Louverture Op. 1 Poetic Techniques

The genre bachata was developed in the Caribbean island of Dominican Republic. This genre was created based on boleros (slow-tempo Latin music), son cubanos, waltzes, Mexican music and merengue. Bachata is well known as love and depressing songs in which many people describe them self with this genre. At one point back in the earlier 1960s, bachata was considered vulgar and low-class. “Acceptance of the music has increased significantly in the last two decades, although some dominicans, both individuals living on the island and stateside, still do not accept the music because of the implication of its lower-class origins and associations with such themes as crime, poverty, drinking, and prostitution’’(Stavans 47). The genre Bachata has spread and grown so quickly for the past few years that is has become very famous in the United States, Europe, China, and South America. The genre bachata is well known to attract people with its lyrics, instruments, and dance since it identifies many people with real life events.

There is, finally, an artist who has managed to mainstream a niche genre by effectively bridging the gap between elegance and bawdiness with huge musical and entertainment skills. It has taken Santos more than a decade to reach his current “king” status. But his staying power is more than

Cuban Rumba proved to be the stronger style that has weathered time and is now a key genre of music from Cuba. Both styles are important to the history of Cuba and both give excellent insight into the history of Afro-Cubans and their

Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

Thesis: Although Jazz music was first introduced over 80 years ago, the genre still influences artists and the new music they make to this day.

Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I

Duke Ellington's pre-eminence in jazz is not only because of the very high aesthetic standard of his output and not simply due to his remarkable abilities as a pianist, composer and bandleader, but also to the fact that he has extended the boundaries of jazz more than any other musician, without abandoning the true essence of the music. Perhaps no other American musician left such a massive and challenging legacy in composition and performance.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

In this essay we will analyze two modern musical pieces. These pieces are namely Sonata V from John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, and Caballito Negro by George Crumb. Composed in mid twentieth century, both pieces made a great success and they are worth examining in terms of the historical and subjective values affecting their achievements.

1. Richard Cook and Brian Morton The penguin Guide to Jazz, 2008, London: Penguin, p1020

The calypso music that comes from a Trinidad musician is exciting, not on the ground of the blood that he carries in his veins but rather the historical, cultural, and religious favors that are brought together to ensure its production.

Lucy & La Mer is the stunning musical endeavor of Los Angeles based singer, songwriter and activist Lucy LaForge. Lucy’s sound consists of delicate indie folk melodies, alluring pop layered vocals, and her signature baritone ukulele.

Genre: Nonfiction. The gripping story of how a young, poor, African-American boy, physically abused by his father and bullied at school, finds a creative outlet for his anger through music when his teacher gives him a trumpet. The rise to fame, and the creation of bebop music by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie is told with a narrative containing rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration. The narration imitates the sounds of jazz and scat that Dizzy created. A note from the author included at the end of the narrative brings further insight into Dizzy’s life as a teacher of bebob and role model for musicians.

In this essay, I will be examining the musical genre of Afrobeat which was created by Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Afrobeat first came to be in the late 1960’s during the Civil Rights Movement in America. Fela Kuti a Nigerian, was able to create a genre that has change the way we view music today. Afrobeat is made up of two different words, “Afro” and “Beat”. “Afro” correlates with “African organized sound while beat is a rhythmic counting pattern in relation to such music” (Oikelome, 2013). Therefore, the meaning of Afrobeat is the unique African rhythmic patterns of such music. The coming of this genre is very interesting since the man behind it has quite a story.

Rumba is a family of percussive rhythms, song, and ballroom dance that originated in Cuba. The name comes from the Cuban word ‘rumbo’ which means “party”. This term was a perfect fit for the dance due to its vivacious and upbeat rhythms. The sources of this dance are Spanish and African making it generally considered Afro-Cuban. The instruments included in Rumba music are claves, which are two sticks that get struck together, and three drums. The drums are Quinto, which is the lead drum with the highest pitch, tres dos, the middle drum, and salidor, the lowest pitched drum. Accompanying instruments include the marimbola and the maracas. The rumba influence camein the 16th century when black slaves were imported from Africa. Ramón Melendi Espine