Vocal music

Since 1924 and 1937, music educators and advocates have diligently planned, designed, and implemented music education in schools and communities for all ages. PMs who chose healthy lifestyles through the life course enjoy community music ensembles to maintain physical skills (Saarikallio & Erkkila, 2007), fine motor skills (Bruhn & Schroter, 2009), and increased brain grey matter…

Queen Street West, The Sinners Choir performed in the genre of Americana, Free Jazz to an audience of around twenty-five people. Free Jazz was first introduced in the summer of 1960 when Saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his band recorded This is Our Music for Atlantic records. In the album, “Coleman reordered structural principles to offer the members of his group maximum melodic and rhythmic freedom,” (Anderson 2007, 1). He accomplished an improvised approach to the Jazz genre by providing the…

The music on the first of these CDs was sampled from all over Africa and for that reason there were a huge variety of musical styles in the CD. The second CD was a collection of music from the Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest, and most of its music held a consistent, though very foreign song style. My final CD sampled African blues musicians from all over Africa as well as the United States. This CD also had a wide selection of musical styles due to the different cultural and…

Ever since I can remember I have been preoccupied with music. As a child I remember obsessing over my dad's CD collection and spending lengthy afternoons just listening to them with him. My home was never silent there was always music playing in the living room, the sounds of drums being banged on or guitar amps booming from the basement. If you ask my mother she might tell you this was bothersome but if you ask me it was perfect. As I grew older my obsession quickly became a passion. I…

The reason why engineer’s might bring in effects to a vocal track is mostly to create an aural space or even to add excitement. Many engineers describe effects as something that can make the vocal track sound deeper, wider or even bigger. “Everything has to be bigger always. Effects are makeup. It’s cosmetic surgery. I can take a very great song by a very great band and mix it with no effects on it at all, and it’ll sound good, and I can take the same song and mix it with effects and it’ll sound…

several classmates and I have assembled an eight-part vocal ensemble, accompanied by a pianist. We have chosen a piece that also has eight-parts, to add variety and layers on the basis of each vocal part. This piece we are performing as an ensemble is titled “Weep No More,” arranged and composed by David N. Childs, and adapted from a poem by John Keats. David N. Childs is a well-known freelance composer of music, with his ideology being, “music has the power to transform lives for the better,”…

Individual Music Analysis Paranoid Android by Radio Head La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf Lily Chapman, Term 4, 2014 Musical elements can be manipulated to change the mood and emotions that are interpreted by a song to the audience. By selecting and studying two contrasting pieces, it will demonstrate how the composers portray specific emotions through the different use of music elements and concepts. The two songs that will be contrasted are La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf, and Paranoid Android by…

I am Mamawa Konuwa, the manager of Payton MacDonald and Tom Hammes, performers of North Indian music. I’m writing to you in the hopes that you incorporate this unique act in the next 2015 UW Madison World Music Festival. I am aware that this nationally renowned festival is full of musically talented people from all different genres, performances and backgrounds and I am thoroughly convinced that t my North Indian Musical act will bring even more of a diverse crowd of individuals. The ensemble…

plays different classical music throughout the day. This happens to have five different kinds of radio which are Classical King FM 98.1, The King FM Evergreen Channel, The King FM Seattle Symphony, The King FM Seattle Opera Channel and The King FM Arts Channel. I listen to many different pieces in each of the different radio stations. Personally, I preferred the The King FM Seattle Symphony. I liked the music that best, because it had more elements added because it was music actually played…

Often times iconic scenes in a movie will have amazing music, sound effects and vocals to tie the whole scene together, and with all of these, visuals are not really needed, they will only give a crystal clear image of what the director has already portrayed with sound. One example could be the shower scene in Psycho; if you turn off the screen and only listen to the sound; an almost crystal clear visual is made because you can hear what is actually going on. Another perfect example is the…