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Avant Garde Civil War
996 wordsJohn Perreault is a musician who lives in Upstate, NY. He started appreciating music at an early age. Banging on pots-and-pans, singing. His grandfather, who was a professional musician, and my supportive parents, drove his interest in music. He was always in chorus. Then when the time came, he took up the bass in fourth grade. He quit the bass playing after three years and didn't do anything musical. He took a few music classes, but played nothing on the side. Then his grandfather passed away i...
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1,500 words... ninety, feelings borne from a life of oppression and hardship, to fuel some of the most moving, emotion filled music ever heard. "His guitar seemed to talk- repeat and say words like no one else in the world could, " recalls one of Roberts former friends. "This sound affected most women in a way I could never understand. One time in St. Louis me and Johnson were playing a party. When we had quit, I noticed no one was saying anything. Then I realized they were crying both women and men" (Finn...
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Song Had A Meter Listen To Jazz Trumpet
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Sit Up And Take Notice Energizer Bunny Batteries
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rock And Roll
2,018 wordsThe 1960 s are said to be the most prolific decade in all of music. Many bands of this decade have proven to have enormous effects on music, as we know it. Jimi Hendrix is said to be the greatest rock and roll guitarist of all time. The greats, like Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana, have all said that he truly made the guitar speak and transformed it into an art. The Doors were true innovators and turned rock into an art form, by skillfully blending rock and poetry. No one can deny that they were...
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A Comparison Of The Baroque And Modern Flutes
2,200 wordsA comparative study of the use of the barque and modern flute in composition, with specific reference to V Sonata IV for flute and continuo by J. S Bach, and Sonata for flute and piano by Hindemith The baroque, or transverse flute is of great interest to me, mainly because of my own flute playing experience. Since listening to a concert which included both a modern orchestra and a baroque orchestra playing together in a specially written composition, and separately, I have considered the baroque...
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Peace Love Unity Thousands Of Dollars
3,595 words... d, in many cases, drugs. It is the rediscovery of music as a spiritual tool. Terrence McKenna is quoted in the song Re: Evolution as saying "the emphasis in [techno] music and rave culture on physiologically compatible rhythms the rediscovery of the art of natural magic with sound, that sound properly understood, especially percussive sound, can actually change neurological states in large groups of people that are getting together in the presence of this music. [They] are creating a telepat...
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Transformational Leaders Charismatic Leadership
1,332 words... ary. Such leaders are often very successful. They have visions and can communicate them successfully to their followers by linking them with the innermost desires of the followers, thus making these visions appealing to the followers and motivating them to work towards the visions. The reason why past research has almost always assumed that if a leader is charismatic, he / she is also a visionary could be that, most of the leaders that were studied by researchers on were very prominent, succ...
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Economies Of Scale Predatory Pricing
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Beats Per Minute Back And Forth
1,232 wordsWhat is a rave? Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. Author Daniel Martin defines a rave as "a long period of constant energetic and stylistic dancing exhibited by a large group of people in a hot, crowded facility providing continuous loud House music and an accompanying strobe lit psychedelic light show" (78). But what effect does the rave scen...
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674 wordsA big portion of the states land is privately owed. There are also some regulations that hunters and fishermen should know when they want to hunt or fish on someones property. It is very tough for hunters to hunt and in some cases for fishermen, who try to get access to a creak or a pond, which is located on private property. In Minnesota, the situation is not so bad. The state has a growing number of Wildlife Management areas and other publicly owned lands, besides leasing did not caught on up ...
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1,363 wordsTransformational Leadership Plan Introduction and Leadership Theory The concepts of leadership and management are interrelated, and in order to succeed in the future career, it is very important to be an effective leader. Although there are many theories of leadership (such as transactional, situational, charismatic, etc), transformational leadership is, evidently, the best leadership theory. According to this theory, people follow the leader who inspires them, and, therefore, in order to get th...
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674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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2,332 wordsComputers and Music Over centuries past, music has seen leaps and bounds in the enhancement of theory, instruments, and recording arts. The first major leap was the invention of the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19 th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were introduced ...
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Cd Players Music Store
1,219 wordsI have been in the disc jockey business since I was fifteen years old, I own many different sets of equiptment and have been to conventions were the new lines are presented. I also work for Pioneer as a company dj representative so I know their line like the back of my hand. For my project I choose to shop around for new equiptment at two stores, with me I brought a friend who knew absolutly nothing about dj equiptment. I was amazed at my findings and it is because of this experiment that I will...
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1,191 wordsJimi Hendrix was one of the most influential musicians in music history. Jimi Hendrix was one of the most exciting and creative guitar players ever. He mixed Blues and Rock & Roll together to create some of the most unique music ever played. Jimi had only four years of fame, but unlike others, has become even bigger in the 20 years after his death. Jimi? s parents, Al Hendrix and Lucille Jeter got married in Seattle, Washington on March 31, 1942. Soon after Johnny (Jimi) Allen Hendrix was bo...
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2,300 wordsPaul Whiteman (1890 - 1967) = a classically trained violinist and violist who adored jazz but lacked the gift to emulate the uninhibited improvisations of the jazz musicians he admired, formed a dance band in the early twenties that played jazzy arrangements of popular and even classical melodies. Blues = a black vocal folk music, began as vocal (largely instrumental). Classical blues = based on 3 lines of text. Wild wame don? t do the blues. Urban Blues = blues pieces written for publication an...
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One Of The Greatest Ive Heard
1,202 wordsMegadeth and Metallica: A Comparison An essay by: Nick Conley Intro Ah yes the age old question, comparing the 2 most influential bands in metal history (of course this is in past tense considering even Metallica has admitted to no longer being a metal band). I write this essay to help give an understanding to those pathetic drones whom remain chained to the oversized bandwagon that are known of as the Metallica fans. I am an experienced musician who has been playing for over 5 years. I have a b...
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20 Th Century Bass Guitar
783 wordsThe nights of April 21 - 22, 1999 in Berkeley, California, The San Francisco Symphony was joined by the rock band, Metallica for a performance at the Berkeley Community Theater. It was conducted by Micheal Kamen. The hall was filled to capacity with both hardcore Metallica fans. Before the concert even started, they were on their feet, cheering for both Metallica and the members of the symphony. The were all dressed in street clothes. Most opted to wear jeans and a Metallica shirt. The members o...
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Song They Played Pop Punk Songs
706 wordsA story about seeing MxPx On November 13 th I went to Tramps in New York to see one of my favorite bands, MxPx. MxPx is a Christian pop-punk band. Pop punk basically means happy punk. The band members, are Mike Herrera who plays bass and sings, Tom Wisniewski who plays guitar and Yuri Rules plays drums. They played about 10 songs, all of which I knew. Some of their songs have to do with society problems through the eyes of a teenager. At the show, the first song they played was one of my favorit...
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