Traditional music

Some Asians value family, mind, body, soul, and Traditional Chinese medicine over Western medicine such as diagnostic testing, medications and surgeries for pain management. This type of pain interventions have existed for centuries and are held to a high regard by the Asian culture. They firmly believe…

it. Organic sounds created by instruments and voices tend to have a distinct fluctuating wave like pulse to them, which I could clearly pick up from the percussion in his composition. Though there was no harmony, rhythm, melody, or scale in any traditional sense, I would consider it to be more on the "musical"…

performers were of Indonesian decent and they performed traditional Balinese dances accompanied by traditional music. There were also traditional instrument performances during the show. This show had a lot of different components to it that pertained to…

When it comes to music, every musician knows it’s all about the instrument and the quality of it. People might need different music instruments at different stages of their learning or professional careers. Over the long history of music, instruments have evolved from the very historic variations of beat drums to the much more advanced electronic guitars. The modern patters of music and advancements in the way people take music lessons have enabled multi instrument talents in individuals who are…

composition classes and began his course to train as a pianist and conductor. It is in this time he gradually became more and more “scornful of much of traditional music.” His conducting teacher Nikolat Tcherepnin, was a modernist. He tried to foster Prokofiev’s interests in modernism and at the same time rouse Prokofiev’s enthusiasm of the Classical music. Therefore, Prokofiev had a unique way of associating Russian modernism…

Lakes area. The workshop included participation in traditional dance, an example of both traditional and arranged music, a version of the Native American creation story, and a summary of the culture throughout history. The concert was an excellent opportunity to learn through observation, but I mostly took the chance to enjoy a new type of music. It also included audience participation in a traditional round dance and continuing access to their music. A Native American’s identity is found in…

For the third music critique I am going to talk about the performances of Gunnar Biggs and Bill Bradburry. First of all, I must say this was my favorite performance of the semester so far. I love the bass and it amazes me how beautiful the mandolin plays music. The musician who played the bass was Gunnar while the mandolin was played Bill. They both played Irish traditional music, however in their performance they improvised solos when usually you don’t in Irish traditional music. Both Gunnar…

excerpts and the class presentations over the last three weeks, outline what you think are the main similarities and differences between Welsh, Scottish and Breton music and music making. What effect do you think Irish music has had on each of the other musical cultures? Celtic music tends to be defined as encompassing the traditional music of Celtic countries, namely Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany, as well as Galicia and other areas. Since each country has gone through its unique…

The music of the caribbean counterpoints revolves around folk, ritual, and dance hall music in a new mode. Out of the chapter the “most important aspects of Candomble and Macumba as the main links to samba, the national dance of Brazil”. Africanisms show their emotion in brazil by a traditional dance and this takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the south where there’s colorful carnivals. The taditional music and dance of the Orixas, which consist of three drums which have three elements of music…

The music industry is a major media institution that is widely influential in the way that people perceive their surroundings and how they experience discrimination and oppression within society. Popular media, such as music, acts as a catalyst for social construction (Glantz 3). Whether by way of radio, MP3 downloads, or music videos, people throughout the country, and all over the world are exposed to dominant ideologies through music that shape their thoughts and behaviors. One specific genre…