Doo-Wop: Subcategory Of Vocal Group Harmony

The short story, The Sound Of The Singing, deals with conflicts and how they effect the people in them and around them. Vanessa McLeod is a dynamic character who changes her perception of herself in the course of the story. Through her changed perception, Margaret Laurence is suggesting that a person’s identity is change by their surroundings and the conflicts they fight through in there lives.

The first song that they sang was called “It’s Tight Like That” it’s a silly song about that doesn't really have a story line but, Gary Antol had wonderful diction the vowels were very wide but then again this is bluegrass music, where without the wide vowels it would have the character that is bluegrass. They

Good morning choir members, I pray all is well with each of you. As each of you know, Sister Kimberly Edwards decided it was best to step down as President of the Liberty Hill Choir. The church administrators set standards in which the next president must already achieve or have before he/she could become president of the choir. Some of those standards include:

They sang as a chorus, as a

In 1957 star created a doo-wop group named the future tones and began a singing career. The group later on develop into a band Edwin Starr's brother Angelo Starr is the original musical director of The Team. He has now taken over lead vocals performing all the fantastic Edwin Starr classics, plus dynamic performances of some great Motown & Soul covers. Edwin Starr's original 8 piece band The Team, who backed Edwin on all his shows are still intact, with sax, keyboard, lead guitar,

It was influenced by r&b, gospel, and country music. Topics are about anything teenagers are into, such as romance and adventure. Instruments featured include the electric guitar, electric bass, drums, keyboard, and horns. Musical elements include pitch bending, heavy use of 12-bar blues form, blue notes, and a hiccupping vocal style. Variations of this genre are R&B, doo-wop, and rockabilly.

The original name of this band was Bill Haley and the Saddlemen from 1949 – 1952 and performed country style. It was during this time that Haley became one of the top cowboy yodelers. However a great deal of the Saddlemen recordings didn’t get released until the 70s and 80s. They included wonderful tunes like “Rose of My Heart” and “Yodel Your Blues Away”. Members of this group included Haley piano, Johnny Grande accordion, and Billy Williamson steel guitarist.

Most music aficionados credit Marvin Gaye, a popular American singer, songwriter, and record producer in the 1960s, with developing the “Motown Sound.” (“Motown Sound” was a phrase coined by the Motown record label. The phrase was trademarked and formed the basis of a new genre of music; in fact, the genre was referred to as “Motown” because the Motown record label produced the majority of songs that created the new genre). The Motown Sound is characterized by tambourines, which accented the backbeat, as well as electric bass-guitar lines, call and response singing style, which originated from gospel music, and charted horn sections. (Chin 1).

It was a new concept in texture, a melody in one voice supported by a harmnoy in the others

Popular genres have changed over the

If you were a singer during this time period, you wanted a song with the Funk Brothers. Back in the 60s, when the Funk Brothers were unrecognized, music was very segregated. They had separate radio stations for “colored” singers. The Funk Brothers, along with Motown, helped knock down those

Not many people know about the American Folk Music Revival that took place in the 1950s and 1960s, unless one was actually born during that time. However there were many artists who helped the revival take place. Those artists changed the way music lovers viewed music and made them love it even more. The Kingston Trio is one of these bands and they also helped launch the folk revival with their albums and songs which includes their hit song Tom Dooley.

Blues, where women were the main singers but had a group of males to accompany.

As rock 'n' roll became a financial success, record companies that had considered it a fad began to search for new singers; they generally succeeded in commercializing the music, robbing it of much of its gutsy, rebellious quality. In the late 1950s, for example, there was a fad for sentimentally morbid songs such as "Laura" and "Teen Angel. " At the turn of the decade Detroit became an important center for black singers, and a certain type of sound known as "Motown" [motor town], named for Motown Records, developed. The style is characterized by a lead singer singing an almost impressionistic melody story line to the accompaniment of elegant, tight, articulate harmonies of a backup group. Popular exponents of this style are the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Diana Ross and the Supremes, and Gladys Knight and the

age, it is the cast members in many musicals who depict the role as the chorus. However, in some cases, the chorus