Singing

When I was about 12 years old i was in the middle school choir. We had our first concert in December, it was a christmas themed concert i was really excited because i had a solo in one of our songs. It made me so happy to have a solo in one of our concerts because it was a very big honor if you had a solo in our songs if the teacher picked you to do the solo. It was concert day we all wore christmas hats and i was right in the front of the choir.I was front and center for my solo. My solo was…

After they decided to become a group, The Chordettes started singing on the local music circuit in Sheboygan. Originally, the girls used to sing folk songs but with Jinny Osborn and her father’s influence, they switched to harmony singing. According to Mentalitch.com, in 1949, they got their big break when they won on Arthur Godfrey’s radio talent show Talent Scouts. The Chordettes became regulars on Godfrey’s popular tv show, singing in their harmonious, a cappella style. The main songs that…

fundamental jazz plays in history, it has comprised of the blues aspect in the rhythmic flow, a quality that had not been explored. The song by Bessie Smith uses the famous saxophone as the foremost redundant melodic flow that accompanies by Bessie Smith singing. There is also the vibraphone that is played in the background. The combination of these instruments bring out the jazzy flow coined with the rhythm and blues aspect making the song one of a kind. In the first listen, the expression of…

Romanticism lived as an artistic movement in literature and music the late 18th century. It showed a lot of sensibility and passion within the body of its literature. Romanticism put an effort on putting emotional and imagination over logical and reasonable stories. The writers of this period replaced the boring static universal types of literature with more complex and unique characters. The authors that represented this movement the most including Emily Dickinson, Washington Irving, and Walt…

rest of the bar singing “La Marseillaise”, the French National anthem. These songs not only signify the rebellious nature of Rick and his Cafe, but they also advance the story…

She is able to put her trust in Toby, not just because there is no one else there to trust, but because they’ve had their singing bonding and they’ve had the same experiences in the past. Toby doesn’t take this trust in him lightly, he tries talking to Dwight “Please, Dwight” so that Pearl would be comforted, but Dwight just mocks Toby, showing that his children’s fright means…

who are fleeing Europe to escape the Nazis. This uneasiness continues until Victor Laszlo intervenes in a pivotal scene in the film when the occupants of Casablanca rise up against the German soldiers to show their support for France through the singing of the French national anthem. The scene of “La Marseillaise” in Casablanca not only shows Victor Laszlo’s…

response to trauma? If a behavior is strange, is it not human? A girl is dancing ”barefoot”, peacefully in the dirt and clouds of smoke. Her family is dead and her house is burned down. She doesn’t think about dancing- she just does. A soldier is singing “Lemon Tree” as he peels the limbs of his dead friend out of a tree. War is around him. He is under attack and may die himself, but sings a light-hearted tune. Is one of these two less human? The question of certain behaviors’ naturalness hovers…

when the two different types of music took their own way. Rhythm and Blues started big in the 40’s and 50’s. It was the biggest and most popular type of music and made the most impact in history. R&B (Rhythm and blues), which consists of soulful singing and a strong backbeat, was the most popular music created by and for African Americans between the end of World War two (1941-1945) and the early 1960’s. By 1946 the decade-long influence of swing music was fading, but dance music remand.…

more quickly down the other side. There is also a cool visual moment when the second tenor soloist is holding the word star with a slight crescendo as a shooting star glide across the sky. The strong beats also show the power and strength of those singing. This song is not given to teach the audience how to sail, it is to teach the audience about those who sailed. The rolling conjunctive notes put the audience out on the boats with them. The other language that begins and ends the song makes it…