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Bye Bye American Pie
617 wordsBye Bye, Miss American Pie. Hello, Madonna "Bye Bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry"American Pie", sung by Don McLean, was originally released in 1971. The song was written as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper who died tragically in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. "American Pie" not only pays homage to three talented musicians, but also serves as an allegory to the history of music. Although the original song was written about ...
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Music Industry Mp 3
452 wordsNapster is an ongoing controversy on the Web. Napster is a software program that allows anyone to find their favorite music by connecting them to the computers of millions of other users. It is the simplest way to find the MP 3 s they want, whenever they want, and share them with the world's largest community of music lovers. An estimated 20 million people have used Napster since it came out last year. With all the people who support Napster, there are just as many that want to see it shut down....
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Aaron Copland Jazz Musicians
643 wordsNot only was Aaron Copland a great American composer, he was a great composer worldwide. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a very drab neighborhood. He was influenced by jazz musicians and French composers. He made many remarkable contributions to the world of music and worked to make music more enjoyable to the everyday listener. His major works are not only world famous, but world-appreciated. Aaron Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the youngest of all of the children in...
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Wal Mart T Shirt
465 wordsMusic is a form of expression and, like all forms of expression, is protected by first amendment rights. So, it would be unconstitutional for the government to censor it. Music censorship has tormented our generations society since the rap groups of the early eighties. With their sexual lyrics and explicit content, they were the first to be labeled as indecent and explicit. Censorship has always been around in some form or another, but there has been a lot of dispute over what censorship is exac...
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Three Or Four Fifteenth Century
358 wordsThe strongest composers of the fifteenth century were primarily located in the north. So the best musicians tended to come from countries like France, England, and Germany. Since Florence was an "international headquarters" it had strong commercial links with the north. This made it very easy to trade ideas and because of this a new musical expression made its way to Italy. The frottola was a popular form of music that was primarily developed in Florence. It was a setting of an entertaining or s...
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Rap Artists Hip Hop
676 wordsControversy has always been a prominent characteristic of popular music throughout the twentieth century. Whether it be the controversy surrounding Elvis's winging hips, the Doors's uggestive lyrics, or Alice Cooper's stage antics, this controversy always seems to be followed by undue criticism from the media. One form of musical expression that has been in the news recently because of its negative attention is hip-hop. Rap, a relatively new form of musical exposition, has been criticized for it...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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Berkshire Music Center Stravinsky And Ravel Koussevitzky
506 wordsThe legendary bassist and conductor Serge Koussevitzky was born in Russia in 1874 to a family of musicians. With his brothers, he formed a wind ensemble when still a child, performing at local parties and social events. He journeyed to Moscow at the age of fourteen, winning a scholarship at the Music-Dramatic Institute to study double bass and music theory. He excelled at the bass, joining the Bolshoi Theater orchestra at age twenty and succeeding his teacher as the principal bassist at twenty-s...
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Men And Women Make A Difference
1,241 wordsMany large concerts occurred throughout America in the summer of 1969, but none were as well known and symbolic as Woodstock. Its impact on Americas culture and society as well as its youth will not be forgotten for many years to come. Four men named Michael Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts, and Joel Rosen man originally established Woodstock. The mens initial idea for the festival was to promote the idea of a new recording studio in Bethel, New York, which is where the event actually took pl...
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Bach And Handel Beethoven
936 wordsJohann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel were two of the most important composers of the Baroque Period. Compare and contrast their lives and sacred musical works studied in class. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel are two of the most important composers of the Baroque period. Born only one month apart both in Germany. Handel lived nine more years than Bach. Coming from the same period the two composers have many qualities that are alike and some unlike. These qualities ...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rising Sun
614 wordsBorn James Marshall Hendrix, on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington. Often called the greatest guitarist of all time, Hendrix pioneered the explosive popularity of the electric guitar. Hendrix's unique style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form Hendrix's legacy grew far beyond the wide popularity he achieved during his short career. He taught himself to play guitar as an adolescent, learning from the albums of bluesman like Muddy Waters and B. B....
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Elizabethan Period People Music
434 wordsDuring the Elizabethan period, Europe was going through the Renaissance. Their culture and way of life was emerging from the Middle Ages into their peak of advancements. Also, their lives were very different from ours. They listened to different kinds of music and found other ways of enjoyment such as dancing. The food they ate is also very unusual from ours. Their culture was very unique and different, and their history still remains with us. Depending on ones place in society, there would be d...
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1,135 wordsMusic censorship has been a major problem plaguing America for over fifty years. In 1957, Elvis Pressley was only allowed to be filmed from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan show (Nuzum 1). Plenty of controversy has taken places between then and now, but more recently it has become much more prominent in the media, and people and organizations are beginning to actually take a stand. For example, Island Records (owned by Disney) dropped the Insane Clown Posse just after their release of The Great M...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Great Musical Ability Music
513 wordsThe Life of Mozart In his time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart influenced classical music greatly, astounding many with his remarkable genius. This musical giant composed over 600 sonatas, concertos, sonatinas, minuets, librettos, serenades, oratorios, cantatas, operas and symphonies, and is one of the most remembered and revered musicians of his time. Mozart's life was one filled with talent, music and suffering. The young maestro displayed a great musical ability at an early age. Johannes Chrysostom ...
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Dollars A Year Run On The Bank Jurgis
778 wordsThe book begins with two people getting married, Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Radius Two Lithuanian immigrants who have recently arrived in Chicago. They have the wedding in the traditional Lithuanian style. Following the wedding there is a large celebration held near the Chicago stockyards. Food, beer, and music fill the hall. Following Lithuanian tradition, hungry people lingering in the doorway are invited inside to eat their fill. The musicians play badly but, do to the general festivity, no on...
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Aix La Chapelle Italian Opera
1,273 wordsHandel, George Frideric b. Feb. 23, 1685, Halle, Saxony [Germany] d. April 14, 1759, London, Eng. German (UNTIL 1715) GEORG FRIEDRICH H? NDEL, OR HAENDEL German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, the Messiah (1741), and is also known for such occasional pieces as Water Music (1717) and Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749). Life. The son of a barber-surgeon, Handel s...
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Country Music Pop Music
758 wordsDuring the past seventy years, country music has gone through many changes. On the other hand, country music has always dealt with real issues of ordinary people. Country music comes from simple stories of everyday life. Country was once limited to the rural South and Southwest but is now successful throughout all of the United States. The first country artists became widely known and achieved popularity in the late 1920? s. The two most important figures at this time were Jimmie Rodgers and the...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
1,243 wordsMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people...
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Love For Juliet Benvolio And Mercutio
2,687 wordsAct Scene 1: One morning in Verona, two young servants of Capulet, Sampson and Gregory are joking around with each other with puns and friendly teasing. Suddenly they are confronted by Abraham and Balthasar, two servants of Montague. The mild joking and humor soon turn bitter, aggressive, and dangerous between the foes. It is not long before a fight inevitably breaks out. Benvolio, the nephew of Montague comes in and tries breaks it up, but ends up fighting with the hot-tempered Tybalt, and a ri...
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Television Stations Young Adults
678 wordsTodays Youth: Playing the guitar A recent trend that seems to be prevalent in the youth of our society today is the desire to play an instrument. I am a musician and want to help explain from others experience as well as my own why playing an instrument is so popular among teens today. My father and other friends of his generation suggest that instrument playing has always been popular, but its popularity seems to have increased dramatically over the past 25 years. Testaments such as these compe...
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