3. “Take the A train” was the theme song of Duke Ellington’s band. 4. Ellington uses the piano to not only set the mood but also the rhythm of his songs. 5.
Analysis and Comparison of the Clarinet and Viola Versions of the Two Sonatas by Brahms Name Institution Introduction Johannes Brahms, a romantic composer, did two clarinet sonatas Op. 120, 1 and 2 in 1894. Brahmas wrote the two works for clarinet and piano, and dedicated them to his clarinetist friend Richard Mühlfeld (Musgrave, 1985; Swafford, 1997). The clarinet sonata was largely underdeveloped with regards to its form until the completion of the two sonatas, when the combination of piano and clarinet was used in the subsequent works. The two composition are significant among Brahms other works as they stem from a period in Brahms life when he just embraced the beauty of color and sound of the clarinet.
There are also blues inflections in the vocal and guitar duet where the flat 3rd is emphasised by bending the notes at the beginning of phrases. The use of blues notes are very common in the style due to the heavy blues influence in New Orleans Jazz. Chromaticism is also featured in Duke Ellington’s Koko, again blues notes are used, for example in bar 8 of Nantons trombone solo he uses a fragment of the blues scale making use of the flattened 5th, 3rd and 7th. Another example of Chromaticism in Koko is in the double bass solos where Blanton plays descending chromatic phrases. The use of chromatic notes adds to the mood created by the minor blues chord progression.
Rock music also shocked humanity with harsh lyrics and wild instrumentation. Many artists in a variety of genres, included rock, soul and folk, and they sang about civil and women’s right and many other social issues. Soul music, focused mainly on the race and civil issues during the sixties. James Brown was one of the soul artists that spoke out through his music about racial and social injustices and to uplift Black Americans. Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell were part of the folk music scene when it came to protesting against or for social issues.
Also in the melting pot creating a new musical form were country and western music (including Western swing and influences from traditional Appalachian folk music), jazz, and gospel music. However, elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records from the 1920s. [citation needed] During that period many white Americans enjoyed African-American jazz and blues performed by white musicians. [citation needed] Often "black" music was usually relegated to "race music" outlets (music industry code for rhythm and blues stations) and was rarely heard by mainstream white audiences. [citation needed] A few black rhythm and blues musicians, notably Louis Jordan, the Mills Brothers, and The Ink Spots, achieved crossover success;[citation needed] in some cases (such as Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie") this success was achieved with songs written by white songwriters.
“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes was one of Hughes’s first major accomplishments. This poem, begin with the speaker going someplace where he heard a piano player singing the blues. As it turns out, the speaker went to a bar on Lenox Avenue, now Malcolm’s X Boulevard. The speaker described the musician playing a slow blues with his voice, body, and soul singing the sad song. When the musician finally begins to sing on line 19, the musician sings, “Ain’t got nobody in all this world, Ain’t got nobody but ma self.
The use of the word ‘drum’ in the line ‘drum stick knock’ is a musical reference, and music was often used as a way to escape the pains of slavery and is part of their cultural identity. The musical references help the reader to form emotional connections with how the slaves must feel. The poem uses "music is saving me" and "the drummer is calling me" to explain how the home traditions of the slave are getting them through the journey; "knees spread wide" is used to show how a whole nation is being forced into something they don’t want to do. This may also be a reference to the whites raping the women, which was common on the ships. In the poem Island Man the writer does not use much repetition.
Bound to Lose Taking a walk through musical history, I hope to convey the areas and many levels of influence Chuck Berry, born Charles Edward Anderson Berry, works have on modern day society and music. This journey will look at race relations in the 50’s and 60’s, sexual presentation on stage, rebellious entertainers and the musical family tree of Berry, which connects artists of multiple generations. Born in St. Louis in 1926, Chuck had a middle class upbringing allowing him to dive into his musical interests, his father a preacher and contractor and his mom a public school principle. Growing up in the church halls gave Berry his vocal range. Berry often imitated Nat king Cole’s crisp vocal lines.
Prelude No. 15 in Db Major - F Chopin Fredric Chopin was born in Poland in 1810 which influenced his music to use polish folk tunes and dance rhythms, he died in Paris in 1849. He did more than composing by performing and teaching music, he also composed a lot of piano music and had a reputation as a ‘tragic’ romantic composer, because he was ill a lot and died young. It is often referred to as the ‘raindrop’ prelude because of the repeated quavers, the pedal note, and the falling melodic phrases. This piece comes from a set of 24 preludes that Chopin composed, one in each of the 12 major and 12 minor keys, This Prelude was written in 1839 USE OF THE PIANO Throughout most of the prelude, Chopin uses the middle to the lower ranges of the piano, with only occasional phrases played with the higher range of keys.
Collective improvisations are when different front-line group instruments all play their improvisations at the same time! They also used polyphonic texture, which is when ‘the cornet or trumpet plays the main melody with variations, and against which the clarinet plays a higher countermelody and the trombone a lower countermelody with much sliding between the notes’(http://www.last.fm/music/Original+Dixieland+Jazz+Band). The last characteristic is that they were often played in use of the 12- Bar blues progressions. One of the well-known piece is ‘When The Saints Go