Tenor saxophone

Eigsti, John Shifflett, Lorca Hart. The production of the group is very interesting from their backgrounds. You don’t really expect them to have really different backgrounds than be musicians. The first musician in the group Anton Schwartz plays tenor saxophone and plays it until his heart stops. According to Wiki, “Anton Schwartz was born and raised in New York City, the son of Tony Schwartz, the audio documentarian and media theorist, and Reenah Lurie Schwartz. He attended The Dalton School,…

requisite for musical instruments that produce sounds over 80 dB (i.e., viola, violin, bassoon, oboe), over 90 dB (i.e., clarinet, Euphonium, French horn, mellophone, timpani), and over 100 dB (i.e., alto saxophone, bass drum, cymbals, flugelhorn/bugle, flute, piccolo, snare drum, tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet/cornet, tuba/contrabass). As Strasnick et al. (2007) reported, profound deafness is at 120 dB; therefore, protective hearing devices must also be worn during symphonic concerts for…

Charlie Parker’s Ill-Fated West Coast Trip Charlie “Bird” Parker is one of the most iconic figures not only in the modern jazz history, but also in the jazz history overall. Charlie Parker had an extraordinary melodic gift and regularly created solos that consisted of ling-lined melodies, each of which was elegant improvised composition unto itself. This gained a wide following among jazz musicians and greatly influenced the Jazz community in the iconic shift is music. Parker’s self-destructive…

Voyager Group Project For our Voyager Playlist we drew inspiration from different things. The theme we choose for our project is time periods in history. The time period we chose was 19th Century music. The reason we chose this time is because we felt that music was very much alive then. Our playlist is very diverse and we feel it shows a true representation of all the countries we chose. The first song we chose to be on our list is from Kingston, Jamaica. The song is No Woman No Cry by Bob…

A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors (band directors). A school band consists of woodwind instruments, brass instruments and percussion instruments, although upper level bands may also have string basses or bass guitar. School bands tend to be more common in the United States. School bands in the United Kingdom are generally similar to those in the US although…

Cool jazz is type of style of music that brought up from the United States after World War II. Cool jazz became popular during 1949-1959 and was considered the forefront of its time. What made Cool Jazz so diverse in its nature was its soft tempos and light tone. Cool Jazz was known for its large venue of players in a band, its mixed instruments and smooth rhythm. Jazz musicians at the time where moving away from the complexity of improvised solos and into a more arrangement and compression.…

renaissance type piece. I know that it was composed in 1938, but it reminds me of a renaissance style piece due to its melancholy tone. The harmony between the violins, I’m sure that there are different types of violins within the mix, like soprano, alto, tenor, bass, are very beautiful whenever the chords match up. The texture at the beginning is relatively light. It becomes thicker as the song progresses, but it’s definitely not as thick as what Fanfare for The Common Man was. The dynamics…

red and when they performed they wore those colors but they were in different styles. We never came in 3rd place, we would only come in 1st or 2nd place. My second job was a band instructor and player. I played the clarinet, trumpet, French horn, tenor and alto…

Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis “Summertime” by George Gershwin in a song from the opera Porgy & Bess. Gershwin composed Porgy & Bess in 1934. The libretto was from DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy. Over time it become a widely known opera and one of the most frequently performed operas. Many great pieces of music were in Porgy & Bess but “Summertime” was one of the most well-known pieces to come from the opera. Because its melody is so strong and its cords so complex, it became one of the most…

Milton Babbitt has been both a controversial composer, as well as author. In his article, “Who Cares if You Listen?”, Babbitt is quite harsh on his thoughts of contemporary music and performance as a whole. Babbitt discusses why contemporary composers, who produce “serious” and “advanced” pieces, should stop allowing their music to become accessible to the public. Instead, Babbitt calls for a restriction on their compositions and performances. He believes that the general public is uninterested…