encounter with jazz music during World War II led to increased nationalism‚ steps toward equality‚ and a change in culture. Before the introduction of jazz music‚ the Great Depression negatively impacted the lives of the Americans. With the Great Depression‚ there was a major decline in America’s economy‚ which also led to the decline in social stability. Many Americans lived a life in poverty and faced many struggles. The Americans were living their lives in hardships‚ which
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The interpretation of jazz style is crucial to the element of rhythmic groove in any jazz ensemble performance. Today‚ many written arrangements for both large and small jazz ensembles are well marked with articulations and expression markings. However‚ in some cases there is nothing to guide the instructor or student. This book addresses some of the articulation and style situations that are commonly found in jazz music. These situations can be generalized into a set of guidelines that can be used
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New York City was the cultural center of the U.S. and was the jazz center as well. Most of the city’s black jazz musicians lived in Harlem‚ which had been the creative focal point of African American culture since the Harlem Renaissance. During its formative period‚ bebop’s roots in Harlem helped to preserve its connections to the African-American jazz community. That neighborhood provided an ideal environment for this musical experimentation‚ as these musicians often played together at musicians’
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World Music 330 11/6/2014 Concert Report #2 On November 5th 2014 Sac State University’s Department of Music performed a Latin Jazz Ensemble. They also had American Rivers Latin Jazz Ensemble‚ and California State University of Los Angeles’s Ensemble perform as well. The Sacramento State Ensemble played a range of Latin music styles like‚ merengue‚ cha-cha‚ mambo‚ Afro Cuban‚ and the rumba. CSULA performed some Afro- Carribean music such as Salsa‚ Timba‚ and Latin Jazz. American Rivers Ensemble
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What about the nineteen twenties‚ the jazz age? This new sound called jazz is music became recently discovered that’s how it begun. To anyone that lived in this era had a blast en-joying new sound of music. The 1920S were known as the “Jazz Age or era”‚ this dec-ade started when the our American soldiers were coming back home and had won the greatest international conflict in our history and had to be dealt with nervous energy stored up and even in the unexpended into the war. Anew president had
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JAZZ IMPROVISATION At the heart of jazz lies improvisation. Jazz improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating fresh melodies over the continuously repeating cycle of chord changes of a tune. Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. For example‚ improvisation is like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text. Most improvisation is structured‚ with certain predetermined structures shaping
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Bebop jazz‚ which "slowly evolved from late swing and transition period jazz" (Jazz and the Beat Generation)‚ was quite a shock to the white population when it first appeared on the scene during the Depression. This intricate compilation of sounds became the staple for all that was anti-commercial and as much a part of African-American roots as possible. The reason for such separation between blacks and whites when bebop became so popular is that white musicians were in it for the commercial success
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Music 137 Concert Report December 15‚ 2012 Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin‚ Freiburg in 1987 The concert that I watched on the internet was a full concert that took place in Freiburg‚ Germany in 1987 and was presented by two of the best classic guitarists of all-time Francisco Sánchez Gómez better known as Paco de Lucia from Spain and John McLaughlin from England. The music that they play is all classical music in its purity and between the submitted songs which were mostly songs composed
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In chapter fourteen in “Blue like Jazz”‚ Miller writes “when a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone‚ because it isn’t good for a person to be alone”(Miller 158). Miller states that God created human kind to have communities and not to be alone. Throughout Millers lifetime‚ he lived alone for years and discovered the only thing that it led too was self-obsession. He soon learned how wrong this action was and how he needed to change his selfish ways in
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MUS 231 - SAMPLE BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS When in doubt‚ consult: Kate L. Turabian‚ A Manual for Writers of Term Papers‚ Theses‚ and Dissertations‚ 6th ed.‚ rev. John Grossman and Alice Bennett (Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 1996) A useful and concise resource can be found at the University of Indiana Music Library website. http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3851 BOOK Burkholder‚ J. Peter. All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing.
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