The Impact Of Andres Segovia's Influence On The Classical Guitar

I was listening to a hard rock/heavy metal radio station and suddenly the glorious American

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The essay "How We Listen," by Aaron Copland was published in New York, both an individual attitude and the aim attitude occur in each separate plane that is being described. The individual attitude is where everything is taking place in the listeners mind, where as they are unaffected by the world around them. Aaron Copeland stated we all listen to on three separate planes which are; the sensuous plane, the expressive plane and the sheerly musical plane.

He is such an influential person in the music industry that he has been given many awards and distinctions, even after his death. It shows his worth for the music industry. His life has many lessons for those who have interest in music. He has been hard working, and throughout his life, he always thought of music and how to contribute to it. Such a professional approach to one’s career should be learnt from his life and this is why his life has been highlighted in this

The Roy Acuff commemorative stamp was published by the United States Postal Service in 2003. Roy Acuff, nicknamed “King of Country Music,” was one of country music's first icons. He helped establish the Grand Ole Opry as the United States' leading country music venue, and through his position in the music publishing business, he influenced Nashville, Tennessee’s notoriety as the country music capital of the United States (Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2003). These stamps recognize Roy Acuff for his country music superstardom, and his role in establishing Nashville as the center of this music genre.

“In the late 1930’s young Mexican- American men and women rejected by both American and Mexican society designed a counterculture that expressed social tensions through attitude, fashion, dance and eclectic musical tastes. Known as pachucos and pachucas, they favored zoot suits and big band swing. In the late 1940’s A Mexican American guitarist from Arizona named Lalo Guerrero created American jump blues, or pachuco boogie, which used swing, boogie woogie and rumba rhythms with lyrics in Spanish and calo, the pachuco’s hipster street language” (Yglesias). Pachuco boogie excitedly renovated the painful “in between” experience of Mexican American fans, brought together Chicano, Anglo and African American audiences and laid the foundation of Chicano

Johnny Allen Hendrix stage name Jimi Hendrix, feasibly the greatest guitarist in rock history was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle Washington. He was one of the greatest rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter of his time and current. Hendrix started playing guitar at the age of 15 and was known for his upside-down style of playing. At the age of 19 Hendrix was caught by police twice for riding in stolen vehicles that ultimately led him to enlisting in the Army. Hendrix like many of the great influences of today's music, started out small performing at minor venues overtime sending him on to working with many different names in music. His astonishing musical abilities are what led him to major success in England in 1966, having huge achievements with his hit songs "Hey Joe" Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cried Mary". Although Jimi’s life was cut short due to drug use that took his life at the age of 27, his music and

What would you do if you spotted a homeless man in the streets playing music in an extraordinary fashion? The Soloist by Steve Lopez focuses on the lives of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers and Steve Lopez. Steve Lopez is an LA Times reporter who saw Nathaniel playing in the streets. Nathaniel on the other hand, is a homeless and schizophrenic musician. To Steve, this was just another story , but little did he know that this story would turn into a friendship. Nathaniel was very startled and doubtful of Lopez at first, but he slowly developed a trust with him. Nathaniel connects through music and lives through it. As Lopez writes his first article on Nathaniel, it catches the attention of many readers. Many feel sympathy for Nathaniel and want to

As a guitarist, I have desire my guitar to produce music that is accurate, professional, and beautifully sounding. When first beginning to play the guitar, my guitar did not produce these sounds, but I worked tirelessly to reach that musical perfection for which I hungered and admired about more mature players. Drawing from this example, two men in history shared this attitude in pursuit of perfection: Frederick Douglass and Plato. Respectively, one desired a racially equal nation not plagued by slavery and the latter yearned for the complete nourishment of the soul. Although living in different time periods, these two men are visionaries, seeing beyond what is temporal. I argue that Frederick Douglass embodies the Platonic pursuit of The True,

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Juan Luis Guerra is a Dominican singer and songwriter who has established a heavy Caribbean influence in his music. He has gained popularity throughout Latin America because of his stand- out merengue style and Afro Latino sound. He has also managed to gain credit for shaping bachata music. Juan Luis Guerra has been so influential to modern Dominican music and has especially helped shape merengue and bachata by using outside influences. These influences include the traditional Dominican sounds while also including other diverse rhythms like salsa, rock and roll, and even gospel. He made sure to hold on to the musical rhythms that were known to him from his roots in the Dominican Republic; merengue and bachata. Juan

The Latin American composer, I choose to write about is Carlos Santana. Carlos Augusto Alyes Santana, was born on July 20,1947 in Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. At age five he learned to play the violin from his father, Jose Santana, who is a professional mariachi violinist. But Carlos Santana switched to guitar when he was eight years old, when his family moved to Tijuana, Mexico. When Santana was approaching his teenage years in the late fifties, he was playing shows with different bands around the Tijuana strip in clubs and bars.

My gaze penetrates the black box and wishes to create frictions of four strings, the way musicians were rendering the music during my Middle School orientation. My elective choice, a violin, upset my mom though.

“Feeling Good” is a song originally written by Leslie Bricusse and composed by Anthony Newley for the musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint-The Smell of the Crowd in 1964 (Denton 2002). It was made famous by the legendary jazz singer Nina Simone when she recorded it and put it on her album I Put a Spell on You in 1965. Since then there have been countless covers that offer unique styles and interpretations that seem to hold a similar feeling and emotional grip.

The violin is an important historical instrument even used by the kings of France and prince of Hungary. This instrument evolved from Asia with the instrument fithele. We get the word fiddle from the word fithele. Although the fithele evolved from Asia, it was mostly used by Europeans in the ninth century. Over the centuries the violin’s original design has undergone many changes, including how long the neck is. The neck of the violin was at first very short but Antonio Stradivari made it longer so that it was deeper and not as squeaky. Another thing that evolved were the strings. At first the strings were made of catgut, animal gut, but later evolved into what we use today which are steel core strings. The violin is first in the violin family going in order from violin to viola to violoncello to bass. More recently though in the 1920s the electric violins were created. These violins don’t need to be shaped like a typical violin or even made of wood. Throughout the centuries, the violin has undergone many changes by violin producers, instrumentalists, and even composers.