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Of McLachlans Songs
1,123 wordsIt is apparent that female music in Canada is a growing industry, and plays a very controversial role in Canadian society. Canada is a land of many ethnic backgrounds and an extremely diverse culture, one of the best ways to express culture is through music. Sarah McLachlan has enjoyed worldwide success with the album Surfacing, and more recently Mirror ball. The album titled Surfacing was released in 1997 and features a song called Building a Mystery. Building a Mystery clearly exemplifies the ...
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Cool Song
653 wordsWhen I sat down to do a Listening report last night, I started thinking, 'Who am I kidding?'. I am never going to push myself to listen to 15 Jazz CD's in a week and a half, so Iam going to do the remainder of my listening reports on music that I like to listen to. You may think it defeats the purpose of listening reports, but that's not true. What these guys play may sound like heavily distorted noise, and too much yelling played at way too high of volumes to the average adult, and honestly, it...
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Continual Survival Of Gospel Music
2,414 wordsAfrican American religious music is the foundation of all contemporary forms of so called "black music". African American religious music has been a fundamental part of the black experience in this country. This common staple of the African American experience can be traced back to the cruel system of slavery. It then evolved into what we refer to today as gospel music. The goal of this paper is to answer three main questions. What are the origins of African American religious music? How did thi...
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Rap Song And Country Music
1,256 wordsOver the Rhine It is a rare occurrence in today's over-amplified, bass-kicking sound world to leave a concert feeling as if you actually heard the music. Over the Rhine provided one of those concerts on Thursday October 2nd at Birdys Bar and Grill in Indianapolis. My personal congratulations to the sound guy, who's mixing allowed the audience to really hear all the different layers of music and different instrumentation really being played. Another rare occurrence; real songwriters and musicians...
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Example Of McCain's View On Life
671 wordsAs you sit back and listen to Edwin McCain's first album, Honor Among The ives, McCain's incorporation of all kinds of music such as rock, pop, jazz, and blues will surely amaze you. This is consistant with his second album Misguided Roses, which incorporates the same standards. These two albums provide a great mix of acoustic rock with a hint of jazz and blues. McCain was successful with his first album which included the hit song "Solitude". He was even more successful with his more recent alb...
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July Of 1997 Reel Big Fish
785 wordsWords = 740 Turn The Radio Off Reel Big Fish is a ska / punk band from Orange County California that came into the music scene after the success of the other bands No Doubt and Sublime. They broke into the music scene during the summer of 1997, when their single "Sell Out" became modern rock radio and an MTV favorite. Reel Big Fish was originally a trio made of a vocalist / guitarist Aaron Barrett, bassist Matt Wong and drummer Andrew Gonzales. At that time the band was a rock band. After many m...
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Instrumental Music
1,220 wordsThe music of India is one of the oldest unspoken musical traditions in the world. The basis of for Indian music is". " Sang eet is a combination of three art forms: vocal music, instrumental music (Indian music). Indian music is base upon seven modes (scales). It is probably no coincidence that Greek music is also base upon seven modes. Furthermore, the Indian scales follow the same process of modulation that was found in ancient Greek music. Since Greece is also Indo-European, this is another p...
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Popular Form Of Music
380 wordsThe strongest composers of the fifteenth century were primarily located in the north. So the best musicians tended to come from countries like France, England, and Germany. Since Florence was an "international headquarters" it had strong commercial links with the north. This made it very easy to trade ideas and because of this a new musical expression made its way to Italy. The frottola was a popular form of music that was primarily developed in Florence. It was a setting of an entertaining or s...
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Temptation Songs
568 wordsThe Legends In Life An Artist or group's talent can be defined by the way the listener is pulled into the music. Writing about fundamental emotions to a compound condition that happened in the past, the artist must grasp the listener and wrap them into a nostalgic trance from the lyrics. The type of lyrics that can convey the reader into the past, present, or future time. The Temptations has mastered this talent. From their time to the present day, the Temptation's music can still be looked upon...
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Variety Of Musical Texture Throughout The Concert
602 wordsJazz is the kind of music that makes me want to do one of two things. Depending on the mood of the jazz, sometimes I feel like relaxing and just listening to the music and letting it run through me. Other times I feel like getting up and dancing as if I have not a care in the world. The jazz concert I attended on at SLO Brewing Company on October 6, 2001 inspired me to do both of these due to the variety used by the musicians in dynamic, rhythm, tempo, and many other aspects of music. The group ...
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Choral Development Of Negro Folk Song
1,689 wordsNegro Spirituals Spirituals, a religious folk song of American origin, particularly associated with African-American Protestants of the southern United States. The African-American spiritual, characterized by syncopation, poly rhythmic structure, and the pentatonic scale of five whole tones, is, above all, a deeply emotional song. Spirituals are really the most characteristic product of the race genius as yet in America. But the very elements which make them uniquely expressive of the Negro make...
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Typical Metal Song
607 words"Anarchists of Good Taste" What do you think of when I say this for a band name, Dog Fashion Disco You never heard of them, have you There a Five piece band from Washington DC, who are signed with Spitfire Records. Their lineup consists of Jeff Siegel / keyboards, Stephen Mears / bass, Tod Smith / vocals /guitar, John Ensminger / drums, and Greg Combs / guitar. Their new CD, "Anarchist of Good Taste", was produced by Drew Manzurek and was released on March 6, 2001. Their type music is a genre of...
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Misbehavin Musical
576 wordsAin't Misbehavin' Musical by "Fats" Waller The general admission for the musical was $51.00 plus tax; however, it was college night so the admission was $10.00 plus tax for college students. There was an estimate of two hundred and fifty people who attended Ain't Misbehavin. The performance ran for two hours with one fifteen-minute intermission. Lastly, the starting date was on March 21, 2003, and the ending date is May 25, 2003 for the musical. Ain't Misbehavin' was conceived and originally dir...
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Celerio
378 wordsLEVI Celerio, National Artist in Music and Literature, passed away yesterday afternoon at the Delgado Memorial Hospital in Quezon City due to cardiac arrest and multiple organ failure just 28 days from his 92nd birthday. Acknowledged as the dean of Filipino lyricists, Celerio was known for writing the words to classic songs that tugged at the Filipino heartstrings and resonated in the collective memory. His works include such instantly recognizable hits as "Ang Pipit,"Ang Pasko ay Suma pit,"Kapa...
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Music In The Freedom Songs
668 wordsThe 50's and 60's were a time of a nation torn by conflicts: the war in Vietnam and a racial war raging sometimes in the streets. Music played a large role in both of these conflicts. The musical expression of this era allowed an individual voice to speak out, often on issues that challenged the status quo. For people of all colors committed to racial justice, the 60's were a time of hope. They said you could hear it in the music: in the freedom songs that dominated marches throughout the south....
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One Example Of A Band
1,044 wordsPopular music today has been greatly enhanced by modern technology and is much different from say the music fifty years ago. From my own experience I have discovered that pop music is highly popular among young teenagers or old children whereas I have found that punk rock or heavy metal is usually the older teenagers choice. But of coarse there are exceptions to my beliefs. When we talk about charts we must understand that now-days there are an infinite number of charts around and we must not ge...
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Musical As Selma
2,307 wordsLife is sometimes rugged and gloomy that makes us feel frustrated. We always complain about the society or the people around us. We give up easily when we have difficulties in our lives. We despair when we separate from our lovers. The world becomes dark and hopeless when our lives are clustered with many nasty elements, like tiredness, depression, failure or poverty, etc. But what we often choose is to shun the harsh facts. However, despite these bad elements, life can still be made beautiful i...
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Punk Rock Music
929 wordsWhat does punk-rock taste like? Normally clean vocals that are easily understood, and etched into your skull because of their carefree wording. Drums that beat down in a melodic way, keeping everything bright and powerful. The guitar screams, but walks through the melody cautiously on other parts. The bass slaps its way through the song as well, giving the song some meat to chew on. For many people they shrug off the idea of listening to punk-rock mainly because it is different than other forms ...
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Rap Artists Need
898 wordsSome Rap Music is Pornography Webster's 10th Edition Dictionary defines pornography as " the depiction of erotic behavior intended to cause sexual excitement" page 570. My personal definition is any elicit photograph, story, drawing, song, phrase or words used to incite sexual fantasy. Also, pornography creates lust or demeans the God-given act of love or the human body! Therefore some rap music is pornography. The intent of the artist is determined immediately with the title of the song and set...
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Genre Of Contemporary Christian Music
1,165 wordsIn much the same way that African American novelists have entered "into the literate public sphere" through slave narratives, Christian musicians have broken into the popular music scene through Contemporary Christian music. According to Madhu Dubey in "The Politics of Genre in Beloved", African-American writers must relate traditions of their own culture through a form of literary writing that is not their own (Dubey 3). Similarly Contemporary Christian artists proclaim their message through se...
