Samba and Tango - A Comparison Curitiba Travel Blog › entry 1 of 1 › view all entries June 29th‚ 2006 – by: philgadomski The samba and tango are very unique styles of music that developed in Brazil and Argentina respectively. Despite their similar origins and evolutions‚ these music styles still have their differences‚ and are as different as they countries whose culture and history they now greatly represent. The following examines the similarities and differences of the samba and tango
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Tiffany Townsend History and Sociology of Rock Music August 25‚ 2014 Topic No. 2 Louis Armstrong was one of the many people who have influence jazz music over the years. Although we may not realize it‚ he had the most influence in the jazz world during his time and is well known today for the changes that he made to the jazz world many years ago. First is the impact that he had on the way jazz music was played. Louis Armstrong began revolutionizing the sound of jazz music in the 1920s when
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anger. The first movement is full of all of those feelings and more‚ however it is the pianist who decides which of them will triumph over the rest. Pianists do so through techniques using musical aspects such as tempo‚ dynamics‚ accents‚ and syncopation to name a few. This paper will discuss four different interpretations of the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata performed by a diverse range of musicians. The musicians include German classical pianist‚ Wilhelm Kempff‚ American piano legend
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I attended a jazz concert at a theater. The audience was extremely respectful and encouraging towards the musicians. They clapped after every performance and particularly after every single solo. I did not notice this until the director thanked the audience for that. I thought that was such a sweet gesture. The atmosphere was great. Even though this was a university concert‚ it was as if I was attending a formal one. The first piece‚ Hard Sock Dance by Quincy Jones and Earnest Bailey reflected the
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Jazz is a mix of music from marching bands as well as blues and Ragtime. Jazz is a type of music genre that has black American origin and is characterized by a regular or forceful rhythm‚ improvisation‚ and syncopation. Jazz’s most common instruments are brass and woodwind instruments and piano although the guitar and violin are occasionally used. Some different styles of Jazz are Dixieland‚ swing‚ bebop‚ and free jazz. The history of Jazz started in the South in the United States. The foundation
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2002: alternates between maj and min. based on descending 3 note motif. Chord progression- Eflat major‚ Bflat min and Fminor. Bass note held for duration of each chord. Piano moves up a third aftr scnd chorus. 4/4 time‚ but not sounding that way syncopation emphasis on up beat. Written in 8ths notes structure: 1-2-3‚ 1-2-3‚ 1-2. Bass drum introduction‚ with emphasis on 3rd beat. Drums drives the song‚ plays simultaneously
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included the organ‚ drums‚ horn section‚ electric bass and electric guitar with new modulating effects. Rhythm The Rhythm for funk dates back to Saharan African music tradition‚ where they played with on and off beat structure to which we call syncopation. This style had a revival in new orleans in 1940s before James Brown’s and his rhythm section introduced it country-wide with great effect. Funk Creates intense Groove by using Strong Guitar riffs and Bass Lines. A big Funk charateristic is to have
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Music 407 Chapter 1: What is world music? A Point of Departure: Five Propositions for Exploring World Music 1. The basic property of all music is SOUND * Tone – the duration (length)‚ frequency (pitch)‚ amplitude (loudness)‚ timbre (quality of sound). * All sounds have the potential to be tones 2. The sounds (and silences) that comprise a musical work organized in some way * Music is a form of organized sound * Listening: CD 1:1 (Beethoven’s Symphony #9) & CD 1:2 (Japanese
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Joseph Kerman‚ in his 1985 book Musicology‚ stated that musicology had "come to mean the study of the history of Western music in the high-art tradition musicology is perceived as dealing essentially with the factual‚ the documentary‚ the verifiable‚ the analysable‚ the positivistic." Richard Middleton defines musicology as "the scientific study of music." Nicholas Cook‚ in his article What is Musicology?‚ claims that musicology "is all about the knowledge that underlies the enjoyment of music
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music (disjunct melodies‚ wide intervals‚ small but colorful ensembles) with the dark and somewhat disturbing elements of modernism. Bernstein did not shy away from dissonance‚ and he also incorporated jazz elements (such as brass and rhythmic syncopation) into the equation. During the opening credits‚ we can hear a solo French horn followed by a small music ensemble. This is expected of the modernist technique – to start off with one instrument followed by others mirroring the opening melody
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