... style of music is known as "musique concrete." This became Cage's particular style of music. He would make music out of non-traditional instruments. John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. Cage briefly attended college and then traveled in Europe. Returning to the United States in ... 1931, he studied with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. While teaching in Seattle, he began organizing percussion ensembles to perform his compositions, and he began experimenting with works for dance in collaboration with his longtime friend, the choreographer and dance...

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... Families would hunt parrots for dinner. After many successful hunts the families would celebrate and dance to Merengue. Accompanying the dancing there were groups of people who would play the instruments. The instruments usually included the Tres (three string guitar), guira, "maracas", tambora (two headed drum), the marimba (similar to a vibraphone). (Singer) Merengue has two distinctive rhythms played on the tambora, influenced ... drumming styles survived from the enslaved Africans who managed to keep their sacred and secular drumming traditions. Even with out their original instrume...

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... a mixture of brassy arrangements, repeating choruses and jazzy solos. Usually the instrumentation for salsa groups consists of one or two lead singers, 2-5 brass instruments, piano, bass, a pair of conga drums, timbales, bongos, a cowbell, and various hand-held small percussion instruments. Salsa is a very vivid kind of music, there are people who specialize on the classic style of salsa, and others, such as groups ... ...

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... genres. The first half's light-hearted comedy is filled with the up-beat sound of Big Band, with trumpets, saxophones, horns, percussion and piano. The second half of the movie, the romantic drama genre, is represented by softer-sounding instruments such as the flute, strings and piano. "Mancini believed that tempo could make or break a scene and thus found it to be ... orchestration in timely points in the story. The piano and guitar were used faintly in the beginning of the story as Paul and Holly meet for the first time. The instruments were being plucked cautiously to mirror the ini...

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