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that I am applying for is a music concentration. This Concentration will support my future goals by paving a path in my college major, and my career choice. In college, I want to study in the Fine Arts field, and this concentration can help me have a leg up on college and beyond. Before coming to Foxcroft, I had an already strong background in this concentration. In my middle school, I not only played in the marching band at the competitive level and thoroughly learned music theory, I also played bass

Mendelssohn Hensel was best know as a composer. She was of Jewish descent and her father was a philosopher. Her mother however, was not born into Judaism. From her early years as a child and on, she has composed over four hundred and sixty pieces of music according to Wikipedia. The majority of her songs are considered a style called Lied ohne Worte, or Songs without Words. Hensel lived during the years 1805 - 1847. Most of her compositions are for piano, and some were even published under her brother's

The Rise Of Piano Instrumentals The piano instrumentals have been very popular now for almost all the popular music and its popularity doesn’t seem to get down. The grand piano is no doubt an amazing musical instrument. When any type of tune is performed on piano it becomes a special piece of art. If you talk about an urban rap track, it will also sound very smooth and gentle as the piano instrumental. It is because the track is changed and you also add into the melodies, tone and harmonies of the

Experimentation in Music For thousands of years, music has been a part of people’s lives and has evolved through many different forms over time. Music is the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre (American Heritage). One important component of analyzing music is whether it has musical value. In other words, music does not have to be organized sound or produced by instruments. This is

Band leader[edit] James Reese Europe sheet music in the Library of Congress collections. In 1910 Europe organized the Clef Club, a society for African Americans in the music industry. In 1912 the club made history when it played a concert at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Colored Music Settlement School. The Clef Club Orchestra, while not a jazz band, was the first band to play proto-jazz at Carnegie Hall. It is difficult to overstate the importance of that event in the history of jazz

A mastered art started with a desire to learn. The art of playing the piano has been around for years. Famous men, like Mozart and Beethoven, were born before the 1800’s, but still influence current generations to play their piano scripts. The original methods of playing may have changed, but piano is still a thriving art. It even has different genres, some coming from the Jazz Era while others originating from the Victorian Era. Learning the art may take time, but with a strong desire to learn

only does it sound bad, but the singer may not be able to adjust to the new pace. On a music sheet you can see five horizontal lines with notes scattered across them. These lines are called the staff or a stave. Each line and space is given a letter. A note on A will sound different from one on C.

ever wished you could go back in time to see what music was like? Well, while writing this research paper, I did by learning what music was like back in the Elizabethan Era. In the Elizabethan Era, music played a crucial role. Music was very important because a lot of it was played, which fulfilled the lives of the people, and it influenced some people to make and sell music. Music also gave people joy, which entertained them and made them happy. Music back in the Elizabethan era was very important

schools still running and teaching students (Fang). Schools everywhere, due to budget cuts and the No Child Left Behind Act, have been cutting the arts in order to make more room for more math and science focuses. Even though No Child Left Behind lists music as one of the core classes, it does not require testing, making math and reading a legal priority (Madden). The arts programs in schools must be preserved because the classes benefit test scores, pave the way for motivation and positive attitudes towards

type of music. Syncopation makes Ragtime very different from all the other genres at that period of time. It involves a variety of interruptions of the regular flow of the rhythm. Ragtime brought the beginning of the development of new music in the United States of America. Ragtime was the first style of music that was created in America which added to why Americans embraced it to their culture. Ragtime had a delightful sound that would draw an audience. Ragtime was recorded as sheet music. It began