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Aaron Copland Jazz Musicians
643 wordsNot only was Aaron Copland a great American composer, he was a great composer worldwide. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York in a very drab neighborhood. He was influenced by jazz musicians and French composers. He made many remarkable contributions to the world of music and worked to make music more enjoyable to the everyday listener. His major works are not only world famous, but world-appreciated. Aaron Copland was born in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the youngest of all of the children in...
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Ray Kroc Oak Park
1,166 wordsGRINDING IT OUT: The Making of McDonalds Mr. Kroc sold paper cups for Lily Tulip Cup company for seventeen years at $ 35. 00 a week and played piano part time to support his wife and children in the early twenties. He was born in Oak Park, Chicago Ill. His father Louis Kroc left school in the eight grade to work for Western Union and steadily but slowly worked his way op the company ladder. His nick name was Danny Daydreamer he like to just sit and think so his mother started calling him Danny D...
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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
1,424 words... lly redefined the way to improvise in a song, and it is full of creative and unique musical ideas, also called "licks." Famous people such as the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the drummer Max Roach created bebop during the 40 s and the Postwar Decades, which was definitely a big leap for jazz. This style of jazz is less restricted, and improvisation involved longer phrases, more choruses, and more emotions. Modal jazz, also called free jazz, has no rules at a...
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Leopold Mozart
1,755 wordsthe son of Leopold Mozart, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and much the reason behind's Wolfgang's education. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich. Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour, including two weeks at...
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End Of Time Prisoner Of War
1,223 wordsan account of the technical and interpretative challenges presented to performers in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) played a significant part in the evolution of twentieth-century music, influencing a number of other composers with his innovative compositional techniques. The Quartet for the End of Time, is not one of Messiaen's typical works due to the circumstances in which it was composed (his main outputs were organ, orchestral and choral works), but i...
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Criminal Penalties Software Industry
2,001 wordsIn 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $ 15. 2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $ 5. 1 billion in the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due to software crime, as high as $ 4. 7 trillion. On the next page is a regional breakdown of software piracy losses for 1994. Estimates show that over 40 percent of North American software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software indust...
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The Role Of Technology In Kurt Vonnegut Writing
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concertos
1,394 wordsI. Biographical Info A. Early Childhood B. Teenage Years C. Main Career D. Late Career II. Affects and Influences of Character A. Influences on Other Composers B. Personality Issues C. Relationships D. Music To Boost Brain Power E. Study of Rats and Mozart F. Ending Conclusion III. Assessment and Evaluation A. Greatness of a Man B. His Ideals C. Mozart and Saleiri D. The Legacy Lives On. Chapter I Mozart's Prodigious Life Without a doubt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born January 27, 1756, in Salzbur...
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Traditional American Great Day
469 wordsOn Wednesday, May 23 rd, I attended the Union College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksong's. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Forum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs. The firs...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Les Mis
1,419 wordsClassical Concert Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. He was born to an overbearing and ambitious father, Leopold, who was more than anxious to exploit his sons extraordinary musical gifts. Mozart began composing at an early age, and he began touring around the same time. Throughout his life, Mozart made many enemies, many his own fault, through his naive arrogance and harsh critique of his musical contemporaries. He worked feverishly, composing symphonies...
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Rise Above Ignorance Classified As Insane Lawyer
1,412 words? You are mad, and gone the wrong way. You take falsehood for truth and ugliness for beauty. ? lawyer from A. C. ? s? The Bet? Through analyzing this excerpt from the story of? The Bet? by Anton Chekhov, one can sense the imprisoned lawyer criticizing the banker of being ignorant and insane. What exactly does it mean to be insane or ignorant? By definition, for one to be classified as insane, they would have the inability to mediate with reality attila. The definition of ignorance can be grasped...
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Love Scenes Good Music Jazz
493 wordsSinger / pianist Diana Krall got her musical education when she was growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, from the classical piano lesson she began at age four and in her high-school jazz band, but mostly from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made, she said, and I tried to learn them all. In 1981 Krall won a Vancouver Jazz scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After a year and a ha...
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Ray Kroc Oak Park
1,187 wordsGRINDING IT OUT: The Making of McDonalds By Ray Kroc and Robert Anderson Mr. Kroc sold paper cups for Lily Tulip Cup company for seventeen years at $ 35. 00 a week and played piano part time to support his wife and children in the early twenties. He was born in Oak Park, Chicago Ill. His father Louis Kroc left school in the eight grade to work for Western Union and steadily but slowly worked his way op the company ladder. His nick name was Danny Daydreamer he like to just sit and think so his mo...
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1,236 wordsIgor Igor Stravinsky IGOR STRAVINSKY Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20 th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father...
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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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Story Of An Hour Kate Chopin
2,472 wordsKate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800? s. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of death, she still lived as happy a life as she could by writing in such a bold and daring way. Kate Chopin was born as Catherine O? Flaherty. She was born July 12, 1850. She is the daughter of Thomas and Eliza O...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leopold Mozart
2,537 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Early Years European Tours (1756 176 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as he is generally known, was baptized in a Salzburg Cathedral on the day after his birth as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus. The first and last given names come from his godfather Joannes Theophilus Pergmayr, although Mozart preferred the Latin form of this last name, Amadeus, more often And, or the Italiano Amadeo, and occasionally the Deutsch Gottlieb. Whatever the case may be, he rarely if ever us...
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Romantic Poet Romantic Movement
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