When time arrives, A young lady arrived a stage with a piece of paper and made a brief announcement about the concert and what they do, other notice like no photo graphs and others. Then Marrakech Express band arrived the stage with a full band instruments and after gaining the stage and awaiting the crowd’s silence, Samir El Yesfi begins picking the ‘ûd or lute which is what is called guitar in West accompanied by violin by Sandra Wong, Darbûka, the Moroccan bendir by Brett Bowen, and clarinet
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Native North American music is fascinating and complex, and arguably necessary for understanding indigenous culture. McAllester describes three different styles of Native American music to provide the reader with an overview. The first style is the Sioux Grass Dance. The Sioux Grass Dance exemplifies the concept of music as a social event. Even if music is practiced alone sometimes, it usually has a social and cultural dimension. However, Ruggles makes sure to point out that Native North American
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this kind of music before. I enjoyed the slow tempo because it gives me the feeling of relax. The pieces that were performed are “ If You Walked A Mile”, “The Five”, “Variations for Abbey”, “Ion Trails”, “ A Different Drummer”, and “All Our Broken Instruments”. The musical style for “If you Walked A Mile” is classical and electric, for “The Five” is orchestra, and the rest of the pieces are classic and electric. There were drums, computer, marimba, gong, triangle, and timpani as instrumentation of the
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Abstract William Bolcom is recognized as one of the America’s living composers. He is known for Twelve New Etude for piano which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. He not only composed lots of famous piano works, but also did bunch of voice, chamber ensembles, orchestra works. Besides he was as a professor of music at the University of Michigan, he has published variety of music, and appears regularly as a concert pianist and collaboration with his wife. Most of his works span the years 1963 to
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very strict and most people didn't make it into the top bands at Centennial middle school. In addition to that I was also nervous as a result of my recent aquisition of a new trombone that was a higher quality instrument than my previous trombone, and I hadn't fully adjusted to the new instrument. After all of the band students received the audition music for next year we all started practicing
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The clarinet was invented in 1690 by German Musician Johann Denner by making changes to the Chalumeau, which is a double-reeded instrument. He changed it by making it a single reed instrument and adding a register key to make it go higher. When air passes through the clarinet, it vibrates the reed, accompanied by pressing keys, the sound is made. The modern day version of the clarinet we use today was introduced by Hyacinthe Klose in the year 1839. The Clarinet was first introduced into an
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2. Biomechanics of Playing the Piano: Katie Tobik 2.1 Introduction to the Piano The piano is technically an acoustic stringed instrument. It has 88 keys and has a pitch range from A0 to C8. When a key is depressed, it allows a padded tiny hammer to strike a string creating a pitch. 2.1a Basic Mechanism of Playing The piano requires great dexterity and muscle control in the fingers when played at a high level. There are 27 bones and 36 muscles involved in the movement of each hand. This creates
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Concert Report Qiujie (Blair) Pan I went to see a wind band concert that was played by UTSA University band on Oct 1, 2017. The concert was extremely impressive. Even though it was my first time listening to the live wind band playing, I enjoyed it very much. The band played six songs in total. All the songs were composed in the 20th centuries. Among these songs, I really like the song named Ride by Samuel Hazo (1966). It is a fast song and I did have a feeling that the tempo of this song is taking
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One of the most common and vivid memories of music that I have in my life has been experienced while attending church. As a child I lived in a split religion household, my mother was a practicing Jehovah’s Witness and my great-grandmother was a Baptist Christian. Throughout my childhood my experiences with gospel music was varied. When I attended the Kingdom Hall where my mother worshipped, the songs were slow tempo congregational sung music that was accompanied by a piano. As a kid this was boring
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Quarter 3 Concert Review I decided to go to a Jazz Ensemble Concert at Seminole State College. The performances that were given were excellent. Each of their songs had an interesting aspect that kept me very intrigued. They had a special guest named Major Bailey, a major trombonist for the Jazz Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band. He performed in in the Seminole State Jazz Combo and transcribed a song called “Makin Whoopie”. He was given the oprotnity to direct this to the ensemble and have
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