Music genres

In a music hall of Vienna, the pianist Friedrich Gulda performed Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with his superb skills and receive lasting applause. After the concert, Gulda rushed to a nightclub and start to play the jazz, behaved like another person. Surprisingly, he played Beethoven’s masterpieces and intoxicated jazz music equally well. It made people wonder, how would that be by mixing jazz and classical music? In the article “Jazz, America’s Classical Music”, Dr. Billy Taylor introduces…

Baldwin Wallace University. A feature that made them unique was their ability to arrange modern songs into a salsa format. It was a lively performance where many audience members danced along with the band, demonstrating the danceable feature of the music. The orchestra used many of the traditional salsa instruments, including timbales, conga drums, a cowbell, and a guiro. Mambo influences were also evident in the instrumentation. With the rise of big bands in the United States, the traditional…

Through the years jazz became a widespread music genre enjoyed by whites and blacks alike, though not without injustice during the 1920s. Many jazz bands started to form in New Orleans, combining traditional jazz instruments, such as trumpets and saxophones, with traditionally upper class instruments, like piano and strings (Boundless). With this combination the bands were able to appeal to a wider range of people and begin to transcend the cultural prejudice the dominated american society of…

penetration, regardless of composition genre. In this work sonata in C-Minor, D. 958 is considered. Sonata reveals the lyrical content with frequent changes of musical mood. Schubert individualizes lyrical images, saturates them with subtle psychology. It is easy to say that this is a lyrical sonata, with the prevailing character of the narrative and thematic development and song thematic. Sudden flashes of drama interspersed with moments of focused contemplation, genre scenes - with ecstatic…

autobiography that there is much more to music than just a simple form of entertainment (Dylan, 2004). An actual culture exists within each genre or scene of music. Minnesota is a very culturally rich state in the Midwest region, and the Twin City area is no exception. In class we just barely touched on music and the culture surrounding hip-hop, however, we did not talk about how music can really influence more than just a neighborhood. Minneapolis has a very prominent music scene in the…

Music is one of the most popular engines for self-expression today, most considerably amongst younger persons (Rentfrow et al., 2009). People wear shirts and hats embellished with their favorite band, decorate their homes with posters and records, and blast their favorite tunes with the windows down during the car ride home from work (Rentfrow and Gosling, 2007; Rentfrow et. al., 2009). Furthermore, the rise of social media in recent years has magnified both the scope and the means of which…

CHAPTER II DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPOSITIONS The genre of Skazka, translated into English as Fairy Tale , created by Medtner , became one of his favorite. The 38 Fairy Tales fall into a category of small form compositions, and contain some of Medtner’s most original and captivating music and many critics agree that Medtner’s best compositional features are fully revealed in this genre. Many musical compositions of romantic and post-romantic eras originated from literary forms. Among these…

Music has always been around, it can ultimately be found everywhere because it plays a role in everyone's culture. Music is, and always will be, a wonderful thing. The rhythmic beats allow you to tap your feet, clap your hands or even dance. Since music influences people to move, does it influence other behaviors? There are plenty of genres of music and this paper will argue that the different genres of music can influence certain behaviors among the youth. “Music affects the Limbic System, the…

My taste in music could best be described as electronic swing, since it is not quite EDM, electronic dance music, and isn't exactly jazz. It's the perfect mix, which presents you with a type of music that resembles art more than a simple melody. Often mistaken for nu-disco, electronic swing creates a modern and dance-floor focused sound that is more readily accessible to the modern ear but that also retains the feeling of live brass and the energetic excitement of the early swing recordings.…

1. The piano sonata was a genre that was very important to the Classical Era and that somewhat evolved from the regular sonata. The piano sonata was an instrumental work that was designed for two pianos, or similarly one other instrument (violin, cello, etc.) and a piano. This genre became very important for amateurs who wanted to practice and perform in the comfort of their own home and for composers who wished to express the conversation-like aspects of this genre. 2. Ludwig Van Beethoven has…