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Early History Of The Pipe Organ
Number of Words: 1567 / Number of Pages: 6
... to operate the bellows since
there were upwards of twenty-four bellows per organ (Hopkins & Rimbault 35).
Also, with organs of this size, the bellows took up large amounts of space, thus
forcing the organ to be located in a fixed place, such as a church.
Up until the eleventh century (approximately), pitch and range of organs were
extremely limited, mainly in part to the lack of a any style of keyboard. Keys
of a sort were introduced around this time, though not in the manner we are
accustomed to. “The earliest keyboards were sets of levers played by the hands
rather than the fingers.” (Randel 42 ...
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My Trip To Woodstock
Number of Words: 1005 / Number of Pages: 4
... Within moments, we were talking like old friends, sharing horror stories about the drive up, complaining about the heat and anticipating the next few days.
Random acts of kindness surrounded us for the whole weekend. I saw a boy climb through the mud to get someone he had just met a bottle of water. As the sun went down, a man gave a woman his sweatshirt so she would not be cold- again, they had just met. Conversations were exchanged between people that had nothing in common, other than the fact that they were at the same concert. I saw this going on all around me and I was fully appreciative ...
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Tricky's Pre-Millenium Tension
Number of Words: 1643 / Number of Pages: 6
... from a HUGE househead, it's sad to admit....but the answer is definitively NO. Let's forget the specific genre of house music. Is any type of electronic music based on more than samples and beats? Well...thanks to one innovative performer, that answer may just be YES.
is a revolutionary album, defining the new boundaries of the trip-hop genre. With harder beats than Space Girl, breaks like DB, and enough perversion and ego to make Marilyn Manson look like Mr. Rogers, Tricky's album is a truly original aural experience. Instead of pasting and looping pre-made cuts, Tricky creates his own samp ...
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John Rzeznik's Iris
Number of Words: 772 / Number of Pages: 3
... the repetitive use of the word “And.” Rzeznik uses “And” at the beginning of every verse. This shows a way of continuing his thoughts to stress a point and keeps the reader interested. This song contains a sad and depressing tone. The writer attempts to reach out and understand his lover. While he also wants her to see and comprehend him, but not as the world would, as he writes, “‘Cause I don’t think that they’d (the world) understand.”
In the first verse, or stanza, the reader perceives a mixture of senses. “Touch” and “feel” are the first senses he addresses. Rzeznik wants the read ...
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Dave Matthews' "Dancing Nancies"
Number of Words: 972 / Number of Pages: 4
... Mathews Band was capable of.
“Dancing Nancies” encompasses life in its theme by raising an important question about it, “Could I have been anyone other then me?” Some people would read this question and see nothing more then a simple sentence. Perhaps focusing on the media exposure, they are often the ones who fail to grasp true understanding of the music. Others, however, read this same simple sentence, but dig deeper into the meaning of the question. These individuals search for an understanding greater than the interpretations fed to them by pop culture. In doing so they discover parallels t ...
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Jimi Hendrix
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... as a parachute jumper until an injury led to his discharge. Hendrix
then began working as a session guitarist under the name Jimmy James,
playing behind such marquee acts as Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, and the
Isley Brothers. After gigging extensively with Little Richard in 1964,
Hendrix became entangled in a contract dispute with the mercurial artist
and left to form his own band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. With the
exception of an obscure single, "My Diary," with Rosa Lee Parks, none of
the music Hendrix cut with other artists was made more remarkable by his
presence. After playing Greenwic ...
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The Beatles
Number of Words: 508 / Number of Pages: 2
... Band. This particular album was
admired for it's harmony and lyrics, the added use of electronic music
techniques, and the addition of the Indian sitar sound. Though the songs were
inspired by simple, everyday things, the album was acclaimed as the pinnacle of
rock-and-roll's new elegance. The album's finale, John Lennon's, "A Day in the
Life", is the album's most disputed track and its most musically ambitious. The
British Broadcasting Corporation actually banned this song, because it
supposedly had references to drugs. The Beatles were unafraid to challenge the
world with their new music, and ...
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Rap Music
Number of Words: 1336 / Number of Pages: 5
... being harm. But its harm we are
inflecting on are soon to be leaders of the world,for example tring to
banned sex education from the schools,screening the TV from harmful life
scaring scenes of nudity,music being edited because of the used of the word
"NIGGER" "BITCH" "JEW" "HOE" etc. Now rap singers are just telling stories
about drug dealing, getting beat up by police officers,gangland slaying.
Poeple don't like them ,because they give people ideas or we just can't
admit how bad society is becoming. Shaking are head looking the other way
saying this is not hapening right now. Stories that scare ...
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Music And The Civil War
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... popular were
the "fine concerts by Turner's Silver Concert Band."2 The newspaper reports
that the popularity of "these concerts have always heretofore drawn crowded
houses.2" In the style of other articles, the paper comments that the
"merit of the music will ensure to the concert an abundant success"2
Musical performances in Franklin County were much the same.
Concerts were frequently given for the benefit of the community.
Socialites flocked to events such as the concert dubbed "The Flower
Queen."3 The concert was a combination of vocal and musical entertainment
in which The Valley Spirit report ...
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Review Of A Concert Of Sacred Music From The Moores Opera
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... then
the rest. The parts were sung by women then men in a beautiful combination.
The music was soft and intimate then quickly getting louder and more
powerful. “Gloria” was trying to make a point in a almost begging manner.
My favorite was the Amen at the end, and how it was equally distributed
between the female and male.
I also enjoyed Credo. It was sad and hurtful. The strings and
oboe played at the time when the choir was singing soft and low which
impacted the mood of the composition.
Coro was the second second group of performers in the concert. Ave
Maris Stella, Magnificat, Quatre Mot ...
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