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Sexy witches, exotic femme fatals, ghosts and goblins of all shapes will be shaking it up at the North Fork Grange Hall on the spookiest night of the year when Bad Billy Walls and the Trinity Blues Shakers take the stage for one of the most awesome Halloween dance parties in the county. The grange hall will be transformed into a spooky fun house for this special celebration. The band will be playing some funky blues for all of us to dance well into the witching hour. I was sure after hearing…

wildfire throughout jazz and many other styles of music. Today, the saxophone is an important part of any high school band. A marching band without saxophones is a disaster. To be quite honest, saxophones are a much needed part of any large ensemble other than an orchestral one. Saxophone are often times still used in jazz for intense solos, quick improvisation, and blasting melodies. The saxophone has actually become quite prominent in pop music in short, fun, repetitive, lyrical riffs. In…

World Music Series: Kenan Adnawi, Syrian Oud and Tareq Rantisi, percussion. • Each of Kenan and Tareq have are have their own unique contribution in music felid. They went to different schools and studies different area of music. Similarly, these two musician are utilizing the music as job by offering teaching classes and workshops. Because these two individuals are living in the US, they constantly touring different states such as California, Massachusetts and New York. • The music…

band was introduced to me by an English teacher from highschool whom I had the biggest crush on. I connect with this song because it reminds me of the relationship I had with this teacher. He stole my heart at first sight, introduced me to beautiful music, and showed me a band that forever changed my life. In my junior year of highschool, my English teacher was going away for a week to get married. He told my class one of his really good friends is going to be substituting for…

matching sashes, similarly to how a woman would dress when performing Bharata Natyam. They performed a dance in two rows moving in the opposite directions. Unfortunately, the music played for them to dance to was not very loud compared to the other music of the parade, so I was able to watch their moves, but not correlate it with the music. The other dance was performed from Africa, and it was very exciting to watch. The women made long, quick gestures with their arms and legs to drums. They…

Scholarly reception in music looks at developing dialog and discussion among scholars who are engaged in philosophical and practical analyses of musical experiences. Unlike other philosophical discourses, the difficulty of speaking about music is the difficulty of speaking about a nonrepresentational art form. Music has been discussed in terms of the hard sciences, such as pitch, rhythm, and form, but music has been at best, ignored with respect to philosophical thought. Deleuze is one…

captivating, and expressive as music. Given the greatly varied psychological and physiological effects music has on individuals, it is apparent that composers must utilize a variety of complex techniques to stimulate our myriad of senses. Most simply, perhaps, is the usage of musical patterns that match the lyrics of a piece. For an early example, in Weelkes’ madrigal As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending, when the text says “chase after” or “move quickly”, “…the music becomes fast… voices…

Jazz, a genre of music that originated in African American, is one of the most influential music style in the world. It is the production of a blend of influences from different countries and different cultures, giving rise to many distinct styles. As the Jazz musician Ahmad Alaadeen once said, “Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.” Among the early music styles, Ragtime and Blues are two contributors which largely influenced the emergence…

Several members of my family play the piano as well, my mom is a pianist and has recorded several albums playing the piano in accompany with her voice. Needless to say I have grown up listening to the piano and is crucial in my developing interest in music. All this personal history with the piano has made me interested to learn about the piano. In this paper I plan to discuss two things, the history and timeline of the piano and the remarkable people who influenced the piano we have today.…

Louis Armstrong brought the trumpet to the forefront of popular music during the 1930's, and its popularity continued for decades, from Dizzy Gillespie to Miles Davis. Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and one of the central and most influential figures in jazz music. He became famous in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player. Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.…