Xylophone

Female Ugliness: In the Southern Writings of Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor characterize women with ugliness by rebelling against the Southern ideology of beautiful women. In this essay, I will concentrate on those texts which recognize and embody the female ugliness – Welty’s Petrified Man and Lily Daw and the Three Ladies, and O’Connor’s Good Country People and A Good Man is Hard to Find. The ugly female characters demonstrated in these fictions…

Voyager Group Project For our Voyager Playlist we drew inspiration from different things. The theme we choose for our project is time periods in history. The time period we chose was 19th Century music. The reason we chose this time is because we felt that music was very much alive then. Our playlist is very diverse and we feel it shows a true representation of all the countries we chose. The first song we chose to be on our list is from Kingston, Jamaica. The song is No Woman No Cry by Bob…

The surface can be made of animal hide, wood, metal, or really anything that produces sound. The mallet is used to produce the sound that includes a human hand. Drums include a variety of instruments that make similar sounds to a piano such as a xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, etc. Percussion instruments that must be shaken are mostly made up of contained beads or metal. The most famous percussion instrument the snare drum also has beads with adjustable tension along with metal disks…

Does Music Change Who A Person Reacts To Test? Music has seven definitions. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions insignificant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony,and color. 2. the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both. 3. musical work or compositions for singing or playing. 4. the written or printed score of a musical composition.…

Family of Music When the term orchestra is defined, it is stated to be a group of instruments, especially on combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music. But it is much more than just a group of instruments. More like a family of instruments, and when together they make beautiful classical music for everyone to enjoy. The orchestra is composed of four major instrument families, the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion…

(Scott 1). If you look at the boy named Dominic filmed in “War Dance”, you can see that despite his past captivity and the loss of his brother and parents he is filled with hope to become the best xylophone player that he can be. This hope is what gave Dominic the passion to practice his xylophone, as well as dancing and singing everyday. This hope is what gave Dominic the passion to brave his way all the way to the national school music competition in Kampala and win. Passion is the part of…

never-touched-an-instrument Alli Pecorella to start middle school. I hadn’t even considered playing an instrument during my elementary school years, but the year before middle school, my mom pitched the idea of playing percussion - “You know, the drums and the xylophones and the triangle” - for the school band. I went for it, a little unsure but ready to try to figure it out. It couldn’t be that hard, right? Spoiler alert: it could, in fact, be that hard. The first class was terrifying; I had no…

Music of Slaves duroing the 1400’s, displayed a sense of strength and unity. This included drums and banjos, as well as the use of a balafo -whichj is a type of xylophone. Slave music as described by slave masters was used for may different reasons, such as celebrations/religious ceremonies. In reviewing the Middle Passgae, the documenatrt provided an overview on the captivity of African people, which were turned into slaves. African people were packed like sardines in decks across the Atlantci…

Music from the Pre-Civil war period (early 1800s) was divided into two main types: white music and black music. White music consisted of mostly classical and minstrel music. Black music was mostly religious music; however, there were also some secular black songs. Classical music was heavily influenced by European Composers, and would often be played for wealthy, white people. Minstrel music was played for common people and included blackface, where white people would pretend to be black people…

An orchestra is an ensemble of string, brass, woodwind, percussion and keyboard instruments. The instruments found in each section have different tonal qualities, playing techniques and different ways of producing sound. The string section consists of the violin, the viola, the cello, the double bass and even the harp. These instruments provide the greatest range of expression, intensity and modulation making the string section the foundation of the orchestra. String instruments provide lyrical…