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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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1,101 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for "harpsichord with soft and loud"). It was built by Bartolomeo ...
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Solo Album First Single
576 words100, 000 people gathered in front of hide's house on May 2 nd. "His sudden death suprised me. I still can't believe it. He now sleeps with an beautiful face. I tried waking him up, but, he still lays still, " says Yoshiki, the leader of hide's earlier band, X-Japan. On May 2 nd, he was found dead. It was an accidental suicide when he was massaging his neck with an rope. He was carried to the hospital unconscious but announced dead same day 8: 52 pm. Too bad that he died. He surely was revolution...
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19 Th Century Man Named
1,164 words... nd down in relation to the keyboard. Both instruments were surprisingly similar the two having not ever met each other. Yet neither instrument achieved much recognition. As always a person had come up with an idea and in trying to create a small piano with as much force and quality of a grand ended up in failure. But not as bad as one may think for in 1811 Robert Worn created a meter tall upright piano, he developed what was called the console piano, later designed by Player and Pape who it ...
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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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1,235 wordsProbably the most popular, influential and enduring rock group of all time, the Beatles almost single-handedly reshaped rock 'n' roll from a genre of throwaway singles by faceless stars to an artistic medium with memorable images and idols. The Beatles placed the emphasis on a group, rather than a single individual, like Frank Sinatra or Elvis. They also set an example for all rock n roll bands to follow with their strong sense of self-determination, going against their record company and manage...
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Piece Featured An Oboe Piece Was Chester Song
371 wordsThe Wind Symphony preformed on Monday, October 11 at 8: 00 p. m. at the Walton Arts Center in Baum-Walker Hall. The performance lasted one hour and thirty minuets and consisted of six pieces. The first piece was Variations for Wind Band by Ralph Vaughn Williams. All the instruments tuned to the oboe then they started the English piece. The Bass and symbols came in first and was very loud. The song reminded me of the movie ''Raiders of the Lost Ark. '' The feeling was mysterious and I liked it. T...
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The History Of Rave Music
1,005 wordsThe history of Rave Music is quite interesting. It has been around for decades. Some enjoy it, some dont. There is some conflict as to where Rave Music actually started. Some people, non-ravers most likely, ask what is Rave Music? Rave Music is made up of technologically advanced beats that are mixed with other beats to form music. Rave Music has a culture of its own, as so does any other music type. The history of Rave Music is hard to sum up, but here it goes... The controversy in Who started ...
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Teacher Crisis Effects Of Classroom Management
1,002 wordsChildren are very good at reading attitudes, especially when it is an "I don't care" attitude. When they get a sense that an adult does not care about them learning, they think, "Well why should I care. " This is the reason for looking at the teacher crisis and its effects on classroom management. How does this crisis affect classroom management and what can be done to solve this issue? Management according to the dictionary is defined as the act of directing and controlling the affairs of busin...
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986 wordsJimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer was as original or as influential in such a short span of time as Jimi Hendrix. Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring and inventive virtuosos in rock history, Hendrix pioneered the electric guitar (he played a right- handed Fender Stratocaster his Electric Ladyupside-down and left- handed) as an electronic sound source capable of feedback, distortion, and a host of other effects that could be crafted into an articulate ...
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963 wordsMusic La Boheme La Boheme Music affects our emotions and has much to do with our everyday lives. Music has always and will be a part of my life. I would have to say that without music there is no life something is missing in our lives without music. If there were no music society we would only have people speaking to each other, and there would be no entertainment. The form of musical entertainment that I attended was the opera, La Boheme, composed by Giacommo Puccini and Libretto by Giuseppe an...
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Mental Illness Chemical Imbalance
1,116 wordsMental illness can be found in individuals all over the world, it is a disorder that does not discriminate against race, sex or religion. Mental illness does not base its self in one particular area of the world. There are many forms of mental illness according to medical journals used by psychiatrist. According to those psychiatrists, psychosis is the most severe form of mental illness. Individuals diagnosed as psychotic are said to have a brain disorder or chemical imbalance. There is the beli...
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1,113 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for harpsichord with soft and loud). It was built by Bartolomeo Cr...
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Met The Band Jason Newstead Metallica
597 wordsMetallica was a Metallica Introduction Metallica was a band that that started out in the garage of one of the members when they were in high school. The band went through many changes and tragedies and found solutions for them and somehow remained playing. They started in 1980 as one of the first, if not the first Black/Metal band. Their popularity decreased in 1987 and form there they went on to become really popular later on. Summary Metallica started playing in 1980 and are still a band to th...
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Miles Dewey Davis Birth Of The Cool Sound
1,353 wordsEven in the beginning he was already miles ahead. Its very evident that Miles knew and lived by that old axiom if its named, then its outmoded. Miles Dewey Davis was born May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois and grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records and for his 13 th birthday was given his first trumpet. Miles family was very fortunate and what you would call apart of the upper class during the Roaring 20 s and the great depression. Miles father Dr. Miles Dewey Davis has 3 degrees in his...
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Prized Possession System One
538 wordsWhat is a prized possession? Some people might tell you it is something that a person holds dear to them. This is true, but a prized possession is much more than that. It is something that is a part of you, and if it is missing, you are not complete. Such is true with my prized possession, which I could not bear to live without. The beauty of my possession is unparalleled. Its silver color gives it a mystical and stealthy appearance in the twilight. The magnesium alloy feet provide strength thro...
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Oxford English Dictionary Put An End
1,048 wordsFor thousands of years music has been a major highlight of every culture around the world. Music has been used in diverse ways, ranging from worship to gods, holiday celebrations, to even national identity as in the case of national anthems. Music is without a doubt, man s best friend. It is present in every scenario of human life. It can be heard in the house, in the car, at work, at the store, at church, even to the extent that it is used in the bathroom. Its emotional influence in the lives o...
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Military School First Time
1,385 wordsLife may be easier for them all now, but it never used to be. Max Caveleras, his brother Igor, Andreas Kisser and Paulo Jr. will never forget that. Max and Igor were born in Belo Horizonte into a relatively affluent family, with a father who worked at the Italian embassy. They spent most of their early childhood in Sao Paulo. They were living in a typical middle class setting, when in 1979, the Cavelera's comfortable lifestyle collapsed. Max and Igor's father died of a terribly sudden heart atta...
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