They are also sometimes known as portamento s. African music also uses slurs whistles and yodels. These are main feature of singing in African music. African singing is also often a Capella which is something only used with voices as it is vocal music that has no instrumental accompaniment. A capella actually means in the style of the chapel in Italian as in early church music, voices were generally unaccompanied. Lyrics and melodies Lyrics can often be about hardships and slavery and other things that affect Africa.
The way you pronounce conga is (Cone-gah), and tumbadora is (Tumb-a-dora). The origins of the tumbadora are from Africa and Cuba. The conga is a drum, that combines african and latino musical style, design and history. The conga is a versatile drum that works with all forms of music. It may be the best of all hand drums to combo because the conga's rich and natural tones harmonize with most any instrument or style of music.
Briefly describe three contrasting techniques of improvisation; using examples from the three jazz set works you have studies. One highly common technique of improvisation is chromatic alteration throughout solos where notes outside of the chord are used in order to extend the harmony and add tensions to the chords. For example blues notes are used in all three set works. The use of the flattened 3rd and 7th are particularly noticeable in the clarinet counter melody in the 4th chorus of Hotter Than That. 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.
This is not to say that stringed instruments are only used in the north, while drums are only used in the south. For instance, the Seperewa is a multi-stringed instrument played in the southern areas of Ghana. Also, some music associated with southern Ghana contains wooden xylophones. In comparison, northern Ghana uses a drum referred to as a “talking drum”. Although the music from the south in mainly bells and drums, and the music from the north contains mostly tonal instrumentations there are many forms of music which transcend this notion.
The Lowest Instruments Bass instruments provide a rich harmony to a music piece to accompany the melody played by numerous higher-pitched instruments. Each family has at least one instrument that usually plays the harmony in music pieces, whether it is an opera, a symphony, or a march. Though there are differences between the tuba, the bassoon, and the double bass, the three instruments share some things in common with each other. The bassoon, the tuba and the double bass all produce low sound, but each of them are made with different materials thus the sound is also different. The bassoon is made up of wood, particularly sugar maple wood, while the tuba is made up of brass with some nickel.
The touchstyle fretboard stood out from the rest of the musical instruments. Teed Rockwell played the Hindustani ragas on the fretboard with a recording of the sitar played in the background as a drone. The performers started out the first piece with slow tempo and tone with the didjeridu, fretboard and the morsing by Owen followed by playing the drums with the stick. Stephen Kent Played a blue didjeridu which he later explained was a side didj made out of pvc. The fretboard played by Rockwell sounded and looked very similar to a guitar with a Hindustani touch to it.
Also uses of Latin-American instruments – castanets and maracas to reflect the Puerto Rican gang. The rhythm of this piece uses a lot of syncopation from American-Latin and African roots and triplets are used to give a lazy feel to the song. The time signature is 3/4 however cross rhythms are used so the piece can sound like it is
Songwriting Craig McDonagh NQ Rock & Pop 1. In this essay I will detail the basic components that constitute a song and the way in which these components are combined in different ways to create different styles and genres of music. I will give two examples of different artists and how their sounds differ within their own repertoires and with each other. Components of a Song: Rhythm - The rhythm section of a song is the part that controls the tempo, timing and duration of a song. It’s essentially an arrangement of sounds and silences, with certain sounds more pronounced than others.
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
He also played the clarinet and the alto horn. In saxophone, he uses the technique called “Altissimo”, which is basically, any note higher than F# (sharp), the highest range in the normal range of a saxophone. To achieve the technique, the player produces many voicing techniques such as the tongue, throat and the air stream, in result disturbing the fundamentals of a note and attaining one of the higher overtones controlling. This type of technique is common in the jazz genre. “Coltrane Changes/Cycles” is the second technique used by John Coltrane.