In doing this they created a synergy with the live entertainment industry that got consumers to buy sheet music as well as tickets to live entertainment acts. This tradition of selling a song and not necessarily the artist is now known as the Tin Pan Alley tradition. The musicians that put Tin Pan Alley on the map are names that most of us will recognize as legends of their time. Some of the names inducted into The Songwriters hall of fame include: Duke Ellington and Scott Joplin recognized for their contributions to ragtime, jazz, swing, big band and the 12-bar progression that has
The articles “The Buena Vista Social Club” by Tanya Katerí Hernandez and “Globalisation and the Tango” by Chris Goertzen and María Susana Azzi have both discussed the issue of the globalisation of Latin American music and how it is portrayed in foreign countries. Cuban son music emerged in the country during the 1910s and by 1930 had gained worldwide success. This style of music, a blend of Spanish canción, Spanish guitar and African rhythms and played in the clave rhythm, provided a key symbol of Afro-Cuban culture and identity while also heavily influencing other musicians and music genres. It provided Havana’s Afro-Cuban lower classes with a source of income and the chance to enter a previously European dominated market. Son was exported to the rest of the world during the 1930s and 1940s and became particularly popular in the United States, also providing the grounds for the creation of salsa music in the 1970s.
This music style sometimes aquired chanting and emphasized the syncopated beat. Reggae contained a collection of many different instruments and music genres. Electric guitars, organs, pianos, and drums were the most used instruments in reggae records. Reggae also had some mixed beats from American R and B or other traditional folk music from Africa. There have been a number of successful artists come from Jamaica.
Music also plays a major role in other arts. Opera combines singing and orchestral music with drama. Ballet and other forms of dancing need music to help the dancers with their steps and evoke an atmosphere. Film and TV dramas use music to help set the mood and emphasize the action. Also, composers have set many poems to music.
Music also plays a major role in other arts. Opera combines singing and orchestral music with drama. Ballet and other forms of dancing need music to help the dancers with their steps and evoke an atmosphere. Film and TV dramas use music to help set the mood and emphasize the action. Also, composers have set many poems to music.
Music was an essential part of civic, religious, and courtly life in the Renaissance. The rich interchange of ideas in Europe, as well as political, economic, and religious events in the period 1400–1600 led to major changes in styles of composing, methods of disseminating music, new musical genres, and the development of musical instruments. The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches and court chapels. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, patronage was split among many areas: the Catholic Church, Protestant churches and courts, wealthy amateurs, and music printing—all were sources of income for composers. The early fifteenth century was dominated initially by English and then Northern European composers.
Music also plays a major role in other arts. Opera combines singing and orchestral music with drama. Ballet and other forms of dancing need music to help the dancers with their steps and evoke an atmosphere. Film and TV dramas use music to help set the mood and emphasize the action. Also, composers have set many poems to music.
The term “calypso” itself is debatable as there are many theories about the origin of the word. It may have came from the French word “carrousseaux” meaning a drinking party or festivity, the Carib word “carieto” which means a joyous song , the Spanish word “caliso” which means a topical song or the West African (Hausa) word “kaiso” which means bravo. The most widely accepted explanation is that it came from “kaiso”. The art form itself was distinctly shaped by the enslaved Africans out of the music, structure and function of their ancestral musical practices. Calypsos in their earliest stages of inception were songs accompanied by rhythmic percussive music
In the years 1170 to 1250 began Ars antiqua in Notre Dame School of polyphony. This was the period in which rhythmic notation first appeared in western music known as rhythmic modes. Almost all composers of the ars antiqua are anonymous. Musicians during that period were Trouvères and troubadours, their monophonic melodies of the traveling musicians, which might have been added improvised accompaniments and were often rhythmically lively. The majority of these songs are love, in all combinations of joy and pain.
In lyrical forms of music, the melody of a song revolves around that one catchy lyric that people just cannot seem to forget. Melodies give song composers the ability to portray different emotions depending on what that composer feels is important to their music. Harmony also plays a large role. While the melody gets most of the attention, harmony plays more of a background role giving support to the melody. It helps create a vertical progression throughout the