 3, 2013, p. 257+. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=kaea136&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA318019934&it=r&asid=fa05977871c4e26436fa14b7f89d7342. Accessed 8 Nov. 2016. Summary: Kathryn Proctor Duax was a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin for 37 years. Duax also served as Coordinator of the Voice and Choral Area. In this article she explains they importance of music education and how someone…

developing nonstandard styles of music such as electroacoustic music and aleatoric music (chance-controlled). His musical developments were largely influenced by Indian philosophies like Buddhism, and his internal anarchy was influenced by Henry David Thoreau. This and his works with modern dance, helped to distinguish him as a very pivotal composer of the 20th century. John Cage’s music was largely centered on his musical concepts of chance, in which the parameters of his music were determined…

Modern music has a variety of repeating themes that can be found in classical pieces from the early-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Women and the representation of women is an example of one of these reoccurring themes. The Weeknd’s “Six Feet Under” from his latest album, Starboy describes a woman in a way that Richard Strauss’s “Dance of the Seven Veils” depicts a seductress in the play Salome. The Weeknd’s voice is very iconic. Its high-pitched quality makes his sound easily noticeable…

classical music was performed for entertainment purposes as a result of patron-controlled music. This restricted design soon dissipated with the introduction of Beethoven and his symphonies. As a result of his independent musical career, Beethoven was given the opportunity to explore unregulated music. Decades later in the late 19th century, this meaningful music would further popularize and form the musical canon, a collection of great musical compositions that have defined classical music.…