Throughout the past few decades‚ our music taste‚ along with our society‚ has developed into an expressive community. People of all ages have been using music to express themselves for thousands of years. The 1920s‚ as well as 2000s are prominently known for their groundbreaking new sound. The two were ferociously popular in their time‚ but how can two genres‚ each with a different sound‚ be so popular? The purpose of the composer‚ instruments used and the sound produce‚ are vastly different between
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of Salvador‚ Bahia—an area that harbored the most slaves from Africa to its main slave port in Salvador—Africans came and left a legacy of African culture such as Candomblé‚ samba‚ and music. Brazilian music has always played a big role in the culture. Music in Brazil is a ‘national passion. (BBC docu.) The music composed in Brazil was used to build its national identity and also produce unity among Brazilians. As mentioned in the Brazilian Sound‚ samba is comfort‚ celebration‚ escape and abandon
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I had never listened a outside life concert before‚ so it was the first time I went to outside to enjoy a life concert last Friday. I was very exicted because I never have opportunity to enjoy a outside life concert before and I have no idea about how it works‚ so I think it is very mystiftication. The style of this concert is Jazz‚ and there are six main instruments of this concert‚ including‚ drum‚ saxphone‚ trumpet‚ piano‚ trombone and violoncello. These six instruments combine together and had
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“Pop music sucks.” With those simple words I have aligned my chakras and transcended the mortal realm. I am enlightened. I do not consume mainstream media like some mindless sheep; I only listen to real music. Music with meaningful lyrics by obscure indie artists: the ones that sing exclusively about cigarettes‚ sadness‚ and our vapid society. Flash forward a few years later and I am being awakened to full consciousness at a One Direction concert. I had temporarily blacked out from my music-induced
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Catalina Concert Report I went to Catalina Bar & Grill which located at Sunset Blvd‚ Hollywood to see a Jazz concert‚ featuring Kevin O’Neal and Patrice Quinn‚ along with Oscar Hernandez‚ Sid Jacobs and Aaron Serfaty on Thursday‚ Mar 06‚ 2014. My roommate and me were lost and once and had a hard time trying to locate Catalina but fortunately we made it on time anyway. According to our professor the club is a nice place and indeed I have to admit that after I taste the food there. We finished our
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The concert that I attended on November 4th was the Music of the Night‚ a musical theatre gala performance‚ which was performed by the faculty of the Department of Music from the University of Arkansas. They performed thirteen songs that were all performed by piano and their voices. Each song was unique from one another ranging from funny‚ happy‚ upbeat rhythms to songs that made you feel sad emotions. Of the thirteen songs that were performed the two that stood out to me were Whatever Happened to
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intensified. After years of speculation and hearsay‚ China finally revalued the RMB by 2.1% in July 2005. There are arguments currently on how and to what extent the official rate of the yuan should be further revalued. However‚ due to a de facto real appreciation of the yuan relative to its neighbor countries since 1994‚ the competitiveness of China’s exports has been reduced. It would be therefore very difficult for the Chinese authorities to allow the yuan to revalue considerably in the near future. This
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Raga is a form a of Indian Classical music‚ which in Hindi means‚ “beauty”‚ “harmony”‚ and “melody.” The Raga performance in Queensborough Community College consisted of two vocalists and one tabla player. The type of Raga that was performed is called Jog. It is one of the more popular Indian Classical songs performed. It sails away to ascending and descending‚ where there is a space between the notes‚ which is explored by the performer. Raga music is expressed as spiritual and harmonic‚ the instruments
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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” -Alphonse de Lamartine It is no small fact that during the Romantic Period emotion‚ sentiment‚ and sensation were center-stage. The people wanted freedom from the age of reason and yearned to express themselves. This newfound ideal soon drifted from everyday life into the arts. Romantic writers and painters loved to tell stories and express moods with their art‚ and musicians were eager to join the trend. The ideal for the
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The University Of North Texas College Of Music presents: UNT Concert Orchestra I went to the UNT Concert Orchestra on Wednesday‚ October 3rd‚ 2012. It was held in Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center at 8:00 pm. The Concert was led by Conductor Clay Couturiaux and featured soloist Christopher Deane‚ who played the Marimba. The first piece was Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky‚ Op. 35a (1894) by Anton Arensky (1861-1906). The piece was written in 1894‚ in tribute to Pyotr
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