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Great Performance From A Great Band
361 wordsPat American Music 10-30-00 Music Concert Review I My concert review took me to a new wave of music. I went to a concert at Bucks where a band named Yelon was playing. They are a reggae band from Jamaica, which is the place where many reggae bands come from. It was very interesting for me due to the fact that I have never been opened up to this kind of music. I was a little bit skeptical about it at first. However, I must say that I enjoyed their performance. The concert consisted of singing and...
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State Theater Of Opera And Ballet
642 wordsGeorge Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg on Jan 22, 1904, into a very musical family and began studying the piano at age 5. He had a classical education in acting and dance training, beginning at age 9, from the Imperial Theater School in St. Petersburg. It was originally thought that young Georgi would become one of the Tsar's cadets, so it was with the thought that if things didn't work out at the ballet school he could always join the army. In fact, in his first year he was not at all thr...
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Performance Of A Task And Fast Music
4,820 wordsAn Experimental Psychological Study The Effect of Music on Performance of a Task Mark Hunter November 2000 Abstract In order to investigate whether music affected performance of a task, and experimental technique was used, variables were manipulated and data recorded. The aim of this study was to investigate whether different music styles affected the performance of a task. It was a novel experiment, only loosely based on previous research dating back to the 19th century. The method involved thr...
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Musical Skills
586 wordsHistory shows that women were not as big of participants in music as men until later in the medieval era. This is due to many obstacles that faced women disabling them from singing, playing any instruments, or even composing music. Although barriers were present, many women and nuns were able to surpass them, and make use of their abilities and skills. Women composers had many barriers to pass in order to be able to use their skills and compose music and chants. One main obstacle blocking their ...
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Schoenberg's Discussions Of His Own Music
1,363 wordsThe eighteenth centuries are reasonably described as an era of musical common practice, when composers of different nationalities and temperaments nonetheless wrote music that was stylistically and structurally similar in important respects. however, in contrast, the twentieth century has been a period of great and increasing diversity of both style and structure. More specifically, music criticism has divided twentieth century music into two opposing groups; the neoclassical and the progressive...
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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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Importance Of Music To Everyday Life
725 wordsDo you sing at the top of our lungs daily in your car on the way to school, in the shower, or while cleaning your house? Music is a way of life. It is a worldwide language that we can all share in and enjoy. Music is my passion. I've been actively involved in choirs, musicals, private lessons, and other musical performances for almost all my life. I don't think most people realize how important music is to education, work skills, and communication. The fundamentals of learning are instilled into...
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Members During Rehearsals And Performances
1,179 wordsASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE In the following report I will focus on two factors of performance, they are PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS ON PERFORMANCE Nerves / stress, including manifestations Relationships between members Communication with audience Audience response THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUCCESSFUL GROUP Choice of members Program selection Rehearsal strategies Setting up Venue / audience Final performance Each of these aspects effects performers and to deal with all these things will ensure a successful grou...
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Audience A Part Of The Show
1,330 wordsIs it a musical? A play? It's more like a Circus! On March 1, 2001, I had the great opportunity to see a very unique Off-Broadway variety show named De La Guarda, written, directed, and designed by Pic hon Balding and Di qui James. The theatre presenting this show is the Daryl Roth Theatre, which is located at 20 Union Square East, just a few blocks from Baruch College. There were many interesting moments in the show that one would be definitely surprised if he had no prior knowledge about the s...
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Musical Performance
712 wordsMusic and dance are so related closely in African thinking that it is difficult for them to separate song from movement or speech from playing the drum. In this case, the arts are a part of everyday normal life. Life cycle events including, but not limited to, birth, puberty and death are celebrated with a musical performance. Because music is so integral to society, everyone is expected to be able to sing and dance at a certain level of proficiency. Beyond that, certain people are selected for ...
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Music Education As Aesthetic Education
2,083 wordsAn explicit concept since the late 1950's, aesthetic education first developed to provide a strong philosophical foundation for music education and continues to evolve as a solid theoretical orientation for current effective practices. Bennett Reimer has contributed much to the discussion and development of the value of aesthetic education for the teaching and learning of music. Others in music education also support and promote these ideals and focus on developing an improved understanding for ...
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Music Culture And Society Of The Mbuti
1,592 wordsWhen trying to compare and contrast the music-culture and society of the Mbuti and that of the Venda, it becomes difficult to comment on sound when we haven't heard any Venda music. It's easy to recognize that for the Mbuti the music embodies the heart of the forest, and for the Venda the relation to nature is the act of a mother giving birth. Thinking about concept and behavior this makes the music performed by the two cultures separate and distinguishable. This is where culture and environment...
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Fourth Performance
481 wordsI listened to three different performances of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 from the twentieth century. Even though these were essentially the same movement, each sounded very different. I listened to the first performance recorded in 1950, the second recorded in 1968 and the fourth recorded in 1987. Beside from small differences within each piece, I found that a major pattern is as that the century progressed, the tempo of each piece increased. This is also obvious because the first piece l...
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Music Educator
509 wordsWhen researching music, it is not easy to find much information for free. The music business is so secretive and elite that anyone wanting information must be committed to digging deep, know someone in the profession, or get ready to pay. My research was tedious, but I did find many different interesting things that Vocal Music majors may want to know including salaries, skills needed, and education required. The first aspect of Music Careers that I researched was Vocal Performance. Vocal Perfor...
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Natural Feeling For Musical Development
380 wordsMusic and Movement is a part of the development of a child. The child can improve a lot at school forming a solid education. Music makes a difference in the life of a student. Music strengthens student,'s academic performance. Music built skills and should be part of the child,'s curriculum, because it can significantly improve a child,'s performance in reading and math. Music is a discipline. Exposing children to music history, music literature, music in society, including singing children lear...
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Small Performing Area
392 wordsI attended a jazz show at the Renaissance Caf'e in Newark. The Renaissance Caf'e is a small restaurant. On the right side is a bar, to the left is the dining area and straight-ahead is a small performing area. The small audience was dressed very casually. They were very attentive and supportive of the performers. The group was made up of a drummer, a cello player, a keyboarder, and a vocalist. They were dressed with their own personal style, but overall casual. The vocalist Hollis Donaldson was ...
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Professional Sales Marketing Manager
534 wordsCase Summary: Darren Skanson, a classical guitarist, has used his expertise and popularity as a performing artist to form a company, Colorado Creative Music, to produce and distribute recorded CDs of his and other musicians' works. In 2001, he has one other performer on contract and two part-time employees whose responsibilities range from answering telephones, filling and sending out orders, maintaining equipment, managing inventory, preparing for gigs and promoting CDs to local vendors. In Mar...
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Subotnick's First Experiments With Electronic Music
572 wordsELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSER: Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick, a leader in the field of electronic music, was born on April 14, 1933 in Los Angeles, California. Morton musical interest began at the age of seven while suffering from bronchitis. Morton's family doctor suggested that he play a wind instrument to help with the recovery process. Morton chose the clarinet and was playing concertos at the tender age of ten, and by the age of twelve he was already composing his own music. Morton received...
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Tradition Of Arab Music
1,073 wordsThe Arab Music Arab Music The word "music' comes from the Greek word Mous iki which means? the science of composing melodies? Ilm al-musiq a was the name given by the Arabs to the Greek theory of music as to distinguish it from ilm al-ghi naa, the Arabian theory. The Arab music tradition developed in the courts of dynasties in the Islamic Empire from the seventh to the thirteenth century. It flourished during the Umayyad dynasty in the seventh and eighth centuries in Syria. Although the major wr...
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Arabic Music Tradition
1,318 wordsWhen I think about music and what I enjoy about it I think about my home country and the music that I have known all my life. Arabic music is my favorite musical styling. Although I have come to enjoy classical and contemporary styling as well, Arabic music has almost an innate quality of enjoyment for me. I am from the Middle-East and I have known Arabic music for the majority of my life. Its songs speak of the life and culture of Arabic countries and its melody is not commonly heard on America...
