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Duke Ellington Was Born Ellington Was Born Music
872 wordsDuke Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington on April 28, 1899 in Washington, D. C. to Daisy and James Ellington. They served as the ideal role models for young Duke and taught him everything from table manners to the power of music. He was eight when he got his first piano lessons. By the age of fourteen, he was sneaking into Frank Holliday's poolroom. He learned from his experiences in the poolroom how to appreciate the value of mixing with a wide rage of people. He attended the Armstrong ...
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2,526 words... at we think are part of our identity and then, if we " re lucky, we discover later on that we can actually step out of that identity and we are actually not confined by that identity that's been laid upon us. Back to our frog. The world becomes very simple if all you " re looking for, all your epistemology encompasses, is flies or not-flies. Even your need to eat flies may suffer, because the frog can be easily tricked into swallowing other moving black objects which are not flies. Human bei...
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Sky With Diamonds Rock And Roll
809 wordsFashion and music play a major role in influencing teenagers. Today, fashion and music are very diverse, with many different styles of dress and a variety of music. But it wasnt always like this. Bellbottoms, platform shoes, and Rock-and-Roll dominated the 1960 s. And with Rock-and-Roll came the Beatles and Beatlemania. Beatlemania swept over the United States in the 1960 s. The Beatles began in 1957 as teenage boys playing in cellars and drive bars in Liverpool, England, and Hamburg, Germany. (...
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Red Violin Showed Red Violin Life
717 wordsThe Red Violin offers some interesting messages about the universality of the language of music. The acting and sets are spectacular, and the actors through the eras do very credible jobs of playing the magical violin. Lastly, the secret of the red violin's color turns out to be an apt symbol for the level of commitment that true musical devotion demands. "The Red Violin" takes its audience on a journey spanning five countries and three centuries. As the violin passes into five principal lives, ...
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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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Mother Died Great Things
1,706 words"Tchaikovsky is not only one of the corner stones of Russian musical culture and world music. It's at the same time creative and technical encyclopedia to which every Russian has reference in the course of his own work" (Cross and Ewen, 1025), said Dimitri Shostakovich. Peter Iltich Tchaikovsky is considered one of the best composers of all time. In this paper you will see how Tchaikovsky's life was difficult and memorable. Peter Tchaikovsky was born in Voting, in the district of Viagra, Russia ...
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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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Beauty And The Beast Fairy Tale
547 wordsOnce upon a time, a young Prince lived in a shining castle. One cold night an old beggar woman arrived, offering him a single rose in return for shelter from the cold. Repulsed by her ugliness, he turned her away. Suddenly, she transformed into a beautiful enchantress and to punish the Prince, she turned him into a hideous beast. Then she gave him a magic mirror and an enchanted rose, telling him it would bloom until his twenty-first year. To break the spell, he must love another and earn that p...
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George Harrison Rolling Stone
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Sexual Preference Music Industry
1,641 wordsMedia Communication - Pop Industry The music industry and young people An understanding of young people and popular music requires some understanding of the nature of the music industry itself and how the industry functions within the mass media. The music industry is part of several inter-related industries which between them generate large amounts of money and which either directly or indirectly influence our lives. It was estimated that $US 12 billion was spent by consumers on recorded music ...
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2,523 wordsPsychology of Jim Morrison and 1960 's rock music With their mix of music, poetry, theater, and daring, the Doors emerged as America's most darkly innovative, eerily mesmerizing musical group of the 1960 s. Founded concurrently with the English invasion, the college-educated, Los Angeles-based group stood apart from the folk-rock movement of Southern California and the peace and flower power bands of San Francisco. In exploring death, doom, fear, and sex, their music reflected the hedonistic sid...
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Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia
2,015 wordsGrateful Dead I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, you " re gonna give your love to me, I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. You know my love not fade away, not fade away! -- Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead (Skull-Fuck and Roses), 1971 In the summer of 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stopped touring. For thirty years, their concerts served as a gathering place for a diverse group of followers, nicknamed Deadheads. Coming from all walks of life,...
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Mozart Child
396 wordsNINE BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES Out of all musical artists known today, Ludwig Van Beethoven is right at the top of popularity and stardom. Though his life didn? t start this way, as did Mozart? s, Beethoven increased in knowledge and musical ability as he was taught by some of the best composers of his time. Beethoven? s child life was not a very happy one in many circumstances. His father, Johann, even though being a singer in the Electoral Chapel in Bonn, Germany, where Beethoven was born, had a ne...
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Eternal Life Jesus God
853 wordsTheatre Critique On the night of April 19, 2000, I attended Godspell, written by John-Michael Tebelak, and produced by the Gainesville Alliance Theatre. It was a musical based on the gospel according to St. Matthew. The director chose to add a modern twist to the classic production. The beginning began with us mothers too busy for anything other than work, the alcoholic, a child without her father, children captivated by video games and rock star boys everyday people with problems and obsessions...
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One Of The Greatest Taj Mahal
458 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was one of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700 - 1750) and, during his lifetime, perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. Handel was born February 24, 1685, in Halle, Germany, to a family of no musical background. His own musical talent, however, began to show before his tenth birthday. He received lessons from a local organist, the only musical instruction he would ever have. His first job was as church organist ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach Years Of His Life
1,855 wordsJohann Johann Sebastian Bach Biography Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia. Thuringia is a central province of Germany. He was born into a family that had a history and a future of prominent composers. Johann Ambrosius, a town musician and father to Johann Sebastian, was the first to get Bach interested in music. He learned how to play many instruments at a young age from his father. When his father died he moved to Ohrdruf to live with his brother Johann Chri...
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Avant Garde John Coltrane
1,482 wordsJohn William Coltrane John Coltrane was one of the major innovators of contemporary jazz and the New Wave, which was a movement of more freedom in improvisation. John William Coltrane, b. Hamlet, N. C. , Sept. 23, 1926, d. July 17, 1967, is considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the past 35 years (only Miles Davis comes close), one of the greatest saxophonists of all time, and a remarkable innovator. Coltrane is a very interesting person because he traversed many styles of play...
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Colorado Springs Music Industry
549 wordsMusicmaniaThe Colorado Music Conference (CMC) is a musical event that offers the opportunity to learn everything about a variety of topics in the music industry. CMC, sponsored by Kevin Dudley, offers seminars, exhibitions, showcases, and products that can help one to get connected to other professionals in the business. This sensational event was held the weekend of May 30 th, 31 st, and June 1 st, 1997, at the Red Lion Inn, which is located at 501 Camino Del Rio in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ...
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Hip Hop Culture Older Generations
2,510 wordsHip Hop &# 038; The Origin of Rap Music Nowadays if you ask most people to give a definition of rap, theyre likely to state that its the reciting of rhymes to the best of music. Its a form of expression that finds its roots imbedded deep within ancient African culture and oral tradition. Throughout history here in America there has always been some form of verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes within the Afro-American community. Signifying, testifying, Shining of the Titanic, the Dozens...
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Listen To Music Aaron Copland
317 wordsIn Aaron Copland Purpose Music In Aaron Copland s essay How We Listen to Music, he examines the three ways people listen to music. He calls the ways we listen to music planes. The three planes he examines are the Sensuous Plane, Expressive Plane, and Sheerly Musical Plane (400). He uses examples of each plane and how people use it. The Sensuous Plane is used just for the pleasure of musical sound. People turn it on just to have something fill the air with sound. He says people use music to escap...
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