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Blog 9 Valenzuela
Music forms both parts of the Sema ceremony, the Taksim and Pesrev. The effect the music has is to help the listener feel like they have a direct spiritual connection with God. This is accomplished by their instrumental music that takes place during the Taksim and the strictly measured chants that take place during the […]
Blog 8 Valenzuela
The song “Always” by Rex Orange County was published in his new album “Pony” which released on 10/24/19. His genre is like a indie / alternative pop sound. The gender stereotype around guys for mostly all of history has been that a guy shouldn’t show weak emotions or discuss his feelings because that’s what it […]
Blog 7 Valenzuela
I come from a Latino background, my parent’s were both born in Paraguay. The traditional dance / most popular dance of Paraguay is the “La Danza De La Botella” which means the Dance of the Bottles. The dance is a sequence of dancers (primarily females) putting a bottle on their heads and dancing around with […]
Blog 6 Valenzuela
The “Bamaaya” was a dance that was ritualistic that was performed mainly by the people of Ghana to indicate that they would like rain to be sent to them from the Gods that they believed in, due to a drought happening at the time which was the 19th century. However the dance has changed over […]
Blog 5 Valenzuela
I feel that I would be most comfortable at a jazz club. This is because the atmosphere is more of a playful, fun, interactive one, compared to the experience of the other two. I’m more of a person that likes to move around rather than sit so I think that would be the main factor […]
Blog 4 Valenzuela
I chose the scene from Get Out. This scene is the opening scene in the movie. The scene begins with this random black man walking through a suburban neighborhood. He’s on the phone with someone and he says “you got me here out in this creepy confusing ass suburb”, so it can be implied that […]
Blog 3 Valenzuela
GarageBand is a musical technology software developed and released by Apple. GarageBand is a software program that is similar to that of FL Studio, Fruity Loops, etc, in the sense of a program that allows the user to create music. What differentiates GarageBand from those other softwares, is that it is more user friendly and […]
Blog 2 Valenzuela
The song I chose is Congratulations by Mac Miller – featuring Bilal. Mac Miller (Malcolm James McCormick) is a hip-hop artist that started making his way through the industry since 2011. He wasn’t like every other hip-hop artist due to the fact that he was a kid and didn’t make music as if he was […]
Blog 1 Valenzuela
Out of all of the six musical periods that we were recently introduced to, the Classical Period (ca. 1730 – ca. 1820) is what caught my attention most. This period of time is interesting to me because I feel that everyone has learned about the actual time period, however not the musical part of it […]
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