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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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Mozart Composed G Minor
903 wordsProbably the greatest genius in Western musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Part. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Wolfgang began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9. When he was 6, he and his older sister, Maria Anna, performed a series of concerts to Europe's courts and major cities. Both children played the keybo...
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Lot Of People Tupac Shakur
1,100 wordsSince the late 1980 's rap music has been called the Anti Christ in our culture, because of it's so-called influence in people's life. People swear up and down that the music is why people, specially the youth resort to violent crimes. I think by saying this they are trying to cover up the real truth by giving simple answers. Rap is defined as a style of popular music consisting of improvised rhymes performed to a rhythmic accompaniment. The first rap song was made in the late 70 's, the songs w...
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Grateful Dead Short Term
1,472 wordsIn a house sits a man with no mind. Heart beating, lungs wheezing, mouth agape, and eyes wide open. He is not someone who has a condition; his condition is something chooses, something that is the result of a hallucinogen. Compared to the 60 s and 70 s today's society is able to get stronger forms of hallucinogens. Stronger hallucinogens mean stronger effects. Hallucinogens take a toll on the body and the mind that a person would never think about. That's how they got the name hallucinogen. The ...
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Jimi Hendrix Rock 'n' Roll Legend
1,220 words... second album, Axis: Bold As Love, came a year later in December 1967 after much hard work. The original album recording was lost, and deadlines caused the band to have to remix it in its entirety in just under eleven hours ("Jimi", Rolling 45). It was certified platinum, and Hendrix gained even more loyal supporters. He was completely dedicated to his music and not only slept with his guitar but also spent his every waking moment playing it (Wolters, "Discography"). He had already begun work...
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Fell In Love Main Theme
1,471 wordsFrederic Francois Chopin was born in Zelazowa-Will, near Warsaw, Poland. No one is exactly sure about his birth date; he was born on February 22 or March 1, 1810. He was very gifted when it came to music and was playing the piano in public by the time he was eight years old. Soon after that he was composing music! When he was about sixteen, he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and went to school there from 1826 to 1829. He left Poland in 1830 and settled in Paris in 1831. He lived in Paris for ...
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Symphony Orchestra Principal Flute Galway
494 wordsJames Galway was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on December 8, 1939. As a child, he began playing the penny whistle and the mouth organ before switching to flute. At the age of ten, he was the winner of all three classes of the Irish Flute Championships, which earned him a BBC radio session, as well as a spot in the Belfast Youth Orchestra. He continued studying the flute at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music, and eventually landed a scholarship at the Paris Conserva...
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B 2 C Wide Range
1,204 wordsIndustry and Company Being the music lover that I am, it is important to me to stay up to date with the bands I follow as well as be able to find good places to see live music. This becomes a difficulty when traveling abroad as I am this summer. However, with the ease of the internet and the e-business strategy of Jambase. com, I am able to find current news, music merchandise and concerts most anywhere in the modern industrialized world. With the slogan Go see live music, Jambase seeks to promo...
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Rap Music Family Values
565 wordsRap music influences children in several different ways these days. Many people feel it can persuade people to do violent acts or sets a bad example. The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) says that, listening to rap music leads to antisocial behavior like juvenile delinquency, breakup of the family, rise in satanic cults, and teen suicide. (PMRC# 3) Many suicides and cases of adolescent depression are blamed on a certain bands songs and or images. Others blame music for what people consider b...
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Popular Music Young People
1,629 words... Australia, will reflect what it is like living in a while, racist society. In the UK reggae is listened to by three or four generations of West Indians giving them all a common bond to their ethnicity. While in Australia, Aborigines and their families, have a particular attraction to Country and Western music despite its American origins. Country music emphasises past values and thrives on the identification of the rural ideal (Frith 1983, p. 26). This identification with the land may allow ...
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Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia
2,056 words... of "being there, " the traditions and shared experiences are sent pulsing along the wires. But I'll still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name. And brave the storm to come, for it surely looks like rain. -- Bob Weir, Ace, 1972 The end of the tour and dispersion of the group has elicited a variety of responses from within the Deadheads community. They are an artistic, articulate group and have much to say on what the "end of the era" has meant. This response sums it up bes...
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Couple Of Years Haile Selassie
1,738 wordsBob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley) was born on 6 February 1945 in Nine Miles in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica. His father (Normal Sinclair Marley) was a English marine-officer and his mother (Cedella City Malcom) was a native Jamaican who lived in Rhoden Hall. After Bob was born, his father left his mother. When Bob was five, his father took him to Kingston. One year later Bob saw his mother again. A couple of years later Bob and his mother moved to Trench Town (West-Kingston) because his mother ...
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Pill To Make Marilyn Manson Music
647 wordsHey Mr. Superstar This band is a twist of Iggy Pop, KISS, and Alice Copper. Starting in south Florida as a small industrial Goth band, Marilyn Manson has changed the main stream music of today. They have come to be a leader and paved the way for other shock-rock bands. Just coming out with his fifth album this week, he will continue reaching out to rebellious teenagers that need some sort of support. Marilyn Manson has been hitting charts because of their songs and lyrics, show performances, and...
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Piano Sonatas String Quartets
1,089 wordsThe son of a wheelwright, he was trained as a choirboy and taken into the choir at St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, where he sang from circa 1740 to circa 1750. He then worked as a freelance musician, playing the violin and keyboard instruments, accompanying for singing lessons given by the composer Porpora, who helped and encouraged him. At this time he wrote some sacred works, music for theatre comedies and chamber music. In circa 1759 he was appointed music director to Count Morning; but he so...
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Jerry Garcia Pied Piper
2,143 wordsJerry Jerry Garcia Alex Walker Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead Rock Legends of the 60 s and 70 s Walker 2 Jerry Garcia s life was filled with wonderful things, many of which he never expected in the first place. After an almost fatal heroin overdose in 1986, Garcia philosophically stated, I m 45 years old, I m ready for anything, I didn t even plan on living this long so all this shit is just add-on stuff. (Garcia) This attitude shows why Garcia did all of the things he did and even how some ...
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Judy Garland Sleeping Pills
1,072 wordsJudy Garland Judy Garland was one of the most talented actress / singers of the 1940 s. Judy received a special Academy Award and was nominated for two others. She stared in thirty of her own television shows which earned ten Emmy Award nominations. She also received five Grammys for her dozen record albums. Perhaps it was her stardom that ended her life early, Judy died of an overdose of sleeping pills just two weeks after her forty-seventh birthday. It was determined an accidental death, but c...
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1,270 wordsMusic has been a great influence in the lives of many people through lyrics and rhythm. There are many different styles that can be performed by either a male or female. Music has been around for many years and is constantly changing. Music has been divided into six periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Twentieth Century. Music is written in symbols that represent musical sounds. The system of written symbols is called Musical Notation. " The primary requirement of any not...
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Pulitzer Prize Grass Roots
2,197 wordsBook Reports: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943 In their books: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943, Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis give a detailed account of the life of one of America? s most influential composers. The books are arranged similarly to the Shostakovich biography that our class reviewed earlier this semester. That is, through personal accounts by Copland himself along with accounts of Copland? s friends and acquaintances, the authors manage to pai...
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Age Of Seven Life And Times
2,381 wordsThe 1830 s have been called " the decade of the piano" because during that period the piano and the music written for it played a dominant role in European musical culture. The piano had, of course, already been popular for more than half a century, but by the third decade of the nineteenth century, changes in the instrument and its audience transformed the pianos role in musical life. As the Industrial Revolution hit its stride, piano manufacturers developed methods for building many ...
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Type Of Music Rock And Roll
1,582 wordsThe Music Made Me Do It Music has a huge impact on the everyday lives of individuals in America today. It is an important part of the sociological self, which causes a person to feel and act in a certain manner. Sensual guitar playing, a suggestive song, hard rock power chords, or a tune from the past are all highly powerful forces in shaping ones actions. I have taken a particular interest in the way that different genres of music affect students actions at this university. This paper will take...
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