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Review Of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse Macarbei
Number of Words: 279 / Number of Pages: 2
... wide
awake when it was over. Ligeti seems to have sculpted a piece together from bits
and pieces of other musical styles: a sort of modern-art approach to music. The
violins tuning without a care in the first few moments, the slow mock continuo
of the highly dissonant bassoon counterpoint, and the later high pitch of a
clarinet all seem to be broad, bold strokes on a canvas of sound. Ideas come
floating to the front of the imaginary "stage", and drop back behind newer
themes.
The percussion also adds considerably to the complexity of the piece in
the later minutes, stomping along without any respe ...
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Best Of Van Halen: Volume I
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... There is not any fancy art work or anything. I think Van Halen is strong enough to let their music be the artwork for the album.
They took their hit songs from all of their records and put them in order by year. The first song, Evolution, incorporates a monstrous guitar solo by non other than the master himself, Eddie Van Halen. The next five tracks are not included in my favorites due to simple fact that I was too young to recognize the songs when they were first out. Still awesome songs, they just don’t get me psyched up like the later tracks. These songs include “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”, “Run ...
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Air Pollution
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... emphysema and lung cancer. The second type is sulfur oxides, which come from the burning of coal and industrial processes. Damage to materials, to vegetation, and to the human respiratory system are caused by the acid nature of oxides. The third type of pollutant is carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas against which humans have no protection. Hemoglobin, which is in the blood, combines with carbon monoxide and carries less oxygen to body tissues causing health and heart effects. Some health problems come from the exhaust fumes leaking into the interior of ...
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Jazz Age
Number of Words: 2147 / Number of Pages: 8
... of our popular music for the next thirty years. Louie Armstrong closed the book on the dynastic tradition in New Orleans jazz.
The first true virtuoso soloist of jazz, Louie Armstrong was a dazzling improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually. Armstrong, often called the “father of jazz,” always spoke with deference, bordering on awe, of his musical roots, and with especial devotion of his mentor Joe Oliver. He changed the format of jazz by bringing the soloist to the forefront, and in his recording groups, the Hot Five and the Hot seven, demonstrated that jazz improvisation could go far ...
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Freire; Teaching In Our Society, And Wu-Tang Clan
Number of Words: 812 / Number of Pages: 3
... the idea of looking at things
differently and would not even restrict the students to an essay. He would
probably except anything such as a poem, paper, or a picture. As long as
the perception does not fit the one that society shows us. The essay that
is shown below is about a rap group named the Wu-Tang Clan. This was a very
good choice to write this essay because they look at society through the
eyes of an outsider.
The Wu-Tang Clan is a rap group that came out with there first CD
in 1993. This CD soon became a rap classic. They combine real street life
from the projects with lyrics that were dee ...
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Coparison Between Two Guitars: Ibanez 453 RVC And The Gibson Les Paul
Number of Words: 930 / Number of Pages: 4
... Ibanez comes with regular music store pickups
that are not bad but do not have the quality of the Humbuckers. So having
better quality means that the pickups are more sensative; being more sensative
means that the guitar can put out clearer and higher quality sound.Moving to the
lower part of the guitar, both guitars have knobs. The purpose of these knobs
are to control the different types of sounds that you want to produce. The
Gibson has four controls, but the Ibanez only has two; having only two knobs
instead of four means that the Ibanenz has less of a selection or variety on the
sound that you w ...
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Coro Concert Experience
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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Tupac Shakur's Last Album: Makaveli
Number of Words: 2423 / Number of Pages: 9
... other specific people. He started out with his first few albums by lashing out against society and some of its norms. He discussed the hardships of being a black man in a society that has a tendency to discriminate and single out black males and accuses them of criminal activity. As he got older and did more albums, he started to single out certain people that made it hard for him to further his music and acting career. He mentions Dolores Tucker, Bill Clinton, and Bob Dole in his song “How do you want it.” In “Picture Me Rolling,” he talks about Clinton Correctional Facilities and the DA that ...
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Music Censorship
Number of Words: 3824 / Number of Pages: 14
... All
of these performers do have one thing in common, at one time or another,
censorship made them victims because of their social unacceptable actions or
the content of their music and lyrics. While censorship is slightly more
realistic and open-minded (no more censoring performers from the waist down,
like Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show), it still affects listeners and
their choice of music quite significantly. Although the government, music
associations, and other various groups try censorship, the music a person
chooses is still, and always should be, his choice.
Some children are too youn ...
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Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Number of Words: 2955 / Number of Pages: 11
... during the day as a rehearsal pianist in dance halls and theaters. At night he paid his dues in a succession of after-hours bars, clip joints and five dollar-a-night speakeasies prevalent throughout the depression-era southwest until he was able to assemble his own 14-piece orchestra in June of 1941. A dominant characteristic of this relatively small Kenton Orchestra was the choppy, staccato manner of phrasing that was especially noticeable in the writing for the reed section. In retrospect this continues to emerge as one of the most readily identifiable of all the Kenton ensembles. His early piano vo ...
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