Music Analysis

The ensemble performing is the Texas State Jazz Ensemble and guest artist Steve Houghton. The performance was at 7:30PM at the performing arts center recital hall on November 1st, 2016. The title of the pieces that was performed was Slide’s Derangement by Slide Hampton which was written in the late fifties. BBC by Bob Florence and But Beautiful by Jimmy Van Heusen and Chuck Owen that was written in 1947. The performances with the guest artist Steven Houghton was Dangerous Curves by Jeff Golub and Matt Harris that was written in 2000. Blues for Stephanie by John Clayton that was written in the nineties. Jazz Crimes by Joshua Redman and Alan Baylock that was written in the 2002. Cariba by Wes Montgomery and Steve Alee

Music is a significant element in most lives it takes a role in most cultures people believe in. Music contains a variety of elements within different genres such as the pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre and the texture. Different voices and different kinds of instruments produce a variety of frequent

Art is in its purest sense, humanity collectively trying to impress, relate, and grow with one another and themselves. Music is the art form that embodies all the greater characteristics from other art forms, and puts them into one. In the words of Frank Zappa “Art is how we decorate space, Music is how we decorate time.” Music carries the ability to paint pictures, tell stories, and even showcase the time period they came from.

Music in The Music Man Music is an element that can modify the atmosphere of anything. Whether it is in a movie, a party, or in a musical, it can change the scene from melancholy to cheerful. In The Music Man by Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey, music is the most important element of the production as it drives the plot and changes the emotion of the audience to match what the playwright imagined. I watched this musical in the Performing Arts Center of North Royalton High School, Directed by Megan Dolar.

Everyday I have the blues- This song started off as an upbeat. The rhythm makes me want to get up and dance.

With the release of The Thrill of it All Sam Smith continues to impress audiences with his otherworldly vocals that gets the toes tapping and the fingers snapping. This album is a prime example of what Sam Smith is all about with its ¨dance and cry songs¨, as he says, and the variety of soul, pop, and R&B music. Sam uses these musical practices in all of his songs in the album, which are mostly about heartbreak and bouncing back, with the occasional sit back and drink song. The variety of the songs is not very large but the lyrics are all so different and powerful that you can get hooked very easily. The major theme that is impressed upon the listener is that Sam has had a terrible love life with heartbreak and despair.

Music is defined differently for each individual. It is the universal language that speaks to us all, but in different ways. It is one of the few genres that can instantly transport a person back to the past. Music is also an art of sound which expresses ideas, thoughts, and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony. It is the design of giving structural form and rhythmic pattern to combinations of sounds produce instrumentally and vocally. To me, music brings a sense of calmness, happiness, and peacefulness. Music is the absolute bread of life because it feeds my soul.

What is Music? Music is a vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Today, I will be telling you how music inspired me in many different ways.

Music originates from all over the world since the beginning of time. Complex or simple, fast or slow, loud or soft. It’s what you feel. It could be your method of escape or keeping you living. Music is love. Music is passion. Music is unity. Music is emotion. Music is belief. Music is beauty. Music is life. Music is perfection. Music is imperfection. Music is peace. “Through music we can live forever.”

In my experience "contemporary" has taken on the meaning of "pop" music, or what is being played on the radio. I, however, have not listened to a radio in upwards of ten years. In loosening the true definition of "contemporary" artists, the modern music I listen to varies a lot. I listen to Japanese and French artists, heavier bands, southern rock, 1990's pop music, grunge and alternative, pop-punk, acoustics, classical, oldies. Lately I have been getting into spoken word bands. In my current state, the three bands I have been most listening to are Taking Back Sunday, Hotel Books, and Movements.

Music, noun. The vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Music something that some people can hear in the wind, or see when someone talks. It’s what you feel between two people as if they knew they would have a special connection between them forever. As cheesy as that may sound to most people, I believe it’s true. Music for me is a connection, a feeling between the person I love and myself. Maybe that is what ultimately draws me towards them. I can feel the music between my boyfriend and me because of rollercoaster of a relationship.

Rhythm is how music flows through time. Specifically, rhythm is defined as, “the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music”1. An interesting aspect of rhythm is that it has the ability to flow freely, and it can match the beat at some time or not at all. Rhythm of a melody is important to a music piece, because it is what gives the music personality.

Music is the art of arranging sounds in time, so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative (expressive) composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre (tonal quality of any sound). With this perception, one must understand that this definition stands to be the point of view of one individual, or a small group of people. You're probably saying, "Well, I just learned something. I did not know that you could put what I felt into words that intelligently. Wow!" Another may say, "I already knew that, but what does that really have to do with what I feel inside." Yes, I would agree with that. The definition may be good enough to teach to class of youngsters in middle school, but music actually has an unlimited source of meanings.

What is music? Dictionary.com gave the definition, “An art of sound that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.”

The literal meaning of the word 'music' according to any dictionary is: 'art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in a harmonious or expressive way.' But music has a meaning which is far broader than this. Music is life. Music means Self-expansion and oneness. It is an art by itself. Art, in any of its forms, is generated by a person, or a group of talented yet usually ordinary people, that express, willingly or not, an opinion regarding present times. It is not a want; it is a need. If you try to imagine yourself without it, you are bound to feel incomplete. For many of us, it has become a necessity of our lives. Music has no boundaries. Music is the