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Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
Number of words: 2955 - Number of pages: 11.... graduation from Bell High School he worked during the day as a rehearsal pianist in dance halls and theaters. At night he paid his dues in a succession of after-hours bars, clip joints and five dollar-a-night speakeasies prevalent throughout the depression-era southwest until he was able to assemble his own 14-piece orchestra in June of 1941. A dominant characteristic of this relatively small Kenton Orchestra was the choppy, staccato manner of phrasing that was especially noticeable in the writing for the reed section. In retrospect this continues to emerge as one of the most readily .....
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Rap And Rock ‘n’ Roll
Number of words: 797 - Number of pages: 3.... many of them knew that black artists created it. In the past, whites never accepted music from black artists. Through whites was the only way to introduce new music made by the black artists. Here is a quote about how new music created by black artists were treated. When rock ‘n’ roll was sang by black artists, our society did accept it as music. They saw it as devil’s music. When Elvis, king of rock, sang rock ‘n’ roll, the music black artists sang became blues not rock ‘n’ roll. Whites didn’t wanted to admit that they enjoyed listening to black’s music so they changed rock .....
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Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Concert
Number of words: 391 - Number of pages: 2.... amazing, I was blown away. The music is a unique mixture of many different genres; jazz, rock, R&B and funk, to name a few. Much of the music had no singing and the songs were very long and complicated, involving different parts and many complicated solos.
In between songs each musician performed solos on their instruments, which proved the talent, they held on their instruments even more. The bassist was the most impressive, though. He soloed for probably a half an hour doing things that seemed impossible. He slapped with amazing speed and precision, played the most difficult runs a .....
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Adam Sandler's "What The Hell Happened To Me?": How Music Affects Culture
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3.... Then it goes
on to say he's "only happy when [he's] drinking JD" The point is that people are
changing because of society and our culture's lack of certain elements, such as
respect and discipline.
Values. The values presented by this song include the value of respect and
discipline, and the need for more strict ways to keep a young mind safe of
destruction. These values are presented in the line "I only did the things that
Mama said I should, but now I do whatever I want." That line shows that values
change as we age and the reason is because of society; obviously if Adam only
did what .....
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Adam De La Halle And Ars Antiqua Time Period
Number of words: 554 - Number of pages: 3.... monophonic were
easily transformed into homophonic by add extra voices or instruments.
Polyphonic is the type of music we hear today. Polyphonic is when there is a
melody line accompanied by harmony. A considerable amount of Adam de la Halle's
polyphonic work was designed for plays. One of Adam's manuscripts contains the
oldest known existence of the sharp sign. In 1872 his music was officially
published.
Ars Antiqua Time Period
Ars Antiqua is Medieval Latin for "ancient art". Ars Antiqua was the period of
musical activity in 13th century France. The music was characterized by the
incr .....
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Substance Abuse And Musicians
Number of words: 507 - Number of pages: 2.... have all they need? What led Brad Nowell (or any musician) to
drugs? What are the fatalities of substance abuse in rock stars?
The reason I am interested in this topic is not only because it can
hold my interest, but I also want to see if I can analyze some reasons for
turning to drugs. I am planning on majoring in psychology and I think this
is part of the whole analysis that psychologists like to use. It can be
kind of a practice for me. So I believe many rock stars “have it all,” so
to speak. They have both fame and fortune. My opinion is that everyone
has some type of greed i .....
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Sweeney Todd
Number of words: 311 - Number of pages: 2.... so Mrs. Lovett can prepare them for the pies.
My favorite song is the title song, "The Demon Barber of Fleet
Street". It tells the story of Sweeney Todd.
Although what Sweeney Todd does is wrong, I did feel sorry for him.
He had lost his family and lost his mind also. Mrs. Lovett helped him for
two reasons. She needed the money and she fell in love with him.
I first saw this musical when I was very young. It is still one of
my favorites. George Hearn plays Sweeney Todd and his singing is great.
But it is Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett that I like best.
I would recommend this mus .....
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How To Listen To Music, Not Just Hear It
Number of words: 1017 - Number of pages: 4.... the speaker into the corner, so each side
of the speaker is against each wall. For this reason, the bass is extended
(louder), and the tweeters, mid-range, and woofers give you their undivided
attention.
Where to sit is simple, but it takes some easy calculations to find the
perfect spot. There is a common rule for a person to experience the full effect
of the music. In order to do this, measure the distance between the two speaker
cabinets. If the speaker's cabinets are placed twelve feet apart from each
other, divide twelve feet in half, which gives us six feet. That's the middle,
so .....
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Music And The Global Perspective
Number of words: 859 - Number of pages: 4.... ethnic diversity: part of the cultural richness of our nation
is derived from its ethnic diversity and its large number of ethnic groups.
Immigrant groups may have partially assimilated into the mainstream of our
society while retaining the songs, dances, instruments, languages (at least
accent and inflection), fashion, food, and lifestyles of their native
cultures. In many cases, the merging of cultural traditions has formed new
styles and modes of behavior. For example, jazz evolved in the early
twentieth century.
Music is vocal or instrumental sounds having melody, rhythm, o .....
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Death Of The Superstars
Number of words: 1262 - Number of pages: 5.... pub that
they were in looked a lot like John Lennon. They also noted the young lady
singing in the corner looked and sounded incredibly like Janice Joplin. The book
or should I say short story continued on as only King could, people dying ,
strange conversations and just weirdness in general.
Now, I told that little story because I wanted to give you a little
background on why I chose this subject. What would have happened if Jimi Hendrix
had lived? His music lives on even today. When he was alive he only release 3
studio albums and if you go into the stores you probably will find no les .....
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