Musical improvisation

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.…

is called an alto saxophone. Can you say it with me? Alto- Sax-O-Phone. Pretty neat huh!?”. Pretty neat indeed I thought. Pretty neat indeed. My family has been strongly influenced by music. Almost everyone on my fathers side plays at least one musical instrument, whether it be the drums, guitar, or piano, there is usually some form of sound constantly flowing into everyone’s ear drums. Once I decided on playing the alto saxophone, everyone was just as enthusiastic about it as I was, which only…

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…

As a musician, my performance career has been filled with failing at varying moments. Music is unique and in some ways, can be compared to the realm of medicine. For instance, each requires 100% accuracy, and each is vastly competitive. So competitive is the field of music that one of my greatest failures stems from it. With week after week of playing, my hands were cramped constantly from the awkward position of holding the French horn. Yet, worst of all was the pressure blisters that…

Enemies and Violins I came home from school, tired and exhausted. I walked across The hallway to my room. I heard The music as I entered the room, but all that was there was a violin, lay there with its back on the bare floorboards. I carefully picked it up and cradled it as I sat down on my bed. Memories flooded into my mind at the instant. I used to play the violin, but I stopped years ago. I had a best friend I would practice with. she dies in a car accident with her family . We used to…

The Lion King is a good adaptation of Hamlet for the following reasons. First the characters were very similar, second what happens to the characters was fairly similar, and lastly in both the kings child was sent away, and they both came back home. I will go more into depth with the following paragraphs. First i think the lion king is a good adaptation of Hamlet because the characters have a lot of similarities such as Mufasa was a great king, and so was the old Hamlet they are both praised…