The thought of ever becoming an actor or musician was always a dream, but now I know that after googling myself, I've learned that if I would ever want to become a famous actor or a musician I would not be able to use my real name or else it might be mixed up with Brian Nash, an actor from the 1960's or another Brian Nash, a famous British musician. Brian Nash the actor, was born in Glendale, California on May 20th, 1956. He was most famous for roles in 1960's T.V. series such as Please Don't…
It was during the intermission, the musicians introduced themselves. The music is not written down on the program. Rather, it was stated orally. The group of male musicians was consisted of a pianist, drummer, bass, and saxaphone. Many times, the group would be playing a polyphonic texture. However, there were other times where they would suddenly change into a heterophonic texture. The heterophonic texture usually was used to show off a particular musician. He would play a lot more fancy with…
the formation of intervals and triads that derives from it, and their inputs. The major scale and its seven modes-the Ionic, Doric, Phrygian, Lydian , Mixolydian, wind and locrio- are also part of the basic theory must completely dominate a jazz musician, like the circle of fifths. Among the most common chord progressions in jazz include: II-VI Progression, among the most common chord progressions features jazz. The VV progression, that is, a…
entailed being labelled, excluded from the rest of society as they are proscribed by law as criminal if engaged in by adults of delinquent if engaged in by youth this need not be the case. A group that is considered to be deviant would be the dance musicians culture and their way of life that is seen as bizarre and unconventional for society. People who engage in deviant activities have the opportunity to interact with one another, dependent for social contact and to validate their beliefs and…
Musicians have been found to have better timing on repetitive tapping tasks when compared to non-musicians (Franěk, Mates, Radil, Beck, & Pöppel, 1991). Another study found that the amount of music training influenced performance outcomes on synchronization tasks (Repp, 2010) Professional musicians outperformed both novice musicians and non-musicians, while novice musicians performed better than non-musicians on various synchronization tasks (Repp, 2010). Overall, musicians were found…
a bass, drums, a guitar, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, and one baritone saxophone. This makes a total of 17 musicians plus one for Professor Paul McKee who was the conductor. The student ensemble was very large and was arrange/modeled after a…
not have an identity. When the musician is too dishearten to continue tradition, the piano becomes personified as his personal advocator and thus, “that old piano moan-/ An’t got nobody but ma self. I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’/ And put ma troubles on the shelf.(19-22)” Readers experience an overwhelming sense of exhaustion and hopelessness as the Blues illustrates his daily struggle to find himself amongst the isolation and bilious bigotry of racism. The musician continues his beautifully…
and regularly created solos that consisted of ling-lined melodies, each of which was elegant improvised composition unto itself. This gained a wide following among jazz musicians and greatly influenced the Jazz community in the iconic shift is music. Parker’s self-destructive behavior and lifestyle, despite being fatal to the musician ending his life at the age of 34, also attracted a lot of attention of the hipsters, poets, and researchers of the era of late 1940s jazz. As Charlie Parker and…
the first time that young Cuban musicians from different musical backgrounds, would come to U.S and offer a huge concert, all together on the same scenario. There was a lot of anticipation and expectation for this specific event in the Cuban community and of course I joined a group of friends and bought tickets to be part of this memorable event. There is an assumption that Cuban musicians are not successful out of Cuba, and I am not referring to traditional musicians and Cuban music like Benny…
or different may be more likely to fall short of their expectations. I personally enjoyed the performance being played as written, because it really allowed me appreciate all of the musical nuances and listen to the music in a new way. Seeing the musicians have a bodily reaction to the music, also helped me to discover the various feelings and qualities in this work. There reactions really reflected the emotions that were being felt and the qualities they were trying pull out of the music. It…