Music on SITV

The students in Music Appreciation are now writing music for intro and outro spots on our in house television station at SI!

Announcements for March 6, 2015 from SITV on Vimeo.

da blues

Jazzzzzz origins

Mozart - WHO is he?

1) Click on bit.ly/1czDN40
2) Scroll down to "Early Years" in the Vienna section

From this reading, what differences can you find between the historical Mozart and the character Mozart in Amadeus?

My Blues Song

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Also Sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss
1864-1947
Romantic

1. Introduction begins softly - pianissimo
2. dramatic crescendo at the beginning
3. Timpani & organ is the first sounds heard
4. Piece is dedicated to Nietzche who proclaimed, "God is Dead"
5. Theme represents Nature

West End Blues, Armstrong

Louis Armstrong
West End Blues
1928
Jazz/Blues

1. Is from New Orleans
2. Grew up in the colored Waif's home (orphanage) for boys 
3. Trumpet Fanfare - introduce the song, player. West End Blues uses the same concept with unaccompanied trumpet solo
4. Reflection in society before the Great Depression
5. Established Louis Armstrong as the first solo artist of the art form