Vibraphone Essays

of Blues and Jazz music genre, from the clothes to the style of songs chosen, without the clothes the Blues would not have felt Blues. The E.V.I., from the Big Band, was an unique instrument with a strangely pleasant sound for Jazz much like the Vibraphone, from the Jazz Combo, and this brought a different feel yet was able to keep the authentic tone to the genre by adding a

Bert Haanstra’s ‘Glas’ is a short film made in 1958. The film focussed on the process of glass making where two different methods of the process have been screened. Firstly it showed how human beings i.e. skilled individuals are blowing the glasses and making artistic pieces out of it like decorative materials, bottles, and cups etc, followed by the large scale mass production of bottles carried out by machines. A closer look into the film reveals that there are three clearly defined chapters. In

After indulging in the realm of student leadership with marching band, I have been introduced to what it means to be a leader. The first thing we covered was servitude leadership, which, in short, is a leader who puts emphasis on ownership by all. The antithesis of a servant leader is a systemic leader, who follows the traditional hierarchy that the world is familiar with. And that may have worked centuries ago. But we don’t live centuries ago; we live in a contemporary world, where servitude leadership

Steve Reich was one of the most influential composers in the minimalist genre. Even in recent decades, his repetitive keyboard figurations have been used in commercials for companies such as I.B.M. (Strickland, 1993, pg.1) Reich much prefers the term musique répétitive instead of minimalism as Reich was quoted saying, “Debussy resented ‘Impressionism’. Schoenberg preferred ‘pantonal’ to ‘atonal’ or ‘twelve-tone’ or ‘Expressionist’.” (Strickland, 1993, pg.23) Reich is well known for his tape-looping

Rhythmically this work has two distinctive features: the regular pulse of the piano and percussion and the rhythm of the human breathing in the vocal and wind parts, and the interaction between them brings about a remarkable effect of wave motion. The vibraphone player in this piece functions as a “conductor” by indicating when the players have to switch from one section to the next, or when the harmony or melody should change within a

small group were meaningful because of his popularity with the masses and the fact that they performed “live” (Martin & Waters, 99). Benny Goodman's initial trio consisted of him playing clarinet, Teddy Wilson on piano, and Lionel Hampton on the vibraphone. The group had “three highly individual musical personalities” as Wilson and Hampton were both talented Black musicians with the famous Benny Goodman leading them. The Goodman trio gained popularity in the 1930s. At this time, it was still culturally

instrumentation is his bands such as his own solo piano, a pianoless quartet, and a jazz quintet with trumpet, tenor sax, piano, bass, and drums. Some of the unpopular instruments that he used were tuba, cello, oboe, flute, French horn, bassoon, harp, and vibraphone. He also experimented with trumpet, trombone, and saxophone lines as well as having three drummers. Mingus was greatly influenced by Duke Ellington and because of Mingus’s talent and ingenuity as a bandleader and composer he became almost as influential