Trombone

In my life, there have been many different experiences that have shaped and molded me into the person that I am today. I have to believe that music has played an important role in forming the essence of who I am. Three of the most important things that music has taught me are the importance of family, how to be dedicated, and how music can affect one’s spirituality. Music has opened many doors for me, and it has allowed me to view life in different ways than most people my age are able to. Music…

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…

The notation I used was much simpler and meant for beginners who do not know music notation to use. I do have a history of traditional music notation, however. I began playing the trombone in fifth grade and continued playing through high school. I have played bass clef notation for over five years and am very familiar with it. I do not know treble clef notation, though, and I cannot play the piano so my knowledge of music notation…

Orchestra presented Beyond the Score: Dvorak Symphony No. 9: Whose World? inside the beautiful Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego. Instrumentation included one piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, triangle, symbols, violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. Originally a production of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the first half of the performance was intended to help concert goers (whether first – time or regular…

Influence of Fusion Jazz Fusion Jazz is a genre of jazz which mainly includes a collaboration of Jazz music with one or more musical genres. Other musical genres which are combined with Jazz include funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin Jazz. Fusion Jazz started to develop in the late 1960’s and this was an era when a huge number of jazz musicians experimented with creating new sounds with electric instruments. The origins of fusion jazz are known to be jazz, rock, bebop, blues, funk, and…

George Gershwin was born on September 26, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York. George The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, George began his foray into music at age 11 when his family bought a secondhand piano for George’s older sibling, Ira. George was a natural talent with piano so eventually he began studying with the noted piano teacher Charles Hambitzer and impressed him so much that he wrote a letter saying that he found the new pupil who will make it successful and he was a genius. Gershwin…

1. Why would you like to serve in VBS this summer? What qualifications do you possess that would benefit our camp? I would like to serve in VBS this summer due to my prior experience as a VBS camper. My experience as a VBS camper has motivated me to do better in school, academic wise and extra-curricular wise. The leaders at VBS have taught me the importance of giving back to the community and to the world. To this day, I still hold the belief in my heart. Also, I want to earn my 40 hours of…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most well known books in American history. It is a story of the struggles of high society in the 1920s, forbidden love, and how selfishness can ruin lives. However, many people do not realize that this novel parallels Fitzgerald’s own life in many ways. One can see this comparison through the characters, the setting, and the society depicted in the novel. Fitzgerald pulled many experiences from his own life in many ways to create this great…

of this is to leave the listener with a sense emptiness, perhaps as if being left alone after all have left. A folk song again is played with violas in a slow rhythm and then starting with a big boom from a large drum with the folk song played by trombone. You can hear a gong in the background. The brass plays loudly in a climax. A short Coda is played quickly with violent rhythm before it is completed with a short return of the introduction. (Ref. 3.Period; Impressionist, 5.…

Ever since jazz was born in 1895. Everybody started to have their own taste what jazz is the person that listens to it. Now jazz has evolved into a culture where we can play jazz the way we like it. The real timeline of jazz style development has evolved so much its spanned or stretched for 3 centuries. When it comes to different styles of jazz, people might tend to think which style they would enjoy the most between these categories of jazz. For example, ragtime, classical, hot jazz, Chicago…