For my performance, I went to the Saturday market downtown Vancouver. I knew there would be street performers down there trying to make money while people shopped. I found my performers as soon as I started entered the market. I heard drums as soon as I walked in. I followed the sound and it took me to two African American guys playing African drums. As they played, they were tapping their feet. During one of the upbeat songs, one of the guys started dancing. His movements were graceful and matched the tone of the song the other one was playing. His body was swaying side to side and his hands would make circular motions with his hands. His dancing was expressive. When the rhythm changed their whole posture would change. Their facial expressions …show more content…
When they would have more of a crowd they would play more upbeat tunes. They would take turns dancing or play the drums together. When the guys would play the together one would start off the tune softly while the other would play louder. They were in sequence. As they played together they would give one another turns taking solos. Each solo which was played was unique sounding. When there was less of crowd they would play less upbeat rhythms. Almost sad sounding like there was a story behind the song which was played. I preferred these songs because of the emotion which was put into them. The softer tunes tugged on my heart because it reminded me to self-reflect on where I was in life. As I mentioned before their facial expressions would match their tone of the song played. It was almost like when they played the slower songs that it was hard for them because of how expressive their faces were. Even though the rhythms were captivating within themselves they were expressive expressions were what captured my attention. I found myself wanting to find out the stories behind the song. As I watched them play the three songs they would do a count off before starting the next song. I didn't realize how many rhythms there could be while playing the …show more content…
I interpreted this from how each song sound. Some of the beats were upbeat and made me want to dance along too. Where other songs were more subdued and had a sad sound to it. This explained to me why the two drummer’s facial expressions were full of emotion during those times. I concluded while watching them that their songs told some of their life stories. Instead of putting their life story in Where I am From poems these two men put them into rhythms for the drums. I was thinking of the poems which we shared in class, and I realized that individuals can share their life story in different ways and music is one of them. Even though the two guys were playing the drums the sound, the tone and their body language told me it wasn't just playing the drums to them. They were sharing their soul with the world if one would take the time to listen to the meaning behind the
A second type of musical structure is what is known as a ruffle dance. Both Northern and Southern plains tribes perform these songs and the structures are practically the same, minus the vocal range. The song is performed by alternating between a ruffle, which is random loud beats of the drum, and even beats. Transitions between ruffles and even beats can also have a change in tempo as heard in CD 1 track
Correspondingly, after a few songs the band responded by singing the songs that the audience liked and by motivating them to scream and cheer for them. This way the audience wouldn’t get bored and stop cheering and dancing. This event took place in a dome-shaped like place where it also holds events like bull riding. There was a floor section where the people stand and there was the seat section where it went around the place and it was fenced around. This is what Hispanics call a “Jaripeo” because you can have concerts and bull riding, which is kind of like being at the
A couple of other songs they played were “Bothered,” “Cruel and Pretty” and “Changes Come.” If you had never heard the band before tonight, this is where you would probably think all the songs sounded very similar. Slow, piano and sad. The variety lies in the songwriting, if you start paying attention to the lyrics now, you’d have a different opinion. I almost think what they say is so poignant sometimes it should be in a book or poem by itself. But on the other hand, if you took away the way Barquist sings it, or the accompanying instrumentation, I doubt you would get the same idea. They can even make an acoustic guitar sound like it’s in pain and crying.
Slow cruel hands of time and Delft Schrempf have these very soft sweet beats that just make a crowd just rock from side to side. The guitar in Slow Cruel Hands of Time and the simple note being played on the piano in Delft Schrempf are very soothing but they still feel connected unsure if that’s because the message or the rhythm chosen for both songs. Despite that the crowed is heard cheering at the end followed by Bridwell letting out a slightly country “thank yall.” It seemed a little bit teasing considering the location of the concert being in Nashville, Tennessee.
feel what Lady Day was singing about. The song was already swinging but with a solo like that it
One of the many styles of music at the market was a four-man drum band. This band played very rhythm based music and had an almost improvisational feel to their music. They would start a song and then let the music guide them from melody to melody. The drummers also played their own individual melody which resulted in a polyphonic piece and a perfect example of surface rhythm. Each performer’s own melody, although different individually, combined to form one melody and rhythm that permeated throughout the performance. The music, which was primarily in quadruple meter and ranged in tempo from andante to allegro, was also very happy and consonant sounding with no feelings of instability. This consonance was due the music being percussion music with no
On Friday, April 14, I decided to go to BlueWhale jazz club in Little Tokyo, Downtown LA, which had a Jazz concert under the title “Anthony Fund featuring George Garzone”. I decided to google who is Anthony Fung who was a brilliant young drummer who was the same age as me, 23, I was very intrigued to attend. when I arrived at the Jazz Club the place was surprisingly packed. Me and my friends who I dragged along had to stand up for a while. the band has not yet started, there was only the drummer entertaining the audience. it seemed that Fung plays there often and he is quite popular. I scanned the audience to see what kind of people are there. It was my first time to attend a jazz concert, and since the beginning
The interviews gave me an idea to how they would react to the mashup. It showed me that based on their personalities they would relate to this song. But they connected to the mashup in a different way. My mother and brother loved it with all their heart and did not hate any part of it. They sang with it, they danced with it and they connected to it. They pretty much interacted with the mashup. This song affected them in many ways. They never thought that two completely different songs could sound so good together. This mashup is so powerful that not only reminded them about the good memories but it also changed their mood and made them feel happy. So I would have to say that this mashup was really affective for my mother and
The first song played was from a genre that I had previously taken a test on, Sonata. The musicians played the song by the book. There were three movements and polyphonic texture. It was even fast and jerky. Nonetheless, this is the part where my rollercoaster was going down. In my opinion it was boring. Although very well played, the song itself did not interest me. I did not like the roadrunner, coyote essence of the song. The piano accompaniment would sometimes play the melody and let the clarinet follow and then they would switch. This to me seemed force instead of like the Sonatas that I listened to in class. However, apart from the musical aspect of the first piece there was a certain intensity expressed by the performers. I had never seen a
The musicians were able to keep time by taping their feet, listening to the piano and drums play a steady beat, and along with a lot of practice beforehand. When it comes to the meter of the piece I noticed that when each musician was playing their part in the song the rhythmic structure would change. When the trumpet player and saxophone player were playing together the beat was steady and loud, but when they were playing separately the sound was not as loud, but the beat remained the same. Each instrument created a different feeling to the music, even though they were playing the exact same part.
One of Louis Armstrong’s well known music pieces was “My Heart”. In this piece, the band plays a 32-bar AABA chorus with a reverse of 16 bars from 00:01-02:33. In this song, there are instruments like cornet, clarinet and trombone soloist and with piano playing in the background. The sound of cornet and clarinet soloist brings us melody and rhythm very exciting and charming at the same time. I think this song plays at a fast tempo but still creates a smooth rhythm of swinging.
While the musician?s were playing, I was surprised how the audience was. Most of the audience was talking loud, drinking alcohol and eating snacks. Some audience was even clapping hands and humming along with the song. This was quite an opposite environment compared to the concerts I went to. Sometimes the audience was so loud that I could barely hear the songs. It was interesting that even though the crowd was so loud, the musicians seemed very comfortable with it. They played the song as if the audience?s voice was also part of their song. When audience was loud, they would play loud and when audience became quite, they played very soft and tender. It might be to get audience?s attention. But, it seemed the m...
I noticed he constantly switched from the synthesizer to the keyboard, and this was to change the tune and make it sound layered as I mentioned before. I also noticed that at times he played the keyboard slowly and other times he would play extremely fast. So rapidly that I even questioned how a man can first not only move his arms so fast but also play so beautifully at such high speeds. A tune he played even sounded like a swish-swashing sound, and I was amazed by how a synthesizer and keyboard can possibly make such sounds. I also noticed that for this song that both Lionel Loueke and Dave Holland played the guitar, and I think this was to match the fusion electric instrument style. Overall, the entire band did a great opening for their performance; everyone looked like they were doing their own thing and were very content.
During the concert the pianist, drummer and saxophonist did a great job, making the rhythm unforgettable. One of the songs that was performed was "Wrapped around your fingers" it contained a romantic melody. While the piano and saxophone then alternated the rhythm, as the passion of the song was motivating everyone to fall into the rhythm of it. The melody which was steady seemed to get faster like a heartbeat by the climax of the song. The sounds were increasingly getting louder until all instruments met at the top with a ban...
All of these quiet and soothing instruments produce a very calm mood. I personally listen to this song on days when I need to calm myself down, and just lure myself to sleep. Hope. Generally speaking, hope is another one of the most prominent moods portrayed by the song “A Thousand Years”. Throughout the entire video candles can be seen in massive amounts. As a matter of fact, there are a few points in the video where the entire background is full of a million candles glowing amidst the moonlight. Another representation of hope can be observed in the 0:06 where the singer is holding a candle in her hands which are bound by handcuffs. This small image represents hope. The singer may be bound by some restriction, yet she holds a candle of hope against the dark sky. Then at 0:18 the Christina Perri who is the singer of the song is standing near the window staring outside at the calming blue sky and river. Personally I always connect nature to peacefulness and hope, so this image portrays hope in my eyes. In a fraction of a second, at 0:43 ,the eyes of the singer reflect deep pools of hope in them, due to light from the candle in her