History of the Mariachi The best scholarly opinion is that the word mariachi has native roots. One theory is that it comes from the name of the wood used to make the platform on which the performers danced to the music of the village musicians. But whatever the true source, the word today has one meaning that is crystal clear: Mariachi means on of the most exciting and enchanting musical ensembles found anywhere in the world. In the complete Mariachi group today there are as many as six to eight violins, two trumpets and a guitar- are all standard European instruments. Natives, who had their own highly developed musical traditions, quickly mastered European musical practices.
I like the xylophone part because it felt like it was one part of the song. In the second chorus, which is also a 32-bar form, repeats what was played in first chorus. In the music, it seems like that the piano is the main instrument. The entire band seems to be a main instrument for the background
In this piece the didjeridu was more audible than rest of the instruments. All the pieces played by the performers were Hindustani ragas with the blending of various instruments, making the traditional sound contemporary. There was various highs and lows played throughout the piece with each performer doing a solo piece. Rockwell demonstrated the raga with the accompaniment of the didjeridu. Owen also did a solo piece with the didjeridu.
Until this time in the evolutions of musical instruments, melody was common only in singing. Similar to the process of reduplication in language, instrument players first developed repetition and then arrangement. An early form of melody was produced by pounding two stamping tubes of slightly different sizes—one tube would produce a "clear" sound and the other would answer with a "darker" sound. Such instrument pairs also included bullroarers, slit drums, shell trumpets, and skin drums. Cultures who used these instrument pairs associated genders with them; the "father" was the bigger or more energetic instrument, while the "mother" was the smaller or duller instrument.
In the bridge, high bowed strings, sometimes using harmonics and tremolo, add a countermelody. Orchestration There are five woodwind players who double up: Clarinet and saxophone Two horns Three trumpets Two trombones Seven violins Four cellos Two double basses Drum kit Percussionists Piano Electric and accoustic guitar Structure The song does not follow a conventional verse-chorus structure, but has several musical ideas and sections that recur. The structure is: Introduction Section A Section B Section B1 Section A 1 Outro [fades
Appleton Middle School Spring Concert Gamelan Walter Cummings (1916-1999) 5:15 Grade Level 2 Many musical concepts are relevant in Walter Cummings’ Gamelan. Playing in unison and focusing on intonation are key. Dynamics also play a key role in portraying the medieval aspect of this piece. Longtown Legacy Cedric Adderley 4:17 Grade Level 2 This piece can teach harmony, moving out of the way of the melody, adjusting intonation, and balancing the sound with the ensemble as a whole. Shenandoah Frank Ticheli(1958) 6:45 Grade Level 3 Shenandoah consists of a melodious blend of suspending chords, solo instruments and dynamics.
As I said earlier most of the pieces that were performed are patriotic, and as we all know music in our century is very developed, and especially with technology every sound of the professional music is almost close to perfection, the Boston pops 4th of July to me fall into the contemporary historical period of music. I did enjoy the concert because it was fun and I have learn a lot; it was a very good experience if was still living in Boston I would go again next year.
Panpipes are one of the traditional instruments that still thrive today at every kind of celebration and ritual. Another instrument that remains tremendously popular is the quenas, a simple notched end flute. These, too, can be heard at celebrations and rituals. Peru, also, is home to a new breed of Andean tropical music, chicha. The most widespread urban music in Peru, chicha is a fusion of traditional highland huayno, rock and urban cumbia.
In the harmony we have a minor triad on the 6th and 5th degree, also a harmonic device used a lot in gospel music. On the 9th bar Miles plays the major seventh, Cannonball the 4th,Coltrane doubles Miles an octave lower and the rhythm section plays a dominant chord on the 5th. This voicing is then three times transposed and they end up playing on the eleventh bar the same voicing with the flat six on top, which means the rhythm section is playing a dominant chord on the flat seventh, which then resolves back to one after two bars and which is a substitution of a very gospel like chord change, 4 minor to
Having these basic fundamentals down allows the musician to more accurately play the music and sight read better. Throughout high school, I developed these skills until it didn’t take much thought for me to play my major scales up and down full range, then blast through my chromatic scale. I even practiced all forty-eight minor scales. It was the combination of learning to read music as well as performing it