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The song “Flamenco Sketches” by the Miles Davis Sextet has the cool jazz sound with the modal jazz style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist…

This performance is from October in 2015. Personally I liked the piece, but it could use a little more help. While they have good points in the piece they also had some low points. The basses had a good deep and dark sound like you want for many of our male singers to achieve. Their vowels were outstanding just like they always are. The sound pyramid was in great effect in this performance. Wingate’s choir used articulation to their advantage when they were forming their vowels before the…

Music has evolved drastically throughout time. There are countless styles of music in the world that I appreciate and admire. However, I prefer music that has a message or story in it that touches my heart. The combination of moving lyrics, beautiful voices, and outstanding music composers creates magic. One of my favorite songs is a song called As Real as You and Me by Rihanna. I first heard the song while watching the move Home. It started playing while a characters sacrifices himself for the…

do homework. I want to become a doctor or an engineer in the future, but continue playing my instruments. Last year I used the money for many things. I was able to buy my cello which allowed me to continue to…

If you love music, then you will be sure to love this! The Concert Band and Wind Ensemble of Chino Hills High School competed on Tuesday, March 27 at Walnut High School. This is one of the few competitions that our band attends during the concert season and has a large overall impact on their remarkable reputation. Our Huskies competed in two categories: Score Performance and Sight Reading. In order of highest score to lowest, it lists: Superior, Excellent, Good, and Fair. Starting with Concert…

The funny and talented actor, Rainn Wilson, was on Oprah today talking about his show, "SoulPancake." In it two people go around in a lime green VW bus and create, what I would call, "Living Art." They encounter ordinary people on the street and ask them to participate in creating some form of art. One of the little vignettes actually brought tears to my eyes. People were asked to grab an empty picture frame, one of many hanging on a wall, and walk around, looking through it in order to spot…

saxophonist in my class. I could not play one instrument, much less four. Also, ten year old me did not know the definition of composition, let alone how to make one. Playing the saxophone has caused my school experience, and my existence, to revolve around music and band. In the fifth grade, elementary students are given the opportunity to start playing an instrument in band. Near the end of fourth grade, interested students are allowed to try instruments and…

These tune-making objects are doing so unintentionally, whereas a person can be making a sound with a particular unique instrument, having the intentions to create a tune or a rythem. Examples or substitutes for the unaware tune-making species would be a beaver, a swarm or crowd of bees, and a hummingbird. The noise these species can create almost sound similar to the manmade instruments such as a set of drums from the beaver, babpipes from the swarm of bees, and a flute from the hummingbird.…

With this concert, I was not too sure what expect seeing a vocalist, piano player and a clarinetist, but this has turned out to be my favorite concert thus far. I enjoyed how different it was from the other concerts with the music they played was more enjoyable, modern and upbeat. A positive aspect I took from this performance, was inviting and friendly the performers were. It is not everyday where they invite you to sit on stage while they do their performance because they want you to feel…

The Lute The lute, the most prolific instrument during the 16th century, was “in almost universal use in western Europe” because it was treasured for its ability to arouse emotions through its “expressive and finely shaded tone”. Since the lute was so abundant during the Renaissance period “it is one of the first instruments for which we find any large quantity of written music” in which polyphonic singing and secular songs as well as dances were merged together. The lute, because it was so…