Listening to music in today’s society, you will find that there are many types of music, some genres being similar to others, and some not so similar. Country (western) and rap (hip-hop) are most likely at the top of the list of being dissimilar. Country, originally brought up in the south is still very rural […]
How has Jazz Influenced Modern Music
Jazz is as American as apple pie. It is original music, created in America. Jazz is the most influential of all music styles in the 20th century. No other music can make that claim. What jazz is, is a mainly improvisational style of playing with syncopated rhythms laid down under the melody. It was created […]
Music Classifications
Music has always been a part of every culture, big or small. It has been there from the beging of time, and I’m sure it will be there at the end. It has become a part of people, and who they are. Some music represents people, and other music expresses people. Either way, music is […]
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas Nevada (unknown author, no title, no page, letter code C). But his family moved around a lot while he was a kid (Bastin, J.D.). […]
Has Classical Music Influenced Rock Music?
The world of classical music has become little more than a walled in ghetto for music lovers. It can best be described as a niche market in today’s business lexicon. Ghetto in the sense that ghetto dwellers usually stay in their neighborhood, rarely venturing out to interact with their neighbors down the street or around […]
History of Music
It can be argued that the vanguard of development has always been reflected in the arts of a culture. It is the poets, the dreamers and artists who are the architects of the future; the ones who build the world they want to live in, the ones who dream out loud1. Music is an elaborate […]
Miles Davis, Revolutionary Musician
Miles Davis is considered one of the four great jazz players along with Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington (Miles Davis Biography, 2004). Davis’ career spans five decades, from the mid 1940’s to 1991, which is almost unheard of in the music industry where careers tend to be short. His long career includes awards […]
History of Western Music
Most of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages […]
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