About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Boehm System, Cadenza, Street performance, Audition, Jazz drumming, Mensural notation, Performance studies, Conducting, Guitar solo, Phrase, Bugle call, Rehearsal letter, Concert, Promenade concert, Backing track, Offstage brass and percussion, Live PA, Drum solo, Open mike, Old Folks Concerts, Complaints Choir, Range, Sound system, Scratch Messiah, Live electronic music, Phantom practice, The Really Big Chorus, The MySpace Transmissions, Flute beatboxing, Musical expression, Gig, Segue, Instrumental idiom, Myspace secret shows, Alternatim, Gardenzitty, A capriccio, Program note, Mallet dampening, Bravura, Piano solo, Front to back, Live-set, Live instrumentation. Excerpt: Street performance or busking is the practice of performing in public places, for gratuities, which are generally in the form of money and edibles. People engaging in this practice are called street performers, buskers, street musicians, minstrels, or troubadours. Street performance dates back to antiquity, and occurs all over the world. Performances can be just about anything that people find entertaining. Performers may do acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, card tricks, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions and escapes, dance, singing, fire eating, fire breathing, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime and a mime variation where the artist performs as a living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or recite poetry or prose as a bard, street art (sketching and painting, etc.), street theatre, sword swallowing, and even putting on a flea circus. An organ grinder with a Capuchin monkey, photographed in 1892.There have been performances in public places for gratuities in every major culture in the world, dating back to antiquity. This art form was the most common means of employment for entertainers b...
