Cael Rowleys Week 1 Blog

  "How Deep is the Ocean" Sung by Bing Crosby Written by: Irving Berlin                    I was super excited about this week, because of this song. A little background from me about this piece. In high school, I had the opportunity to do musicals( I know nerdy right), and my senior year we did "White Christmas" And I got to play Bob Wallace who actually gets to sing this song during the production. I love "How deep is the ocean" because of the key components that make this song catchy, and listened to from a broad range of audiences.          The first thing that I have picked up is how they play one trumpet throughout the whole song as its base melody. The trumpet back in the day was very popular and caught a lot of attention. When Irving added this as a key melody to kind of guide the song the whole way through, it gave a chance for other instruments to harmonize and play on off- beats to add a litt...

"La Negra"   BY: Mariachi Vargas de Tacalitlan                 La Negra is an amazing song! Sung by the famous Mariachi band called, "Vargas de Tacalitlan", It is a song that in its day and age brought a lot of hop and emotion to the Mexican culture. There is a lot of elements that made this song popular late in the nineteenth century including the repetition, dynamics, and culture forth-bringing.               La Negra has very interesting charismatics about the piece. One of the most important one is how it grabs the audience with its Introduction. The introduction uses dynamics very well as it starts really loud while repeating the melody several times. Then, with the lyrics and words on there way, the music cuts to a solo trumpet. I noticed how the dramatic change in the volume gives the listener a hook to keep listening. It always gives that "whats next?" moment to the piece. The dyn...

  Cael Rowley's  Blog          My name is Cael Rowley! I am from a town near Delta Ut called Oakcity. (I know wheres that...) I love the outdoors,sports, music and of coarse my family. Favorite Genre and Artist I love Country and Soft Pop!  And forever The band "Extreme" or "Bon Jovi" will be my favorite musical bands! The End!!