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American Civil War Gatling Gun
1,581 wordsDuring the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 - 1865, over 620, 000 accounted soldiers were killed. Known as the "the first modern war", historians generally agree that the reason for this was because this was a time of transition for the military. Armies and Navies were still using tactics where they would gather large forces of firepower to bear on the enemy. At the same time, weapons were being developed which were accurate and lethal well beyond any arms of the earlier conflicts. As ...
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Mickey Hart Music Basic
395 wordsThe most basic form of art is music. Before man learned to use berries to paint on walls, he probably learned to make noises on the various objects around him. The instinct to make pleasurable noises is evidenced today by children, worldwide, banging away on various objects. Surely some prehistoric person noticed the various timbre of each object and began to strike them in a fashion which elicited some sort of emotion, whatever he was experiencing at the time. The same basic structures in that ...
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Music Life Song
757 wordsSome people will look at a music score like it is a piece of paper from Mars. All it is to them is a bunch of black dots on five horizontal lines. But to me, that paper is something much, much more. That paper is my lock, the key is my drumsticks. When my drumsticks touch my drum, it is more than sounds that echo throughout a room, it is an endless note of harmony to my ears. With those sticks I can play anything, make music that describes my feelings, my thoughts, my words. Those sticks are mor...
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Rite Of Spring Neo Classicism
1,951 wordsStravinsky's relations with his various publishers would make a fitting subject for a long-running TV soap opera, complete with courtroom dramas, emotional farewells, some embarrassing contractual wrangles, and of course background music based on the Ronde des princesses in The Firebird. The association with Chester Music would certainly provide some of the best episodes. Stravinsky landed in Chester's lap after the First World War, a conflict which, among other things, played havoc with interna...
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Assault Rifles One Hand
641 wordsDifferent types of firearms There are several unique types of firearms, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Modern armies have weapons of almost unbelievable destructive power. These weapons include atomic and hydrogen bombs, rockets, guided missiles, flame throwers, submachine guns, and hand grenades. The basic weapon of ground combat, however, is still the foot soldier's hand-operated firearm. Rifle is a firearm whose barrel is rifled (i. e. , has spiral grooves cut inside it to ...
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Brazilian Folk Dance Brazilian Folk Dance That Started Capoeira
597 wordsEvery country has one or more folk dances. Each one is performed differently than the other, although they might have originated from similar backgrounds. One dance that particularly captures my attention is the Capoeira. The Capoeira is a Brazilian folk dance that started out as a fierce form of self-defense and has now become a friendly dance between a circle of people. To better understand and familiarize with the Capoeira we must learn how and where it originated, the ways it has evolved, an...
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Pentatonic Scale Child Learns
1,672 wordsCarl Orff's philosophies in Music Education While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20 th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10 th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His fathers regiment band would often play through some of the young Orffsfirst att...
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Pentatonic Scale Child Learns
1,692 wordsWhile Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20 th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10 th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His fathers regiment band would often play through some of the young Orff's first attempts at composing. Although Orff was adam...
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Traditional American Great Day
469 wordsOn Wednesday, May 23 rd, I attended the Union College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksong's. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Forum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs. The firs...
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Dave Matthews Band Boston Globe
2,498 wordsSenior Project Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, Le Roi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter Beauford, provide a blend of influences that create this originality. It s an interracial music group compromising of three blacks, and two white, and an age difference of over 20 years b...
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16 Th Century Hands And Feet
1,075 wordsMusic has been around sense the dawn of time. When man first started to discover music it was not the kind of music we have today. All it consisted of was grunts, moans, and banging things. Music has evolved just as much as the people that created it. From Chromagnum men to musician and from grunting too classical music, rock, and rap. The first people imitated music from nature. They mimicked the sound from their every day life. It had no rhythm, beat, or tune it was just noise, but later turne...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Virginia Woolf
6,148 wordsWhile writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E. M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: A letter from Morgan [Forster] this morning. He seems as critical of the East as of Bloomsbury, &# 038; sits dressed in a turban watching his Prince dance (Diary 2. 138). His novel came out well before she finished hers; she read it and noted, Morgan is too restrained in his new book perhaps (Diary 2. 304). A note of...
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Bongo Drums Tenor Drum Played
389 wordsDrums are among the oldest musical instruments. The best known of percussion instruments, they are found throughout the world and in a great variety of shapes and sizes. A drum normally consists of a skin or other membrane, called a head, which is stretched over an enclosed space or over one or both ends of a hollow vessel. Exceptions include the African slit drum, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, and the Caribbean steel drum, made from a metal barrel. Drums are usually played by the hands o...
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Stomp Stomp Talented People
335 wordsStomp is a Stomp Stomp Stomp is a wonderful array of percussion and rhythmically talented people. A Stomp group usually consists of approximately 15 people. At a Stomp concert, you might see a matchbox symphony, a pot and pan orchestra, or maybe even a broomstick band. Whatever it is you desire in percussion, Stomp probably has it. Stomp comes right out of New York and has been touring the country for about 12 years. Anytime they have a concert, the auditorium is packed full of people all wantin...
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