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Personal Statement When I was twelve, I was a master on the piano. I was probably not on the level of Beethoven, but my fingers dazzled up and down keys effortlessly. Vividly, I remember the radiant faces, the slow dance and sway of the crowd that accompanied my blues style of playing. The drummer started to pick up the tempo as I looked at the singers for visual cues. The crowd began to dance vigorously to the increased tempo. In the controlled chaos, the musician next to me accidentally…

There are a lot of Irish traditional musical instruments, but there is one instrument that sticks out the most it is the Irish harp. The harp is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world, the earliest harps were developed from the hunting bow. The harp or Celtics harp has a big impact on the Irish musical culture. As music evolved it was also necessary for the harp, if it was to maintain its popularity, to move with the times. Instead of only being limited to eight major keys and five…

On December 12/03/2017, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra hosted a unique and spectacular jazz concert at the Dr. Philips Center in Orlando Florida. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis spreads holiday cheer on its national Big Band Holidays tour. With soulful renditions of holiday classics, playful improvisation, and entertaining storytelling, they bring out the magic in such favorites as Count Basie’s “Jingle Bells,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and Billie…

Scottish music is very unique due to the instruments used such as the bag pipes, fiddle, clarsach, accordion, guitar, drums, piano, bodhran, trump/jaws harp, mandolins, banjos, gut and wire strung guitar, harmonica and wooden flutes. All these instruments are used in Scottish music even though some may be out dated or adopted these instruments make Scottish music distinguishable from all the rest. The bag pipes are a difficult instrument to learn because first you need to learn the chanter.…

Chase Malcom Honors 201-5 Cultural Event Essay Organ Celebration: More Than Meets the Eye I have always had an affinity in my heart for local symphony orchestras. Of course it makes sense now because I am studying music to make it a profession, but even when I was young, there was something special about seeing a live orchestra concert. All throughout my childhood, my grandma would take me to musical events, such as Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concerts. I asssume this is a major…

I attended the MTSUU Jazz Artist Series at MTSU on Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 7:30 pm. The instrument amount was varied, but the expected Jazz instruments were all there: stand-up bass, piano, horn section, drums, etc. All of the woodwind players played different instruments throughout each piece. It was held in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall in the Wright Music Building. Around 130 people were there. I never really know what to expect from school performances. I have never been to a…

McCormick and McPherson (2003) surveyed instrumentalists between the ages of 9 and 18 (N = 332) who were completing externally assessed performance examinations at 15 separate regional and metropolitan areas in three Australian states. The examination used was the Trinity College, London examinations and involve candidates performing pieces with accompaniment, technical exercises, and études in front of a professional examiner. The examiner provided a mark according to the performance being…

Using Pinterest I researched and learnt about the type of percussion instrument l was going to use (Dinham, 2014, p.3). Discovered untuned instrument of creating a Maraca would be the best for my written song. I was able to use reuse objects around the home, such as pasta shells, paper plates, paint and coloured paper. With trial and error before did the final stapling of the paper plate folded in half, developed nature of the instrument. Until l was able to be satisfied with rhythm, tempo and…

to people, she focused more on the lyric than on the instruments used. The song did have a relaxing beat, but the lyrics were meant to start a fire inside of people. It was hard to concentrate on the sounds because I was so focused on what she was saying. The instruments used were a guitar, a bass guitar, a keyboard, a violin, and…

The Advantages of Playing an Instrument The aspects of music and brain development have always gone hand and hand, and a very interesting yet common topic among those who study or partake in music has arisen as a well know truth that learning a musical instrument can better develop certain areas of the brain. Now, already stating that the correlation between music and brain growth as a fact might seem like a risky move but there is more behind this topic than is visible if we step aside to view…