What Is Musical History In Australia

Jacob Perrino 1st hour 9-7-14 second draft

Musical Culture in Australia

Musical history in Australia has become part of America because of the fact that lots of bands in the U.S. have originated from Australia. Australian music has an extensive history stretching back to the indigenous and colonial societies. Australian music is a part of the unique heritage of a 40,000-60,000 year history. The Australian musical sound is about recognition of rhythmic patterns derived from our environment and from things like the natives and the culturally diverse Australian lives. Indigenous music uses the Australian environment to create unique sounds and rhythms. Australian musicians have achieved international recognition
Classical music is ‘the serious or conventional music following long established principles rather than a folk, jazz, or popular tradition.” Classical music became very popular between 1550 and the 1900’s. The extent of classical music performance in Australia is shown by the simple statistics from the amount of times concerts were presented. One example is every year around 2,500 concerts of classical music was presented. They used this to show how often classical music in Australia was listened to, and how many concerts people went to just to enjoy the classical music. Duncan Gifford is a great example also. He is an Australian pianist and is a major artist how has created himself with international success in many worldwide concerts. Duncan is described as a “virtuosic and musically eloquent soloist.” He has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has even done concerts in Australasia! Duncan has created a name for himself just by playing the piano. Imagine what other people who are in bands can do for
When special activities and celebrations are going on in Australia they perform. Military bands perform classical and even some popular music at ceremonies, parades, church services, mass dinners and concerts. The Australian Army Band Corps (AABC) role is to provide the army with all musical support and to promote its public image. They can do this by creating advertisements for billboards, they can help by making commercials for the military, and even radio ads to help promote them. The military bands provide music for ceremonies and training activities. This helps keep everyone more entertained so people don’t get bored during the ceremonies. The Military bands also play ceremonial music when troops deploy or return home to base. When they play the music for them men when the return home or to base, it helps the men feel more welcome in their environment and helps them to see what they did, and them returning is a cause for celebration. They also provide music for royal, federal, state, territory and even local government agencies. The military band helps to enhance morale through