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  • Basic Love Songs Blues Songs
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    George Gershwin's "The ultimate collection" George Gershwin's "The ultimate collection", is a compilation of Gershwin's greatest hits. The compilation is made out of two CD's; the first cd is Gershwins pieces sung by different jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and more... The second cd, is Gerswhin's famous pieces taken from musical shows such as Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban overture, Funny face and more. First Cd: The cd starts with the song "Strike u...
  • First Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Music
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    I have chosen to write about negative music and its effect on human behavior. I will trace the history of this type of music and discuss some studies which point out effects of listening to it. What is negative music? Negative music is music that has a negative effect. One form of negative music is music that is used to express or to stimulate negative emotions. A Viennese classical composer named Arnold Schonberg was the first person to openly create negative music early in the twentieth centur...
  • Known Appalachian Song Writers Musicians And Singers
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    Appalachian Musicians And Singers and The Songs They Write Growing up in Appalachia and around its music has made a great impact only life. I can remember, as if it were yesterday sitting on grandpa's front porch with my family singing along with Hillbilly songs on the radio. Alongwith entertaining the music eased the tensions of living a meager existence in Appalachia. By relating with these song writers and the stories in there songs we somehow find our life less tedious and more bearable. Mos...
  • Piece Of Good Quality Music
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    Good quality music What is good quality music The answer to this question would have to come from asking an individual rather than looking it up in a Webster's dictionary. Various factors influence this decision such's sex, age, race or background. One would argue if quality music is objective or subjunctive. Popularity or the intellectual level of a piece of music often ponders people perception about music quality. Alan Jackson is a country music super star who in which over the years of his m...
  • Cure The Song
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    "The final years of the 1970's saw the emergence of a new style of pop music that would continue in popularity into the early 1980's. This music was known, by its fans at that time, as New Wave" (web). "New Wave " had a particular style that utilized the synthesizer as a main instrument. The synthesizer was a machine that electronically produced music. It gave a certain artificial and metallic feel to the music. The Cure and Erasure, bands formed during that period of time, were some of the band...
  • Civil War Songs
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    The War Between the States was complex. If you wish to understand the events, you should refer to a textbook. Music of the time, however, helps us delve into people's thoughts and opinions on the war, slavery, and many other important issues in our country's history. Prior to the civil war, American music followed its European roots. During the civil war, American music began to develop in its own way, largely influenced by the music of the African-Americans. The war produced many well-known son...
  • Song The Artist
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    Music is the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity, as explained in the Webster's Dictionary. But music is much more than sounds, tones, and combinations. Music can contain messages of peace, wrong doings, world hunger, or problems with the government. Both rap artist and country singers write music about experiences and lifestyles and a large number of people enjoy the feelings...
  • Their Own Music On Napster
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    THE GREAT NAPSTER Napster is innovative file-sharing software that lets an online community of music lovers trade MP 3 files free of charge. You search for a song by name, and a list of people who have it pops up and you can choose whomever you want to get it from, and in addition, you can see and download any other songs that they may have in their files. We feel like it is a good thing because it does have some positive aspects: it's good for finding older music that isn't in production anymor...
  • Soft Music
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    Why do people walk down a busy city street ignoring others and not talking? Why are they ignorant to the homeless asking for change just to survive? And why do cross walk signs become life savers? I can tell you what's wrong with these people, music. Music works wonders for anyone and everyone. There is no way around music. It is everywhere and playing at all times. From people blasting music with twelve inch subwoofers in their car driving past on the street to the proud parents of a newborn pl...
  • Actual Music Of A Song
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    You see a girl sobbing so hard you can't hear her actually crying, and she's looking up with her wet eyes and holding her arms up in the air. You can only imagine what is wrong with her. I can tell you what's wrong with her, Music. This is what music does to people and I love it for that. Music makes people feel good inside so much that it might even hurt. In this essay I will talk about music; how it makes you feel, why, and why I love music in all forms. Music can make you feel great. The lyri...
  • Ewe Culture And Their Music
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    The music culture model can be used to view music not as a part of culture, but culture as a part of music, which gives a better understanding to outsiders trying to comprehend another society's music. The first component of the music culture model is ideas about music; this topic is subdivided into music and the belief system, aesthetics of music, context, and history. The second aspect is activities involving music in that culture. The third facet is repertories of music, which includes styles...
  • Gospel Music In Churches
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    Gospel Music Gospel music is considered to have begun in the United States, sometime in the nineteenth century. The first time that appeared in print was in 1874. The English term "gospel" translates to the meaning of good news, or a joyous message. This is a form of American religious music. A lot of its origin is from the Christian conversions of West Africans who were enslaved in the American south. Gospel music gradually developed partly from the songs that slaves sang while they were workin...
  • Dylans Song House Of The Risin Sun
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    In order to understand the song House of the Risin Sun we need first to have a short look at Bob Dylan and his music. Bob Dylan was born in 1941 in Minnesota. He was a regular child and he became interested in music only while being in high school, when he learned to play piano and guitar. From these basic musical skills, Dylan constantly acquiring new knowledge and experience in music has grown to be the master of folk music in the period of rock expansion. It is a big achievement to successful...
  • Thoughts Words Writing Emotions Music Notation
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    Music was born in order for people to express their inner most emotion of which language could try to, but not fully describe. In having this ability to express raw emotion, I believe music is a form of language. "Speech expresses passion only by means of the ideas to which the feelings are linked, as if by reflection. Musical sound and gesture reach the heart directly without any deviation... Music cannot be meta lingual, because a song cannot say specifically what the language in music is. I b...
  • Song Back
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    Stand By Me Stand By Me, is a film written in 1986, that focuses on the two day journey of four best friends. The music in the film is one that is mostly song scoring. The music in this film was chosen very well. It was even pop song scoring. This movie has two main examples of music that I would like to point out, starting with moodsetting, it then moves to song scoring. This film uses moodsetting very well, in the very beginning, Gordie, one of the stars, sits in his car as an old man. In the ...
  • Today's Techno Music
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    Have you ever heard the saying "disco is dead"? Well, if you have it is a big fat lie. Disco has survived the eighties and evolved through the nineties. Now disco is everywhere in the new millennium. Yes, disco is alive and well in the music of today. Today's techno music embodies the beat, fashion, lyrics, and infectiousness of disco music. The format between disco and techno are not that far apart. The beat is similar in repetitions and progressions. Though some disco songs were slow, most of ...
  • Music With Artistic Communication
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    What is your favorite song? What type of music speaks to you? Music has been used to mean various things from "a pleasing sound" to "a printed document showing how a piece is to be performed". I think defining music is as difficult as defining art. Because just as art has many meanings. So does music. Everyone has their on interpretation about music. What is the definition? , music is a versatile form of communication. Music is all around us. We hear it on the radio, television, and in stores. W...
  • Good Songs And Lyrics In Popular Music
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    Popular music is music that is enjoyed by the largest possible audience. It includes country music, folk music, rhythm and blues, jazz and rock'n'roll. Many things happened in the 1920's. First of all, radio was beginning to gain much power. Most of the songs of the 1920's were considered proper. There were also the conventional songs with ballads and old-fashioned waltzes. Overall, in that time where good songs and lyrics in popular music with much emphasis on the musical stage. Jazz had much m...
  • Criminal Penalties For The Downloading Music
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    The Plummet of Music Sales The copyright laws that have been established to protect the entertainment industry are the cause for many lawsuits against internet downloaders. The law states, "It is against U.S. and international laws to copy an original work created without permission". Napster and other file sharing or music swapping programs provide available music files for download, which is illegal under copyright laws. As a result of this music downloading, the downloading industry becomes m...
  • Rhythm And Music
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    Have you ever attempted to watch a television program with the volume on mute or tried to read someone's lips as they were talking to you from across the room? Sounds, moreover rhythm and music, are very important to human beings. Imagine a life where you could not hear your favorite song or listen to your favorite band. Music is one of the strongest forms of communication that we have because you may not be able to understand the words that are spoken but you can still read the notes of the mus...

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