Wednesday, June 4, 2008
disco music
The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone Magazine.
In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.
Musical influences include funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa.The disco sound has a soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and prominent, syncopated electric bass line. Strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars create a lush background sound. Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and unlike in rock, lead guitar is rarely used.
Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Evelyn "Champagne" King, Tavares, Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Grace Jones, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, the Village People, Sylvester, and The Jacksons. While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the "disco sound".Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in mainstream popularity and ironically the beginning of its commercial decline.
jazz
Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime.
From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music, which is based on European music traditions.The word jazz began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915; for the origin and history, see Jazz (word).
Jazz has, from its early 20th century inception, spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin-jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz-rock fusion from the 1970sPublicar entrada and later developments such as acid jazz.
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classical music
The classical music starts at approximately 1750 (death of JS Bach) and ends around 1820. The classical music itself coincides with the time called classicism, as in other arts it was the rediscovery and copies of the classics of Greco Roman art, which was considered traditional or ideal.
Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common practice period.
European classical music is largely distinguished from many other non-European and popular musical forms by its system of staff notation, in use since about the 16th century. Western staff notation is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitch, speed, meter, individual rhythms and exact execution of a piece of music. This leaves less room for practices, such as improvisation and ad libitum ornamentation, that are frequently heard in non-European art music (compare Indian classical music and Japanese traditional music), and popular music.Its main exponents are Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven the first (Beethoven represents a turning nut in the evolution of tonal music, going ever further away from the center called tonal. It is at this point begins when the romantic era in the history of music).
INSTRUMENTATIONNone of the bass instruments existed until the Renaissance. In Medieval music, instruments are divided in two categories: loud instruments for use outdoors or in church, and quieter instruments for indoor use. Many instruments which are associated today with popular music used to have important roles in early classical music, such as bagpipes, vihuelas, hurdy-gurdies and some woodwind instruments. On the other hand, the acoustic guitar, for example, which used to be associated mainly with popular music, has gained prominence in classical music through the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Johann Ladislaus Dussek, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck. Beethoven is also sometimes regarded either as a Romantic composer or a composer who was part of the transition to the Romantic; Franz Schubert is also something of a transitional figure
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
ROCK
- Rock as a counterculture movement (1963-1974)
- The mid to late 70s
- Rock diversifies in the 1980s
- Alternative goes mainstream (Early-mid 1990s)
- Success of hybrid genres
- Present day (2000-present)
Psycho Music
It initially received mixed reviews but outstanding box-office returns, prompting a re-review which was overwhelmingly positive and led to four Academy Award nominations. Regarded today as one of Hitchcock's best films and highly praised as a work of cinematic art by international critics, Psycho is also acclaimed as one of the most effective horror films.
The heavy metal
•Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and extended guitar solos.
Heavy metal has long had a worldwide following of fans known as "metalheads" or "headbangers." Although early heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.
heavy metal is a major subspecies of hard-rock the breed with less syncopation, less blues, more showmanship and more brute force.
Some of bands the new generation such a:
•Mudvayne
•Korn
•Metallica
•Slipknot
These are the most popular in this time.
Electronic Music
Contemporary electronic music expresses both art music forms including electronic art music, experimental music, musique concrète, and others; and popular music forms including multiple styles of dance music such as techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synth pop, etc.
A distinction can be made between instruments that produce sound through electromechanical means as opposed to instruments that produce sound using electronic components.
OPERA
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work (called an opera) which combines a text (called a libretto) and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery and costumes and sometimes includes dance.
Opera started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence about 1597) and soon spread through the rest of Europe.
The first third of the 19th century saw the highpoint of the bel canto style, with Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini all creating works that are still performed today. The mid to late 19th century is considered by some a golden age of opera, led by Wagner in Germany and Verdi in Italy.
The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism (Schoenberg and Berg), Neo-Classicism (Stravinsky), and Minimalism (Philip Glass and John Adams). With the rise of recording technology, singers such as Enrico Caruso became known to audiences beyond the circle of opera fans. Operas were also performed on, (and written for) radio and television.
Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media, such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings, mass media has also supported the popularity of famous singers such as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras ("The Three Tenors").
FAMOUS SINGERS AT THIS TIME:
- SARA BRIGHTMAN
- GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO
- ALFRED KRAUS
- RENE FLEMING
- RAMON VARGAS
- FRANCO CORELLI
- FRANCISCO ARAIZA
- PAUL POTTS
- ANDREA BOCELLI
Rhythm and Blues
Writer/producer Robert Palmer defined "rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans."
POP
POP MUSIC.
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958, Gary, Indiana).
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone of Ritchie (b. August 16, 1958).
Better known as Madonna, is a singer, composer and producer of American pop music and dance primarily. He has worked on a more intermittent as an actress, fashion designer and writer, and has recently made his debut as film director. Nicknamed as "The Queen of Pop" (The Queen of Pop) U.S., is a popular international icon of the past three decades, a point that even his detractors acknowledge him. It's a rock star [1] known for reinventing her image, by ambition, innovation and provocation in their music videos and shows, and also because of its controversial and personal use of symbols by political, religious and sexual along their career.
Reggae
While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of
Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, an influence on many prominent reggae musicians from its inception. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues. The music style is sometimes referred to as JAH Throne music in Rastafari contexts. In the Caribbean, the heavier forms of reggae are also sometimes known as Rockers music.
Gregorian Chant
Hip Hop
Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. Beats are traditionally sampled from portions of other songs by a DJ, though synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands are also used, especially in newer music. Rappers may perform poetry which they have written ahead of time, or improvise rhymes on the spot. Though rap is usually an integral component of hip hop music, DJs sometimes perform and record alone, and many instrumental acts are also defined as hip hop.