Faith's Musical Blog

 Hey guys! We did it! This is the last blog and now we just have a quiz left... isn't it great? Well for my last big blog I decided to write mine on the country of Jamaica and their musical culture. I would like to think that every one knows where Jamaica is at, but for those of who do not, it is situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is the third largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Its population is 2.95 million. For this blog, I found that there are many different genres of music in Jamaica, so I wanted to cover a few of the important ones for all of you guys. I hope yall enjoy! So the first musical heritage of Jamaican music is the most popular and it is called Mento. It is the original popular music form in Jamaica and developed during the plantation period and was born from the fusion of African and British influences. What part is British? The scale patterns, harmonic concepts, verse, and chorus song types. What about Africa? The performance mode, rhythmic im...

 Hey Guys! Its so good to be back on here and to talk about some more cool stuff! Were almost there guys, just hang in there! Just think haha, a few more weeks and well be stuffing our faces with some goooooodd food, at least I will be doing that. I am not going to lie, it did take me a long time to figure out what I was going to write about today, so I just decided that I was going to dive deeper into what we have already been learning in class and try to find out some more cool things about all of this stuff.  For my first cool thing, I wanted to dive deeper into the drone. It sounds super cool and whenever I say it I always think of an actual drone flying over someone's head getting all of these cool videos and everything. But that is no so in this case. This is actually an instrument in Indian classical music (like we didn't already know that though). Anyways, I looked up what the drone was in Indian music and it is a harmonic or monophonic effect where a note is played co...