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…Native American music has many different musical styles. Within every Native American tribe there is a variety of musical styles and instruments. In response to the research that I have conducted, there are three main musical styles that are going…

…that for young children, getting them to do fun musical things like learning to play an instrument is somewhat easy compared to getting an adult to do the same thing. Children will do it because it is something new and exciting whereas adults need to be motivated…

…Playing the viola allows my emotions to weave their way into my music. Shaping a discordant sound into expressive music has been a lengthy, laborious, but ultimately rewarding process. I was switched from violin to viola by Melba Sandberg, a brusque…

…. For example, plucked zithers are played in Japan (koto), China (qin), Korea (kayagum), Mongolia (yatkha), and South Siberia (chatkhan or chatagan). Highly flexible, instruments that traveled the Silk Road lent themselves to many kinds of music besides…

…to us. Although there is evidence that music and music performance played a large part in Greek culture in the manuscripts discovered from their civilisation, there are very few actual artifacts of the music itself, either vocal or instrumental that have…

…in touch with me was a mini electronic piano. After I received this piano, I played it all the time, wherever I went I would bring it along with me. The sound of it was so nice that I realized that music was such a wonderful thing so that whenever I heard…

…with the pit percussion, learning how to play with mallets, and I helped with student conducting. Although I was familiar in the element of music, shadowing Cole opened my eyes to the teacher's perspective of the classroom. A music educator is generally employed…

…, and had many different influences due to the birth of music printing in about the year 1500. Sixteenth century was a period of conflict for the history of music. While the Germans and Netherlanders focused more on instrumental polyphony, the Italians…

…Does Music influence you? Many Native Americans are influenced by Music in many of there tribes. Almost all Native American Music dancers and singers are characterized by there different ways of dancing, they types of instruments they play and what…

…by the changing role of the composer (“Historical”). In late Renaissance instrumental music went toward an independence from vocal music (Ulrich). Most of the popular songs were played on the lute. The Renaissance, in the arts, was on of the most…