The Classical Period
.... to it's peak in the last 20 years of the 18th century. Haydn excelled
in rhythmic drive and development of theme-based music. Mozart also added to
the symphony by contrasting memorable lyric themes in very full sounding
orchestral settings.
To satisfy the middle-class amateur, classic composers supplied a ton of
new chamber music for all imaginable combinations. The piano sonata became a
very important form of chamber music, especially after being refined by Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven. After 1765, th .....
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The Consumer And The Gimmick
.... but the best from our favorite bands. Once we have what we want it's
not long before we want more. This is because we consume the musicians' talents
like a fast food happy meal. We open the box, take out the toy, throw away the
contents, and then bitch about being hungry. When we do this we always say,
"It's a cool song, but they are a one hit wonder." We the hungry consumer do
not give the bands a chance to show their true musical talents. One example
involves the group Verve Pipe and .....
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The Grateful Dead
.... Dead electronics and recording family,joined the
group along with John "marmaduke" Dawson,who later joined the New Riders of the
Purple Sage. Work was scarce for the Jug Champions until Dana Morgan, owner at
the store where Jerry taught banjo and Pig Pen worked,provided the money and
equipment for them to become electric. After they had become electric they
renamed the group the Warlocks. Dawson and Matthews were soon to leave and they
were replaced by drummer Bill Sommers (Krentemann) and Phil Lesh, wh .....
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The History Of Jazz
.... The first
jazz record was made in 1917 by a New Orleans band the Original Dixieland Jazz
Band, made up of white musicians who copied black styles.
The New Orleans musicians discovered that audiences were eager for their music
in the cities of the North and the Midwest. In the 1920s Chicago became the
second major jazz center. White Chicago youths, such as tenor saxophonist Bud
Freeman and clarinetist Benny Goodman, were excited by the New Orleans masters
including the thrilling Louis Armstrong, who play .....
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The Ideals Of Instrumental Music
.... Romantic mode of expression, and the strong literary
orientation of the 19th century, was resolved in the conception of program
music. Program music, as Liszt and others in the 19th century used the term,
is music associated with poetic, descriptive, and even narrative subject
matter. This is done not by means of musical figures imitating natural sounds
and movements, but by imaginative suggestion. Program music aimed to absorb
and transmit the imagined subject matter in such a way that the resulting w .....
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The Roots Of Blues Music
.... Because most
blacks went to Christian churches from an early age and were exposed to
Christian hymns.
Ragtime was an influence that came later and is a faster blues played with
the piano and someone singing which was usually played in bars called barrel
houses.
The first country blues that was written and published was "Memphis Blues"
by W.C. Handy in the early 1900's.
The first recorded blues was " Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith in 1915.
Most country blues were played with an acoustic guitar an .....
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The Singing School: An American Tradition
.... having the same rhythms as the poetry, to be used as melodies for
many psalms. In addition, the text employed the vernacular, and consequently
promoted memorization. The ninth edition of the Bay Psalm Book, published in
1698, was the first edition published with tunes. This edition had printed the
letters F-S-L-M, representing the solmization syllables fa, sol, la, and mi,
under the notes. This indicates that there was a familiarity with and an
interest in music instruction as applied to psalmody.
It .....
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The Verve Pipe: The Freshman - Analysis
.... to
slip, we'd say
When you are young you always think, well that would never happen to me …. Or
even almost have a view that you were indestructible. You could never die, I am
too young. We have everything worked out, everything planned. This was kind of
the story between this girl and guy. The girl was stubborn and no matter how
many people told her she was wrong in here was, she though she knew everything.
Nothing bad could ever happen to her. She kept doing what she was doing and she
died. .....
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The Way It Really Was!
.... him later in life.
The father of Rock and Roll
Alan freed was the first white disc jockey to play Rock and Roll. Alan
show in Cleveland was very popular with teenagers. In 1954, Alan's show moved
to WINS. His nick name “moondog” had to be dropped. He adopted the new title “
the king of rock and roll”. Newspapers ran articles saying Alan was the main
wrongdoer in creating Rock and Roll. A riot broke out at one of Alan Freed's
concert. The police turned up the house lights to see what the teenag .....
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Wind Chimes
.... the rod would transfer vibration to the enclosed
air as well as directly to the atmosphere, resulting in a louder tone. A hard
connection between rods and frame would also accomplish this result somewhat;
the vibrations of each seperate rod would be commuted to the others, resulting
in more vibrating surface area (and hence, more volume).
The transmission of the chime's sound without the abovementioned
alterations is quite simple; each rod releases longitudinal waves radially from
it's longest axis .....
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RIP Tupac Amaur Shakur (1971-1996)
.... on the side of the car that he was celebrating in and
fired 13 rounds at him while he had his whole upper body out of the
skylight window. Some people think that this might be a type protective
custody or a publicity stunt.
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The Beatles
.... in a Music Hall style that is very effective
for the audiences but was lacking on their albums. Together with Paul, John
began to evolve the band. As the years began to pass, the band was
obviously beginning to grow musically. They had moved from simple lyrics
like "Love me Do" to harshly aware reflections of life in their home
country in "Eleanor Rigby"2. There were attempts, some more successful than
others, to incorporate the other Beatles into the idea stage. George
Harrison made this leap successfully .....
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Jimi Hendrix
.... his guitar over his back and left home to enlist
in the 101st Division of the Air Force (the "Screaming Eagles"), where he
served as a parachute jumper until an injury led to his discharge. Hendrix
then began working as a session guitarist under the name Jimmy James,
playing behind such marquee acts as Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, and the
Isley Brothers. After gigging extensively with Little Richard in 1964,
Hendrix became entangled in a contract dispute with the mercurial artist
and left to form his o .....
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Jimi Hendrix
.... out playing as part of the back-up for small time R & B
groups. It did not take long before his work was in demand with some of the
best known artists in the field, such as B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner,
Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson, Littler Richard, Wilson Pickett, and King
Curtis (Clifford, pg. 181). Using the name Jimmy James, he toured with a
bunch of R & B shows, including six months as a member of James Brown's
Famous Flames (Stambler, pg. 290). At the Cafe Wha! in New York, in 1966,
Hendrix decide .....
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Jazz
.... interpretation.
Jazz is over 100 years old, probably making it one of the longest,
lasting forms of music so far. Jazz was not created by Europeans, it was
created by Afro-Americans who descended from ancestors in Africa. These
Afro-Americans learned how to play these European instruments well,
including percussion or the drum set, trumpet, cornet, saxophone, trombone,
tuba, and many other instruments. They wanted to show what they were like
to other races, so they attempted to express them .....
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