(due November 18th) Complete Cuban Musical Culture

(This was originally due November 18th) While reading the Cuban article, I found a lot of information about the Cuban musical culture. The only thing I did not find was about the Training, etiquette and apparel. Here is some information about these three cultural points that I found from reliable sources: 1. Training- I found [...]

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(due November 17th) Cuban Musical Culture

(this was originally due November 17th) Ideas- -Beautiful- MAYBE- Beauty varies from culture to culture, but nothing in the article can lead me to believe this music is beautiful or not. - Spirituality-YES- Songs that were created by the African slaves were made to retain their African spirituality. -Context- YES- They had many different contexts depending on the song -Function- [...]

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(due November 16th) Caballo Viejo Listening description

(this was originally due November 16th) CABALLO VIEJO MEANS OLD HORSE IN SPANISH The contour of this song is very hilly due to the brass timbre of the trumpet. The only time where the line kinda went flat was when the vocals came in from 1:20-1:37. The phrasing was very complex and hard to detect, [...]

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(due November 12th) Listening Description No woman, No cry

(this was due November 12th) The contour of this song is still with some hills when he sings “no WOMAN, no cry”. His voice goes up higher at that point, therefore the contour line also goes up to follow the melodic line. The phrasing is quite simple in this song. The first section has only [...]

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(due November 11th)Internet research on Jamaica to complete Musical components

(originally due November 11th) Ok, so in order to complete my definition of the musical components of Jamacia I need to know two things:1. training 2.. etiquette. Here is what I found by researching VIA internet: 1. Musical Training in Jamaica- According to most sites on the internet, it seems as though Jamaica does offer basic [...]

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(due November 10th) Components of musical culture- Jamacia

Here is information specific to each of the components of musical culture in relation with Jamacia: Ideas- -beautiful? MAYBE- Because of the subjective nature of the term ‘beauty’, I cannot find any substantial evidence that the musical culture is or is not involved with beauty in music. Although, one could assume that beauty was naturally [...]

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(November 5th)-Difference between Popular and traditional music in Trinidad

(originally due November 5th, 2009) There are many similarities between the two types of songs, but there are also differences: 1. Use of symbolic lyricism- In the traditional music (like in Iron duke and Jean and Dinah), the music used symbolism to attack the government. This may have been because they were not allowed to record any [...]

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Listening description Cyar Take That (due November 4th)

(this was due November 4th) In regards to contour, this song was very straight with few hills. The only timbre that showed huge jumps was the brass instruments at the times :05 and :10. The phrasing was split into a couple of different sections. The first section involved the brass, bells, guitar, and drums and [...]

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Pan in A Minor (change in componenets)-(due November 3rd)

(due November 3rd) Between the two songs (both entitled Pan in A minor) the differences of musical components are as follow: 1. Ideas- FUNCTION- The song with the vocals has the function of entertainment as does the instrumental version. The difference lies in what kind of entertainment. The one by Roberts can be sung along [...]

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