Portsmouth, NH. 2 Introduction Music is a significant part of our lives. People listen to music on the radio at home and in their car; they watch music videos on television or hand held technology; they buy CDs or download music; and they attend concerts. People also hear music in stores, restaurants, sporting events, and doctors’ offices (Schellenberg, Peretz, & Vieillard, 2008). Music is very important to many adolescents and they spend a considerable amount of their time listening to music. One
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This style of music, known as Jazz, was performed with the audience in mind. It was heavily influenced by ragtime and washboard bands. Jazz is also highly competitive since the musicians wanted to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Their differences were accomplished through the use of timbres, improvisation, and many other characteristic of Jazz. Louis Armstrong’s version of “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” illustrates the characteristics of Jazz, is completely unique to his style
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Jevon Tyree Afromusic Response Paper 11/11/13 “Dizzy Response” Jazz has played a major role in the history of society as well as the blue’s which both allowed individuals to succeed in the prejudice discriminative years of the 1900’s. As I was reading in the article “Dizzy Atmosphere”: The challenge of Bepop by Eric Porter, I realized that the history of music and where it has evolved to is somewhat surprising. Artist such as Charlie Parker, Scott DeVeaux, Duke Ellington and John Birks Gillespie
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1 Jazz Music Appreciation I Study Guide Styles: Characteristcs: Blues – Refers to the form of vocal and instrumental music and to the style of performance Ragtime – Dance hall and Saloon Music. Piano music that flourished from the 1890s to about 1915 New Orleans Style – Also known as Dixieland. Played by a small group of 5 to 8 performers Swing – Developed in the 1920’s and flourished from 35 to 45. Big Band era or Swing era. 14 to 15 performers in a swing band. 3 sections
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ABSTRACT Title: PERCEIVED EFFECTS OF SCREAMO MUSIC TO THE SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT OF THE STIGMATINE YOUTH MOVEMENT MEMBERS Author: JOHN LERY MAAMBONG ANASTACIO Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication School Year: 2009 – 2010 Rationale This study aims to know the significant relationship of the profile of the respondents and the perceived effects of screamo music to the spiritual enrichment of the Stigmatine Youth Movement (SYM) Statement of the problem This study Is to determine the
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the common sounds that could be heard during the 1920s. The Jazz Age incorporated more than just jazz, with blues booming, ballads and ragtime filling the air, and show tunes enrapturing audiences on and off the stage, the 1920s were alive with all kinds of music. The 1920s brought significant changes to music in America with new musicians, styles, and innovations, all of which would influence music around the world for years to come. Jazz music was a significant source of music in the 1920s, a style
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Evan Brock 04/05/2013 Lester Young Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He also played trumpet, violin, and drums. Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument. He played with a cool tone and used sophisticated harmonies, using "a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs
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The Glazounov Saxophone Concerto Alexander Konstantinovich Glazounov was a Russian composer, music teacher and conductor. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1865 to his book-publisher father and pianist mother, from the start it would seem that his life was already in motion to being a musical one. Glazounov met Rimsky-Korsakov (famous for orchestral works such as Scheherazade), at a young age and was inspired to begin study at the piano at the age of nine and began composing works at the young
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Angela Marie Murphy American Literature Ella Fitzgerald “ The First Lady of Song “ LaKeah Wilkins March 11,2013 Ella Fitzgerald was born to William and Temperance Fitzgerald on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. Ella’s parent’s divorced when she was only a month old and her mother moved
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The Rock and Roll Blues In B.B King’s song “Every Day I have the blues” the song is introduced with the twelve-bar blues chord progression. The song uses a guitar as its main solo instrument, and in some of the live versions that are out there a drum accompanies the song as a steady rhythm in the background. This is known as a backbeat that generally occurs on the first and third beats of a four-beat measure. B.B King uses guitar improvisation in between each of the vocal verses to lead him into
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