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Star Spangled Banner Jimi Hendrix
1,204 wordsThe best guitarist, who is it? This is an argument that has been amongst many musicians for many years. But who is the hands down best guitarist? From my viewpoint the answer is obvious. Joe Satriani without a doubt is the best guitarist alive today and perhaps the best guitarist ever. I can already hear the responses from the crowd. What about Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, or perhaps Steve Vai and Eric Johnson? All of these players are good guitarists, but they are no...
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Black And White Alfred Stieglitz
1,212 wordsAlfred Stieglitz, was born in January 1 st, 1864, in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died in July 13 th, 1946, in New York City. In 1902 Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession Group, as a protest against the conventional photography of the time. He took pictures in a time when photography was considered a only scientific curiosity and not art. The controversy over the art value of photography became widespread. Stieglitz began to fight for the recognition of his chosen medium. Alfred Stieglitz, one of t...
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Comparison Of Monet And Claude
1,720 wordsClaude's The Sermon on the Mount is a relatively large painting in a horizontal rectangular shape. It is a landscape painting with Jesus giving a sermon to a crowd of his followers as the subject. It states in the acoustic guide that Claude is trying to depict the landscape of Mount Tabor surrounded by the Dead Sea on the right and the Jordan River on the left. The painting is done from a high vantage point. One can see this because as the viewer looks at the painting he can see far into the dis...
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Octave Johnston 1989 Based On Pythagorean Music
1,360 words"Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification of disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements... Music is the basis of agreement among things in nature and of the best government in the universe. As a rule it assumes the guise of harmony in the universe, of lawful government in a state, and of a sensible way of life in the home. It brings together and unites. " The Pythagorean's Every school student will recognize his name as the originator of that theorem which offers ...
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One Of Picasso Picasso And Braque
1,291 wordsPablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist of the 20 th century because of his unique styles and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881 to a professor of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers' occupation, Picasso's talent was quickly noticed and appreciated. Don Jose, an art teacher, moved Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to Barcelona where he was Picasso's instructor at the fine arts academy....
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The Poetry Of Black America
1,994 wordsThe Poetry of Black America "YOUR LAUGHTER and your song, your pity for the human condition, your poetic prophecy, the deep seriousness that pulses through your poems exemplify the ancient Grecian concept of the poet as the shaper and maker of our destinies, pointing the way to that one divine event toward which the whole creation moves: the brotherhood of man. " (Rampersad 364) This was the citation, with which Langston Hudges was awarded his second honorary doctorate by Howard University. One ...
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Main Theme Working Class
843 wordsA Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans by Etheridge Knight When you read the poem written by Etheridge Knight it seems that you feel all emotional expressions of sorrow and anxiety the poet wanted to show to the readers. The beginning of the poem starts with a tender majesty. It embraces even the smallest tones of sorrow. The very sounds of it yell to attract attention; anxious, they remind us the frozen accords of the song of sorrow. The mother worries about the destiny of her child. Her son...
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Rock And Roll Chord Progression
2,559 wordsJoseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly among the Wolof and Watusi. p. 233) The word blue has been associated with the idea of melancholia...
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Chord Progression Blues Singers
2,623 wordsA Brief Blues Music Arts: A Brief History of the Blues 2000 - 06 - 30 A Brief History of the Blues Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly...
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Middle Ages Sixteenth Century
2,247 wordsyour gods, and from off your hands. The ultimate origin of music is to locate in time to find out correctly. Music in its modern Western sense has become both a fine art and a fine discipline. Its prime constructive elements are melody, rhythm, and harmony. The music of primitive people and the culture of African, Amerindian, Asians are largely uninfluenced by European developments might lack harmony and maybe even melody as we know it, but it is not possible to make music devoid of rhythm. In E...
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Black And White Electrical Impulses
2,017 wordsOverview Digital cameras capture images electronically and convert them into digital data that can be stored and manipulated by a computer. Like conventional cameras, digital cameras have a lens, aperture, and shutter, but they dont use film. When light passes through the lens it is focused on a photo-sensitive electronic chip called a charged coupling device (CCD). The CCD converts light impulses into electrical impulses (also called analog signal forms). The signals are fed into a microprocess...
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Middle East Western Music
682 wordsThere are no specific words to describe the beauty of Egyptian music. Although I have lived there all my life, I only took notice of the ingenuity around two years ago; when I started playing the guitar. Egypt is located in the heart of the Middle East. It has always been the doors from Africa to Asia and vice versa, therefore, a strategic point on the map. From this, Egypt has been under constant invasion throughout her millennia life, for both her strategic point and wealth. However, it also b...
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Technological Advancements Younger Generations
2,762 wordsI. Introduction The 60 s and 70 s Social Advancements Technological Advancements The Time Was Right II. Phreaking Is Born III. The Technical Aspects That Allowed Phreaking To Work IV. Phreaker Culture Famous Phreaker's Phreaking in the Media V. The Downfall of Phreaking VI. What s Left For The Phreaking Community VII. Bibliography. I. Introduction The 60 s and 70 s It s hard for one not to be familiar with the state of our nation in the 60 s and 70 s. The period was arguably the high point of in...
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