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Gregorian Chant
Number of Words: 1971 / Number of Pages: 8
... be any music in the background as in the enigma CD.
So what exactly is ? A bunch of notes slapped on a paper that people just riddle off in a deep voice so it sounds good? Of course not. Chant is a specific kind of music. The people of that time didn’t really develop far into music so there was no real back bone to work from. No organization or format to follow. The way chant was written and performed is very different from today’s music. today has a format to follow and a way to be written, so it sounds very much different from the Chant from the time it was originally written.
Why did ...
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Hawaiian Music
Number of Words: 1370 / Number of Pages: 5
... or rhythmic chanting of poetry or song also accompanied it. It is only in the recent century that guitar has been added to this selection of instruments.
The music of Hawaii is a very beautiful harmonization between voices and instruments. The native Hawaiians are known for their vocal ability when it comes to singing. The women’s voices can often times reach an impossibly high soprano note with considerable ease while the men are also able to reach high notes otherwise considered difficult by most men in other areas of the world.
The main context of has, as previously stated, most often been used ...
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Seal
Number of Words: 1048 / Number of Pages: 4
... between parent and child, have a strong effect on the way a person's personality develops. This could be true in regards to because his experiences with his parents, growing up as a child were in no way good. For example, for reasons never explained to him, he was sent to live with a white foster family until he was four. When his mother unexpectedly reentered his life and took him back with her. When he was six, his mother was deported to Nigeria and he moved in with his father who had remarried, and continuously beat him. He remembered his relationship with his father as "troubled."
In order ...
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Concert Report
Number of Words: 671 / Number of Pages: 3
... piece was performed by one of the best clarinet players in LA who had played for many of the universal productions. The theme of the variation produced from the clarinet was balanced and effective on the audience. Also, the emotions and the visual scenes were influential and entertaining. It was full of great work by these great musicians who played other classical music by bet hoven and Mozart. In my opinion I recommend this concert to everybody who appreciates and music instruments. The reason of recommending this music because attending any concert I thinks it is a part of an appreciation to ...
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Ist't It Ironic: An Imaginative Response To The Song "Ironic" By Alanis Morisette
Number of Words: 601 / Number of Pages: 3
... John's grand
daughter was doing at work. John remembered that he needed to get his lottery
ticket, he asked his daughter to get it for him. They joked about it being a
waste of money and even if they tried they would not be able to spend that much
money. She left James talking to John as she went off to buy the ticket. John
told James about the time he used to be a pilot in the RAF James was fascinated
by these stories, He wanted to be a pilot too someday. A short while later,
John's grand daughter arrived with his lottery ticket. She told him that she had
recived a call on her mobile phone and she ...
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The Life Of Deadheads And Music Of The Grateful Dead
Number of Words: 1977 / Number of Pages: 8
... about which
there is substantial literature. Also, A Deadhead, according to the
authors of Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, is “someone who loves
-- and draws meaning from -- the music of the Grateful Dead and the
experience of Dead shows, and builds community with others who feel the
same way” (Shenk 60).
To elaborate on this in more objective terms, research shows the
top four characteristic influences on the life of Deadheads are (in order):
The Dead, Friends, Love, and Family. In this same survey, below the mean
are: Money, Work, and Sex, (Scott 343). From 1965 to 1995 the rock gro ...
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Rock Music
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... introduced a music that was sexual-suggestive, and outraged many adults of that time. In time, he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and western style and became a national hero. By the end of this decade and the start of the next, Rock n' Roll started to decline because it was formula-ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences transferred their allegiance to Folk music.
In 1963, the renewal of Rock n' Roll came when The Beatles started to play. The Beatles, for some the best rock group ever, were from Liverpool, England. Through the 60's, The Beatles dominated the record ...
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Appalachian Musicians And Singers And The Songs They Write
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... around religion is
bluegrass. One of the best known Bluegrass artists (Bill Monroe)Known also as
the father of bluegrass music, dedicated a portion of every performance to a
gospel bluegrass harmony number. Bluegrass became popular in the region for a
number of reasons. Not the least of which was the inexpensiveness of home made
instruments.(Ergood and Kuhre 189) The relatively small size made the
instruments easily transported from home to home.
The variance of topics in Appalachian music can not be numbered. The
subject of a song can be anything from the pine trees on the highest mountain to ...
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The Phonograph
Number of Words: 1562 / Number of Pages: 6
... loudspeakers.
The first practical phonograph was built by the American inventor Thomas Edison in 1877. Edison recorded sound on a cylinder, which was then rotated against a needle. The needle moved up and down in the grooves of the cylinder, producing vibrations that were amplified by a conical horn. Because of the vertical movement of the needle, this recording method was called the "hill-and-dale" process.
Edison had intended the phonograph to be used primarily as a dictating machine in offices. However, with the invention of the flat-disk phonograph, or gramophone, by the German-born American inven ...
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Classical Genres
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... per part. Included in the string quartet there are the first and second violins, a viola, and a cello. A quartet does not have a conductor like the symphony does, but they didn't need one because they weren't intended to be played for many people. Mozart and Haydn were known for having "jam sessions" in Mozart's apartment. An rarely known fact is that Haydn is the creator of this genre, not Mozart.
Sonatas are multi-movement works that are for a solo instrument or an instrument with accompaniment that uses different forms of music. Many classical composers like Mozart and Haydn wrote many of th ...
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