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Barbers Songs For Solo Voice
654 wordsSAMUEL BARBER Samuel Barber's music, wonderfully crafted and built on romantic structures and sensibilities, is at once lyrical, rhythmically complex and also harmonically rich. Samuel Barber born, March 9, 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He wrote his first piece at age seven and attempted his first opera at age ten. At the age of fourteen he entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied voice, piano and composition. Later he studied conducting with Fritz Reine...
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Their Nations Folksongs And Music
1,818 wordsMusic has been a powerful force throughout history. Its power has affected all aspects of peoples lives. The ideas and attitudes people have toward their country can easily be seen in their music. While music in the early part of the modern era (1400-1900) served to promote patriotism and nationalism, musics role in the late 20th century seems a reversal and has been a deconstructive force challenging nationalistic feelings. The origin of all music is cultural (Nettl 940). Folk songs tell a stor...
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Theme Song Of Ellingtons Orchestra
1,743 wordsThe Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington D.C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New York City where he started recruiting people for his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz band of ten people but through the thirties and forties that number greatly expanded. He started playing in small nightclubs, theaters, and on the radio. His biggest ...
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Singing In A Chorus Line
521 wordsA chorus line Singing- I thought the singing in a chorus line was wonderful. All of the characters were excellent. My Favorite aspect of singing in this production is when Maria (Morales) sings "Nothing". She sings this song as She is telling her life story. It is in reference to an improvisation class she took in high school. She talks of how all of the other kids would be pretending to be skiing down a mountain going whoosh, whoosh I feel it, I feel it and she felt nothing. Her teacher Carp wo...
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George Gerswhin 7 Gerswhins Music
1,740 wordsOne of the most influential composers of the 1920's was George Gershwin. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composers of the 1920's. In this paper I will discuss Gershwin's life as a child and his upbringing and how his music expressed the dreams of every American Citizen by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolute music. George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898. ...
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Touch With Linkin Park
331 wordsI am writing to you in regards of Linkin Park. I fell in love with their music the moment I heard 'Crawling' and I am trying to get in touch with them through the tradition mailing process or e-mail. Their music just seems to reach out to so many people in so many different ways. I am very thankful that I stumbled upon Linkin Park's music because it had become an inspiration to my life as well as many others. I had heard a lot about Linkin Park through a friend of mine sometime ago and since the...
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Big Role In Dylan's Unique Musical Style
777 wordsBob Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman on May 24th, 1941, has perhaps been one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. Young Dylan lived the first five or six years of his life in Duluth, Minnesota, until his father became ill with polio and lost his job. The family then moved to Hibbing, Minnesota, where they slept in the living room of his fathers parents house for about two years. As a boy he started listening to late night rhythm and blues stations from Chicago. He pestered the loc...
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Music By Popular Artists
1,828 wordsIn our society today, people are influenced by many different things. The media uses advertisements and commercials to sell us what "we think we need" in order to fit in. This type of media hype is everywhere; in our magazines, on our television screens, on billboards, and in our music. Yes, music does control society in some aspects. Little girls idolize pop stars, and young men look up to the clever lyricists in our popular culture. Yet, sometimes these role model artists are not sending the r...
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Very Melodic Song
1,011 wordsIf I were to use one word to describe the "Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra" that word would be astonishing. At first, hearing that I was required to attend a Jazz concert I was completely turned off. I am very closed minded and automatically thought to myself that the kind of music would be dreadful. That is not the case anymore. This genre of music is amusing and very pleasing to the ears. The band members are some of the most talented musicians that I ever saw or heard. Standing room tickets were so...
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Profanity From Certain Music
448 wordsCensorship Since the beginning of art and entertainment society has tried to censor the public from the so called influences of art, television, movies, and music. Censorship is suppose to protect the children from seeing form of sex, violence, profanity and drugs. If its suppose to protect the children from seeing these thing why do I see so many children doing those things. Society blames entertainment and I blame the parents. I believe the only real influence in a child life is their parent. ...
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Ashlee Simpson Show
340 wordsAshlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American singer, actress and the younger sister of singer Jessica Simpson. Simpson was the youngest person ever admitted to the School of American Ballet at age 11. After her sister Jessica achieved success in pop music in 1999, Ashlee became a dancer in her sister's concerts. She later played the character Cecilia on the television show 7th Heaven from 2002 until the beginning of her singing career in 2004, at which point she said that she woul...
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Metaphoric Clusters In Marley's Music
7,583 wordsSince its founding in the 1930's, the Rastafarian movement has grown to the point where it has become a major cultural and political force in Jamaica. During its existence, the movement has challenged Jamaica's neo-colonialist society's attempts to keep whites at the top and blacks at the bottom of the socio-economic structure. Because of its controversial actions, the movement has evoked responses from observers that range from 'hostility' to 'curiosity' (Forsythe 63). On one hand, Rastafarians...
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Deaths And The Music
2,241 wordsAspcets of Death and Dying 1/18/02 Music and Death: The Songs and Deaths of Rock stars That Have Shocked the World Music as we know it today is the voice of a generation. It gives us entertainment, and speaks out for a community of people in many ways. Most people listen to at least some sort of music, and serves a purpose in almost every facet of society. Just about any expression can be shared through music, ideas and feelings about death. Music is used in various way when pertaining to death,...
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Music Censorship Organizations
2,777 wordsMarilyn Manson, The Beatles, NWA, Garth Brooks, and the king, Elvis, What do all these people have in common? Well, yes, they are all musical groups, but there is something more. Marilyn Manson is a heavy metal group who worships Satan, the Beatles were one of the greatest Rock N' Roll bands of all time, and NWA was a hard-core rap group from the 80's. Garth Brooks is a country singer and greatest selling performer of all time, and well, Elvis is the king of Rock N' Roll. So what do they all hav...
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Constant Parade Of New Broadway Musicals
2,445 wordsFrom the late 1800's up through the present date, musical theater has changed. Though customs and love for the theater will always be carried on, origins, trends, and styles will change throughout time". The American musical was born long before European operetta crossed the Atlantic. In The American Musical Stage Before 1800. Julian Mates tells us that "America's early theatres were essentially lyric theatres... In America, no earlier dramatic forms existed, and the musical stage became our onl...
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Song Zoot Suit Riot
844 wordsAnalysis of Zoot Suit Riot For my analysis paper I chose to analyze the song Zoot Suit Riot, one of the swinging hits of the Cherry Poppin Daddies. There music consists of swing and ska tunes. Zoot Suit Riot is a part swing and part rock song that made them famous. This song comes from the Daddies fourth released album named for their hit song. This album is a compilation of the rockin swing tunes on their last three albums plus a few new big band hits. However, Zoot Suit Riot is a swing with pu...
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Hard People Work On Their Music
1,052 wordsAs I sat in front of my computer downloading my favorite song from Napster, I started to think about how hard it must have been to write a song so sublime with the way the words flow from one another, and how talented one must be to do so. I started to think how hard people work on their music for themselves and their fans, and how their fans don't realize what they are doing every time they download a song off the internet. What they don't realize is that it is messing over the people who worke...
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Eric Melvin And El Hefe
868 wordsOn November 26th I went to the Stone Pony in New York to see another of my favorite bands, NOFX. NOFX is a punk-ska band. Punk meaning fast paced drumbeats and quick singing and ska meaning a song played with trumpets. The band members are Fat Mike (vocals, bass), El Hefe (guitar, trumpet, vocals), Eric Melvin (guitar, vocals), and Erik Sand in (drums). The one thing I found out there was that El Hefe sings a lot. I thought he only sings in a few songs but when I heard them play, I noticed that ...
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Sounds Of The Music
620 wordsFor this week I chose a new movie by Disney that came out a little while ago called, "Fantasia 2000". It's really neat it was in stereophonic sound virtually computer generated. It has objects that represent the sounds of the music. It's very detailed with tone color and dynamics that made a viewer feel what is going on rather that being told the emotions by and actor. They were very successful at doing this. I listened to it at home with a huge stereo that consists of two fifteen inch speakers ...
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Second Fiddle To George's Music
1,706 wordsRhapsody in Blue By: Raymond Trost Morris Gershovitz immigrated to New York from Russia in search of great opportunities. He had lost his Uncle's address, his only contact in the new world. He would have no where to sleep or eat until he found him. He later would win food money in a card game, sleep in an alley, and eventually find his Uncle. He would fall in love and marry a friend Rose B ruskin, who came to New York sometime before. He had many jobs and had to move the family through twenty-ei...
