Sara Quandt Bill Frisell “Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen Remake by: Sam Shrieve, Jeff Buckley, and Bill Frisell Bill Frisell, born 1951, is guitarist, composer and arranger. He has been a leading guitarist in jazz since the 1980’s. He has a very unique style of music that can be expressed as folk, country, classical, and of course jazz. He is well known for the effects and sounds that he is able to produce from his guitar. Bill was born in Baltimore, Maryland but soon moved to Denver, Colorado where he was raised.
This has been made possible thanks to good music, excellent actors and an unpredictable story. While watching the movie Casablanca, I really enjoyed the different types of music. The music was nice because it shows all kinds of languages and sounds. For example, in one of the flashback scenes in Paris, Rick and Ilsa dance to Rhythm of Perfidia by the Mexican composer Alberto Domínguez. Also another scene from the movie, which was characterized by music and that definitely impressed me, was when Laszlo begins singing followed by many people, La Marsellesa, the French national anthem, even before the occupation of the country.
They are a greatly successful quartet that have toured extensively worldwide and gained a popular international reputation. Before reviewing a performance it is important to consider several points on what makes a good performance. It is essential to interest your audience and to hold their attention. This can be achieved through interaction and also by adding something unexpected to the performance. Technical accuracy is of course crucial to a successful performance, but it is also important to have a certain confidence and virtuosic flair to convey personality
The sixties were when many artists started experimenting with different sound techniques such as distortion and playback. Among The Beatles and The Who, Jimi Hendrix was one of the pioneers in this new world of music. He was left handed but played a right handed guitar "upside down" which let him experiment more with his playing methods. The Sixties was also a great time for dance innovation with many dance fads and crazes coming into style. America and other countries were coming out of the Jive period and Rock-n-Roll was ushering in new and exciting dance moves which started the era of the Twist.
Portugal is most internationally well known in the music scene for its customs and traditions of fado, but the country has seen a recent development and growth with versatile musical styles, with modern tunes from hip hop to rock now becoming widespread throughout the small country. Fado is one of the treasures of Portugal and one of the most beautiful and original musical styles in the world today. The type of Fado that has captivated international audiences, through fado performers like Amália Rodrigues. Portuguese music was influenced greatly by Ancient Rome’s musical tradition which was brought into the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans. Its genres range vastly from classical to popular music.
With the amount of love people have for the 80 s, it s not surprising that much of the fashion, music, and overall eighties culture is making a comeback. Musical artists such as Vanilla Ice, Run DMC, and various former members of the New Kids on the Block are showing up everywhere with new merchandise, new CD s, new sounds and even some old. Who would have ever thought that anyone from NKOTB would have ever made a come back but they did, said Junior Derek Jankowski. On the fashion front we all remember the high top Reebok s of the 80 s in neon colors those too have even made a comeback. On the runways in New York, Paris and Milan the high tops and big shoulder pads are the entire rave.
An artist people love to jam to during this period of time was a popular artist who is well known today as James Brown. James Brown was an artist who added a new twist to Hip Hop which focused more on groove versus the melody of music. James Brown wrote songs that uplifted people and put them in a mood to dance and mingle. James Brown was known as the “King of Soul”. Classic Rock was created to reach the
Syd Barret, once a creative guitarist, with an artistic vision to collaborate light shows with the psycheldelic sound of the sixties. Shine On You Crazy Diamond was dedicated to him and the legacy he left behind. The beginning of the piece creates a calming sensation that is abrubtly followed by an energetic burst of instruments, suggesting perhaps that Syd could never just be laid back. I believe he was filled with a sense of wild creativity, when I listen to Pink Floyd’s debut album “The Piper At The Gates of Dawn” (EMI Colunbia, 1967) I hear the work of a wild and creative mind for example, listen to the song Intersteller Overdrive, featuring disjointed, distorted guitar sounds randomly played, this characterises Syd Barret’s “style ' The Music Part I The introduction begins with the fading in orchestra like passage of a string synth pad in the key of G-minor created with an EMS VCS 3, ARP Solina and a Hammond organ. The intro is not unlike that of a feature film that promises some unknown adventure, like a building storm.
It began as the backing for doo-wop and was then picked up by early rock-and-roll groups which brought the progression to center-stage. (AllMusic) Rock music featuring the 50’s Progression was the popular music up through the 1990’s, and while rock has faded in the past 10 years, the chord progression has maintained its utility. Many frustrated musicians wonder how one chord progression can remain dominant through six decades. According to music psychology experts, the progression is simple and easy for the brain to process. (Reif) For example, the C major 50’s Progression consists of C major, A minor, F major, and G major.
Bowie has achieved worldwide success and has had many hit songs because of this. Therefore, David Bowie is an influential artist whose uniqueness is emphasized through the diversity of genres in his music and the various personifications he has assumed. His individuality as an artist is shown through using many different genres to accentuate the messages in the songs. Many of these profound messages are concerning love, human spirit and of warped reality. David Bowie’s use of popular genres in his music helps to keep him in style.