LESSON 7: PUNK‚ DISCO‚ GLAM ROCK‚ REGGAE‚ CUMBIA AND HARD ROCK Reggae A Jamaican music genre which originated from the ska and rocksteady. The word reggae means rags‚ ragged. This also mean ragged dance music. The music style of reggae has an offbeat rhythm‚ syncopated‚ and staccato chords. Reggae music use also stringed instruments like guitar‚ bass guitar and piano. For the percussion‚ reggae use snare drums and tom0tom drums. Horns are also used like the saxophone‚ trumpet and trombone. Some
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was a sad love song that became a popular hit in the 1920’s‚ specifically 1926. Due to how the man was treating her with such disrespect‚ Smith sings about leaving the man she loves. Her music was considered to be classical blues based on the African American blues genre. Long before Smith’s time‚ this type of music with its sad and negative tone was already being played. For instance‚ “Flow My Tears” was written around the 1600’s which was during the Renaissance period. This was considered popular
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Music and Personality What Does Your Taste In Music Reveal About Your Personality? Research conducted by psychologists Jason Rentfrow and Sam Gosling suggests that knowing the type of music you listen to can actually lead to surprisingly accurate predictions about your personality. For example‚ researchers found that people could make accurate judgments about an individual’s levels of extraversion‚ creativity and open-mindedness after listening to ten of their favorite songs. Extraverts tend
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Techno Electronic music has been around since the late 60’s and is now a very popular type of music among many poeple. My favorite genre of electronic music is Techno. Techno is a hard edge driven dance music that contains electronic sounds‚ high-energy‚ and a rhythmic beat. The sounds can range from simple beats of a drum to TV and movie dialogue or siren screams. Around 1986‚ there was a scene in Detroit which began spinning a futuristic kind of music. The DJ’s began experimenting with
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African music carries both cultural and historical significance in the lives of the African people. There are many different rituals in African music that are very unique and exemplify the many different cultures. The African people also express their mourning and grief through their music and this music also vary throughout the country. The African people express themselves musically through a variety of musical instruments. African music also includes a wide variety of instruments with heavy
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ensure musical satisfaction‚ but did provide a reference for a world of audio in which factions often eschewed references of foreign standards‚ and baked up their own to taste‚ with justifications akin to "It just sounds right‚" or "It sounds more like music." Those statements hold water when made in the context of personal opinion‚ but is tantamount to‚ "We think it sounds good." Many audiophiles cued into loudspeakers with flat frequency response‚ and some found that they could indeed be musically rewarding
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Music and dance are so related closely in African thinking that it is difficult for them to separate song from movement or speech from playing the drum. In this case‚ the arts are a part of everyday normal life. Life cycle events including‚ but not limited to‚ birth‚ puberty and death are celebrated with a musical performance. Because music is so integral to society‚ everyone is expected to be able to sing and dance at a certain level of proficiency. Beyond that‚ certain people are selected for
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"Music and The Tempest" The vital center of The Tempest is its music. Pervading and informing the action of the play‚ music is always sounding‚ always affecting and shaping the lives of the characters. Often directionless and ambiguous in its meaning‚ the music of The Tempest provides a context for Prospero’s magical machinations and becomes‚ through the course of the play‚ a powerfully evocative symbol of this magic. In The Tempest music is the medium through which order emerges from chaos; it
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In just about every other areas of music instruction‚ they encourage students to analyze‚ learn and steal from the greats. Guitar students start out by playing along to their heros. Singers sing along. Classical music students analyze Bach‚ Mozart‚ Beethoven and likes and learn what stylistic elements identify their compositions as their works. Rightfully‚ this is a tricky topic with songwriters‚ because we’re so afraid of plagiarism. Even if you don’t end up in court‚ being accused of plagiarism
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The word music comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa‚ the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece‚ the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later‚ in Rome‚ ars musica embraced poetry as well as instrument-oriented music. In the European Middle Ages‚ musica was part of the mathematical quadrivium: arithmetics‚ geometry‚ astronomy and musica. The concept of musica was split into four major kinds
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