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Long Song
577 wordsThe Problems With The Music Industry Today It's 1: 15 am on Saturday, August Xt, and I lay semi-conscious in North Carolina, being pumped full of shit by the good people at MTV. Total Request Live is on and they re playing the Number One video Britney Spear's Lucky. I ve heard this song millions of times before (two younger sisters) but this time something went off in my head (it's funny how that tends to happen in the wee morning hours). Perhaps I should explain something first a close friend o...
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Free Music From The Internet
732 wordsThe Napster Revolution Have you ever listened to your favorite song on the radio and recorded it I remember when I would sit next to the radio and listen to it for hours at-a-time, just so that I could record my favorite songs off the radio. Now with computers and the Internet, I would go all over the Internet to look for songs, but only some of the time I was successful. Then I ran into a program called Napster, which made my music search much easier. Have you ever download free music off the I...
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Certain Music Concert
1,660 wordsThe Music Made Me Do It Music has a huge impact on the everyday lives of individuals in America today. It is an important part of the sociological self, which causes a person to feel and act in a certain manner. Sensual guitar playing, a suggestive song, hard rock power chords, or a tune from the past are all highly powerful forces in shaping one's actions. I have taken a particular interest in the way that different genres of music affect student's actions at this university. This paper will ta...
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Middle Ages Music
351 wordsThe middle ages, (450-1450), after the Roman empire fell this was a time of great change through chaos. The later part of the middle ages brought a period of growth with religious structures and universities. Most of society in the beginning of this era was influenced by the Roman Catholic church. During the middle ages the Roman Catholic church official music was the Gregorian chant, named after Pope Gregory I. This music was sung without instruments, set to sacred Latin texts. It was without m...
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Aesthetics Of Pop Music
637 words"It All Sounds The Same These Days!" In just about every home in America at just about any given time the words: "It all sounds the same these days!" is uttered to a teenage child, while the mother is screaming "Turn it down!" in the background. The teenager storms to his bedroom and turns the radio up to full volume and thinks, "They just don't get it!" Then proceeds to dance around the room singing into the hairbrush. This is the pleasure principal of pop music. Whether accredited to innocence...
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Music Companies F Attention And Napster
1,459 wordsHave you dreamed that you could get your favorite artist fs songs such as Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, and Beatles without any payment The dream has come true: Napster, an online music sharing soft. It enables its users to download music files through the Internet, which means that as long as one music lover has a computer and connection to the Internet, the music lover can get popular songs, classical music, and even national anthems. One CD costs about fifteen dollars, but Napster does not re...
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Musical Play
719 wordsLes Miserables known in English as "The Terrible" is a musical portrayal of the French Revolution. It is a musical tragedy, which served as a major powerhouse competitor for Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals in the early eighties and nineties. When first debuting on Broadway in 1987 it traveled a long hard road to compete with musicals of the decade. However, in time many well-known performers were proud to associate themselves with this wonderful work of art. The musical play begins with its lead cha...
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Five Different Song Lyrics Of My Generation
1,031 wordsThe Music of Generation X Since the beginning of time the human beings have adored the soothing sounds of music. Music has affected the way people have behaved and dressed throughout different periods of time. Different groups have been formed based upon their preference in music. Take for an example in the music of my generation, Generation X, there are several different groups oriented by music. In Generation X punks, gangs, alternative people, ravers, hippies, and pop rockers have all been la...
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Music Files
474 wordsComputer Network Support A type of technology that will impact the future is downloading music from the Internet onto your hard drive. This will impact because almost everyone has a computer with the Internet and the ones that don't will probably end up getting one because they " re so useful. This form of getting music might make CD's and cassette tapes obsolete eventually. Along with the Internet, more and more computers are getting CD burning devices with them or if the computer doesn't have ...
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Song In A Movie And Mr Coppola
1,411 wordsNondiegetic music of the Doors in the scene waiting in Saigon Sound plays a significant part in all movies and one of the most interesting of all the sound techniques would be the use of music. In the movie Apocalypse Now, there is a double disc soundtrack with thirty tracks on it. The one song on there that has the most meaning would The Doors song "The End". This song not only set the mood for the scene waiting in Saigon and the move as a whole but is also used to foreshadow the death of Coron...
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Music
312 wordsTaking a trip to the local music store to purchase the latest CD of favorite artists is becoming a thing of the past. I used to love going to a music store to browse through different CD's and genres but now with a computer and the internet, why waste time and gas dollars to make that trip. "Today over 56 percent of American homes have a computer". Like music, everything and anything can be bought conveniently through a personal computer with internet access and people are buying more than ever....
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Two Country Music Awards
1,304 wordsWhen country music began in America, there were no professional musicians. The typical musician sang only to entertain himself, his family or at local events. There is evidence of square dance-like events as far back as the 1830's (with origins in European country dancing). At first, most country music was either sung by itself or played on a lone fiddle or banjo. A good fiddler was a very popular person and was often asked to perform at events ranging from weddings to cattle drives. There was n...
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Listeners Of Today's Music To Fascists
1,662 wordsStanley Crouch's essay "Hooked" is about the music of today. He talks throughout the essay mainly about Michael Jackson, and his music and image. He talks about Jackson throughout the years, from the beginning of his career as a member of the Jackson Five, up until the release of his latest record HIStory. Crouch goes on to say in his essay that today's music is mainly about going against authority, and can be compared to Hitler's Fascism. He also talks about how many people today listen to musi...
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Ringtone Version Of Rapper 50 Cent's Song
490 wordsSeptember 14, 2004 WSJ #1"Music Industry Struggles to Get Cell phone's Numbers" There is a new trend bringing together cell phones and digital music called ringtones. These ringtones are customized ringers that a customer can download directly to their cell phone. This business has seen quick and expansive growth in the past 2 years and is expected to grow for at least a couple more years. Initially cell phones came with just a handful of default ringers the user could choose from, but now they ...
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Hamerlinck's Poor Choice In Music
1,028 wordsWhat would happen if you found out that a certain type of food was bad for you; would you stop eating it? Similarly, if you found out a certain type of music was bad for you; would you stop listening to it? Wouldn't you need proof before you make a decision? John Hamerlinck, a freelance writer in St. Cloud, Minnesota uses this article, "Killing Women: A Pop-Music Tradition", to make his major point of how popular music is the most common link to violence (241). Hamerlinck voices his concern on t...
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Most Popular Wedding Song
547 wordsThis is about a song, by the name of "Canon in D" composed by a German Pianist and Composer Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706). In musical terms, Canon is a composition in which each voice or part takes up the melody in turn and when combined, forms counterpoint as in singing rounds. It's melody is simple but very beautiful because of it's own style with the very simple and sweet harmony. It does have a lovely main theme. Pachelbel composed this song for violins. First the bass lays down a simple rhyt...
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Kamba Dances Drums
2,072 wordsIntroduction and background information. For every kind of music there is a culture behind it. Rarely does music develop out of nothing. Culture means the general way of life of a particular people. This includes how they led their lives, how they related to each other, how they related with their neighbors and the like. It also includes what they infer about religion, the supernatural and also about their origin. All this reflects in the kind of music they create. Music just like culture is not...
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John's Song
646 wordsFlip through the radio dial today and you will hear all kinds of music. From classical to country and hard rock to oldies, the all have something a little different to offer the listener. Any music in popular culture today serves as a medium for self-expression. Hip Hop artist Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers) is notorious for sharing his views on murder, drugs, and sexuality through his lyrics. Many people can relate to him through his songs, but others take offense, calling his music "repulsive an...
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Music From The Internet
1,026 wordsEveryday millions of kids are committing theft in broad daylight. Their parents don't care, they " re stealing too, or asking their children to do it for them. No one tries to hide it and no one calls it stealing. People who wouldn't shoplift a stick of gum or take more than one newspaper from a street rack think nothing of stealing music. This is an issue that is rocking the music industry and cannot continue if we, as listeners, want to hear new songs and new artists. By now, most people know ...
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Writer Co Publisher
725 wordsWhat Not to Miss When Negotiating Your Publishing Contract, By Lloyd J. Jass in, Esq. Visit: [1] What are the major types of publishing agreements out there? The seven (7) basic music publishing contracts are: (1) Single Song Agreement: A single song deal is an agreement between the writer and the music publisher in which the writer grants certain rights to a publisher for one or more songs. In single song deals, the writer is paid a one-time recoupable advance. (2) Exclusive Song Writer Agreeme...
