CS Freestyle Team

This dance shows how diverse some teenagers can be. This dance team has variety of people in the group. SO BE DIVERSE IN CHOOSING MUSIC!!!

Crayon- G-Dragon

When life gives you hell....Get Crazy

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble.

Guacharaca

Guacharaca is a musical percussion instrument usually made out of the cane-like trunk of a small palm tree. The guacharaca itself consists of a tube with ridges carved into its outer surface with part of its interior hollowed out, giving it the appearance of a tiny, notched canoe. It is played with a fork composed of hard wire fixed into a wooden handle. The 'guacharaquero' (guacharaca player) scrapes the fork along the instrument's surface to create its characteristic scratching sound. A typical guacharaca is about as thick as a broomstick and as long as a violin. The guacharaca was invented by native American Indians from the Tairona culture in the region of la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia as an instrument to simulate the guacharaca (orOrtalis ruficauda) bird's singing. During the mid-20th century it was adopted by Vallenato and Cumbia musicians and today it is most often associated with these musical styles. Guacharacas provide a steady rhythmic backbone for all varieties of Vallenato and Cumbia.

Kings and Queen (Throw it up) -Somo

I love listening to this song because, it makes me think about summer and just throwing all my stress out the window and having fun.

SUMMER 2013 HERE I COME!!!!!

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балала́йка A.K.A Balalaika

The Balalaika is a Russian folk stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular body and three strings.The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass balalaika, and contrabass balalaika. All have three-sided bodies; spruce, evergreen, or fir tops; and backs made of three to nine wooden sections (usually maple). They are typically strung with three strings.The prima balalaika is played with the fingers, the secunda and alto either with the fingers or a plectrum, depending on the music being played, and the bass and contrabass (equipped with extension legs that rest on the floor) are played with leather plectrums.

Rock Vs Classical Music

Difference between Rock and Classical

  “Even if you are not an established musician, you can easily distinguish rock music from what is termed as classical music. There are several large differences between rock and classical.

One of the most obvious differences between the two genres is the instruments used. Instrument makers before the discovery of electricity had to make instruments audible without the aid of electricity; they relied on sound boards (or lung power (wind instruments)) to amplify the sound. In our modern times, we have a large array of electric instruments. Many electric instruments rely mainly on electricity to make there sound perceptible. One may also include the difference in the way the two music forms are arranged. rock is typically (though there are many exceptions) played with the classic format of singer, electric guitar, drums and bass guitar, while classical makes heavy use of the instruments of the violin family and the piano family.

Classical music across time, which includes the medieval periods, renaissance (rebirth of Greek culture), baroque, classical, romantic then modern-contemporary periods all exhibit musical similarities. In classical, it is usual for there to be multiple harmonies going on at once. Classical also uses a wide variety of chords, however many classical composers have restricted themselves to using only chords of that particular key. In classical music, it was considered wrong to use any chords that were not found in the same key at once. In the early 1900s, a composer by the name Igor Stravinsky decided that he did not want to follow the theory exactly, he wanted more music freedom. In fact, he was disliked by many people of the time for his radical chord changes and heavy use of dissonance. Rock music on the other hand, is not constrained to any set of guidelines or forms. There are many examples and instances (particularly in songs by The Beach Boys) when the harmonic changes are completely wrong according to classical music theory, yet the song still maintains it charm doesn’t sound wrong or bad to the listener. Basic rock/blues uses a very simple chord progression, I,IV,V, the chords are, in order, the tonic, subdominant and the dominate chords of the scale. They are called chord degrees; the name refers to the chronological order of the notes in a scale. In a typical C major scale, you have the notes, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, in order to build the 3 note chords, or triads, you add a note that is 3 notes away from the first note and 2 notes away from the second note, so the tonic chord (the chord built off of the first note, the tonic) in this case is C, E, G, the subdominant chord, F, B, C and the dominate chord is , G, B, D. Now in better and more advanced rock music such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Jimmi Hendrix, they will use chords of other scale degrees and they will even add extensions to the chords which makes for additional harmonic intricacy. And it makes the song much more interesting.

Classical music, as the name implies, is the older music compared to rock. Its earliest forms have sprouted as early as the 9th century and continued to take shape until today. Rock is a relatively newer music genre. It only emerged in popularity in the 1960s although its origin can be traced back as early as the 1940s.

Both forms of music will likely endure for centuries to come. Although rock still has only been around since the 1950s its impact on culture has been unlike any other musical genre. The world has never has been the same since Elvis Presley first came out. Classical music on the other hand has already been around for several hundred years. Unfortunately many younger people disregard classical as old people music and do not appreciate. I find that the culprit for this is that they associate the music with snobby rich people who find that classical is more ‘sophisticated’ than any other form of music. If we didn’t force kids to listen to classical than they may eventually learn to at least respect it, they don’t need to like it, it’s a matter of taste, you should never force your own beliefs/likes on another person, only expose them to it in a natural sort of way.

Summary:

1.Most classical music adheres to a strict set of rules whereas rock is much freer musically

2.Classical music generally is more complicated than rock music (although not always true).

3. Rock is a much younger form of music than classical

4. Both forms of music will withstand time equally as well

5. Finally, both are different branches of the same art form. It is comparable to painters and sculptors, both are forms of visual art yet are different sub form, you cannot say ‘this one’s better’, they’re two separate branches. It comes down to a matter of taste, you either like one or you like them both like me. There are great artists in both rock and classical, you shouldn’t close your world up to one genre only.”

Africa

The different regions and nations of Africa have distinct musical traditions, given the vastness of the continent. The music of North Africa for the most part has a distinct history from sub-Saharan African music traditions.
The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include African-American music and many Caribbean genres, such as soca, calypso and zouk. Latin American music genres such as the flamenco, samba, rumba, salsa, and other clave (rhythm)-based genres, were also founded to varying degrees on the music of enslaved Africans, and have in turn influenced African popular music.

Middle Eastern

The music of Western Asia and North Africa spans across a vast region, from Egypt to Iran, and its influences can be felt even further afield. Middle Eastern music influenced the music of Greece and India, as well as Central Asia, Spain, Southern Italy, the Caucasus and the Balkans, as in Byzantine music and Chalga. The various nations of the region include the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the Iraqi traditions of Mesopotamia, Iranian traditions of Persia, the music of Israel, Armenian music, the varied traditions of Cypriot music, the music of Turkey, traditional Assyrian music, Berbers of North Africa, and Coptic Christians in Egypt all maintain their own traditions.
Throughout the region, religion has been a common factor in uniting peoples of different languages, cultures and nations. The predominance of Islam allowed a great deal of Arabic and Byzantine influence to spread through the region rapidly from the 7th century onward. The Arabic scale is strongly melodic, based around various maqamat (sing. maqam) or modes (also known as makam in Turkish music). Arabs translated and developed Greek texts and works of music and mastered the musical theory of the music of ancient Greece (i.e. Systema ametabolon, enharmonium, chromatikon, diatonon). This is similar to the dastgah of Persian music. While this originates with classical music, the modal system has filtered down into folk, liturgical and even popular music, with influence from the West. Unlike much western music, Arabic music includes quarter tones halfway between notes, often through the use of stringed instruments (like the oud) or the human voice. Further distinguishing characteristics of Middle Eastern and North African music include very complex rhythmic structures, generally tense vocal tone, and a monophonic texture.
Often, more traditional Middle Eastern music can last from one to three hours in length, building up to anxiously awaited, and much applauded climaxes, or tarab, derived from the Arabic term طرب tarraba.