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Front Foot Upper Body Bat
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Female Personnel Conducting Style Choir
768 wordsEnsemble size: Approximately 20 members Division of parts: The music structure sounded like it was in four or five parts. There were 7 sopranos, 6 altos, 1 tenor and 4 basses singing on this occasion. Layout: To the left of the conductor were the sopranos, infront of the conductor was the tenor and behind the tenor were the basses, that just leaves the altos who were to the right. (see fig 1) Sopranos (7), Tenor (1) Altos (6) Repertoire: All Creatures Now J. Bennet, Of All The Birds That I Do Kn...
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Cycles Per Second Sound Waves
739 wordsResonance and Sound Physics and Music Since sound is the medium of music, most of the physics of music is the physics of sound. It's important to remember that sound waves are compression waves. You can imitate a compression wave by stretching out a slinky (you do have a slinky, don't you? ) and flicking your finger against a coil at the end. Sound waves are not like the waves on the ocean or the waves you get by waving a stretched-out rope. Take a tuning fork (you do have a tuning fork, don't y...
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Tuvan Throat Singing Fundamental Lower Pitch Sound
1,265 wordsThroat singing is a unique method of singing, or vocal art in which a singer can simultaneously sing, creating two, sometimes three or four notes. This miraculous method of singing is exercised by a number of Asian tribes, and a rich tradition survives in Tuvan. Located deep in Siberia surrounded by grasslands, forests and mountains, the presence of humans is rare, in fact the whole population numbers only 150, 000. The people who occupy this land, seem to be one with nature, and have a deep her...
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Hornby Uses Hyperbole Plays A Very Important Part Life
1,524 wordsThe purpose of this essay is to discuss the theme of loyalty within Fever Pitch and how Nick Hornby does so by use of humour, characterisation and setting. The genre of this novel is that of humour. Fever Pitch is a book that has no chapters but a series of match reports that fall into three time frames within the authors life childhood, adolescence and manhood. The time span ranges from 1968 to 1992 The novel is an autobiography about the author, Nick Hornby, a memoir of a life devoted to Arsen...
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Frame Of Mind End Of Time
1,242 words... vers, when practising. Messiaen also used poly rhythmic structures and rhythmic pedals and they form the basis to the cello and piano parts in movement 1 of the Quatuor, Liturgie de Crystal. The separation of pitches and rhythms is a noteworthy feature of the music and was to form an important idea in the development of some styles of twentieth-century composition. If a rhythmic pattern does not reoccur with the same pitch pattern as before, the piece technically becomes difficult to play. I...
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World Cup One Day
951 wordsEverybody knows that soccer is the most played game in the world but very few people know that the second most played game after soccer is cricket. Cricket had it origin in 700 A. D. Baseball was derive from cricket. The word cricket came from French word cri quit. Most of people who dont know about cricket think cricket is very complicated game but it is not true. Cricket is a very simple game if one knows these simple rules. If anyone wants to know how cricket is played he must first know some...
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Negro Leagues Black Baseball Life
1,861 words... law broadcasting contracts were started, teams relied almost fully on ticket sales to pay their expenses, spring training, travel, player salaries, stadium repairs, and make a profit. Attendance was always higher for winning teams, and Rickey was not alone in believing that African-American players could improve his team. The Dodgers played well with black stars like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe. In a 1955 interview in the Rickey Papers, Rickey said that his belief in eq...
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Major League Baseball Testosterone Levels
1,479 wordsMark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals steps to the plate as the Major League season of 1998 is winding down. McGwire, who has been chasing the single season home run record, has sixty home runs. One more will tie him with Roger Maris, the all time single season home run record holder. McGwire awaits the pitch from the opposing pitcher. Its a little outside, ball one. He steps out of the batters box to regain composure. He wipes the sweat from his brow and steps in for pitch number two. This pi...
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Octave Johnston 1989 Based On Pythagorean Music
1,360 words"Music 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 ...
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Octave Johnston 1989 Based On Pythagorean Musical
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Poetic Devices Poem
1,663 wordsComparison Essay? If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness, When everything is as it was in my childhood? This statement in the? Ode? is a common theme between the two poems. The poems being If I Could Only Live At The Pitch That Is Near Madness by Richard Eberhart and Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood written by William Wordsworth. A contrast between the two poems is the time period which both these poems were written. The romantic period verses...
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Back And Forth Sound Waves
694 wordsChristian Johann Doppler, born November 29, 1803 in Salzburg, Austria died March 17, 1853 in Venice. Christian Doppler an Austrian Physicist who first described how the detected frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This aspect became known as the Doppler Effect. Christian was educated at the Polytechnic al Institute in Vienna. Doppler became director of the physical Institute and professor of experimental physics of the University ...
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Hearing Loss Paying Attention
1,121 wordsThe ear is the organ of hearing and balance in vertebrates. The ear converts sound waves in the air, to nerve impulses which are sent to the brain, where the brain interprets them as sounds instead of vibrations. The innermost part of the ear maintains equilibrium or balance. The vestibular apparatus contains semicircular canals which in turn balance you. Any movement by the head, and this apparatus sends a signal to the brain so that your reflex action is to move your foot to balance you. The e...
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Left Hand Long Time
1,105 wordsInstruments of the Orchestra Strings: The viola is an important member of the orchestra, but is not often heard by itself. Because it is bigger than the violin, with longer strings, it makes a rich, warm sound that is lower in pitch. In contrast to the viola the violin is the smallest member of the string family. Because its strings are the shortest, it produces the highest sound. The viola is a little heavier, and its shape is slightly different, too. But it is still played on the violist? s le...
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Cause And Effect Argument
1,589 wordsEssay 2 First we will consider the assigned baseball scenario under Leibniz? s system of metaphysics. In the baseball scenario, the aggregate of the player, bat, pitch, swing and all the other substances in the universe are one and all contingent. There are other possible things, to be sure; but there are also other possible universes that could have existed but did not. The totality of contingent things, the bat, the player, etc. , themselves do not explain themselves. Here Leibniz involves the...
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Sammy Sosa Roger Maris
983 wordsA Season for the Ages Hes 65, and roughly 250 lbs, and for the most part he is about as average as you or me. Almost except for one major thing, he is the record holder of the most prestigious record in all of pro sports. His name is Mark McGwire and the record is his 70 homerun's, shattering the old record held by the Minnesota native named Roger Maris. On the Major League Baseballs final day of the season Mark McGwire hit two mammoth homerun's to give him 70 on the year, an astonishing 1 home ...
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Cast Iron Common Place
2,441 wordsI-How Does Gears Work? You see gears in just about everything that has spinning parts. For example, car engines and transmissions contain lots of gears. Gears are generally used for one of four different reasons: 1 - To reverse the direction of rotation. 2 - To increase or decrease the speed of rotation. 3 - To move rotational motions to a different axis. 4 - keep the rotation of two axis synchronized. Most of the gears you see in real life have teeth. The teeth have three advantages: 1 - They p...
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Hip Hop Culture Men And Women
988 wordsRunning Head: MUSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RAP Musical Characteristics of Rap Paper 1 Jesse Lipscomb e Morehouse College Musical Characteristics of Rap Hip-hop culture, once confined to the streets has broken into the commercial realm with force. Hip hop records top the charts week after week, rap videos have taken control of MTV, BET and the BOX, and there are dozens of hip hop magazines on the newsstands. A stroll on any city street in the United States reveals the proliferation of hip-hop style...
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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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