Music And The Global Perspective
.... may have partially assimilated into the mainstream of our
society while retaining the songs, dances, instruments, languages (at least
accent and inflection), fashion, food, and lifestyles of their native
cultures. In many cases, the merging of cultural traditions has formed new
styles and modes of behavior. For example, jazz evolved in the early
twentieth century.
Music is vocal or instrumental sounds having melody, rhythm, or
harmony. Also, music is sound that you want to hear as music, sound that
is not organized in some fashion typically cannot be called music. Yet the
roar of a waterfall, the sound of rain falling on a t .....
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Song Review: “Iris”
.... love with the girl.
With this love, there is tragedy. “And you can’t fight the tears
that ain’t coming, or the moment of truth in your lies.” This line is the
saddest part of the whole song. The reality of the two not being able to
be together suddenly hits. For reasons unknown, they can not be together,
and this is the worst possible thing that can happen to two people who are
in love. This is the part of the song that makes it so tragic.
“Iris” is one of the best songs I have ever heard. The words are
very powerful and it creates a very strong image of two people hopelessly
in love. So to me, both the love and the traged .....
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Sweeney Todd
.... It tells the story of Sweeney Todd.
Although what Sweeney Todd does is wrong, I did feel sorry for him.
He had lost his family and lost his mind also. Mrs. Lovett helped him for
two reasons. She needed the money and she fell in love with him.
I first saw this musical when I was very young. It is still one of
my favorites. George Hearn plays Sweeney Todd and his singing is great.
But it is Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett that I like best.
I would recommend this musical to anyone.
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Substance Abuse And Musicians
.... in this topic is not only because it can
hold my interest, but I also want to see if I can analyze some reasons for
turning to drugs. I am planning on majoring in psychology and I think this
is part of the whole analysis that psychologists like to use. It can be
kind of a practice for me. So I believe many rock stars “have it all,” so
to speak. They have both fame and fortune. My opinion is that everyone
has some type of greed inside them. Everyone wants the best at some point.
Rock stars often experiment with drugs and their greed gets their better
side. They have the money so then they can keep buying more potent and .....
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WoodStock Music Festival
.... to draw a much larger audience than expected. By the day
before the official opening, traffic jams miles long blocked most roads
leading to the area. On Friday, August 15, when the festival began, its
management was unable to watch the estimated 400,000 or more people coming
into and out of the field and decided to end admission fees. Sweetwater,
the band scheduled to open the festival, could not get to the site because
of the traffic, so folksinger Richie Havens, who was already there, began
the festival instead. As a result of the audience size, volunteers from
inside and out helped with any possible problems: Helicopters fle .....
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Louis Armstrong
.... he was sitting in with local bands. "He came
north to Chicago to join King Oliver in 1922 and made his first records
with Oliver the following April". (www.chimesblues.com) "Though Chicago
would be his base for the next 12 years, he went to New York for the first
time in September 1924 to join Fletcher Henderson's band and record
extensively with various blues singers, including Bessie Smith, as well as
with Clarence Williams and Sidney Bechet". (Trumpeter's tale: The Story of
Young Louis Armstrong)
"In November 1925 he was back in Chicago, where he began recording
under his own name and building the his work upon which his repu .....
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Elvis Aaron Presley
.... one billion records, more than any other artist. His American sales have earned him gold, platinum or multi-platinum awards for 131 different albums and singles, far more than any other artist. Among his many awards and accolades were 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received at age 36, and his being named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Jaycees. Without any of the special privileges his celebrity status might have afforded him, he honorably served his country in the U.S. Army.
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Changing Faces's All Day / All Night
.... R. Kelly also produced most of the songs on their previous album, Stroke you up.
On All Day/ All Night the songs are mainly about reflections of the title itself. The first side of the album, all day, are songs about falling in love and are in a major scale with a moderate beat. It gives you the feeling of day time, love, happiness, joy, tranquility etc. The second side of the album, all night, is songs about breaking up and heartache. It gives you feelings and emotions associated with nighttime, gloom, pain, sadness etc. The slow tempo of the songs adds to the dark feelings of the songs.
One song that illustrates my .....
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The Blues
.... of creating this beat was by separating the melodic line from the groundbeat, putting the two in rhythmic conflict. To do so, the musician would sing or play in a manner that emphasized the off beat. The second main innovation was the way musicians expressed rising emotions with falling pitch by bending or flattening certain notes with one’s voice or instruments. This technique produced “blue notes”, which were also practiced by the Akan people of Ghana. The final innovation Blues musicians practiced was the use of a variety of vocal techniques such as coarse gutter tones, slurs, and falsetto singing. Together these innovations ga .....
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Motown’s Evolution And With Emphasis On Its Women
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Berry Gordy was a featherweight boxer the 1950’s. Who would imagine that there could be such a transition from boxer to record company owner. He wrote that it was in the boxing gym that he saw a poster advertising the-battle-of-the-bands: Duke Ellington vs. Stan Kenton. Next to this poster was an advertisment for the battle-of-the-boxers who he did not name. Berry Gordy had been struggling with his future. Boxing vs. music. After staring at the posters, he noticed that the fighters were about twenty-three years old but looked fifty, and that the bandleaders were about fifty but looked twenty-three. He wrote “That d .....
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Jimi Hendrix And Jimmy Page
.... or a moan. He slung the guitar low over swiveling hips, or raised it to pick the strings with his teeth; he thrust it between his legs and did a bump and grind, crooning: 'oh, baby, come on now, sock it to me.'...For a symbolic finish, he lifted the guitar and flung it against the amplifiers." Time (April 25, 1968). His specialty became the way he used feedback, which up until now was an undesired sound. Using his guitar and the feedback it created, he was able to generate sounds which were used to his advantage in creating his unique style. This style is copied today by modern rock artists; however, this style is duplicated tod .....
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Coro Concert Experience
.... 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 Motets pour le temps de Noel, Jauchzet dem Herrn, Poor Man Lazrus, Celtic Hymn, and If I Got my ticket, can I ride, were the s .....
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