Wednesday, January 21, 2009

ALL ABOUT BAND


Nowadays you may heard some music on your day, composition of music consist of melody and rhythm its produced some harmony. Music is the last harmonization between it. you can feel the music from many instrument. some instrument have tone, it will made some sound from it, and create note from tone. some people played instrument by it self its named solo perform, if we played in group, thats named Band. The word "band" comes from the middle French word bande meaning "troop". The significant difference between a band and an orchestra is that musicians who play in a band play some instruments. The orchestra, on the other hand, includes bowed string isntrument.

The word "band" is also used to describe a group of people who perform together such as dance bands. It can also be used to describe a specific instrument played by a group such as brass bands. Bands are said to have originated in Germany around the 15th century, using mainly bassoons and oboes. By the end of the 18th century Janissary (Turkish) music became popular featuring instruments such as triangles, flutes, cymbals and large drums. Also, during this time the number of musicians who played in a band grew. In 1838, a band composing of 200 drummers and 1,000 wind instrument musicians performed for the Russian emperor in Berlin. If you know, thats all the first history when the band era was born.

Band became popular now, all young generation have dream to be a super band, there are two main types of bands: the concert band and the marching band. in 20th century, band became icon of music.