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Heavy Metal Music
1,663 wordsStephen Isaac Professor Wlodarski Music 100: Music Appreciation 23 October, 2001 We arrived at the concert around sun set. As we pulled up to the entrance, all I could see was a mass of humans. They scattered around the front of the building, some going in and coming out. In the middle of all the transportation devices there were a few men, in black suits, who pointed in different directions. They stopped groups of humans to allow the transportation devices by and vice versa. We now left our "ca...
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My Cello
726 wordsNote: The below essays were not edited by Essay Edge Editors. They appear as they were initially reviewed by admissions officers. SAMPLE ESSAY 1: Columbia, Musician (cello) For some reason, my parents felt the necessity to inundate me at a young age with extracurricular activities. After school, I was always being driven from tennis to violin to swimming to cello to baseball to piano to karate to near craziness! I could have been called the worlds busiest kid at the time. From two of the activit...
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Three Part Assertion Method
704 wordsThe Three Part Assertion Method There is a guy two doors down from me, here in the dorm - a nice guy, a bit odd, overly friendly, and oh-so open. His favorite thing to do is prop his door open, play on his computer, and crank the music. I generally like all kinds of music, and I have been known to play it loud from time to time. Well, this guy truly likes all kinds of music, and plays it as loud as his speakers can handle it. It's a good thing he has small speakers. So, here's me, working on my ...
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Musical Events Miles Davis
1,780 wordsThe Electric Miles Davis Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school band and playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eck stine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Da...
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Columbus Symphony Orchestra
398 wordsThe Columbus Symphony Orchestra is located in Columbus Ohio. Mother's Day provided a musical feast for lovers of the choral art. The Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and members of the Columbus Children's Choir were led by chorus director Ronald Jenkins in "Music for a Special Day". The music and performances were very high and enthusiastic, with a full house in attendance at the north campus of First Community. The Orchestra played works by Mozart and John Rutter as the centerpiece of the...
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Jazz On The Trumpet
716 wordsPurpose: By the end of the speech I hope you all will understand the joys and pains of playing jazz on the trumpet. Introduction: (turn off lights) Imagine its night time in New York City. You head over to the village vanguard to see the hottest players in jazz, out do each other on stage. You enter the club it seats about fifty but there's more like 80 all wanting the same thing, to hear John Coltrane's sextet perform. (play Lazy Bird up to 1: 40). The recording you just heard was from the John...
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Bach's Fugues
820 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was unlike most other composers of his time. "He wrote music for the glory of God, and to satisfy his own burning curiosity, not for future fame". During the 1700's, people knew him as a talented musician, not as a composer, as we do today. He never left his country to pursue bigger and better things. Bach was content as long as he could play music. Traditions were very important to him. He wanted to carry on the musical tradition of his family, and never opted ...
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Metallica And The Members Of The Symphony
816 wordsThe nights of April 21-22, 1999 in Berkeley, California, The San Francisco Symphony was joined by the rock band, Metallica for a performance at the Berkeley Community Theater. It was conducted by Micheal Kamen. The hall was filled to capacity with both hardcore Metallica fans. Before the concert even started, they were on their feet, cheering for both Metallica and the members of the symphony. The were all dressed in street clothes. Most opted to wear jeans and a Metallica shirt. The members of ...
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Very Important Piece Of The Orchestra
1,363 wordsOn Sunday, December 07, 2003, I attended the Mozart and The Height of Classicism concert that was held in the Lincoln Theater of the New World Symphony orchestral academy. Conducted by Nicholas McGegan featuring pianist Robert Levin. There were two pieces of music during this concert, one of the movements was performed by the pianist alone as a solo, Mr. Robert Levin. The program's title was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chaconne from Idomeneo. The first piece was Concerto No. 24 in C minor for Piano...
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Joplin's Music
1,039 wordsScott Joplin (1868-1917) Scott Joplin, commonly known as the 'King of Ragtime' music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. Joplin came from a large musical family. His father, Giles Joplin was a musician who had fiddled dance music while serving as a slave at his master's parties. His mother, Florence Givens Joplin, born free and out of slavery, sang and played the banjo, and four of his brothers and sisters either sang or played strings. Joplin's talent was reveale...
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Unsuccessful Musical By Rodgers And Hammerstein
2,233 wordsRodgers and Hammerstein Collaborations Oklahoma! The first collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein was entitled Oklahoma! The idea of the musical came from a play called Green Grow the Lilacs, written by Lynn Riggs in 1931. This story is about the state of Oklahoma at the turn of the century, when the Indian Territory joined the United States. It is the story of a girl named Laurey Williams and her (sort of) love triangle with two boys by the names of Curley McClain and Jud Fry. Laurey is in lo...
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Civil War Music
1,064 wordsJohn's Interesting Career John Perreault is a musician who lives in Upstate, NY. He started appreciating music at an early age. Banging on pots-and-pans, singing. His grandfather, who was a professional musician, and my supportive parents, drove his interest in music. He was always in chorus. Then when the time came, he took up the bass in fourth grade. He quit the bass playing after three years and didn't do anything musical. He took a few music classes, but played nothing on the side. Then his...
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Most Momentous Scenes
842 words"The Lion King" has tastefully been brought to stage in the theatrical recreation of the widely respected film. Although most of the audience could already mimic the lines and knew all the words to the songs, Julie Taylor (director) was able to make the musical a new and exhilarating experience. The archetype of the difficulties of growing up and self acceptance were reserved but the play did twist the plot ever so slightly to make it its own. A new side story concerning Scar and Nala arises, ca...
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Music Function In Advertisement
1,790 wordsIn this essay, I will begin with some historical aspect of advertising, since the early days where music was not used in advert until now music has become important parts of any television advertisements. Also I have chosen 2 television adverts to talk about the music that have been used and what did they functions in those adverts. Advertising is the means by which one group of people attempts to convince or attract another into purchasing a particular product or service. It differs from the so...
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Second Half Of The Symphony
660 wordsOn September 20th, I attended the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra at Popejoy Hall and listened to a variety of classical pieces. I had never been to a symphony before, although I grew up in a musical environment and had been exposed to classical music for many years. I spent my childhood learning how to play the piano, violin, and the guitar. I even began composing my own music on the piano. However, this was my first time to a symphony where an entire orchestra plays in sync with each other and l...
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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...
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Paganini's Concerti For Violin And Orchestra
2,334 wordsPaganini This benefit concert marks only the second time in history that the legendary violin, made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (pronounced "Jez u") (1705? - 1744) in 1743, which belonged to Nicolo Paganini (October 27, 1782 - May 27, 1840) will be played in a full recital on the American continent. Eugene Fodor will perform. The first time it was heard in the U.S. was in 1982, in New York, as part of Paganini's bicentennial celebration, when his 24 Caprices for unaccompanied violin were played ...
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Queen's Royal Musicians
653 wordsEntertainment In the cities, entertainment was very important. People wanted to have fun. They wanted to clear their minds after days of non-stop working. Without entertainment, the workers would have been angry every day and would not have gotten enough work done. When the workers went to work in a good mood, they got their jobs done very fast, because their minds were clear of any problem that was troubling them. Taverns were very popular. They were like today's bars. Men liked to go to tavern...
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Dean Coleman
830 wordsEverybody has chilling when they hear his name. He is young, handsome and full of interesting ides for life. He success in music business and his famous grows day by day. As a dj and music producer he surprises people all over the word. Dean Coleman is the one of the most talented and gifted persons that I have ever met. It is not just a music that he plays but also a personality and charm that make him so special. It is raining day. It is Thursday, April 11th, 2003. I am driving in the car in A...
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Johnny Cash
347 wordsJohnny Cash: A Legend Johnny cash exemplifies the hero path through times of fame, hardship, and reform. The story of his life follows the path in all of it's entirety. Johnny Cash was born in Arkansas in 1932. He grew up working with his brother on his father's farm. At the tender age of 12 he began to listen to the radio and it was then that he began writing lyrics. In being from a poor family, Johnny enlisted in the Air Force in the early 1950's. Overseas he learned to play the guitar which w...
