The Beatles
.... to grow musically. They had moved from simple lyrics like "Love me Do"
to harshly aware reflections of life in their home country in "Eleanor Rigby"2.
There were attempts, some more successful than others, to incorporate the
other Beatles into the idea stage. George Harrison made this leap successfully
with such tracks as "I want to tell you", "TAXMAN", and the psychedelic "Love
you to". Ringo was featured in the humorous "Yellow Submarine
As the group matured, their creativity began to rely more on the effects
and manipulations that they were able to produce in the studio. The Beatles
agreed to end their t .....
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The Beatles
.... Home of the Beatles". The Cavern Club, which's premises
comprised a small group of cellars below a seven story warehouse which had
originally been used as an air raid shelter during the war. Later, Alan Sytner,
a jazz fan decided to open it up as a new jazz club. After a few years, he sold
it to Ray McFall another jazz fan. The club was originally strictly jazz and no
rock. Luckily for the Beatles, the times were changing and McFall quickly
changed the policy the Beatles soon became regulars. This would be the club
that would make them famous.
News of the band's Liverpool popularity soon became know throughout England
and la .....
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The Beatles
.... 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 changed rock-and-roll from what is was, into
what it is today.
After 10 years of being together, in 1970, .....
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The Classical Period
.... in very full sounding
orchestral settings.
To satisfy the middle-class amateur, classic composers supplied a ton of
new chamber music for all imaginable combinations. The piano sonata became a
very important form of chamber music, especially after being refined by Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven. After 1765, the string quartet began to increasingly
dominate the chamber music field.
Unlike the concertos of the baroque period, the classic era mainly
emphasized the solo concerto. The choice of solo instrument, however, was
somewhat broader then in the baroque era. There was more of a trend during the
classical period towards keyboar .....
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The Consumer And The Gimmick
.... the box, take out the toy, throw away the
contents, and then bitch about being hungry. When we do this we always say,
"It's a cool song, but they are a one hit wonder." We the hungry consumer do
not give the bands a chance to show their true musical talents. One example
involves the group Verve Pipe and their hit song "The Freshman." This songs LP
was out in December. No one noticed it until halfway through the month of
March. "The Freshman" was played every thirty minutes on the radio and fifteen
times a day on MTV. This in my opinion results in the complete overplay of one
bands hit song. Now we consider them a "One h .....
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The Grateful Dead
.... owner at
the store where Jerry taught banjo and Pig Pen worked,provided the money and
equipment for them to become electric. After they had become electric they
renamed the group the Warlocks. Dawson and Matthews were soon to leave and they
were replaced by drummer Bill Sommers (Krentemann) and Phil Lesh, who was a
trumpet player who learned to play bass guitar in a very amazing two weeks just
to get the spot. This completes the now familiar Dead line up. The Warlocks
played their first concert in July 1965 and they played pretty straight rock and
roll music until the "acid tests." In early 1965 a state hospital in the Palo
Alt .....
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The History Of Jazz
.... were eager for their music
in the cities of the North and the Midwest. In the 1920s Chicago became the
second major jazz center. White Chicago youths, such as tenor saxophonist Bud
Freeman and clarinetist Benny Goodman, were excited by the New Orleans masters
including the thrilling Louis Armstrong, who played in King Oliver's band.
The third major jazz center was New York City, and it became the most important.
In New York, pianists such as James P. Johnson created the piano style by
transforming rags and Southern black folk dances into jazz. Jazz was first
played in the ballrooms and theaters of New York.
Louis Armstrong was .....
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The Ideals Of Instrumental Music
.... term,
is music associated with poetic, descriptive, and even narrative subject
matter. This is done not by means of musical figures imitating natural sounds
and movements, but by imaginative suggestion. Program music aimed to absorb
and transmit the imagined subject matter in such a way that the resulting work,
although "programmed", does not sound forced, and transcends the subject matter
it seeks to represent. Instrumental music thus became a vehicle for the
utterance of thoughts which, although first hinted in words, may ultimately be
beyond the power of words to fully express.
Practically every composer of the era was .....
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The Roots Of Blues Music
.... singing which was usually played in bars called barrel
houses.
The first country blues that was written and published was "Memphis Blues"
by W.C. Handy in the early 1900's.
The first recorded blues was " Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith in 1915.
Most country blues were played with an acoustic guitar and with someone
singing. It also has a definite call and response between the voice and guitar.
Guitars were used because they had a broad range of notes, they were
portable, affordable, and they were permitted by slave owners at that time. The
slave owners didn't permit drums because they thought the drums could be used to
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The Singing School: An American Tradition
.... Psalm Book, published in
1698, was the first edition published with tunes. This edition had printed the
letters F-S-L-M, representing the solmization syllables fa, sol, la, and mi,
under the notes. This indicates that there was a familiarity with and an
interest in music instruction as applied to psalmody.
It was not until the early 18th century, however, that as a direct
result of agitation by ministers for a reformation in congregational singing,
arguments were advanced promoting regular singing and the eventual establishment
of singing schools.
The singing school grew out of the employment by the churches in New
England of reg .....
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The Verve Pipe: The Freshman - Analysis
.... everything worked out, everything planned. This was kind of
the story between this girl and guy. The girl was stubborn and no matter how
many people told her she was wrong in here was, she though she knew everything.
Nothing bad could ever happen to her. She kept doing what she was doing and she
died. The Boyfriend is weeping over her death but convinces himself there was
nothing he could have done. She knew everything and it was her choice, why
would she take anyone's advice ? After all she was the one to fall in love. A
week is all it took to get over, but how could everything be going so right then
take a U turn for t .....
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The Way It Really Was!
.... WINS. His nick name “moondog” had to be dropped. He adopted the new title “
the king of rock and roll”. Newspapers ran articles saying Alan was the main
wrongdoer in creating Rock and Roll. A riot broke out at one of Alan Freed's
concert. The police turned up the house lights to see what the teenagers were
doing and Alan said something and the teens went on a rampage. Alan was to
blame. He was charged but when the manager at WINS didn't stand behind him,
Alan left and went to WABC. The charges were later dropped. Because of all of
the court appearances, Alan filed for bankruptcy in 1959. In 1960, Alan was
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