Trombone

Outside of the venue you couldn’t hear anything. Going into the event one would think that it would be almost empty in Rockwell’s huge theater. However, when you go through the double doors there is a crowd of people scrambling to get their tickets. Almost every seat in the theater was taken with family members of the actors and fans of the play. The Hunchback of Notre Dame showing took place at SUNY Buffalo States’ Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall. The musical was organized into 2 acts…

Louis Armstrong is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential jazz musicians of all time. Coming into prominence in the 1920s, his fame stretched across decades through his unique style of trumpet playing, playing in bands of some of the more influential jazz musicians, being mentored by influential jazz musicians and becoming a nationwide cultural icon, not just in the view of the entertainment industry, but in the view of all of America (Megill, 76). His inventiveness,…

An Analysis on Jay Gatsby as the Epitome of the American society in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is a novel that focuses on the lives of Americans who belong to the upper class in society in New York set in the 1920s. The 1920s, better known as the Roaring Twenties, was the era characterized by a number of positive and negative outcomes that highly influenced the United States of America. This was the era of economic prosperity, the rise of consumerism, the popularization of Jazz…

CORE 105 Aesthetics: The Artistic Impulse Study Guide Chapter Four: Music and Opera CLASSICAL FORMS • List and describe in complete detail the classical forms listed in Chapter Four for classical vocal music? List examples from the text (composers and works). 1. The first classical form of classical vocal music is mass. It is a sacred choral composition consisting of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. These form parts of the mass ordinary- the Roman Catholic church…

Encountering difficulties is part of our daily life. They test our capacity to resist adversity and make us stronger. Moreover, challenging moments that we face can be compared with a storm, which produces intensive winds and heavy rain causing flooding and disaster but, after it everything returns to normal and the calmness will come. This is because a bad season or a moment in our life cannot last forever. Based on that principle, I interpret the overture of Don Giovanni composed by Wolfgang…

The Harlem Renaissance was a very important time period in America. The Harlem Renaissance somehow affected utterly any and every sector of life in America. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that took place from the early 1920’s until roughly around the mid-1930’s. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that introduced the America to new African-American cultural expressions that were affected by the African-American Great Migration of America. The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rebirth…

Working Thesis: In the novel My Ántonia by Willa Cather, Cather portrays to the audience the American Dream for the Shimerda family, Jim Burden, Lena Lingard, Tiny Soderball, Peter and Pavel, as well as the sacrifices that they may have had to make to come to America and start a new life. Cather also uses a feminist approach in the novel because the novel is really Jim Burden’s story of Ántonia, Jim is the narrator of the novel, not Antonia. Although someone who is writing about the novel in…

sought to cultivate the art and make it his or her own, while leading and soaring to new heights in the world of jazz. Commonly used instruments in a jazz band consist of the upright bass, drums, piano, saxophone, and the horns, usually a trumpet or trombone in modern days, or a cornet which was commonly used in the early 20th century. The most influential jazz artists of the…

In The Great Gatsby, there are many conflicting character roles that collide with one another. Almost every individual character conflicts with another one or two characters that cause major drama in the book, which is what the twenties, the “Roaring Twenties” was full of. Since the decade was full of drama, excitement, lies, and occurrences such as the stock market rising, everyone was ready to be their own hero, without ever realizing that they could be a villain. But could the true villain of…

played a role in the one symphony. The symphony is scored for piccolo (4th movement only), two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in B and C, two bassoons, contrabassoon or double bassoon (4th movement only), two horns in E and C, two trumpets, three trombones (alto, tenor, and bass, 4th movement only), timpani (in G-C) and strings. I played this piece for my mom and it is not particularly her cup of tea in music, but she knows it very well. She calls it elevator music but this song is definitely…