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Madonna's Version
648 wordsBye Bye, Miss American Pie. Hello, Madonna "Bye Bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry"American Pie", sung by Don McLean, was originally released in 1971. The song was written as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper who died tragically in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. "American Pie" not only pays homage to three talented musicians, but also serves as an allegory to the history of music. Although the original song was written about ...
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Frank Ticheli Publisher
701 wordsKarl L. King Karl L. King's distinguished career as a bandmaster, prolific composer and musician made him a legend in his own lifetime. All who knew him remember his quick wit and sense of humor. Karl joined Robinson's Famous Circus at the age of 19 as a baritone player. He joined the circus world at a time when the acts were in great need of a special music since the standard music did not fit. Karl King was a master at writing music to match the rhythm of the acts. He quickly rose to leadershi...
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Written After George
538 wordsGeorge Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz on September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. George began his professional career in 'Tin Pan Alley,' a location in New York City where aspiring composers and songwriters would bring their scores to a publisher trying to sell the tunes for cash. Two years after he started work for Jerome Re mick, George had his first song published. 'When You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em' was not an instantly famous, but it did begin to attract the attention of some of the...
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Meet Me In St Louis
960 wordsThe Aspect of Sound in Meet Me In St. Louis In 1904 Eugene Lau ste successfully recorded sound onto a piece of photographic film. This invention was known as a "Sound Grate" the results where still far to crude to be used to public display. The cameras used to film "The Talkies" as they where known, had to be kept in enormous soundproof casing. This immediately hindered directors creativity and made movies such as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) much more rigid. Because of the fascination with the l...
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Music Via Mp 3's
783 wordsThe advancements in technology haven't only improved how we work, it has also improved how we play. There is a whole new aspect of entertainment being developed by this technology. Not only are video games reaching new highs, but there are also new types of entertainment emerging. There are now new ways to listen to music, via MP 3's. MP 3 is "Shorthand for Moving Picture Experts Group-1, Audio Layer-3" (Isenberg). MP 3's are files that are compacted and able to be downloaded. They contain songs...
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Complete Overplay Of One Bands Hit Song
1,257 wordsThe Consumer and the Gimmick Today there are many factors that hurt the music industry. One factor involves the way we push musicians into allowing the industry to popularize one good song thus forgetting the rest of the album. We the consumers have somehow been satisfied with just one good song from one mediocre band. Perhaps there isa simple formula for disaster. First the song is played on the radio and then the video is constantly on MTV, thus causing us to get tired of the music. It " sas e...
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Musical Ability
460 wordsThe Roget's dictionary describes the denotation of virtuoso as "A musician with masterly ability, technique, or personal style". To me, virtuoso means someone with musical ability that goes beyond the technical aspect of his trade, and excels at conveying emotion in his music. There are a lot of musicians out there who can sing and play really well, and even some that write their own songs. Most of them, however, either perform songs that have already been sung, or try to copy the techniques of ...
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Redemption Songs
648 wordsBob Marley Bob marley was borne February 6th 1945. He was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, a pioneer of Jamaican reggae music. Probably Considered one of the greatest artists of the genre, he was the first Jamaican reggae performer to achieve significant international stardom. He was born in Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Marley was learning the welding trade in Kingston when he formed his first band group, the Rude boys, in 1961. The group later became known as the Wailers...
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Offensive Music
1,107 wordsJason Thomas Free Speech or Just Offensive? A highly debated topic as of late has been the staggering rise of offensive language and topics of the music industry, which have infiltrated through. Should the artists of this music be punished for corrupting the minds of the people who listen to it? Or should the musician's rights be protected by the first amendment? The main problem to be seen is that this music has become extremely popular to the youth. With this popularity comes blow after blow f...
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Effect Of Music On The Mind
912 wordsThe Doctrine of Ethos states that music effects character and emotion of man by way of morals or ethics. It was arranged into certain scales, each with a certain characteristic. Specific scales were said to be able to inspire rage or sadness. Some were said to inspire happiness, and one was even said to weaken the mind due to its simplicity. Greek music, of which the Doctrine of Ethos specifically talked about, wasn't just solely instrumental. Improvising, they usually incorporated lyrics and ev...
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Variations In Ashlee's Songs
975 wordsMusic Ashlee Simpson The name of the performer was Ashlee Simpson. The date of the concert was on Saturday January. 8th, 2005. This concert took place at The Mall of America. This was Ashlee's first concert in Minnesota and her first time at The Mall of America. The setting was a small stage set up at a big open area in the mall. It was a circular area. Also there were three floors you could see the stage from. This concert was not a concert that you had to buy tickets for. You could just come t...
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Rock Culture And Protest Music
751 wordsVietnam: Americas First Rock-and-Roll War The Vietnam War could not compare to any other war the United States had seen before. The average age of soldiers was 19, and some figures gather that 90 percent were all under the age of 23. This was also the first war in which the GIs listened to antiwar and protest songs while fighting in the conflict. In previous wars, the music had always been supportive, more or less hiding the truth of what was really going on. With Vietnam it actually told the so...
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My Song Against The Music Industry
814 wordsSomething takes a part of me. Something lost and never seen. Every time I start to believe, Something's raped and taken from me... from me. Life's got to always be messing with me. (You wanna see the light) Can't they chill and let me be free (So do I) Can't I take away all this pain. (You wanna see the light) I try to every night, all in vain... in vain. Sometimes I cannot take this place. Sometimes it's my life I can't taste. Sometimes I cannot feel my face. You " ll never see me fall from gra...
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Public And Critical Attention For Ives's Music
664 wordsBorn in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1874, Charles Ives pursued what is perhaps one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical careers in American music history. Businessman by day and composer by night, Ives's vast output has gradually brought him recognition as the most original and significant American composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, Ives sought a highly personalized musical expression through the most innovative and radical ...
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Known As Tagore Songs
1,109 wordsRabindranath Tagore is India's greatest modern poet. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Git anjali, a collection of poems where he put his thoughts with imagination, deeply religious emotion and love of nature and his homeland. He was a great educator and philosopher as well as a major dramatist and novelist. His poems captured the heart of his native Bengal, and all of India; and when he traveled to the West, his acceptance as one of the finest writers of the world w...
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Lyrics Of Rap Songs
1,976 words"I'll make you suck it / Maybe I'll put a hole in your head / you know, just for the f of it" (Nine Inch Nails quoted in Rauch). Vulgar... ? Obscene... ? Offensive... ? Irrelevant... ? Profane... ? OR absolutely indispensable? Appealing beats, a layered chorus and most importantly a good lyrical flow is very essential in good music. But a hindrance in the lyrical flow by the American censor board leads to a lot of complication. Therefore, I sturdily believe that lyrics of rap songs should not be...
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Does Media Cause Violent Behavior
780 wordsWho doesn't love climbing into the car and catching one of their favorite songs just as it begins or waking up to an alarm clock singing that one song that helps to spring you out of bed and into the day? It affects everyone. It makes us excited or it could make us cry. Whether songs contain happy, sad, violent, sexual or vulgar lyrics, it affects one's mood in both a positive or negative way. Lyrics have become gradually more explicit over the past several decades and contain dangerous messages...
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Final Example Of Patriotism In Country Music
1,494 wordsCountry Salutes Red, White, and Blue Whether the song is one of war-time, peace, or just plain admiration and love for America, country music has always set an ideology of patriotism. One reason country music does this is because it represents a class of America that has historically set a precedent of pride in America. This would be the working class, also known as the backbone of America. These are the Americans that work hard in their jobs and in their lives. Everything they own they have giv...
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Order For Their Culturally Significant Song
1,354 wordsWe live in an era in which music is one of the most powerful forces available to those wanting to initiate social change. Music is a medium for philosophy, which potentially spreads very quickly from culture to culture, especially today with the internet, and the growing popularity among mainstream audiences for multi-cultural music. More and more, mainstream music is becoming eclectic of many culturally different kinds of music, as "through the conduits of commercial culture, music made by aggr...
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Beasts Of England From Animal Farm
435 words"Beasts Of England' From Animal Farm Essay", Beasts Of England' From Animal Farm "The Beasts of England' is all about animals coming together and joining each other for a common cause. The cause is revolting, taking over mankind, and overruling the humans. At first, Mr. Jones and the farmers pay no mind to the singing. Slowly, they start becoming a bit worried, but don't show it. Finally, after the animals run Mr. Jones out of his own farm and create animal farm, they really start to get worried...
