Banda music

The reactions to the performers were not surprising. Many of the audience were enjoying the music. They kept clapping every time a song ended. Looking around the younger audience was into their cell phones. They were taking videos and pictures on their phones. I was sitting by a family that had several teenage boys that kept telling their parents “No me guesta esta musica” they were on their cell phones the entire evening. Many of the older audience were entertained by the music. In fact, there was a group of older men that were drinking by the bar that kept requesting songs. Everyone can hear them scream “orta cancion, ortra cancion!” Once they started making a scene. Everyone kept looking at them. The lead singer kept going up to them having them sing in the microphone. The reaction that the rest of the audiences had on the drunken men singing into the microphone made people laugh. You could not understand what they were saying they kept slurring their…

Latin Music Music is an advanced way to express various emotions. The tempo, rhythm and dynamics can change the way a song makes its audience feel. Latin music, an usual upbeat type of music has an interesting history like any other type of music. From the 1940s to today every decade of latin music is equally important and remarkable. In the 1940s and 1950s the term “Latin Music” started in the United States. In the 1940s this music began rising in popularity, one author stated, “Latin America,…

The danzon music originally started in Cuba and was also Cuba's most popular form of national music! The music started from nineteenth ballroom repertoire, infused with local rhythms but at the same time, patterned after French and Spanish music. The instruments that were played in early twentieth century Danzón bands, were mostly violins flute, piano, acoustic bass, timbales, and a gourd scraper known as the guiro. There is a specific name that they call the bands that play the danzon music.…

Music is part of our lives, we listen to music all the time one way or another. Music can bring many kind of emotions and at times it reflects our feelings. But not only that, music is also really influential in many positive and negative ways. The kind of influence that I will be referring throughout this essay is the powerful influence music can bring to us in our understanding of race and ethnicity. This is call pop-culture “the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other…

For this RPQ we learned what popular culture is for the Latino/Chicano community, the differences between race and ethnicity, and Hollywood's perceptions of Latino actors and actress. Throughout the articles given on Moodle from Charles Ramirez Berg and lectures. We connect deeper to these topics by answering the questions below. Through the Latino culture, we see popular culture. This concept is through the development thru popular film, television, and music. Usually created by the…

For a piece that utilizes so many non-pitched sounds, Halim El-Dabh’s Leiyla and the Poet (1959) is a surprisingly melodic and structured piece. Two introductory motifs, one melodic, one rhythmic, are introduced at the beginning. The melodic element is shown in a whistle that follows a roughly duple pattern which is broken and reformed throughout the following minutes. Both the introduction and ending, it sets up the atmosphere and cues the listener’s attention to the different sections of the…

The Pittsburgh Performing Arts Center offers classes that support cross-curriculum learning through the National Standards for Arts Education. Hands-on activity and a diverse curriculum are the main points of focus to enhance learning and imagination. Classes are offered on Thursdays and Fridays from 10am-12pm, and districts must sign up ahead of time if they wish to take part in the adventure. The Pittsburgh Performing Arts Center encompasses dance, theater, and world music, and all classes…

How Music Affects Who You Are When I was twelve years old, my dad bought me my first guitar. I had no idea what I was doing when I began, but within a matter of two weeks, I already had the basics down and could play full songs. To me and my teacher, that was incredible, because it takes most people at least a month. He had even told me that he thinks I was “born to play.” Along with learning guitar, I taught myself how to play piano within a year. I began to realize that no matter what mood I…

torn clothes and scratchy hands. Sometimes I see children begging for some money to get food, while some go to schools wearing the same clothes for many days. It is very appalling to see that many homeless people and children live without an unknown tomorrow. I always get a thought that, what is the fault of these homeless children who are deprived so much in life? “Approximately 32% of children are homeless in Chicago.” (“Homeless Youth”). I feel very sorry for these kids and their future; so,…

This classical music recital on September 24, 2015, in Duncan Recital Hall at Baird Musical Hall stars many of Morehead State University’s musical professors. The compositions it features are Donald Gillis’s They’re Off, Béla Bartók’s Quarrel, W.A. Mozart’s La ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni), Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Fantasie Concertante for Piano, Clarinet, and Bassoon, Michel Blavet’s Variations on a Theme by Corelli, John Macky’s Damn, and Ryan Mcguillicuddy’s On The Bus. In Donald Gillis’s…