Rhythm and blues

Davis. Most people consider jazz being created in New Orleans, but its roots began from African rhythms. Freed African-American slaves helped create jazz at the end of the 19th century. African music influenced jazz by use of rhythm, improvisation, call and response, and narrative techniques. Rhythm is an important part in jazz. If there is no groove, then entertainment is not found. African rhythms are used in jazz constantly. For…

Bottle, and Fruit is composed of colors, shapes, and lines and Swan Lake is comprised of footwork, gestures, and pirouettes. Similar to rhythm in music and dance, Matisse’s…

Opening with “Blue Rondo A La Turk,” Brubeck’s Quartet immediately presents a rhythmic, swingin’ tune featuring 9/8 time. “Kathy’s Waltz” explores polyrhythm and “Take Five,” arguably the band’s “titular” work today, too pushes the boundaries of common time with its 5/4 beat. Throughout the album, works are contrasted within each other by style changes and time signature variation; yet despite their unfamiliar form, the tunes still manage to provide a solid,…

idea sets in and it starts to build up then trails off. Next, the song moves back to the second melodic theme, a transition, and returns to the second theme, and ends on the first melodic idea (Campbell 266). Debussy uses a 2/4 Duple Meter for the rhythm and purposely disguises the down beat because he follows his inspiration and blurs the lines of what music should be. There is a homophonic and polyphonic texture to this piece. In section A have a homophonic texture while, section B has a…

Anglo-African music and the basis of jazz, the Blues and Ragtime can be traced back to the late nineteenth century, originating in the Mississippi Valley. Distinguished from other musical styles with its strong 4/4 rhythms and twelve-bar structure, the Blues were created by the amalgamation of American folk songs and hymns intertwined with an African beat. Often, the Blues outline the woeful tales of hopeless, unsuccessful people. Forming as an alternative to the Blues in the early 1890s,…

do not normally listen to the Blues Brothers or other songs from blues musicians. I normally do not listen to this type of music because I have always thought of it as very slow and too different to enjoy the songs from a time period very different than mine. Another reason I prefer not to listen to blues music is because I never had much access to it while growing up. It is difficult to develop an appreciation for music that has not been exposed to you. Most blues songs I have listened to…

has their favorite part to a song, so we all play along differently. To a musician, groove is making sure not all instruments follow the same same rhythm, but still sound great in the process. Now, use the example mentioned, the Judas Priest song, and imagine how it would sound if all instruments and the vocals were following the same notes and rhythm. It should sound very different for the most part. Some songs interpret this into their music. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” incorporates it…

drums. There was a large variety of drums styles from small hand drums to large arrangements of several drums. One of the reasons for the significant emphasis on drums is because of one of the integral features of African music and that is rhythm. A very unique rhythm as it can be directly attributed to one of the main features of Jazz, and that is…

Blues music is a famous African-American music, and it has an excellent in its performance; the performance of the blues has a high level of versatility, and that it may be one of the reasons that blues became popular. This unique style has what led the blues to become famous (The History of African­-American Music 2). Blues also has a distinctive feature that can be easier to recognize in other types of music, those features such as its exciting rhythms, interacting beats, and…

The song begins with a low and dreary beat and guitar strumming. The slow, somewhat sad tune casts an image, in my mind, of a man strolling from a bar after having a bad day, perhaps after being laid off by his boss. It has a slow, but steady pace that is supported by the guitar and low drum beats. At around the 3 minute mark , the beat speeds up slightly, as if to suggest tribulations or a slight sign of hope and light amongst the gray tone that has been present for the majority of the song…