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Period Of Time Baroque Era
1,503 wordsThroughout its history, music has developed into cycle. This cycle is a return of fundamental and traditional ideas of an earlier time transposed into the present. It represents a style revolution in which a simple structure further develops to become a more complex system. At this point a revolution begins and a return to the simple, the more traditional form flourishes again. As a chain of events, the cycle is extremely prominent during the change of time periods between the Renaissance and Ba...
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Drug Identification With Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
774 wordsDrugs are used everyday by people in many different ways for many different reasons. Drug testing has become a standard in pre-employment testing, because of the wide variety of drug use in today's society. Drugs tested for by a possible employer include Cocaine (crack), Amphetamines (crystal), Opiates (codeine, morphine, heroin), PCP (phencyclidine), and Marijuana. Gas chromatography / mass spectrometry is used to test hair and urine samples of possible drug abusers or job applicants, and it is...
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The Scientific Revolution Medieval World View
1,034 words... iting. The combined influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation had generated an attitude of scepticism towards all authority. Soon this skepticism led to a questioning of established beliefs in the sciences, just as it had in religion and politics. COPERNICUS (1473 -- 1543) As mentioned above, sometime around 150 AD, Ptolemy wrote what was to become the defining text for the science of astronomy, an immense book known as the Almagest or "The Greatest. " It's position as the defining te...
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State Meteorological Service Important Elements In Metrology Measurements
1,582 wordsTraceability is one of the most important elements in Metrology Metrology is a science about measurements, methods and means of traceability maintenance and ways of achievement of the required accuracy. There is no area of persons practical activities where it would be possible to do without the quantitative estimations received as a result of measurements. When the person is just born, he has no name yet, but we know his growth, weight, temperature during first minutes of life he is necessary t...
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Voice Important Element
1,068 wordsIt is apparent that female music in Canada is a growing industry, and plays a very controversial role in Canadian society. Canada is a land of many ethnic backgrounds and an extremely diverse culture, one of the best ways to express culture is through music. Sarah McLachlan has enjoyed worldwide success with the album Surfacing, and more recently Mirror ball. The album titled Surfacing was released in 1997 and features a song called Building a Mystery. Building a Mystery clearly exemplifies the ...
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Octave Johnston 1989 Based On Pythagorean Musical
1,354 wordsMusic 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 many ...
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Charlie Parker At Storyville Parker At Storyville Set
571 wordsCharlie Parker at Storyville The set by Charlie Parker, at Storyville is a perfect example of bop or bebop. It fits almost all of the criteria we use to define bop. These criteria include, but are not limited to: fast tempo, display of instrumental virtuosity, complex melodies and harmonies, an unresolved character, highly syncopated and masterful improvisations. These were all shown throughout this set. The compact disc I chose is actually a compilation of two different live sets 6 months apart...
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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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Global Positioning System U S Military
3,776 wordsAs we enter the 21 st century, we are constantly being bombarded with new technologies. From the wireless community to operations that once took weeks to recover and now only take a day or so, our world will never be the same. Another technology that is revolutionizing the world we live in is the Global Positioning System or GPS. The first GPS satellite was called GPS Block I. Launched in 1978, it was a developmental satellite. Another nine Block I satellites were launched through 1988. GPS is t...
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Octave Quot Johnston Quot Ferrara 1991 Musical
1,385 wordsPythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics. New York: Dover Publications Ferrara, Lawrence (1991). Philosophy and the Analysis of Music. New York: Greenwood Press. Johnston, Ian (1989). Measured Tones. New York: IOP Publishing. Rowell, Lewis (1983). Thinking About Music. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. " Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification of disparate things, ...
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Swing Era Cool Jazz
1,042 wordsThe Rise of Jazz Throughout this paper I will take you through some of the different styles and eras of jazz. Such styles as be-bop, cool jazz, dixieland, swing, and fusion emerged define jazz music. Along with these different styles there were important eras that molded jazz music, such eras as the golden ages, and the swing era. Jazz is a kind of music that has often been called the only art form to originate in the United States. The history of jazz began in the late 1800? s. The music grew f...
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