Musical improvisation

I practiced every day and had a lesson every week. I woke up early and practiced until my hands cramped. Whilst keeping up my repertoire, I also learned new material and studied musical theory. I concentrated on building my skills and technique, however everything I played failed to enraptured my need for self-expression. Scanning the internet, looking for something to spark a flame of inspiration, I wound up listening to Jeepers…

popularized by Miles Davis in his 1959 album Kind of Blue. The disc is "So What", a subject of only two chords that perfectly sums up the essence of modal jazz: leave much room for improvisation in each chord than usual in most subjects and standards, so that it is natural for the musician to explore in detail the musical scale or mode derived from each line, rather than simply focusing on notes accords. The Melodic Section and a Rhythm Section.  Rhythm and swing All features jazz group,…

pitches of the scale, the arabesque ornates itself repeatedly with a given pattern only to return to a single stem. Thus, Debussy creates a piece which sounds in whole Spanish without necessarily imitating and copying directly musical traditions of Spain. Since Debussy’s musical exoticism does not reflect directly the culture it tries to portray, it would be interesting to see this analysis applied to his Asian inflected music such as Pagodes and music influenced by gamelan. Given Debussy’s…

Trumpet The instrument I chose was the Trumpet and it is a brass instrument that is played in many symphony orchestras or bands. The trumpet is a musical instrument that has a very long history. The earliest trumpets date back to at least 1500 BC and they have been used as musical instruments since the 15th century. Silver and bronze trumpets were discovered in the grave of King Tut in Egypt, and other ancient versions of the instrument were found in China, South America, Scandinavia, and Asia.…

They created their own patterns of music and found ways to incorporate it into social gatherings. Since a lot of Ancient Greece’s music was turned into plays, the music, which was created, in the Ancient Greece era relied on the memorization and improvisations of choruses. These plays would have a cast of both men and women but, mainly men. The music all of these choruses learn first is the music from the church. Eventually music made its way into the Olympic games where the victors of the games…

suggests the characteristic detached sound of the ponteado style. The piece is also an allusion to his childhood memories attending guitar concerts with his father, who was an amateur guitar player. Nobre varies the main theme, indicating the improvisation of the melody, presenting complex rhythmic passages before ending the piece with a lot of energy.” Similar to Ponteio in Nobre’s Toccatina, Ponteio e Final Op. 12, Ponteado can be also described as a genre of improvised guitar music that…

continue to play music that is reminiscent of the past. While new music is continuously produced, there is a desire to keep the musical pieces created by our ancestors alive. To honor the past, some artists have created new music that reflects the classical and baroque styles. In these pieces, the artists are free to use whichever instruments they please to create their musical effect. When a non-early music ensemble performs non-early music in the modern era, they tend to use the combination of…

music. This event was about Chota Madre, which is a cultural movement whose mission is to share and promote their cultural heritage by performing Ecuadorian music through the Bomba genre from El Valle del Chota. El Chota is the motherland of the musical rhythm characterized by the percussion Bomba drum, which is handmade by the descendants of the African slaves that are brought to Ecuador. Bomba is a kind of music that involves a small guitar known as the requinto, the guiro and the male and…

unique and special. The venue advertised the evenings event with Will Fisher as the special guest drummer from Toronto. The band did not make any introductions until after their second song, allowing themselves to introduce themselves with their musical talent and to get everyone’s attention first. I didn’t find out if the venue provides free food and drinks to the band, but it was clear that all the band was constantly drinking. Each band member was drinking prior to their first song and some…

Upon attending the International Chamber Music Festival Concert, a certain ecstatic vibe could be felt as the performers walked on stage with their musical instruments. The virtuoso’s performed in pieces that contained trios, duets, and quintets; showing the concentration they required when listening to each other. When working on Chamber Music, much of the melody jumps around from instrument to instrument, show casing various solos and much of the instruments having to coincide with each other…