Dance College Essays Samples For Students

I belong to a very rich heritage, my husband is from Croatian and I am a Serb. I must say it has not been easy for me trying to fit into the two groups but then the journey I have taken to participate in social activities of the two groups has been fulfilling as that makes me happy. One of the groups where I belong is the a Croatian Kolo group where for the last fifteen years I have been part of the social and cultural activities. I have always taken my children there to participate in those activities from where they ...

Ancient music had very distinct styles, musical instruments and elements were easily distinguishable as the songs progressed. The following is an analysis of five songs in terms of the style, tempo, musical elements and form.

- Analysis of the song “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith and her Jazz group (Recorded August 10 1920) (cfa.arizona.edu)

Several musical instruments as were use in the song. The sound of a trombone comes first then that of a clarinet and violin follow in unison. The sounds produced by these instruments produce a very distinct tune. When the Mamie Smith sings, several elements of music can be noted these are timbre, harmony, pitch and rhythm.

The song is in classical jazz style and I could tell ...

Introduction

Following paper compares and contrasts Hedda Gabler and Nora Helmer. Both are the main characters from Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. Hedda is the main character in Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler. She called when Hedda Tesman by her husband, Jorgen Tesman. Ibsen has probably decided to name the piece after her pikenvn, Gabler, for the reason that Hedda has a problem with men. In the drama, it also acts as if she has a desire to be alone and to do without man. Another reason Hedda's problems is her fear of intimacy and sexual ...

“Don Quixote,” is a popular dance that excites people and brings happiness to sad souls. I find it quite interesting because it coordinates dances from a diversity of places and backgrounds. The dance takes place in a series of days and most of the time the audience comes out of the auditorium with jubilation and excitement. The dance is always successful because of the intense preparations by the gifted and well-experienced managers, choreographers, artistic directors, and artists. When all these people work in harmony, the audience feels the magnitude and the quality of the work produced.
Looking at the choreography of ...

Introduction

Alvin Ailey proved he was gifted in more than one way. Raised by a young single mother, life was far from easy for him. He rose from poverty to become a figure that greatly influenced the 20th century modern dance. Alvin Ailey’s rise from poverty all the way to the top and finally succumbing to AIDs is an interesting story. He certainly had his weaknesses, but Alvin Ailey is an individual who will forever remain in the hearts of dance lovers (Ailey & Bailey 1995).

Discussion

Alvin was born in 1931 in Texas. Being born to a teenage mother (17 years old) then ...

Our college leadership normally organizes dancing competition events for the students from different faculties in the college. The major activity is usually dancing. This week, the student leadership organized an event for students, which involved dancing over the night. The event was held in the university auditorium from 11 pm to 6am in the morning. The attendees were mostly students from within the university though youths from the surrounding community were also invited . Male and female dancers compete on stage motivated by various rewards that they receive after winning. As such, they were expected to dress up to the ...

A rite of passage is a very important part of an individual’s life in many cultures. Most typically represent when the individual comes of age in the culture. Young Jewish children have a Bat Mitzvah or Bar Mitzvah, depending on their genders, to express when they become adults. The Satere Mawe tribe in the Amazon are forced to wear gloves filled with bullet ants for several hours to show that they have the strength to face adulthood. In rites of passage such as these, sometimes the participants die. In less serious, more celebratory rites of passage, the participants merely get ...

The dance class has a total of seven dancers including the dance instructor. There are two dancers at the front. Two are at the center and two others at the back with the instructor stationed at the center of the two dancers at the front. All the seven together form a triangular shape structure that allows for free movement of all dancers and coordination of different dance moves. The arrangement is spacious creating room for the development of the routine. Dancers do not change positions throughout the routine though there are some few instances when the whole team moves around, or ...

The production I watched on YouTube was a modern interpretation of the classic Swan Lake ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky written circa 1875–1876. I searched in the site for more information regarding where this particular production took place, the name of the city or theater but I could not find it. There was no mention of the name of the ballet company or the names of the principal dancers. As would be expected, this dearth of information extended to the orchestra and its conductor. No credit was given to lighting, sound or set design as well. In this production, ...

The Little Fourteen–Year–Old Dancer is an adored impressionist piece sculptured by Edgar Degas. Degas presented the piece at the sixth impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1881, and public exhibition he ever did. Originally named by the artist, Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, the piece has become one of the most acclaimed artworks of well-known bronze casts produced after the artist’s death. She did not attract much admiration in her first appearance. Many know Degas as an artist of dance, and some critics originally dismissed his sculptures, claiming that lacked the quality of good art. Most ...

The Winter Olympic Games is an international sporting event that is usually held once in every four calendar year. These games were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The first original sports of this event included curling, bobsleigh, ice hockey, military patrol, Nordic skiing, and skating. Following the Second World War, the Olympics games were interrupted and later returned in 1948 under the management of the International Olympic Committee. This paper gives detailed information about iceberg skating, and specifically ice dancing as a Winter Olympic Sport.
However, the Olympic Games have undergone stages of evolution, and has currently ...

Introduction

In a catchy and rather humorous chapter titled “Courting” Helen Fisher bares basic yet essential truths on how people court. Jeff Abugov’s 1999 Mock documentary titled “The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human” mirrors entirely all of Fisher’s assertions. A narrator tells the story of Billy (Mackenzie Austin), a shy young man who goes out looking for a date at a nightclub. He meets a beautiful girl named Jenny Smith (Carmen Electra). Billy gets Jenny’s phone number but loses it. He searches for the number frantically, finally resorting to calling all people named Jenny Smith from a directory. They finally reunite and ...

Harp music is the type of music that is usually played by the use of a stringed instrument known as the harp. The harp has a number of individual strings running at angles to its soundboard which are usually played as one plucks them with his fingers. Native American music is the music whose use is found among the Native Americans in the U.S.A. It is the traditional music by the Native American groups. Some Native American groups with a specific kind of native music include the Lakota, Shoshone and the Choctaw (Swisher & AnCita 122). In this paper; I will make a comparison ...

The swing era was marked by the introduction of jazz to the world. This genre of music started for the Southern states of the US. New Orleans in Louisiana is particularly considered to be the home of jazz music. During the swing era, this genre of music started to be acknowledged not only throughout the country but throughout the world. It was so influential that even some composers of classical music started borrowing some components from it.
In the 1940’, there emerged a new sub-genre of jazz music that was referred to as Bebop. Jazz had been increasing developing ...

The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis on the different artist’s production that negotiates the medium of the photography. The main focus of this paper will remain on the photography that how it has served as model and anti-model for the modern artists. In addition, the new approaches will enable the hybrid media with inventions. A much narrowed concept in the modern times can be the usage of photo editing software. In the present times, it was merely acceptable but the development in the idea of using such software caused a lot of change and radicalism. ...

Smokey Robinson has an impressive resume. He’s been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, among many other honors. Words like “visionary” and “pioneer” get thrown around a lot when talking about artists, but these words do truly apply to Robinson. He has helped define the motown sound since its inception.
Robinson actually started the entire motown scene when he was in high school. He started the group The Miracles while there, and the group included Berry Gordy. Gordy, encouraged by Robinson, would go on to found Motown Records, ...

- What is Bikini Atoll? Where is it at? How was it formed? Why should we care?
The Bikini atoll is one of the 29 atolls and 5 islands that form the Marshal islands in the United States of America. The atoll was formed through the growth of corals over a long period. The Bikini atoll was used by the Americans for testing nuclear bombs damaging the ecosystem and the general environment of the atoll. The nuclear radiations had negative effects on the fauna in that it caused mutations of the star fish, sponges, and other marine life.
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Have people ever thought why do they do sports or anything that favors to them? Would one be surprised if he knew that person’s will in a strange way had disappeared if his actions were paid for?
In psychology such notion is called overjustification effect, and it may seriously influence one’s motivation or line of behavior. The effect emerges when additional stimulus reduces intrinsic motivation of a person to perform any action. The notion is broadly discussed by David Mayers in his book “Social psychology”. Conducted research has shown that the reward (money or other material values) proposed ...

Indian’s populist film industry, known often by its colloquial term Bollywood, often uses song and dance not only as a work of spectacle within the body of the film, but as a way to significantly discuss the narrative and characters of the film itself. Songs and dance sequences provide opportunities for the characters to explore their jubilation, sorrow or consternation, among a plethora of other emotions, and offered significant platforms for the stardom of Indian film stars, who would often also be significant presences in the film and culture scene in India. One of the most significant Bollywood film stars of ...

Musicals are theatrical performances that feature dance, spoken words, art, singing, play, and dialogue. The content of a musical can be original ideas, or founded on a film, play, other books, or novels. The themes and emotions of the musicals such as love and humor are usually communicated to the audience through live performances of music, word and actions. Musical theatres have gained popularity and have become integrated with the popular culture of many societies. Musical performances have long been combined with theatrical presentations in the early days, but the contemporary musical theatres especially the American musical, bear their origin in ...

Stravinsky was no stranger to pushing boundaries when he premiered the Rite of Spring in 1913. He had had immense success the previous year with his reimagining of the Russian folk tale of Petrushka. In that piece, as well, Stravinsky took liberties with his writing and the plot of the story. However, the liberties taken in the music for The Rite of Spring were far greater and more surprising than past compositions by him, or any other mainstream composer of the time. Coupled with the unusual choreography by Nijinsky, the event was understandably shocking to an audience unaccustomed to ...

Introduction

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable”- George Bernard Shaw. The above quote by the famous Irish playwright makes an absolute sense as the reality of the world is unbearable indeed and it is an art that offers the much needed solace to mankind. Art as a form of expression of emotions has the power to evoke strong feelings like joy, sorrow, disgust, love, horror, devotion and many more to say. Many look upon the universe as a work of art by the omnipresent God as the beauty that lies in the nature is enigmatic and often ...

Introduction

Deidre Sklar published her commentary “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance” to provide premises as to why dance, as a form of art, is imbued with cultural values. The five premises include the following: “movement knowledge is a kind of cultural knowledgeis conceptual and emotional as well as kinesthetic,” and “intertwined with other kinds of cultural knowledge,” getting the meaning of dance requires looking “beyond movement,” and “movement is always an immediate corporeal experience” (Sklar). It is important to note said premises in further understanding the cultural significance of any given kind of dance. This study, in undertaking the ...

This essay will explore the compositional method and the harmonic innovations that Stravinsky used in his ballet “The Rite of Spring.” In order to capture all the ideas the essay will have three parts; the first part will be linked to the observation for the piece as a whole, the second part will be an analysis of the strategically features with examples from the score and the third part will be a cogent summary of the analysis that will imply the interpretation of the piece.
“The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky was premiered in 29 May 1913 at the ...

Argentina is a country that is rich in Immigrants from all angles of life. For five decades, it has been on the verge of receiving foreign settlements and had over 20% of immigrants in its total population. As a result, the nation looks at itself as an ethnically diverse nation, second to the United States. It is the ultimate melting pot of the Spanish world and showcases its national identity through citizenship, as opposed to ethnicity like other countries around it. The immigrants in the country are not referred to as ethnic groups, as in countries such as the USA, Brazil ...

Prevalently, music forms an integral part of each and every religious ceremony. Evidently, almost all the dominations have espoused the imperativeness of music in various religious functions. A notable fact is that despite various denominations agree on the pivotal role of music, the nature and type of music each denomination play has a complete variation. The primary reason for the mentioned variation is the fact that each religious group has distinct principles that govern the usage of music. Similarly, a myriad number of the religious group has totally different perspective when it comes to religious music. As a result of this, each ...

“Shall we Dance” is an American film that takes after a 1996 Japanese film. The film creates a perfect world for John, a world distant from the usual routine of going to the office, practicing law and going back to his family. Through music and dance the film both the American and the Japanese version revolve around the issues of urban environment, urban density and culture, urban isolation and family network, family values and support, oriented urban development and western dancing. The movie also shows the importance of dance in personal liberation through the life of John.
The movie looks deeply ...

Establishment

Tango is one of the most mysterious dances in the world, because it reflects the characters, the straightness of lines and unbridled naked passion at the same time. Argentine tango is a mixture of styles, directions and types of national folk dance rhythms with a touch of European and even African destinations.
It is believed that the prototype of all styles of tango was the Argentine dance for couples, which, initially, people had danced in South America. However, some sources, in particular the French scientists, argue that the first Tango appeared in Spain. They consider that the founders of the ...

Both bebop and cool jazz emerged in the middle of 20th century; bebop was formed as a reaction to the mass development of trendy jazz dance orchestras in the early 1940s and cool jazz, in its turn, originated from the bebop in the late 1940s. Although both of these jazz styles arose in the same period and cool jazz as such is considered to be a modification of bebop, there are several fundamental differences between them. These differences lie in the mood of the music, expressivity of sound, causes of styles emergence and purposes of each style.
Developed in the ...

One unique thing about this exhibition is that it’s more than admiring. Just imagine beautiful costumes on the mannequin showing how diverse costume design could be, how they are connected to the performance, designer’s emotions, and the characteristics of different time periods. All the designers have something in common - their appreciation of the elegance, and athleticism of the body’s movement. A good dancing performance is made by good dancers; every dancer is unique and has his own soul, which makes every performance unique, because the time, setting and emotions of each performance can never be ...

Ballet dance at its inception was developed as a performance dance in the fifteen century. With time, however, music and choreography was incorporated and the dance itself became popular as a concert dance. In the contemporary times, the Ballet dance has since developed to a level where companies with professional composers and orchestras are trained to perform this kind of dance. On the other hand, Jazz dance was developed many years subsequent to the invention of Ballet dance. Particularly, this dance was developed in the 1900s as a vernacular dance that was performed by the African Americans who were in America as slaves. ...

While a culture exists for a country, it can also exist for almost any organized and ongoing situations. Mostly a teacher governs culture in a class. They set the rules and the environment, but a class culture emerges independently of a particular teacher and students, and area of study affect the outcome of a class culture. This essay looks at the cultures of three of my class and compares and contrasts the differences of various classes. Names identifying the teachers of the classes have been changed for their protection.
The teacher did not laydown any formal rules for the class at the onset, but there ...

Many people are under the assumption that art exhibitions must contain paintings, sculptures, drawings, or other traditional forms of art. The artist must use paint, clay, or pencil to capture a feeling, a message, or an appeal, putting it on display for the audience. It is unclear why, but it seems that the audience cannot render a message fit for consumption unless it uses the typical artistic methods. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology acknowledges there are other art forms. FIT displays all types of artistic fashion as an exhibition to man’s triumphs and failures through time. Two recent ...

Museum response for early modern fashion class

Introduction
The modern fashion is a highly contested area and dates back to the fourteenth century through the early phases of industrialization. People in the contemporary world are always enthusiastic about fashion and its constant revolution (Paulicelli 63). This assignment is a response to the presentations and displays of Dance and Fashion Show that took place at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. The article incorporates an objective synopsis of the displays and subjective reactions. Also included in this essay are comprehensive discussions about the evolution of modern fashion (especially the Lingerie fashion) from the 18th century to the present; ...

The Would-Be Gentleman by Moliere

Molière’s The Would-Be-Gentleman is a comical satire that reveals the various facets of human emotions and behaviour of seventeenth century Europe. Most of his comedies critique the pompous artificiality of French high society during the middle- and late seventeenth century. The characters portray farce to serious comedies of manners. France, during his time, had two distinct sections of society; the nobility or the rich, and the bourgeoisie; the middle class. Molière produced a number of satires that criticised the lifestyle of the rich and famous in France. In particular, Molière looked to tease the extravagant manner, style, ...

Many people perceive dancing as something not so serious and easy to do. In reality, if one is passionately involved in any kind of dancing, they will know that the common point of view is not true at all. Moreover, professional dancing is a one step above than just being a hobby and involves a lot more commitment and motivation in order to achieve good results. Hip-hop is a style in music that not many people go into compared to Latin, for example. Choosing hip-hop as the style one wants to perform means that they are a fan and devoted to that kind of ...

Introduction

In the paper below, the similarities and the cultural link between the traditional flamenco music and the Egyptian/ Arabic music has been discussed. Flamenco music is a category of Spanish music and dance, connected with the Andalusia region in southern Spain. It was first mentioned in the literature in 1774. Afterwards, the genre grew out of the Romain and Andalusian music and dance flairs. The flamenco music is most profoundly related to the gitanos i.e. Romani people – Spain. Moreover, the music was first recorded officially in the late eighteenth century, however, it underwent a historic development in late nineteenth century. On ...

The Joyous African Celebration Music concert was performed at the Carnegie Hall on Saturday May 3rd 2014 and the following day (Sunday the 4th). The event organizers of all African performance concert targeted the growing number of Africans studying and working in America. Most of these people, especially South Africans, are not exposed to live performances of their cultural heritage. Living thousands of miles away has hindered many South Africans from attending live concerts of their most coveted traditional music. Over 15 musicians were invited to perform for the audience that included a few whites and Asians who loved the ...

Discussion

On 17th July, 1981 114 people were killed while 216 others injured when the skywalk collapsed in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. 1600 people had gathered to watch and participate in a dancing competition when the skywalk collapsed. People had decided to occupy the walkways in order have a better view of the dancing competition. The second level walkway held about forty people; the third had more than forty people while the fourth had about sixteen. The fourth flow which was suspended directly above the third flow collapsed on the latter which also collapsed, landing on the lobby ...

Giselle is a ballet act that has been inspired by a passage about the Willis and from poem about a girl who dies after dancing in a ball. It is about Giselle, a peasant girl who falls in love with the prince that tricks her into believing that he is also a peasant like her. However, he is set to marry the princess but his heart is with Giselle. Giselle has a delicate heart and clarification about the prince’s set marriage to the princess hurts her too much that she dies. This happens during a dance when the princess goes to visit the village and is ...

Being one of the Wednesday evening when I am usually free and have nothing much to do, my friends invited me to attend a show at Johnny Brenda's on May 28th to have fun together. I could not reject the offer and prepared for the occasion after school, where I had spent the better part of the afternoon chatting with friends on social sites since there were no classes in the afternoon. I managed to hook up with two other friends from my neighborhood, who also promised to attend the show. We agreed to meet at Johnny Brenda's that evening. ...

This paper discusses three of the important scenes that occurred when the characters in Ethan Frome were in darkness.

The first scene in darkness setting happened at the start of the story. It was midnight and Ethan Frome was walking along Starkfield Streets. He stopped at a place where a dance was happening. Ethan took a view of the event. As the crowd dispersed, Denis Eady went back to the dance floor and the music went on again. In this scene, Ethan draws his focus on Mattie Silver, cousin of Zeena, Ethan’s wife. Mattie worked as a housekeeper of Fromes for a year. Ethan is quite attached to Mattie because they both share the same love for nature.
The next scene ...

Influence of Indian Values on Business

“International business deals not only cross borders, they also cross cultures”. No matter India promises great business opportunity, and foreign companies have started moving there. But, it also poses difficulty for them due to lack of information, such as about people and their cultural beliefs. Unfamiliarity with local culture has the potential to completely derail the best of business plans. So, for MNCs operating in India, understanding of Indian languages and culture forms the basic communications tool of advertising. Even greater importance is the knowledge of cultural nuances, such as unspoken attitudes, information, music, painting, dance, drama, and architecture. ...

Introduction

Take modern forms of communication, social media, twitter precisely, choreograph a few communicative moves, add captivating video, and you have a breathtaking dance performance, as a result. During this spring semester of 2014, I happened to attend a dance performance that warranted the description of outstanding. Directed and choreographed by David Roussève, "Stardust" is a trendsetter in the world of dance. Performed in the amazing auditorium at the University of Maryland, the movements, and the accentuations of video and lighting effect were breathtakingly presented, making the 85 minutes the dance lasted worth the sacrifice.

Synthesis and analysis

The dance crew consisted of 10 dancers that made ...

Abstract

The paper focuses on the origin of the Pilates method of exercise. It also takes a step-by-step journey of Joseph Pilates (Joe) who was the founder of the Pilates method of exercise. Finally the paper will consider Pilates in the contemporary world.
Pilates refers to a system of physical fitness that was established in the early 20th century. It was developed by Joseph Pilates. Joe was a German born in the year 1880. He suffered from rickets, rheumatic fever, and asthma during his childhood years. Because of the continuous suffering brought by the foregoing conditions, Joe was very week and he ...

Introduction

The film short for paper is a very short film running for approximately one and half minutes. This film begins with a high angle shot as a lady is sleeping before she is woken up by noise form outside. As she wakes up she realizes the voices of people singing making her change her mind and she goes back to lying on the bed pretending to be fast asleep. Then a young guy by the name Zhang and his lover approaches while singing and dancing. The lady pretends that she is fast asleep so these two lovers do not recognize her presence. Zhang ...

An instructor plays a very important role in bringing out the best out of individual persons and teams. One such instructor is Eduardo Gonzalez, who teaches salsa dance moves in my local church. He has done that to several people in not only our church but also in our neighborhood. At thirty eight years of age, he has a vast experience in making swift dance moves where he can delicately sweep a partner off their feet beautifully. Since started off as an instructor, he has trained many people running into a couple hundreds..
His training and intruction activity depends on the level ...

Introduction

Ballet is arguably one of the most graceful and beautiful styles of dance. It is well known by many people across the world. The art of ballet started out as a kind of dance for the wealthiest families in history. This art was born at a time when Roman and Geek Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries started which revived interest in the arts and in human too. The term “ballet” comes from the Italian word “Balla” which simply means dance. Ballet is a deeply traditional form where fixed steps are in a canonical way linked to each other which can be ...

A documentary artist by Jaime manrique

In the story “The Documentary Artist”, Jaime Manrique writers of a new student who joins one of his film-directing class. The new boy called Sebastian is vocal unlike the other students in his class. He does not hide his love for horror movies. Unlike the other students, he is funny in a special way something that makes the lecturer love him (Colchie, 2002). The lecturer is attracted to the boy particularly the way he reacts when narrating a horror movie he had seen on one of the street theaters. The boy had a real passion for the movies. Though the lecturer did not ...

Introduction

Individuals all over the world dance for various reasons and in diverse ways. A number of dances express feelings such as anger, joy, or sadness. Other dances can essentially narrate a story. Folks might dance as part of a crucial ceremony. A number of cultures in fact honor their ancestors by dance. Dance is thus among the most important parts of any culture. Most of traditional dances have actually been formed and advanced through centuries to reflect the culture. Cultural dances are very precious to various civilizations, since they normally contain pieces of their livelihood and history, which would else be ...

FINAL INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE

The image I have selected to discuss is the narrative dance of Kathak that is normally performed by priests. This dance has high amounts of religious connotation and was used by the priests to tell stories about the gods and goddesses. These dances bear great connotation to ritualism and date back to the Brahmin priests if the ancient temples of ancient India. Originally, these dances were referred to as Kathakar and held significant religious notion, but later the name was changed to the Kathak. This image represents a form of worship as well as a form of evangelism as it tells ...

Introduction

Mikhail Baryshnikov. The man, whose name is known to every person, who is inspired by dance, the person who has extremely strong will, the person who is exceptionally talented, the person who is the greater dancer of XX century, the person whose performance has influenced on the development of the world ballet. Mikhails is known all over the world to the unique, powerful and perfect technique. He has performed over 100 classical ballet works. And that is just a part of the list of Mikhail’s achievements.
Mikhail has been dancing since his childhood and nowadays, when he is 65 ...

Subjective

One of the most difficult to play and difficult to conduct piece among the classical repertoires is “The Right of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky. The music opens up in a very intense, earthy, and violent mood and that same mood transcends throughout the piece right until the end. The piece is very thought provoking as it insinuates a panorama of instrumental colors. On a positive note, the piece animates rhythmic drive and power that reflects irresistible excitement and unbelievable complexity, which is a characteristic of musical scores orchestrated by some of the most renowned name in the classical genre. On a downside, the piece ...

- Analysis of the song “Crazy Blues” (Recorded August 10 1920) by Mamie Smith and her Jazz group (arizona.edu)
- What musical elements were executed by the musicians?
In the song “crazy blues” the musicians executed several musical elements such as rhythm, timbre, tempo, pitch and harmony. In the song, the trombone plays first, followed by the clarinet and the violin. The instruments are all in tune and the pitch of the musician combines well with the instruments.
- What style did they play in?
The music style is jazz. This is evidenced by the ...

The first impression I got after reading William Wordsworth’s poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” is that it is about showing an increasing appreciation for nature. It seems that the author notices a hill covered in daffodils while walking along a lake. By using phrases such as “dancing in the breeze,” he describes what makes the daffodils beautiful and stand out, but that is all that he does, at least within the poem. It is surprising that noticing the daffodils is all that Wordsworth is doing, their beauty apparently means nothing to him. I believe is in the final stanza ...

Rituals, traditions and ceremonies play a central role in the development of group identity. Performance, body and sense actions define the ritual processes undertaken by a group. Rituals are accompanied by ceremonies and these include rites of passage, marriages, and worship and purification rites. Invariance, sacral-symbolism, performance and traditionalism characterize rituals. Traditions, rituals and ceremonies vary from group to group hence the association with specific groups. Various religions have different practices and rituals that accompany the religious experience. Christmas is a day celebrated by Christians on 25th day of December. They celebrate birth of Jesus Christ in a ceremony involving family gatherings, purchase ...

Jazz is a form of music that has faced tremendous advances for a long time. There have been various arguments about jazz that make people not to fully understand jazz music and how it came to develop to its current status. Proper understanding of jazz music would only be realized through exclusive analysis of what has been brought forth by various musicians concerning the form of music. Although, it is hard to understand who had the full understanding of the origin of jazz as well as its development a lot of facts may be borrowed from various musicians who may have a concrete ...

Every first day of the first lunar month is a great day for the whole of China as we celebrate the New Year in the spring festival. This is the time when families come together in family reunion as relatives come back home from abroad or various parts of the country. The festive season preparations starts early with the preliminary eve. During this day, we give offering to the kitchen god and celebrate with delicious food and laba porridge is served. The preparation for the New Year continues with homestead decorations and food purchases.
We clean our houses thoroughly ...

Music is a great thing to listen. It influences our thoughts and actions in different ways. Jazz is a musical genre originated from a mixture of European and African musical ideas that are filtered through the American experience.
Louis Armstrong- hotter than that (1982).
Louis performs his music with a brief introduction of instruments playing. The sounds give away to a wonderful swinging chorus on the cornet. The use of trumpet by Louis creates a wonderful melody accompanied by the use of drums, which makes the music a hot six and the bass created a hot seven. For his trumpet solo, the quality of his ...

The video from the PBS series, Art in the Twenty-First Century segment that I watched was Laylah Ali (“Power,” 2005). The original episode was entitled “Power” and after seeing her work it was easy to understand why she was chosen for that episode as her work was very powerful. The video began with a discussion of the influences on her work, including cartoons. It is true her work is flat and two-dimensional but this did not stop the images from communicating strong messages.
Some interesting things about her paintings were the relationships between the figures (she called them “characters”) within ...