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Falls In Love Jimi Hendrix
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Record Labels Copyright Laws
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Born On December Jim Morrisons
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical Style
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Opera Der Freischtz Konzertstck For Piano German
946 wordsCarl Maria von Weber, a cousin of Mozart's wife Constant, was trained as a musician from his childhood, the son of a versatile musician who had founded his own travelling theatre company. He made a favourable impression as a pianist and then as a music director, notably in the opera-houses of Prague and Dresden. Here he introduced various reforms and was a pioneer of the craft of conducting without the use of violin or keyboard instrument. As a composer he won a lasting reputation with the first...
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Sonny Blues Sonny Brother
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Yoko Ono John Lennon
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Duke Ellington Jazz Musician
1,717 wordsThe Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington D. C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New York City where he started recruiting people for his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz band of ten people but through the thirties and forties that number greatly expanded. He started playing in small nightclubs, theaters, and on the radio. His biggest...
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Past And Present Time And Place
2,208 wordsThe Importance of Sound Theater is an extremely involved and complex production. It encompasses play writing, directing, acting, costume, makeup, scenery, lighting properties, theater architecture, machinery, special effects, management, audiences, and criticism (Brockett-b xi). What this statement fails to include is the element of sound design as a major theatrical consideration. The aspect of sound in the past and present entails so many technical aspects, that it must not be over-looked in a...
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R 038 B Rock And Roll
1,133 wordsHistory of Rock Rock Music is a group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. Rock music began in the United States, but it has influenced and in turn been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country-and-western music, classical music, folk music, electronic music, and the popular music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to its use as a broad designation, the term rock music co...
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Late 19 Th Century 20 Th Century
1,771 wordsUpon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a lifelong study of Jazz or Classical...
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Electric Guitar Young Age
784 wordsWho could imagine that an 81 -year-old man could have changed rock music when he was younger? Well its true, and Les Paul did it. This musician and inventor has sold hundreds of thousands, if not millions of albums. He has also created something that has changed rock and pop history, the solid-body electric guitar. Music and inventing all started before he became famous, when Les Paul was very young. Les Paul was born on June 9, 1915 in Wankesha, Wisconsin. At a very young age, Paul developed a ...
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Sonny Blues Paul Case
1,255 words? I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for. (49)? This thought is what is reflected in both? Sonny? s Blues? by James Baldwin and? Paul? s Case? by Willa Cather. Both Baldwin and Cather illustrate the problem of a young man growing up and taking on the responsibility of finding out who they are and what they want out of life. In these stories the theme is most prevalent, developing the story and helping the reader form their own opinions on how they feel abou...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Amadeus Mozart Music
618 wordsMozart Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart is and was a remarkable musician and composer whose legend continues to grow more than two centuries after his death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold, a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right, decided to give his son, Wolfgang, harpsichord lessons. From day one of his lesso...
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2,473 wordsThe Evolution of a Disc Jockey In The Hip-Hop Culture With the turn of the century, a musical evolution began. The phonograph was part of this musical change. It was a simple musical output device. The role of this musical component was greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the modernistic period. During the modern era, the world was changing from the traditional beliefs of more philosophical, social conscious, scientific ideas. This is when John Cage during the thirties came on...
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Narrative Poems Light Quot
1,121 wordsRobin Riley Fast For many Native American writers, issues of audience and community are vexed by the question of " What is ethical to tell? " Can tradition be offered as a means to commonality with an eclectic audience? These writers might, for example, honor tradition by acknowledging in their writing the stories that are their sources, and in so doing continue the oral tradition that is the ground of Indian cultural survival. On the other hand, cognizant of the opportunities for misu...
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Sonny Blues Brother
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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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Television Stations Young Adults
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