Old Sound Recording

I listened to a song from Perry's Victory called "Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal" by Captain Pearl R. Nye. The song had some interference noise in the background, but the singing was clear enough to hear and make out most of the words. The start of the song was the hardest part to understand, but as Nye kept singing the more words I was able to understand. The song was all vocals and no instruments.

Notation

When trying to come up with a new way to write a notation, I was kind of stumped. I thought about putting a picture of the finger chart underneath the note. I thought that would have gotten to complex when there is runs and 16th notes. Then I thought of getting rid of the scale and only having pictures, but again the whole picture thing got to complicated. Personally, I think the way that music is noted today is a great way, it is easy to read and comprehend. The music sheets are universal which makes it a lot more versatile.

Two Songs

The first song I listened to was from Naxos. It was the first movement from Clavierbung II- Italian Concerto/Overture (Partita) in the French Style (Weimann) in F Major called Allegro by J.S Bach. As the name of the piece implies the piece had a fast pace about 120 beats per minute. The piece had a structure of A B C B’ C’ D B” C” D’ A. The intro of the piece was a few notes than a pause, then a few notes than a pause. Then went into the first verse then had a bridge into the chorus. Then it went into a different section D. Then back to the second verse then a bridge into a little different sounding chorus. Then went into a little different sounding D, and then ended with the intro again. The music was mainly conjuct and homophonic texture with a melody and accompaniment.
The second piece was from my own collection. The song selected was “Days Go By” by Keith Urban. It has a structure of A B C B’ C D C’ B” C Section A is the guitar solo introduction to the song. Section B and C and there derivatives are fast pace about 120 beats per minute maybe a little faster. It seemed to be a little faster than the last piece. Section D slowed down to a moderate tempo. Then C’ slowly accelerated back to a pace of 120. The song has a conjuct and homophonic texture. The song was in 4:4 time, mainly quarter notes were played within the song.

Electrophones

I listened to 4 different genres of music which included country, rock, jazz and dance/electronic. The first genre was country. Most songs did not have any electrophones in the song. There was a Keith Urban song and a Kenny Chesney song that had an electric guitar, that was the only electrophone. The next station was rock. There were a lot of electronic guitars and keyboards in almost every song. There were a few songs that the electric guitar was the main instrument. The next genre was jazz and there were a few songs that had a keyboard instead of a piano. There was no electric guitars or any other electrophone. The last station was dance/electronic. I picked this station because I expected that there would be a few electronphones present. There was electric guitars, keyboards and some other instrument that might be more of a computerized instrument, not quite sure what category of instruments it would be considered.