Collective Cadenza: Creative Musicians

 The technology we have available to share music today allows us to hear and see more musicians and types of music than ever before. Here are some more creative and knowledgeable musicians who are doing some fun things with music. They are called Collective Cadenza or cdza. 

   Do you know what a musical cadenza is?   A cadenza is an extra, often fancy, part of the piece of music that is sung or played by a soloist or a group of soloists. It is usually not too long. They often have a free feeling, meaning the tempos and rhythms can change from they way they are in the rest of the piece. Sometimes the cadenza is improvised, or made up right then.  Sometimes a cadenza is written out by a composer.
  You can find cadenzas in classical music concertos, vocal pieces, and jazz music. 
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Collective Cadenza makes short, creative music videos using ideas from other music. Here is a fun piano piece, featuring 6 guys on one piano! Can you hear where the music changes styles? (Classical...jazz...etc.)

  

Here they are, taking us on a musical tour of the world in 18 songs, in December of 2012. Click on "show more" under the description for a list of the countries and songs they are playing. (Just above the comments.) How many of these songs do you know?