Orchestral percussion

first album in 1981, called MKWAJU, and recorded it from a live performance at the Haiyuu Zagekijoo theater in Tokyo. (Donelson) The album was written for a percussion ensemble with keyboard and computer programming. His compositions still showed minimalism characteristics but also reflected his interest in electronic, new age and melodic percussion. A year later, he collaborated with the Wonder City Orchestra and made a second album called Information while still in college. (Donelson) After…

the first Beatles track that is composed with sitar rather than guitar. The cultural crossover was “modeled after North Indian classical music, and the recording features Indian musicians playing the tanpura (plucked string instrument) and tabla (percussion instrument), with Harrison on the sitar and lead vocals” (Guerrero 34). This theme grooved well not only with Harrison, but with the rest of the band. After entering this different sound, they decided to explore it with more open minds, and…

The Impact of Phil Spector in Music Industry. In 1951, a young boy moved from the thriving musical city of New York to Los Angeles after his father died. Having a perfect musical training background gave him an opportunity to become a member of the Teddy Bears. This young boy wrote "To Know Him is To Love Him" when he was a teenager. His song reached the No.1 hit song on the Billboard chart in 1958 (O'Hare 48). His name is Phil Spector, a talented producer, songwriter, and musician. In later…

Intro: « The intent of your music, or knowing what you want to say, is crucial. » (Davis, p. 133). Through music, a multitude of feelings and emotions can be expressed. Because of that, you have to know what do you want to say, which emotion do you want to convey as « starting without knowing what you want is like trying to swim without knowing the strokes. ». All three scenes in this portfolio has been watched muted first to see what the image wanted to say and what feelings would describes…

The Baroque Period has become known as one of the richest and most diverse periods in music history and lasted from about 1600 to 1750 AD. This period followed the Renaissance period and, at the beginning of the Baroque Period, it was marked by the development of what some musicians call the “second practice,” as differentiated from the “first practice” of the Renaissance (Hast, Dorothea E., et al. 271). European culture began to increase the importance of human feeling in the arts. According to…

Every day, I try to listen to a new piece of music. Whether it be a string group, unaccompanied choir, or even a percussion consort, I believe that by doing this, so much can be learned from just listening. About the mid-month of July, I came across this piece of music. I thought it was extremely fun and quirky at the same time! I had continued to listen to it, read some background information on the piece, and do a small amount of study on the work. When it came time to choose the piece for…

As it is scored for only brass and percussion, this fanfare is usually selected as the opener for concerts as the piece is short in length (under four minutes) and requires the least musicians in the wind ensemble. Although this fanfare is fairly brief, Copland was able to effectively incorporate the powerful and triumphant motives of an American sound from an orchestral brass and percussion section. After its premiere, the piece received tremendous success, captivating…

The tradition of concert, or wind bands has developed so much over many centuries and eras in the world of music. There is a lot of evidence of some instruments, like trumpets, drums, and horns. Although these early uses of instruments were mostly used for signs of battle or war, and not music. It took about until the 17th Century that a band was considered a group of musicians, or something near. At that time, to the people there; there wasn’t really a difference between a band and an orchestra…

their beautiful lyrics sung by Nanna Hilmarsdottir and the rest of the band backing her up with your not so typical instruments. They do not use electronic instruments for the most part. Just a couple of acoustic guitars, a trumpet, and loud varying percussion. It all comes together in the beautiful debut album My Head is an Animal. It was an international hit from Australia to the United States. The song "Little Talks" was in the Top 10 music charts in Europe, Ireland, Iceland, and the United…

wills faced. The energising opening, sudden and strong timpani is used followed by long notes of strings make a tension as a crescendo, and the warned timpani alternates between strings of timpani. The instrumental use of strings of timpani and long orchestral chord with strong and bold solo horn are much like of the movement of something advancing in a gradual and steady manner that could suggest to hazards and dangers of the unknown place, and death. The mysteriousness and excitements of…