Vocal music

on guitar and vocals, Patrick Simmons on guitar, keyboard, and vocals, John Hartman on percussion, and Dave Shogren. They formed and played in Southern California, and eventually became The Doobie Brothers. They were named after a slang term for marijuana, and their genes included soft rock, pop music, blue-eyed soul, jazz, and rhythm & blues. Their band has had many various members over the years, but the members that played on Toulouse Street were Tom Johnston (guitar and vocals), Patrick…

A STUDY ON HOW MOZART’S CLASSICAL MUSIC COULD AFFECT TO BOOST STUDENT’S SPIRIT WHILE DOING HOMEWORK. 1. INTRODUCTION Classical music could divide into major time divisions into the early music period, which includes the Medieval (500-1400) and the Renaissance eras (1400-1600). Next, common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600-1750), Classical (1750-1830), and Romantic eras (1804-1910). A well-known otolaryngologist from France, Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis had started the study on…

because they are all something that I listen to regularly and they demonstrate a variety of styles in music. Patsy Cline was an iconic female country singer that won awards at the Deejay Convention, won Billboard’s “Most Promising Country & Western Female Artist,” and Music Vendor’s “Greatest Achievement in Records” all just for “Walking After Midnight” (Jones, 1994, p. 159). “Walkin’ After Midnight” music was written by Alan Block and the lyrics were written by Don Hecht ("Walkin' After…

Music is always in a constant cycle of change. Over 2000 years, the traditional customs of Western music was no different. Due to the social and religious developments that took place in Europe during these periods of time, concepts such as notes, scales, intervals, ideas all told stories about the character and lives of people through music. Music is a form that is defined as an expression of emotion through sound. To history, music is more than that. Utilizing what we know, recognizing…

Vento Sur is a Calarts –All-Alumni group composed of Joao Junqueira, Julissa Bozman, Alex Bozman, and Jay Gravatt. They perform music in Spanish and Portuguese languages both. I saw many interesting instruments, and after other songs end the guitarist Joao Junqueira explained about the traditional instruments to audiences. First they performed Adentro Cojutepeque dance music from Mexico and violinist Julissa Bozman featured the song. Vento Sur arranged the song to play violin melody line, and I…

my first Vocal Performer report, I chose to review the classical tenor named Juan Diego Florez in his performance of the French opera La fille du regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment). Juan Diego was Juan Diego Flórez is a renowned operatic tenor that was born in Lima, Peru on January 13, 1973. Juan Diego studied at the Curtis Institute of Music where he is said to have developed the Bel Canto technique. Bel Canto is a term related to Italian singing and as well as a particular music style…

Hindustani Vocal Virtuoso The artist I will be discussion in the following paper will be Meeta Pandit. Meeta pandit is a classical Hindustani vocal artist accompanied by tabla percussion and harmonium aerophone instruments. The event took place in the Music Building. Before attending the performance I expected Meeta Pandit’s music to be like the type of music one associates with Bollywood culture, upbeat with various dance numbers. However, I obviously didn’t know much about Indian music and…

most prominent and beautiful compositions in the music history. Names of the famous composers of this era, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi are well-known even to those, who have no interest or familiarity in music. Modes, tonalities, melodies, the presence of rhythm, dynamics, texture, style of performance, and intended audience, all these criteria make the Baroque music distinct from the music of its preceding periods. The music of the Middle Ages revolved around the life…

and died on the 1st of April 1917. Scot Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Texas. He was greatly helped by his teachers to develop and understand his knowledge of music in his early years. In his young age, the composer grew up in Texarkana where he was involved in the formation of a vocal quartet and also taught guitar and mandolin (Berlin, 1996). In the late 1880’s, Joplin voluntarily left his the railway laborer job and went around South America as an itinerant…

time period. These vocal forms of the Baroque period were based on the monadic style. In some cases, some of these forms like the cantata crossed over boundaries of sacred and secular and were used for both. Specifically, the cantata was one of the most prominent composition forms of the baroque period and it originated in Italy. The word “cantata” comes from Italian word “cantare” meaning “to sing” (Schulenberg 82). It developed as an extended piece of accompanied secular music and was…