going against the restraints of artistic form and genre resisting all rules and regulations. Plays took a more lifelike‚ turbulent and loose form Composers attempted to break down barriers of harmony and form. All composers experimented with chords and chord progressions‚ which were previously forbidden creating enriched and imaginative new harmonies. Music and the Supernatural The supernatural was often incorporated in operas as artists transcended the ordinary. Composers prepared strange
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The Six Eras of Music Juacara Diggs MUS-110-IN2 May 10th‚ 2015 In the history of Western music‚ there are six eras of music. These eras are the Middle Ages‚ the Renaissance‚ the Classical period‚ the Romantic era‚ and the Twentieth century. From 450 to 1450‚ music developed during the Middle Ages was characterized by the development of rhythmic independence in polyphonic textures. In the Middle Ages‚ there was medieval music that was mostly vocal. Medieval church music had eight scales or modes
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Miles Davis and Steve Reich This paper will briefly discuss some of the music of Miles Davis and Steve Reich. While both of these composers were instrumental in the development of the kinds of music they composed and played‚ they have very different sounds. Steve Reich created minimalist music‚ while Miles Davis created jazz. In 1959‚ Miles Davis released‚ ”Kind of Blue”‚ the best-selling jazz album ever. It was an example of a new type of jazz‚ called modal jazz. I listened to “On Green Dolphin
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Bebop Called also bop‚ bebop is a style of jazz with its characteristics being fast tempo‚ instrumental virtuosity and improvisation founded on the mixture of harmonic structure and melody. Its origins began in the early and mid-1940’s‚ where it became synonymous with modern jazz‚ as the two of them came to a certain maturity point in the 1960’s. Its roots were from New York City. The creation of bebop began by the interest of jazz performers to create a new genre where it counters the popular swing
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was friendly‚ and his years of being a guitarist showed through the callouses on his fingertips. I‚ by my extensive vocabulary‚ would have called him a “pretty cool guy.” He knew all about the technical aspects of the guitar‚ he taught me various chords‚ how to read sheet music‚ and how to play. However‚ more important to me was his own love for playing‚ which led to my obsession with music. If thirteen-year-old me had never walked into that studio then music would not be the driving force of my
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Change is affected largely by consumer demand‚ country music changed rapidly from 1972 to 1977. Due to this demand‚ lyrical themes focused more exclusively on love problems and were more explicit in discussing various sorts of deviant behavior. Chord structures and rhythms became more complex‚ orchestrations became fuller‚ and the singing styles became smoother. In all these ways‚ the most widely heard country music sounded more like the other genres of popular music in 1977 (Peterson). This also
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is for using Parker’s style‚ but with the piano. Powell played chords with his left hand to accompany improvisations with his right hand. This made Powell unique in the sense that earlier piano styles included mostly non-stop left-hand playing. Not only did he play with both hands‚ but his right hand was extremely fast‚ amazing his listeners. Powell had a linear style‚ focusing more on single melodic lines rather than emphasizing chords (Lesson 8). “No one was more influential than Powell on the generation
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of notes sounded one after the other. If the consecutively sounded notes call to mind the notes of a familiar chord‚ the ear will order them accordingly. “In such cases the ear perceives the harmony that would result if the notes had sounded together. In a narrower sense‚ harmony refers to the extensively developed system of chords and the rules that allow or forbid relations between chords that characterises Western music.” (Butterworth‚ 1999) The style of western harmony as practiced from c. 1650
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Bacharach’s style consisted of shifting meters and time signatures‚ irregular phrasing‚ uncommon chords‚ and most of all his soft and smooth memorable melodies. Bacharach’s style was something very new and unique and very risky considering that it was a whole brand new style of music that was trying to fit in to their type of mainstream music. Regardless
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a common 4/4 time measure. Its rhythm is simple but strong‚ and gives Eminem a good framework to rap on. Similar to many rap songs‚ the time measure does not change throughout the whole piece and keeps a repetitive beat. The consistency of guitar chords playing on the downbeat creates an engaging feeling for the listeners to nod their heads to. Most notably‚ in the beginning of the song where the guitar is first introduced‚ the use of
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