Vocal music

Music has always been perceived incorrectly. People think it’s just instruments repeating the same chord progression over and over again with a vocalist overlaying the instruments. Making a solid, good sounding track takes much more work and effort than that. Behind the sound and design of the song is a producer. The producer mixes and shapes the audio to make the song sound as clean as possible. By tweaking volumes, filters, EQing, side chaining, etc, a producer is able to make the track flow…

famous with. Find out more about the iconic singer in the first half of this list below. Number Fifteen: He Has Very Eclectic Taste in Music. This should not be surprising to anyone who is familiar with the range of his music. But his taste ranges from alternative rock to all types of electronic music. For example, recently he has stated that he was listening to music by composer Ennio Morricone as well as the late footwork pioneer DJ Rashad. Number Fourteen: His Father Was an Amateur Boxer.…

Steel drum music has the ability to move an audience like no other type of music. From the first note, the songs exude a happiness from within each pannist. Even with the slower pieces, you can close your eyes and imagine yourself in a tropical surrounding. The AISD concert, conducted by CJ Menge, which took place April 14, 2012 certainly did not disappoint. The concert was performed in Austin, Texas and featured steel drum bands from seven middle and high schools in the area. The first piece,…

He has also written songs for rock groups. Nilsson wrote the song “One” made popular by The Three Dog Night. Two of his recordings have received Grammys: Best Male Contemporary Vocal for “Everybody’s Talkin’” which was a prominent song in the movie “Midnight Cowboy” which won an Academy Award in 1969 and Best Male Pop Vocal for “Without You” in 1972. His most notable album which included both of his greatest hits “Without You” and “Coconut” came out in 1971 called Nilsson Schmilsson. It also…

Johann Sebastian Bach and mass in B minor The Baroque period is well known for the period in western European art music from 1600-1750. In this time, middle class people started to grow up by doing art work and music. Kings and queens had power over their kingdoms. The time was for ornate elegance in agriculture, music, and in painting. The baroque period has different characteristics, and Johann Sebastian is a well-known for Baroque period composer. His toccata et fugue and mass in B minor…

“The Misshapen Pearl”. Now to compare such vibrant and spectacular music such as Pachelbel’s Canon and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to a misshapen pearl sounds ludicrous but bear with me. You will understand before I finish explaining. It got its terminology from the nineteenth century critics who view people such as Bach and Handel’s music as being overly ornamented and exaggerated. Though a very crude way of viewing such exquisite music it has long since shed its derogatory connotations,…

It is worth mentioning that most of the quotations are from large Symphonic works of composers who were living and writing concomitantly with Mahler. Berio himself in an interview assumes the emphasis placed on 20th century music, most specifically in the last one hundred years. Although the preference for modern works points towards a post-tonal harmonic structure, the majority of quotations are of a more moderate nature, such as Stravinsky, Ravel and Debussy rather than the full-blown…

From the careers I viewed, I am most interested in becoming a music technician, because I would be able to work with music, which I love, and technology, which is great. One of the reasons I am taking this class is to see if I will want to pursue a career in the technological field. Music technicians mix/edit/separate vocals, instruments, and other sounds. The minimum education is a high school diploma; degree programs may increase your chance at earning a position, and those only take 1-2 years…

Anthony Seeger illustrates the musical and cultural traditions of the Suya Indians in his paper, “What Can We Learn When They Sing? Vocal Genres of the Suya Indians of Central Brazil.” Music is a very important aspect of Suya culture, but musicians and anthropologists have found it difficult to document why their music is so important. One of the reasons that makes it so difficult is that in some cases, the Suya Indians’ performance of one song can last up to fifteen hours. Also, their…

an effect that added a unique quality to the music, but sometimes felt overwhelming and cluttered. Unimagine maintained the overall sound but added clarity, dampening some of the heaviness and electronics that clouded the music. The third album is likely to sit somewhere in between: “It’s almost a combination of the two records. Unimagine was a lot cleaner, crisp and refined, whereas I think we’re heading for a bit of a darker side…