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Bye Bye American Pie
617 words
Bye Bye, Miss American Pie. Hello, Madonna "Bye
Bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the
levee, but the levee was dry"American Pie", sung
by Don McLean, was originally released in 1971.
The song was written as a tribute to Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper who died
tragically in a plane crash on February 3, 1959.
"American Pie" not only pays homage to three
talented musicians, but also serves as an allegory
to the history of music. Although the original
song was written about ...
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Music Industry Mp 3
452 words
Napster is an ongoing controversy on the Web.
Napster is a software program that allows anyone
to find their favorite music by connecting them to
the computers of millions of other users. It is
the simplest way to find the MP 3 s they want,
whenever they want, and share them with the
world's largest community of music lovers. An
estimated 20 million people have used Napster
since it came out last year. With all the people
who support Napster, there are just as many that
want to see it shut down....
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Aaron Copland Jazz Musicians
643 words
Not 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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Wal Mart T Shirt
465 words
Music is a form of expression and, like all forms
of expression, is protected by first amendment
rights. So, it would be unconstitutional for the
government to censor it. Music censorship has
tormented our generations society since the rap
groups of the early eighties. With their sexual
lyrics and explicit content, they were the first
to be labeled as indecent and explicit. Censorship
has always been around in some form or another,
but there has been a lot of dispute over what
censorship is exac...
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Three Or Four Fifteenth Century
358 words
The strongest composers of the fifteenth century
were primarily located in the north. So the best
musicians tended to come from countries like
France, England, and Germany. Since Florence was
an "international headquarters" it had strong
commercial links with the north. This made it very
easy to trade ideas and because of this a new
musical expression made its way to Italy. The
frottola was a popular form of music that was
primarily developed in Florence. It was a setting
of an entertaining or s...
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Rap Artists Hip Hop
676 words
Controversy has always been a prominent
characteristic of popular music throughout the
twentieth century. Whether it be the controversy
surrounding Elvis's winging hips, the Doors's
uggestive lyrics, or Alice Cooper's stage antics,
this controversy always seems to be followed by
undue criticism from the media. One form of
musical expression that has been in the news
recently because of its negative attention is
hip-hop. Rap, a relatively new form of musical
exposition, has been criticized for it...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
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... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and
the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured
some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working
in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two
years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and
the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43.
Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and
the three years following, Hawkins appeared in
only one commercial recording session. However, in
the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the
end of ' 44,...
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Berkshire Music Center Stravinsky And Ravel Koussevitzky
506 words
The 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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Men And Women Make A Difference
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Many large concerts occurred throughout America in
the summer of 1969, but none were as well known
and symbolic as Woodstock. Its impact on Americas
culture and society as well as its youth will not
be forgotten for many years to come. Four men
named Michael Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts,
and Joel Rosen man originally established
Woodstock. The mens initial idea for the festival
was to promote the idea of a new recording studio
in Bethel, New York, which is where the event
actually took pl...
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Bach And Handel Beethoven
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Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel
were two of the most important composers of the
Baroque Period. Compare and contrast their lives
and sacred musical works studied in class. Johann
Sebastian Bach and George Friderick Handel are two
of the most important composers of the Baroque
period. Born only one month apart both in Germany.
Handel lived nine more years than Bach. Coming
from the same period the two composers have many
qualities that are alike and some unlike. These
qualities ...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Rising Sun
614 words
Born James Marshall Hendrix, on November 27, 1942,
in Seattle, Washington. Often called the greatest
guitarist of all time, Hendrix pioneered the
explosive popularity of the electric guitar.
Hendrix's unique style of combining fuzz, feedback
and controlled distortion created a new musical
form Hendrix's legacy grew far beyond the wide
popularity he achieved during his short career. He
taught himself to play guitar as an adolescent,
learning from the albums of bluesman like Muddy
Waters and B. B....
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Elizabethan Period People Music
434 words
During the Elizabethan period, Europe was going
through the Renaissance. Their culture and way of
life was emerging from the Middle Ages into their
peak of advancements. Also, their lives were very
different from ours. They listened to different
kinds of music and found other ways of enjoyment
such as dancing. The food they ate is also very
unusual from ours. Their culture was very unique
and different, and their history still remains
with us. Depending on ones place in society, there
would be d...
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Diego Ca Greenhaven San Diego Ca
1,135 words
Music censorship has been a major problem plaguing
America for over fifty years. In 1957, Elvis
Pressley was only allowed to be filmed from the
waist up on the Ed Sullivan show (Nuzum 1). Plenty
of controversy has taken places between then and
now, but more recently it has become much more
prominent in the media, and people and
organizations are beginning to actually take a
stand. For example, Island Records (owned by
Disney) dropped the Insane Clown Posse just after
their release of The Great M...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Great Musical Ability Music
513 words
The Life of Mozart In his time, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart influenced classical music greatly,
astounding many with his remarkable genius. This
musical giant composed over 600 sonatas,
concertos, sonatinas, minuets, librettos,
serenades, oratorios, cantatas, operas and
symphonies, and is one of the most remembered and
revered musicians of his time. Mozart's life was
one filled with talent, music and suffering. The
young maestro displayed a great musical ability at
an early age. Johannes Chrysostom ...
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Dollars A Year Run On The Bank Jurgis
778 words
The book begins with two people getting married,
Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Radius Two Lithuanian
immigrants who have recently arrived in Chicago.
They have the wedding in the traditional
Lithuanian style. Following the wedding there is a
large celebration held near the Chicago
stockyards. Food, beer, and music fill the hall.
Following Lithuanian tradition, hungry people
lingering in the doorway are invited inside to eat
their fill. The musicians play badly but, do to
the general festivity, no on...
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Aix La Chapelle Italian Opera
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Handel, George Frideric b. Feb. 23, 1685, Halle,
Saxony [Germany] d. April 14, 1759, London, Eng.
German (UNTIL 1715) GEORG FRIEDRICH H? NDEL, OR
HAENDEL German-born English composer of the late
Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas,
oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote
the most famous of all oratorios, the Messiah
(1741), and is also known for such occasional
pieces as Water Music (1717) and Music for the
Royal Fireworks (1749). Life. The son of a
barber-surgeon, Handel s...
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Country Music Pop Music
758 words
During the past seventy years, country music has
gone through many changes. On the other hand,
country music has always dealt with real issues of
ordinary people. Country music comes from simple
stories of everyday life. Country was once limited
to the rural South and Southwest but is now
successful throughout all of the United States.
The first country artists became widely known and
achieved popularity in the late 1920? s. The two
most important figures at this time were Jimmie
Rodgers and the...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
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Most of the early music that we have today still
in print is primarily sacred music. This music,
for the most part, is in the form of sections of
the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei.
Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants
who worked all day for meager wages and had no
idle time lounging the way the upper classes did.
Therefore, there are few extant secular
compositions of music from this era. The rise of a
new middle class, however, gave financial freedom
for some people...
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Love For Juliet Benvolio And Mercutio
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Act Scene 1: One morning in Verona, two young
servants of Capulet, Sampson and Gregory are
joking around with each other with puns and
friendly teasing. Suddenly they are confronted by
Abraham and Balthasar, two servants of Montague.
The mild joking and humor soon turn bitter,
aggressive, and dangerous between the foes. It is
not long before a fight inevitably breaks out.
Benvolio, the nephew of Montague comes in and
tries breaks it up, but ends up fighting with the
hot-tempered Tybalt, and a ri...
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Television Stations Young Adults
678 words
Todays Youth: Playing the guitar A recent trend
that seems to be prevalent in the youth of our
society today is the desire to play an instrument.
I am a musician and want to help explain from
others experience as well as my own why playing an
instrument is so popular among teens today. My
father and other friends of his generation suggest
that instrument playing has always been popular,
but its popularity seems to have increased
dramatically over the past 25 years. Testaments
such as these compe...
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