Saturday, June 20, 2009

Music: Improvisation

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner states that there are many different types of intelligences that belong to human beings. In addition, people are at different levels of their particular intelligence. Bennett Reimer expands Gardner's research. He states seven musical intelligences that people have. They consist of composing, performing, improvising, listening, musical theory, musicology, and music teaching.
Jazz is a musical art form that started around the beginning of the 20th century. African Americans were the first kind of people to use it. The first use of jazz was in the Southern United States. The word jazz started off as a West Coast slang term and was used to describe a particular type of music in Chicago. Jazz's main instruments are the saxophone, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, flute, piano, guitar, double bass, tuba, drums, vocals, and vibraphone. Improvisation is one of jazz's key elements. This is because jazz invented new thought patterns, new practices, new symbols and new ways to act. The music of New Orleans had a huge effect on the creation of jazz. A jazz performer will interpret a tune in very individual ways. The word "jazz" made one of its earliest appearances in San Francisco baseball writing in 1913. There are different types of jazz such as smooth jazz and modern jazz.

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