Syncopation

Being a Shady Grove Cardinal for five years has taught me valuable lessons. These lessons are not only about academics, but about guidance, character traits, and citizenship. The lessons will help me in the near future, and I cherish them. Mrs. Askins, the guidance teacher, comes to our class every month and helps us develop our personal and social skills. She taught me how to manage my anger and my time. For example, I used to procrastinate with my homework, but she taught me how to finish my…

Summertime, from the folk opera Porgy and Bess, is a haunting, languid melody created by the highly esteemed American composer and pianist, George Gershwin. Gershwin was one of the twentieth-century’s most influential, beloved composers, and a multitalented musical genius. He composed numerous orchestral works for piano and jazz orchestra, and created popular musical compositions for several stage works and films. Gershwin’s most famous piece, however, is undoubtedly Rhapsody in Blue. I have…

First Selection: -Symphony No. 1 (“ Classical”), first movement- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) First Hearing: Happy, Calm Second Hearing: Prokofiev wanted to create a kind of the homage for the composers of the Classical era. I really like the sound of this song. It put me in a happy, calm mood. Third Hearing: The pitch starts off low. The melody is disjunct. The rhythm is duple meter. The tempo is a steadfast. The dynamic is widely varying levels at the beginning of the song. It increases…

George Frideric Handel was a German composer and one of the most famous during the Baroque period, known for his operas and oratorios. His musical talent was acknowledged at a very early age and was able to compose and give lessons by 11. His first opera was successfully produced by age 20. One of Handel’s most famous pieces that is still widely known today is Messiah. Messiah is an three part English Oratorio composed in 1741, each part telling a difference part of the story of the Messiah.…

Nothing is more iconic of the 1920s than jazz. Jazz made places such Harlem and New Orleans huge national hits. Included with jazz are huge individual names, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald. Not only did it make them famous, it made places such as Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom. (Berg) The smooth music from New Orleans was a big part of why African American culture was “accepted and promoted in the American culture at large by the 1920’s.” (Berg 7). Jazz was one of, if…

mood became more dramatic as it progressed. The symphony played in unison producing a harmony of tone colors. I also enjoyed the syncopation of this movement, in which the offbeat notes were beautifully accented. The second movement was andante. The violins began in a loud, soft tempo which played a sad melody. The cellos joined the violins providing a strong syncopation that evoked feelings of a dark, rainy day. The third movement in presto, began with the violins playing short strokes…

Special Education, suggests basic rhythm and accents, contemporary music, major and minor scales, ostinato, pentatonic scales, syncopation, and transposition should be focused on for special needs students. These of course should all be a very basic levels and they will grow advanced as the child advances in their abilities. For further explanation, lets take syncopation as an example. For the beginning lesson I would start by explaining an accent. I would introduce the concept, explain it, and…

1. Silvestre Revueltas was one of the most prominent figures of “mestizo realism” from the 20th century. Born in Durango, Mexico, Revueltas was a child prodigy who went on to study in Mexico and the U.S before having to return to home after his friend, and renowned composer, Carlos Chavez asked him to play for the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico. Afterwards, Revueltas went to Spain, which was undergoing a revolution, in order to participate in cultural activities of the Loyalist government.…

grounds that there are such a significant number of various sounds that meet up to frame this music. In the Big Band period of the 1930's, jazz, or swing, had turned out to be well known and fused the African components of syncopation and riffs. Riffs, rhythms, and syncopations are only a couple of attributes of African American impact on basically all music, and jazz music, specifically, took this impact to an alternate level. What changed was that already, in the mid-nineteenth century, jazz…

influence popular music? What dance did he help popularize? James Reese Europe’s contribution to popular music lies on the evolution of the Ragtime genre away from the piano style. The principal aspects he developed was: a faster tempo, less syncopation, and the chance to improvise. With this changes in the music a new dance emerges: the foxtrot, being Europe one of the principles developer and promoter. 10. What are the three main sources of popular music? What did each contribute to the…