Music

Effect of Music Therapy on Dementia Name of the Student Professor’s Name Effect of Music Therapy on Dementia Background Dementia is a neurological disorder, which is presented as an inability to form new memories or difficulty to retrieve old memories. Such disorder may be caused due to age-related degeneration of neurons or pathological degeneration of neurons. A form of Dementia called Alzheimer’s disease, affects individuals during the middle years. The cause of degeneration of neurons has been largely attributed to the amyloidal hypothesis. However, other factors like genetic or environmental or psychiatric causes have also been...

Name: Professor's name: Course number: Date: The Great Paris Concert 1963 This is a recording of a series of live performances by Duke Ellington and his jazz orchestra in Paris in February 1963. Born in 1899, Duke Ellington was a great composer, pianist and the band leader of his jazz orchestra, which composed of a 10-piece ensemble CITATION Tuc95 p 3 l 2057 (Tucker and Ellington 3). Some of the most notable jazz musicians in the band were Cootie Williams (trumpeter), Johnny Hodges (alto saxophonist), Rex Stewart (cornetist), and Harry Carney (baritone saxophonist). The band played together in the 1920s through the early 1930s before some members left to pursue their careers. Duke Ellington...

XXXXXXXXXXX Music Appreciation XXXXXXXXXXX October 26, 2015 Ozzy Osbourne’s Doom Metal Ozzy Osbourne is a legend of the rock world. Ozzy went from having nothing to creating his own genre of music that inspired hundreds of other bands. Ozzy’s life was tough but he went through it with his head help high and this went into his music and gave it a sense of emotion and created something for the listener to connect to. The style of the genre represents his pain and despair. The choice of this subject is based on the title of the genre, Doom Metal. Notably, doom metal is an extreme form arising from heavy metal music. This kind of song is done in such a slow tempos with lowly tuned guitar...

Name Instructor Course Date Bela Bartok Bela Bartok is a Hungarian musician who was born in the town of Nagyszentmiklos on 25 March in 1881.His early musical influence came from his mother who was a skilled pianist. His father was also musically inclined, and so he grew up in a musical environment. As he grew up, his family moved, and he began taking lessons. Later on, he became a student at the renown Royal Academy of Music (Stevens, 4).He slowly developed his reputation as one of the bet pianists in the land and his reputation spread throughout the nation and he is famously recognized for revolutionizing music through his immense contributions to the art. He was known...

Name: Professor's name: Course number: Date: Smooth Jazz Jazz is a genre of music, originally from the African American, which became popular at the beginning of the 20th century. Jazz was influenced by the African rhythms and the structure of the European harmonic. The view that jazz is solely of the African-American origin has elicited a lot of criticism. Critics like Wheaton believe that it "can be defined as a combination of improvisatory styles with European form and harmony" (Wheaton 90). Maybe a clearer picture can be painted by the story of New Orleans – the cradle of jazz. The three major social groups that lived in New Orleans during the rule of the Catholic French were; Creoles,...