Music History Essays
Posted: February 20th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Film and Music, Music | Tags: Classical Music, Music History, Rock Music | Comments Off
The world of classical music has become little more than a walled in ghetto for music lovers. It can best be described as a niche market in today’s business lexicon. Ghetto in the sense that ghetto dwellers usually stay in their neighborhood, rarely venturing out to interact with their neighbors down the street or around [...]
Posted: February 6th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Film and Music, Music | Tags: American Music, Jazz Music, Modern Music, Music History | Comments Off
Jazz is as American as apple pie. It is original music, created in America. Jazz is the most influential of all music styles in the 20th century. No other music can make that claim. What jazz is, is a mainly improvisational style of playing with syncopated rhythms laid down under the melody. It was created [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Film and Music, Music, People | Tags: Jazz Music, Miles Davis, Music History | Comments Off
Miles Davis is considered one of the four great jazz players along with Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington (Miles Davis Biography, 2004). Davis’ career spans five decades, from the mid 1940’s to 1991, which is almost unheard of in the music industry where careers tend to be short. His long career includes awards [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, Science & Technology | Tags: Disco, Electric Guitar, Electronic Music, Mp3, Music History | Comments Off
Even 100 Years History of Electronic Instruments before the turn of the century, when the electronic age was still in its infancy, the first attempts to generate sound from electricity had begun. By 1901, Thaddeus Cadhill had already manufactured the Telharmonium, an electric organ, powered by dynamos and designed to send sound down telephone lines. [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Film and Music | Tags: American Music, Blues, Music History | Comments Off
Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of [...]
