Blog Assignment #4

Although the Eagle Dance and Bobby McFerrin’s performance are not necessarily something I would normally listen to, I can appreciate the significant meaning that the Eagle Dance has to the people listening. And as a singer, I can imagine how difficult the style of music that McFerrin performs is. In the Eagle Dance; the version where we could see the dancers was more enjoyable to me because we could see how the intertwined the vocables, rhythm and dancing is. One of those aspects without the others isn’t as powerful. In Bobby McFerrin’s performance I enjoyed the vocables more than the Eagle Dance because there was more variety of sounds and the range of pitches he used was much wider than the other. As I stated earlier, I can imagine how difficult this piece must be. He would have to have amazing breath support in order to make the vocables in the way that he did. Inviting the audience to join him was very cool and he was was able to improvise incredibly when the audience was singing with him.