Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Jazz Festival And The Musical Timeline

By Alison Wilcox


The North Carolina Jazz Festival has grown from a thousand strong audiences to about triple the number in just a few short years. The said genre was born in United States. It is said to be of Southern origin and is of African American origins. This is the kind of music that recognized the pain of lost love and injustice.

The music that has developed and spread around the world has drawn many national and local cultures which gave rise to the twentieth century American beginnings. There are several elements that would have to get them to make the most out of it. It will not stay put and it never will for the time that they are around.

By nineteen hundreds, the opera and military marching bands has influenced the genres. There are also different types of music at the time. There are different kinds of music that have been blended during the era which resulted to the beloved genre that people love today.

Improvisation is a crucial element of the song and is considered a key element to the radical transformation of the music. This can also be attributed to the presence of the influential music like the blues and folk music which became a part of the black slaves at the time. This has allowed them to make the most out of it.

One of the most defining features in the musical category is the improvisation. This is creating or making up music as people go along. This is where the musicians play from the printed sheets and improvise the rest of the song. Armstrong has become the centerpiece and he inspiration of many more artists to come.

Syncopation of the bass drum is a new technique that became popular between eighteen ninety five and nineteen six. This allowed the musicians to have several tunes and rhythm that are entirely different to the ones that people are used to. The the habanera was then termed to be an ingredient for the musical genre.

A new breed of the genre called the bebop is born. The forties was a time for many musicians to explore new paths. This style had fast tempos and complicated melodies and harmonies. It was said to be considered the type of music for the intellectuals. This was when there were no longer huge bands that play music, but are now composed of smaller bands.

Today, many musicians are now improvising the music with unusual instruments. It has since continued to evolve, expand and change. These have been largely influenced by world music and the unusual genres of music. It is much better for them to have these things at hand for the time being.

The North Carolina Jazz festival is a celebration of music and culture. Thousands of people go to this gathering daily. It has contributed to a lot of things that people would need for the time being. Most of them should get to make it in the end.




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