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Last week I’ve read an article about a patty cake game written by Kyra D. Gaunt called “Slide. Games as Lessons in Black Musical Style” from the book The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from

My friend is in a dutch skaband, called Skapiche! , and they had their videoclip recording last month. It was also their try-out for the innercycle of fans and off course I had to be there. It was totally

A theme most of the time has multiple motifs that play an important role. The word is originated from the Latin word ‘motus’ for movement. You got two sorts of motifs; an independent and one that depends

Why has music a healing effect? First of all it is because of the meter. The meter has in it the primal feeling for humans. When you look at baby's they already do everything in a certain rhythm or meter;

Most of the people have the feeling to give credits to someone who sings beautifully, but I think there is more behind the singing voice than just the sound. I think technique of your voice cords should

Arnold Schönberg, ‘8. Nacht’ from Pierrot Lunaire It is an atonal piece from 1912. Schönberg called it a passacaglia, but is is definately not in the traditional form of a passacaglia. When we look at

This duet between two sopranos is from the opera Lakmé written by Léo Delibes. It has three acts and was written in 1881-1882 and first performed on the 14th of april in 1883. The première was located

The second inversion triad or 6-4 chord The second inversion is mostly used as a passing chord or neighbour chord. The 6-4 chords that are accented can be misleading, because most of the times the fifth

The dominant seventh By writing harmonies you’ll often use* passing tones* or neighbour tones. The passing tone is known to be useful in becoming the dominant seventh. For example; the tonic (I) could

As a follow up on my article below: I'd like to share you the conversation Tom had with his crew and actors about the song and why he wrote it. He also speaks about the intentions behind is, for example

The South Bronx of New York is the home of rap or regular hip-hop. Hip-hop started in 1973 at a birthday party of one DJ called Kool Herc. In the South Bronx was a lot of criminality, drugs and violence,

A lot of people think that Indie is some kind of music genre for bands that make some kind of alternative popular rock music with a special twist. But actually indie is the shorting for independent which

Hip-hop was created to speak out to the mainstream life, political issues and social ideas. That is why I think this is a very good written rap against the mainstream idea of today you can see in the news.

At college I learned about ‘the medium is the message’; a saying by Marshall McLuhan in 1967. It says that the influence on social structures and conventions of a medium is the impact or message instead

Musical analysis The structure of the trailer is in the first 30 seconds clearly focussed on the text. It starts with quavers, staccato, in the form of a drone. The instrument that you’ll hear sounds like

The first form of Jazz is called New Orleans Jazz, because it was the common music to find in bars and social places. The first score of Jazz is The Jelly Roll Blues from Ferd Morton from 1915. But why

Only since the 19th century does musical analysis of single compositions exist. Before this time we used to look at music theory and music in its relationship with the world. The organization of musical

The biggest amount of time is put in the interest of the notes and the amount of focus. The dissonance or consonance of the notes are also playing a big part. Notes that do not belong by a chord are called;

Composers avoid the splitting of compositions in measures – phrases - of four and use instead sizes of four or eight measure phrases which are linked to each other. Two phrases only pare when they are