The History and Making of Percussion Instruments

In a standard percussion set another instrument feature in the music inside folk music was bones. Handmade musical instruments implied onto a pair of castranets stringed collaborate in one piece. Bones would be played by a musician when only using one hand. Another instrument would be found in a musical band during African slavery was a concertina, a small instrument build very similar to a portable keyboard. Unique musical on each side gives of the instrument it gave off sounds controlled the density of the music pitches. Using the concertina, accompanied along to the music push the sides of the instrument in and out. One of the first well-known music piece would be classified was a piece titled “Jim Crow”. An interesting piece of information was the composer of the song was not a slave or African American. He was a white man although he was known in his musical compositions as a founding “father” in ministerial song writing.

Some topics that music composers used in their musical song composition were honored towards were the inaugural event for the Erie Canal or telling a story about celebration for the Gold Rush commotion in California. First song as a listener that was highlighted in the Early African American culture in the chapter was a music piece “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land.” Some musical composers based their lyrics written about the dangers of having slavery in the south. Anyway back to the listening musical piece, it was three minutes long the music piece was written around 1860.

Music composer was Daniel Decatur Emmett, it was a bright, upbeat song found in slaves working under plantation rule. They respond to other workers and slaves who were living under the same work quarters they performed in a walk-aroun...

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.... Sharing a stage or music with another race was considered wrong. However, despite segregation James A. Bland was one of the first African American composers who wrote song compositions for minstrel shows. The African Americans faced a lot of prejudice however it did not stop them from creating entertainment and from building separate theaters. Some of his popular songs he had composed from this time period that can be found in the genre of minstrel shows are “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia”, “In the Evening of the Moonlight” and another classic musical piece “Be Golden Wedding.” Historically he was one of the first African American song composers that came from United States. Back then, this highly respected composer worked as a page for the U.S. House of Representatives Also from his many musical talents, on his down time he sang along to his own songs with a