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artistic movements that has more acceptance both inside and outside of the continent. African music has a distinct rhythm produced by the main instruments the drums; other instruments are incorporated to give harmony to the composition such as bells, xylophones (also called marimba in several African nations), guitars, African trumpets (in some places called vuvuzela or lepatata mambu), and other ones. Some famous music styles are namely, Afrobeat (from Nigeria), Azonto (from Ghana), Coupé…

On Friday, October 9, 2015, the Moore’s Opera House presented a performance by the Wind Ensemble. The Wind Ensemble consisted of many wind instruments as well as six percussion players. The program offered six different pieces. All musical compositions included different dynamics and tempos; as well as each piece having its own genre to create an entertaining orchestra concert. The first piece that was performed was the “Rocky Point Holiday” (1996) by Ron Nelson. In the introduction, the piece…

characteristics of this piece of music compared to music from the romantic period is there is giant leaps. In addition, the orchestra introduced more instruments like bass clarinet and piccolo, to add richer colour they added some percussion section like xylophones, drums, harps, and bells in it. It was always believed the bigger, the better at that period. This big change gave a stronger rhythm and hence led the audience to whole scenario like they were in the forest. Overall, this allows the…

I have three weeks left of my freshman year, and so far this year has been quite the journey. Although, the journey has kind of sucked if I’m being honest. High school has been alright, but middle school was way better. I miss the nice teachers, the roll schedule, and much more. The classes have been easy this year, but I would prefer a challenge rather than just easy work to keep us busy. I honestly haven’t learned very much this year. I never really dreaded going to school until this year, and…

metal music stands that read “BSH” in white text. Surrounding the white walls are white padded lockers. Most of the lockers were consumed with a cased instrument and locked in with a blue colored padlock. Towards the back of this room there was a xylophone, marimba, chimes, and timpani. There was also a drum closet that had snare drums, bass, drums, quint toms, and an excess amount of percussive equipment. My drumline and I went to our practice room where we use drum pads on music stands. The…

Equatorial Guinea is a small country on the west coast of Africa and has five offshore islands (Bernault 346). They gained independence on the 12th of October in 1986 after they had been under Spanish control for 190 years. They are currently under the control of President Obiang, and he has been in power for 37 years (The World Factbook). The Prime Minister is Vicente Ehate Tomi (Infoplease). The capital is Malabo, and it is located on the island of Bioko (The World Factbook). Equatorial…

Unoccupied stage occupied with only percussion instruments inside of Ford Hall. A sea of people continues to fill the vacant chairs surrounding me inside of this vast auditorium to hear the Ithaca College percussion ensemble. The audience gives the impression that this hall is being filled by music major’s and families just eager to support their loved ones spilling out with joy. I was so surprised that there were so many young audience members that were not music majors that had just come to…

My ranking is least favorite to most favorite with the exception with Varese poem Electronique and John Cage sonatas and interlude I could not figure out which I like the less, so I decided to place both at the bottom of the list. This period was not my favorite period so the musical choices I had was not very appealing. Varese 's Poem Electronique concept of using different noise to compose music was very intriguing and exciting but the execution of this concept was disappointing as it had no…

would not exist in modern day society if the Indians never traveled to Indonesia. If India never came to Indonesia, Indonesian music would not be compromised of gamelan music, which is a percussion type orchestra compromised of bronze and wooden xylophones, kecapi, a string instrument, gendang drums, flute, iron gongs, and angklung, a bamboo-made frame (Nayyar). Without a direct influence from India that can…

The show depicts a quirky, young woman named Betty who is often regarded as unattractive by others. Betty lands a job as an assistant at a fashion magazine called “Mode”. Though her physical appearance is often mocked and humiliated, Betty gains her colleague’s respect and eventually finds her way into the fashion industry through her hard work and positive attitude. Meanwhile, other women who work in Mode tend to be careful about the impressions others have on their physical appearance, thus…