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Chord Progression Dizzy Gillespie
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Boy Girl Bands Society At Any Given Time Style
892 wordsStyle and movement has constantly reflected the society at any given time of its existence. Starting with the ancient Romans, who at around 200 BC already had a democracy meetings, senate and music that spoke how great Caesar was, while the Germans, Russian, or British still wore animal skins and killed each other on the streets, singing the songs to their pagan gods, and finishing with the modern day rave and house movements that brings hundreds of people to those cult tunes popular today. In t...
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1,367 wordsGeorge Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young and could not realize many of their plans and ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant: he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for theater and cinema, and became an author of many popular songs, which are still being played in our times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a family of...
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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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York Henry Holt George Gershwin
2,553 wordsWho was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that? s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920 s. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolute music. George Gersh...
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Traditional Irish Music Traditional Irish Tunes
544 wordsIn ancient Ireland, music was an important part of life. It was played for Kings, Chiefs, and also for entertainment of the people. The first Irish tunes were played primarily on the harp. Professional harpers were honored above all other musicians and earned a high reputation for their music. After a horrific war in Ireland in 1607, there was a heavy blow to the Gaelic order. Many towns were destroyed, and several of the music schools were shut down. Because most of the tunes were transmitted o...
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Chord Progression Dizzy Gillespie
4,177 wordsMiles Davis And The Development Of Improvisation Miles Davis And The Development Of Improvisation In Jazz Music Abstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece? Ne...
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Quot Quot Emily Dickinson
8,051 wordsYVOR WINTERS The three poems which combine [Emily Dickinson's] greatest power with her finest execution are strangely on much the same theme, both as regards the idea embodied and as regards the allegorical embodiment / 293 /. They deal with the inexplicable fact of change, of the absolute cleavage between successive states of being, and it is not unnatural that in two of the poems this theme should be related to the theme of death. In each poem, seasonal change is employed as the concrete symbo...
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