Shakespeare in Song is a concert performed by Artes Vocales of Los Angeles on Saturday, May 30, 2015, and this is the concert I chose to attend for this concert report. The concert was held ... the same melody on both the piano and the vibraphone (Shakespeare et al, 62). As the female voices sing along the lyrics, humming harmonies are heard from the background. The song plays at a relatively lower key, with the tempo being low too and creating a perfect harmony. At the start of every bar, the ... a crescendo, but it resumes the original key at the end, and beginning of the next bar: and ta...

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... jazz to a more classical tone. Before the trumpeter's solo the violist played a very soothing, yet upbeat solo. The texture of the ending of this song seemed a little grimy at times when the trumpet would chime in a few notes over the saxophone, almost drowning it out. The ending was forte and ... , very sporadic and an entirely different dynamic from what the song had been. As far as the trombone solo, it was not a soft tone and seemed more triumphant. Melodically, the song seemed to be a motive with a disjunct sound to it and sounded similar to hot jazz. There was also a short drum fi...

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... the music. The jazz band I observed played a series of five different songs. Although all the songs were categorized as jazz, each song had its own special style and sound to it. The band consisted of four different players: a pianist, a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer. I can't ... remember all the titles of the songs they performed there, but I couldn't forget the way it flowed. The first song had a constant tempo. The piano's sound was very smooth. It also had a slow, funky, and earthy sound to ... feeling. At the beginning it had a slow and soft beat, which gradually got faster a...

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... Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for 13 months. In 1925 he returned to Chicago and joined his wife's band at the Dreamland. He recorded his first Hot Five records that same year. These were the first records he made under his own name. In 1925 Louis began Okeh Record's dates with his ... Hot Five band featuring Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny St. Cyr on banjo, and his wife Lillian on piano. On November 12 ... the first recorded example of what became known as "scat singing." In 1929 Armstrong was hired to play in the pit band of the popular all black musical review '...

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... mob in Chicago. Gangsters owned most of the clubs in Chicago. Armstrong immediately entered the studios and started recording a series of recording called the Hot Fives and Sevens, which gave him a lasting name. These recordings were some of the most famous made by Armstrong, including "Mandy Make ... up Your Mind" and "Money Blues" (Bergreen 96). . "The Five dozen records generally titled the Louis Armstrong Hot Fives constitute one of the most significant bodies of American recorded music." (Collier P. 169) These records were immediately recognized by musicians, and jazz fans ... the ...

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... 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 Missippissi around the nineteenth century. Blues or "12-bar blues", as it is ... for his ability to improvise and play be-bop. Duke Ellington was a big band arranger and composed over 150 tunes. Count Basie was known for the song "Down Basie Street." Charlie Parker was a great Jazz pianist. (Morrison 51) Louis Armstrong, was a profound Trumpet player who shaped ...

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... ; on that day he earned his first solo recorded solo on Chimes Blues. In 1925-1928, Armstrong made over 60 records with his own band, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, then the Hot Seven. On these recordings, Armstrong made rhythmic choices, such as swinging phrases, hitting incredible high notes, and he also began to sing in his recordings. Armstrong also started ... Bless the Child and Strange Fruit were singles she recorded with Columbia, a record label. Even though Columbia was not fascinated with Strange Fruit, she went to record the song with Commodore label. The song was about a p...

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... individual players. Armstrong joined the Fletcher Henderson Band and right off the bat influenced the whole section of cornets. Many of the musicians began to add the flavor of Louis's song into their music (Armstrong1 2). Many years later Louis returned back in Chicago and he began recording a series of music. "He made a series of small band recordings that rank among the ... masterpieces of jazz"(Cook 723). The names used for the recordings were the Hot Five and Hot Seven. "They showed his brilliant tone and tremendous range"(Cook 723). In many of Louis's songs he employed a new style...

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... participated in some shows on Broadway, and movies with musical roles from ''Pennies from Heaven'' in 1936 to ''Hello, Dolly'' in 1969. Consequently, with the two bands that he formed Hot Five and Hot Seven, recorded many themes that would cause much furor such as the composition ''West end Blues'', in which the final chorus by Armstrong was a masterpiece or of the ... song "Heebie Jeebies" which would be the first time where he began inventing words, when in a recording session, the sheet music fell on the floor and this spontaneity, was incorporated into ... ...

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... an instrument whether is it 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 one to improvise. A soloist could play a solo using a blues scale consisting of seven notes and never stop. Jazz is the most significant and highly developed music ... Triton...

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Jazz I went to a show put on by the Savannah Symphony on November 9, 2002. Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz performed. This was a live performance of Jazz. Banu Gibson and her band performed with an orchestra from the Savannah Symphony. Her band consisted of six people. The music they ... and her band mostly performed show tunes from the 1920's and 1930's. They invented fresh and imaginative variations of songs that were very old. The music was very upbeat. Every song they played had good rhythm. It was music that you could easily tap your foot along with. Banu Gibson has a very uniq...

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... ' from Johnson. Fats' first recordings were done in 1922. But it wasn't 1929 when he caught a break writing the score for the Broadway hit "Hot Chocolates" with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf. His most famous song "Ain't Misbehavin- was part of this show, which also featured the great Louis Armstrong. Waller was a great entertainer and in 1934 and at George ... music was more joyful and enjoyable, and his performances even more delightful. Waller contributed to music in many diff erent ways, besides being an amazing pianist, a great entertainer and a skillful song writer, he to...

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Banu Gibson I went to a show put on by the Savannah Symphony on November 9, 2002. Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz performed. This was a live performance of Jazz. Banu Gibson and her band performed with an orchestra from the Savannah Symphony. Her band consisted of six people. The music they ... and her band mostly performed show tunes from the 1920's and 1930's. They invented fresh and imaginative variations of songs that were very old. The music was very upbeat. Every song they played had good rhythm. It was music that you could easily tap your foot along with. Banu Gibson has a ve...

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All That Jazz I went to a show put on by the Savannah Symphony on November 9, 2002. Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz performed. This was a live performance of Jazz. Banu Gibson and her band performed with an orchestra from the Savannah Symphony. Her band consisted of six people. The music they ... and her band mostly performed show tunes from the 1920's and 1930's. They invented fresh and imaginative variations of songs that were very old. The music was very upbeat. Every song they played had good rhythm. It was music that you could easily tap your foot along with. Banu Gibson has a ...

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... Armstrong. He was a dazzling improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually. He changed the format of jazz by bringing the soloist to the forefront, and in his recording groups, the "Hot Five" and the "Hot Seven", demonstrated that jazz improvisation could go far beyond simply ornamenting the melody. He became the first well known male jazz singer, and also set standards for all later ... so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, (the swing era). The development of the big band can be majorly credited to the achievement of Duke Ellington and his revolutionary song, "It Don't Me...

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... Years Eve. There, he learned to play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument at the time, he enjoyed listening to "The Hot Style Band", and his favorite musician was Joe King Oliver, who acted as the Louis" father and teacher. Joe King Oliver gave Louis his first cornet, and in Chicago in ... it with a less popular and smaller one. In the 196o's, Louis became known as America's Ambassador, because he toured so much of the world. He recorded the song "Hello Dolly", and it was the #1 song in 1963, years after jazz was no longer popular. ...

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... Years Eve. There, he learned to play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument at the time, he enjoyed listening to "The Hot Style Band", and his favorite musician was Joe King Oliver, who acted as the Louis" father and teacher. Joe King Oliver gave Louis his first cornet, and in Chicago in ... it with a less popular and smaller one. In the 196o's, Louis became known as America's Ambassador, because he toured so much of the world. He recorded the song "Hello Dolly", and it was the #1 song in 1963, years after jazz was no longer popular. ...

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... chestnut trees." (p. 161). Morrison creates an essential contrast within the novel's structure, at the two pinnacle extracts within the writing. The community's song is a fundamental representation of Sethe's own repression, and her release from her own bondage of "Beloved", effectively considered to be a repression similar ... stated, "All women's songs are just outside music, often they are codes, ways to break an enforced silence, they constitute a protest." Sethe's own song to her children is both Sethe's own "code" of recognition, like her own mother could be recognised by a "cross...

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... , incl. disco, heavy metal, punk rock, and rap, which have spread throughout the world and become the standard musical idiom for young people in many countries. Ballad song Ballad, form of short narrative folk song the distinctive style of which crystallized in Europe during the late Middle Ages. The ballad has been preserved as a musical and literary form up to modern times ... unmeasured rhythm and monophony (single line of melody) of Gregorian chant, as distinguished from the measured rhythm of polyphonic (multipart) music, called cantus mensuratus, or cantus figuratus ("measured," or...

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... a rejected woman abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's short film Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. In her scene, she sang the song "Saddest Tale . She felt that since her career was blossoming, she needed someone to help her organize burgeoning career so she turned to agent Joe Glazer ... unhappiness and frustrations. Because of the immense racism exerienced by many blacks in America, there are no live recordings of Billie and Artie Shaw, the song they were able to record was "Any Old Time". By the end of the 1930s, Billie was able to perform with twwo verry successful bands...

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... the rap artist compose their own beats. Unlike rap music, rock music uses actual instruments, such as: Guitar, a drum set, keyboards, etc. to give a song a melody. Rap music relies on the artist rhyming word together and the lyrics they say/ what purpose they have on saying it while rock music relies on the vocals ... of the artist and the melody to compliment the song. Rap had different forms of the ways it rhymes, those being: Perfect rhyme, alliteration, multi-syllable, and assonance to name a few. In most ... rap doesn't share any of these topics, but over the years, rap has change...

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... Weir), which consisted of a piano, trumpet, saxophone, drum, and bass. They performed a musical piece called "November 15th, " followed by another piece that was composed and arranged by them. The first song was pretty soft, and each instrument had a solo. The audience applauded each musician after they were done with their solo. The musicians didn't seem to interact with each other very ... about how the flute sounds in jazz music. The group's performance mainly showcased the alto saxophone player, with the piano and saxophone accompanying it the majority of the time. Their song consis...

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... recognize the Rhythm and Harmony. They both determine the complexity of the composition and we must become aware of changes in rhythm or harmony because they indicate changes in the song. Chapter three discusses the sources of Rock. Slave music was important because when they were brought to the United states they also brought with them their music which was blues ... also an important part of early rock and roll, it is a big band tune from rhythm and blues tradition. Then there was novelties , which were a third kind of rock song. It was a song with some gimmick that makes it catchy. D...

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... stores and find sheet music and learn how to play this western style music. 7 Once they returned back to the liners, they would play the music there and teach themselves hot to dance the proper way to this music style, dances like the foxtrot. When they return home, these orchestras would play in hotel lobbies and play ragtime, foxtrot, or jazz ... into being some form of a western like country. In Japan, they would listen to the popular music that had been made in America and make their own version of the song and translate the lyrics of the songs.9 This began to be a reoccurrence with...

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... divided into two categories; music which is the common ground between all songs and rendition which refers to the performance of the song. A song is not simply composed of lyrics and tunes, but the context in which the song is created is also extremely important. A key factor for songs is the enjoyment of its listeners and the factors that contributed to make the ... , Irish and Italian cultures also greatly contributed to American music. Mid 19th Century American music changed to appeal to the commercial markets. At first they sold sheet music so that song could be enjoyed within a pers...

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