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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…

midst of the story. The Baroque period instruments played a significant role in blending in with her voice to make it even more dramatic and to show the transitions on emotions throughout. The Jessye Norman version of the aria was very dramatic and touching. Her voice strongly carried out the story and the transitions were also clear. The audience was drawn by the passion of her voice. Jessye Norman’s voice was almost “goose bump like”. The instruments made her performance spectacular for…

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 Trombone solo last for the better part of 17 measures accompanied by a continual reconstruction of triples weighted over doted rhythms. Scholars describe the work as having qualities evocative of death and renewal. Section B is in relation to a sense of renewal. Its timbre and balance is different from its adjacent section. More specifically, the trombone with its brass qualities is comparable to the bugle calls of war. The imagery delineated through this intuitive use of the trombone…

Aaron Copland was the leading innovator in American music. He was one of the maximum valued yet respected musicians of the twentieth century. Aaron Copland was a marvelous inspiration to aid American musicians detach from the ‘European’ music style. Twentieth century Americanism was revealed in the tunes made by Aaron Copland; therefore, he was perceived as America’s supreme composer. Born a son of jewish immigrants, as well as being the youngest of the children, Aaron, grew up above his…

Marching Band is a Sport You would probably consider weightlifting a sport, right? Well, imagine lifting 35 pounds continuously for 15 minutes, while moving. Marching band is competitive, physically exerting, and has a certain set of rules. They have intense practices and do conditioning. Marching band should be considered a sport. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of sport is “a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific…

I scan through the score; my eyes rapidly swing back and forth like a metronome. With precision, I place my warm fingers on the cold black and white keys and, in an instance, I’m enraptured only with what is in front of me to begin Honeysuckle Rose by Louis Armstrong. As soon as I strike the keys, the balance of melody and base ring through the air in a symphony of sound. In my head, the cramped, but lively speakeasy erupts in an indulgence of dance. Sweat drips down the back of my neck, while…

Dalcroze in his first grade classroom actually. He would have his guitar on his strap and move around the classroom. This enabled him to dance along with the students and play ant the same time. That why I see singing guitar is being the more versatile instrument for general music because of the movement aspect. You are able to more around freely with a guitar anywhere in your classroom, whereas piano you are just stuck up wherever the piano is and you never get to move around with your kids.…