... by ear or actually reading music. Really studying music involves learning music theory and musical form. To understand music you must first know how the song is structured based on chords and rhythmic passages. Blues originated in Mississippi around the nineteenth century. Blues or "12-bar blues", as it is called, has a standard chord progression. The song never changes, but allows ... differentiate the musicians. Swing is a style of Jazz that reminds me of a walking horse. Blues or flatted notes are notes that are lowered a half step. Instead of hearing major chords, the chords are act...

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... Spring, the mood stayed at an uplifting, cheery, type mood and never shifted. The predominant instrument, as it sounds, is the violin. The organ may be used to play certain chords on notes in the melody in hopes to sound pleasing to the ear. Vivaldi's Spring is in ternary form. The first section matches the last section and the second section ... stands different and in the middle. Because this piece carries one melody at a time, it would be assumed that it is monophonic. Because chords accompany the melody line (probably given by the organ), the first movement of this piece is homophon...

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... I still had this longing to play. When I saw someone that played an instrument fluently I would envy them and wanted to start again. One time my dad showed me a couple of chords on his guitar. I learned my first song that I played over and over, like a cd player when put on repeat. I put the idea aside for a while. Then one day my best ... they just wouldn't listen. Switching from one chord to another would take me all verse long. There were also so many chords to memorize, but I stuck to it and went small step at a time. Right now I know most of the important chords and of the basic st...

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... because of the horrid guitar playing that punk rockers display. I see this topic differently than most because I play the instrument and I know these guys make music by playing the same chords over and over again and to me that gets real old quickly. Just listen to a couple songs and tell me I"m wrong, if I was rebel and my hair was in a mohawk ... standard tuning day in and day out at every show they play. What's so fun and cool about that? Diversity is something all bands should have, and playing the same chords over and over in every song is not diversity. Alternative rock and rock m...

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... in a dotted rhythm that reappears throughout the entire piece. The melody is carried by the violin which is another characteristic of this work but in the opening, is presented with chords in the piano creating homophonic texture. Aside from the restless development section in this first movement, the wistful mood set by the opening theme is felt throughout the sonata. Moving ... returned the same as in the opening. Turning dark, momentum is built and urgency grows. The urgency ends with pounding chords before the themes are yet again repeated only slightly varied. Tempo slows down as t...

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... Susanna is symbolic of the speaker's own desire for the one he lusts after as expressed in the throb of the "basses of their beings," in "witching chords" (lines 13-14). Music is reintroduced as instruments are used as a metaphor for the elders themselves, and the music of these instruments as their sexual desire for Susanna. Here ... , a combination of alliteration and onomatopoeia is used to emphasize the auditory imagery of these instruments, with "witching" both betraying the spooky, occult quality of the chords and onomatopoetically representing their sound. The second part of the p...

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... instruments have very specific roles in this tune. The trombonist plays in the tailgate style, trying to make up for the lack of a bass player. The pianist franticly plays the chords to the song. The clarinet plays obbligato to the melody and handles the stop time fills while the cornet plays the actual melody. The song's form is very repetitive and ... (this song is in 4/4). Some of the instruments have similar roles to "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step". The trombonist plays in a tail gate style and the piano player plays the chords in a similar fashion. The drummer uses some percussive tools...

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... instruments have very specific roles in this tune. The trombonist plays in the tailgate style, trying to make up for the lack of a bass player. The pianist franticly plays the chords to the song. The clarinet plays obbligato to the melody and handles the stop time fills while the cornet plays the actual melody. The song's form is very repetitive and ... (this song is in 4/4). Some of the instruments have similar roles to "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step". The trombonist plays in a tail gate style and the piano player plays the chords in a similar fashion. The drummer uses some percussive tools...

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... ensembles. Some instruments, once in favor, have gone out of style - the banjo for example, largely replaced by the guitar in the 1930's, where a smoother, quieter form of rhythm and chords was required. Other instruments have virtually disappeared only to come back later with a different role to play. This is seen with the tuba, which began as a rhythm instrument, and was ... st louis toodle o". Ellington and his trumpeter bubber miley jointly worked out this 1927 recording. Miley's talking trumpet carried the first two of three themes, while the saxophones walk in chords behind him. O...

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... music became increasingly more important as the new basso continuo, idea formed. In the basso continuo soprano and alto voices in the music would be constructed on a platform of bass chords that gave meaning and structure to the music. During the Baroque period new forms of presenting music were invented. The cantata and oratorio were created as new forms of vocal ... like a happy dance during this period. During the classical period tonality was brought to new heights. New complex harmonic textures were used that facilitated the use of new tones and chords within a key. Like in the Bar...

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... , in other words I paint the American scene." Stuart Davis' works of the late 1930's celebrate the urban and technological environment and are quite complex and frequently recall Legers's brightly coloured geometric forms. Early works depict saloons and ragtime musicians. Titles and images of his works in the 30's reflect syncopation and unusual rhythm of jazz, particularly swing . Jean-Michel Basquiat was ... . The colors give a feeling of jazz with the use of blues and cool colors. The use of the warm colors shows the unpredictability of jazz. There are many forms of geometric shapes us...

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... of music. Debussy created many compositions for piano, from the rather conventional, "Pour le piano," to the austere Etudes. Debussy thought in a new manner. His music lacked decent resolution of chords. This was a completely new style of music, in which certain 20th-century ideas were formed around. The early 20th century was indeed revolutionary in the music world. There did not ... ...

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... into music and add emotion and excitement into what the audience hears and feels. American became more theme driven, shaped by dynamics, rhythm and tempos, expressive with the use of chords and ideas not seen or heard before. American music was driven to push away from the norm establish in past eras of music and establish a new one. Interesting enough American ... ...

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... rhythms performed in an exaggerated triplet swing style. Frequently the tuba or string bass plays on the first and third beats of each measure, with the banjo or piano playing chords on beats two and four. This is known as "two-beat" style, and gives the music a sound similar to ragtime. "Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band- was one of the first ... ...

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... 's style. Though, the romantic works tend to have more pitch, dynamics, and greater ranges of tone color. Its harmonic vocabulary is broader also, along with more emphasis on colorful, unstable chords. All of the artists named above had something in common; each one cherished the emotion and expression in their works. They were romantics; great lovers of music, passionate in their ... ...

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... the performers. Mulhern's skill at the cello were absolutely amazing. I know how tough an string instrument is to play because I play the guitar and Mulhern had no problem switching between chords and playing with enough intensity for everyone in the room to hear. I could tell Ms. Debow put a lot of feeling into her playing because she was moving her whole body ... ...

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... different beats. Still, others will remain to deliver in a forte manner throughout the entire song, all-applicable, but subject to the listener's preferences. Harmony is a musical combination of tones or chords (Stewart, 1998). This style is not found in a lot of rap music; however, Bone Thugs in Harmony have mastered the art of combining harmony and spoken words. This group uses ... ...

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... composer has had a greater impact to music than Johann Sebastian Bach from the Baroque era (1600 ad. -1750 ad.). Johann Sebastian Bach was a forefather to music. Bach used notes and chords in his music, which to him was a machine of worship. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringina, into a family that over seven generations created at ... ...

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... quite sad. They do however work as one, particularly in the chorus as he sings, "Crashing down, crashing down again", the distorted guitar becomes slightly more distinct on those two chords, giving a physical sensation of collapse. ...

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... called the "cradle of jazz". In this style, the trumpet carried the melody, the clarinet played showy countermelodies, and the trombone played rhythmic slides and sounded the root notes of chords or simple harmony. Below this basic trio, the tuba or string bass provided a bass line and drums the rhythmic accompaniment. New Orleans jazz was just the beginning of an entire ... ...

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... Langston Hughes describes Hughes" fascination for blues music. His appeal for the blues is so high that he even describes a singer and his lyrics in the poem. "He played a few chords then he sang some more - "I got the Weary Blues"" (24 - 25). In this line, Hughes may be describing the singer and his lyrics, but he is also saying that he ... ...

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... the band mostly played their own songs which were great. Groovelily has their own sound I would consider to be a mixture between funk, pop and country. The piano often used funky chords. For example instead of using a simple c-major chord he mostly added tones to make the sound more groovy and funky. The beat given by the drums and the piano was ... ...

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... the motets. The difference was that he created a real harmonic bass by keeping the second countra tenor or bassus below the cantus firmus. Because of the freedom to choose which chords were to be used above the bassus instead of the cantus firmus, Dufay was able to promote the development of four-part texture. 4) Discuss Dufay's harmonic style. The harmonic style ... ...

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... layers of sound heard at once. A monophonic texture is a single lone line. A polyphonic texture is made up of several lines competing for attention. A homophonic texture is one melody accompanied by chords. Music during the middle ages was primarily vocal, with the use of instruments as supplements. Gregorian Chant, the official music of the Roman Catholic Church has a sacred, vocal, and monophonic ... ...

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... and Roll and Rap gave birth to another innovative and profound musical genre, known as Punk-rock. One of the most popular genres today, punk-rock, invented mosh pits, electrifying chords, and the "punk-rock" image attained by numerous teenagers who related to Punk-rock's anger and daftness. Founders of Punk-rock, such as The Ramones, The Clash and The Damned ... ...

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