Traditional music

The captivating sounds of drums, and passionate voices singing, as I walked into the Alaskan Airlines Arena, will forever be embedded into my memory. My words will never give this music its rightful justice. Therefore, I highly recommend that everyone, at least once, attend a Powwow, and experience this incredible music for themselves. Although this was a class assignment, my wife and children came along with me. I thought it was a good way for us to enhance our cultural awareness, and…

was half Catalan and half Italian. Ginastera started his composing career when he was only 18 years old and won first place in a contest for the piano. He studied music at the Conservatorio Williams and the National Conservatory, both in Buenos Aires. Ginastera later co-founded the League of Composers in Buenos Aires. He put his music into three categories of periods: Objective Nationalism (1934 – 1948), Subjective Nationalism (1948 – 1958), and Neo-Expressionism (1958 – 1983). His Objective…

Concurrently in music, composers like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, were re-exploring the compositional process, resulting in the development of the twelve-tone method. This new method of composition was Arnold Schoenberg’s attempt to eliminate the conscious will in art and finding a new common language to replace tonality. These explorations led to various methods of composition that included ordered and unordered rows of pitches of various lengths that could manifest as an inversion,…

Hamilton’s research found that students in the United States and members of a remote Cambodian hill tribe express emotions through music and movement in nearly the same way. Both the students and the people from the Cambodian Kreung tribe were asked to manipulate five slider bars to change the characteristics of an animated character representing bouncy ball and make it look peaceful, scared, happy, sad or angry (Fig 2). Fig 2. Paradigm. Participants manipulated five slider bars corresponding…

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…

instruments whatsoever. The Beatles band included instruments such as guitars, bass, and drums in their music. The songs recorded by both groups have their differences. Pentatonix mainly make covers of songs created by others but they add an A Capella twist to it. Pentatonix's covers have made them the most famous a cappella group in the country.(Sarah Grant) The Beatles compose their own music and put a lot of thought in the process of creating new songs. They sing about different themes like…

of drums, trombone, and electronic keyboard, had a sound that was heavily inspired by the “Cool Style” of Jazz in the early 1950’s with some hints of John Coltrane inspired Free Jazz elements. Throughout most of the performance the Trio played traditional instrumental jazz including classic songs by artists such as Miles Davis along with some original pieces by Nico himself. Although mostly instrumental the band brought a vocalist on stage for a select number of songs. The instrumentation of the…

Despite the fact that plena music has been around for over a hundred years, this should not imply that it is primitive or weak when compared to other musical genres. There’s no doubt that we can find traces of our favorite songs in plena music. When listening to a basic plena song, it will be common for the verses to be broken down into different topics (Manuel 258). This is unique because in the American music that we listen to, it is uncommon to have more than one major topic in a song, but…

Popular Music 1950-1980 Throughout America’s history, the pattern of popular music has been quite divergent. As trends altered, so did the music people commonly listened to. However, during the timespan between 1950 and 1980, there were four genres that seemed to be more popular than others. These four included Tin Pan Alley, country music, music with strong African American influence, and contemporary styles. Without these popular music categories, this time period would not be the same.…

Music has played a very inspirational part in American culture; there are many different types of genres that correlate with the times. African American’s musical culture was brought to the United States through the bonds of slavery. Music and dance have always been a spiritual and traditional part of the African-American culture. Jazz is a type of genre that was created through the roots of previous styles of music and has grabbed the ears of many for generations. Through relevance and…