The songs that were played at the concert were Low Rider by War and Soul Sacrifice by Santana.
Low Rider by War is composed with a piano, guitar, hand percussion, a drum kit, and most importantly, the cowbell. The song is in the key of G major and uses only one chord, which is G. In our musical performance we used the F blues scale to improvise each of our solos. This is one of the easiest songs I have played because it only used one chord. This melody is cool because with mix of the mallet percussion and drums, it sounds almost sounds identical to the original recording. This is not my favorite song but it is, however, a song I enjoy playing.
Soul Sacrifice by Santana is composed with a piano, organ, hand percussion, guitar, saxophones, and a drum kit. This song is in the key of Am but in the middle of the song it changes to Dm. The chords use in this song are Am, C, and Dm. In our performance we used the A blues scale to improvise each of our solos. This is a very complex song because it uses a multitude of riffs, hand percussion and mallet solos, and the Latin ...
“Never let anyone make you believe you aren’t worthy of your dreams. You are worthy, very worthy and you will keep thriving to reach those dreams no matter what happens.” These words of advice from my maternal grandmother filtered through my mind as I watched her lay in a casket, three days after having a heart attack. The realization I felt seeing her lifeless, my beautiful, fun-loving, blunt grandmother now lifeless, crushed me emotionally. She was the one I ran to when bad things happened. She gave me amazing advice and at that moment I couldn’t get advice on how to cope from the only person I wanted it from. All I could do was watch as people, one by one, stood in front of her, cried, and walk up to my mother and I to give their condolences.
The music video for the song Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim depicts an older man played by Christopher Walken who at first is slightly nodding off in the corner of an empty hotel lobby. As soon as the music begins Walken begins coming to life.
I would quite often hear “ba da da da, da da, da da” as a kid on the radio. There was awe listening to those specific vocals, but I never knew what the song was called. Fast-forwarding years later to 2014, I finally found out what this song was after all those years of wondering: “Ride Like the Wind,” by Christopher Cross. With an uncommon “storyline [that] is one not often heard on Adult Contemporary radio,” Cross was able to gain instant fame as a result (“Ride Like the Wind” par. 1). Within “Ride Like the Wind’s” promo video, Cross and his band are shown playing as part of a studio recording. Though there was rarely anything portrayed that would make the video display a visual message, Christopher Cross romanticizes the idea of a wanted man escaping the law to Mexico through the lyrics.
Band members: Ron Carter (bass), Ali Shaheed Muhammad (DJ), Phife Dawg (vocals), Q-Tip (vocals), Busta Rhymes (vocals), Charlie Brown (vocals), Diamond D (vocals), Dinco D (vocals), Lord Jamar (vocals), Sadat X (vocals), Bryan Higgins (vocals), and James Jackson (vocals).
On October 20, 1940, Sylvia and Milford Simon Pinsky welcomed their son, Robert Pinsky, into a war-torn world. At a young age Pinsky began pondering over the pronunciation, emphasis, and history of words. To quench his thirst of etymology, he started reading the dictionary, which kindled his interest in the power of words. Foreshadowing Pinsky's bright future with words, his love of words helps shape modern American poetry through his unique style of writing. Robert Pinsky, a member of the Symbolism Movement, writes an acclaimed poem, "Samurai Song," which embodies his unique style of writing.
The fifth song was a ballad called “Last Night When We Were Young.” This song had a relaxing and romantic sound. It had a steady and constant tempo. The bassist also used the pizzicato technique during his solo in this piece.
Two plays, twenty years apart helped to depict two very important periods in African American history. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, premiered in 1984, and Dutchman premiered in 1964 help to show the development of the black mind set in certain periods of history. Dutchman, written during the black arts period (1960-1975); helped to show how African Americans constantly fought to escape the classic stereotypes that they were associated with. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, written for the Contemporary Period, told the story of how first generation black people after the signing of the emancipation proclamation, fought to find their identity, not only as black people but also religiously.
One performance that stood out to me during the concert was a song called Sinfonia #3 by J. C. Bach (Wind Ensemble Concert program). The reason I enjoyed this song was because it was performed by nine saxophone players. I would say
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
Cantecul Miresei, a piece also known as “Bride’s Song” is a Romanian piece, which by the english title is used for weddings. The ensemble playing it consists primarily of a brass sections with trumpets, tubas, trombones, and baritones, giving allowing the melody to be doubled in a higher and lower octave. The lower instruments also articulate the polymeter structure: triple meter with 2 extra beats. This meter is made more prominent by the scratch board and percussion. The dynamics stay mostly constant, until the closing of the piece where the quick diminuendo leads to nothing and the tempo stays constant. The melody travels between octaves, first starting with the trumpets, making it bright and piercing, virtually impossible to mistake. The
The song that I choose to do this assignment on is Fight the Power by Public Enemy. Fight the Power was written in 1989 and quickly became a street anthem for millions of youths. It reflects with issues dealing with both the Civil Rights Movement and to remind everyone that they too have Constitutional Rights. This particular song is about empowerment but also fighting the abuse of power that is given to the law enforcement agencies. It gave citizens of the U.S a more modern outlook on the many struggles that not only the African American community is up against but the other minority groups as well. The song’s message was eventually supposed to bring people together and make the world a better place, even though some teens saw it as a way
The Fray's hit song, 'How To Save a Life,' tells a story of a mentor, also a friend, who is trying to 'save a life' of a troubled youth. The story starts off with the teenager and this friend sitting down to have a talk about what is wrong in the teen?s life. The second line reads, 'he walks, you say sit down it's just a talk,' this showing anger and fear of what might be brought up in conversation, so he tries to run away from the problem. Although neither individual wants to have the talk, they both respect each other enough to be polite, 'He smiles politely back at you/
What happens when one has an epiphany about something, years after it has happened? The essays “Some Notes on Attunement” by Zadie Smith and “Highway of Lost Girls” by Vanessa Veselka are personal essays that at first glance seem disconnected from each other as they touch on completely different subjects. However, it is evident that both have a common theme: realization. Zadie Smith comes to appreciate an artist named Joni Mitchell a decade after she first refers to her singing as “just noise” (Smith, 2012, p. 189). Vanessa Veselka hunts for more answers as she discovers the possible identity of the truck driver who threatened her life as an adolescent. Yet, it is important to note that the theme of realization covers a multitude of ideas expressed in these essays. Smith and Veselka in telling their individual stories, also utilize stylistic choices of their writing to enhance these ideas.
The end of a semester is the most stressful time for students because of those dreaded finals. Anyone who lived through the 1990s should know the song a young lion and his pals sang after meeting for the first time. However, as the years pass by, society forgets the simple pleasures of youth and the two words that can make all troubles go away. “Hakuna Matata” was a song written by Tim Rice with music by Elton John. This song is also a story about a warthog before he discovered this amazing expression. However, the biggest part of the song is about being carefree and forgetting any troubles that may arise. As finals approach, a student needs to revisit their childhood past and recall the “wonderful phrase:”
My two favorite songs of the evening were played by the Mason Jazz Ensemble. The first song played was titled Harlem Airshaft by Duke Ellington. This song uses complex instrumentation to paint a picture of walking through Harlem at night. The song is able to convey the way that Duke Ellington say Harlem. The song feels both hectic and organized all while conveying the beauty of the city. Harlem Air Shaft, as is typical with many jazz songs, uses a combination of call and response to really showcase the different sounds of the instruments in the band as well as the abilities of the musicians. Because of the many different solos in this song, it was my favorite song from the night. My second favorite song that night was called Lush Life by Sarah Vaughan. For this song, the instruments took a back seat to entrancing vocals. The instrumentation was used to produce a beautiful smooth and almost enchanting atmosphere to lift the singer to captivate the audience with beautiful vocals. The vocals were smooth and bright and held the entire audience’s attention. The instruments used in these songs and the rest of the songs during the show were very typical of that of a big band. Each song had drums, piano, bass, and occasionally guitar. There was also the woodwinds and brass section composed of saxophones, clarinets, trombones and