What Is Musical History In Australia

Jacob Perrino 1st hour 9-7-14 second draft

Musical Culture in Australia

Musical history in Australia has become part of America because of the fact that lots of bands in the U.S. have originated from Australia. Australian music has an extensive history stretching back to the indigenous and colonial societies. Australian music is a part of the unique heritage of a 40,000-60,000 year history. The Australian musical sound is about recognition of rhythmic patterns derived from our environment and from things like the natives and the culturally diverse Australian lives. Indigenous music uses the Australian environment to create unique sounds and rhythms. Australian musicians have achieved international recognition
with a unique approach. By doing this, many bands have come out of Australia. This helps to prove that even though a band starts in a different country, they can improve themselves and that band can expand into other countries by creating an image for them. As I just explained, by using the technique of creating rhythms from the environment, many bands have become popular. They have turned the music that is just in the Australian culture, into music heard all around the world.
Australian classical music is represented by ensembles like the “Australian String Quartet”, “Guitar Trek,” and the Stellar Quintet.
Classical music is ‘the serious or conventional music following long established principles rather than a folk, jazz, or popular tradition.” Classical music became very popular between 1550 and the 1900’s. The extent of classical music performance in Australia is shown by the simple statistics from the amount of times concerts were presented. One example is every year around 2,500 concerts of classical music was presented. They used this to show how often classical music in Australia was listened to, and how many concerts people went to just to enjoy the classical music. Duncan Gifford is a great example also. He is an Australian pianist and is a major artist how has created himself with international success in many worldwide concerts. Duncan is described as a “virtuosic and musically eloquent soloist.” He has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has even done concerts in Australasia! Duncan has created a name for himself just by playing the piano. Imagine what other people who are in bands can do for
themselves!
Another area of musical performance in Australia is the military.
When special activities and celebrations are going on in Australia they perform. Military bands perform classical and even some popular music at ceremonies, parades, church services, mass dinners and concerts. The Australian Army Band Corps (AABC) role is to provide the army with all musical support and to promote its public image. They can do this by creating advertisements for billboards, they can help by making commercials for the military, and even radio ads to help promote them. The military bands provide music for ceremonies and training activities. This helps keep everyone more entertained so people don’t get bored during the ceremonies. The Military bands also play ceremonial music when troops deploy or return home to base. When they play the music for them men when the return home or to base, it helps the men feel more welcome in their environment and helps them to see what they did, and them returning is a cause for celebration. They also provide music for royal, federal, state, territory and even local government agencies. The military band helps to enhance morale through
entertainment.
Australian pop music originated in the 1950s and 1960s. Pop music is different from other genres like rock, classical, and country, it uses simple melodies and harmonies to create catchy songs that are widely remembered. By doing this, people can get the song stuck in their head and it makes them want to hear the song again to get it out of their head, making pop music more popular. In recent years Australian pop has become more popular around the world and is becoming widely known. Some of these bands include: Men at Work, Savage Garden, The Easybeats, and one of the newest bands recognized throughout the world is 5 Seconds of Summer. This band is made up of four boys who just wanted to be somebody. 5 Seconds of Summer is very popular to many teenage girls and to many young women. Another type of music that is very popular in Australia is indie music. Indie music is simply just music that is created independently and that is produced independently. It does not fall into a specific genre, and most Indie music that is created can fall into other categories.
Australians have made their culture off of music and they are continuing to develop and create more music even today! Musical culture is known as “the art and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.” This basically is saying that musical culture is the way they have developed in Australia and how they have come to create and establish their lives around music. Of course there are many other types of musical genres in Australia, but I just found these few very interesting. I hope that reading this paper you have found out facts and information that show you a little bit more of the Australian way. Culture is very important in every part of the country and the way people do things has changed over time. As you can see, much of Australian music culture is a lot different but a lot alike American music culture.