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2000 From The World Wide Traditional Classroom
1,420 wordsHarold Gardner (1983) of Harvard University has identified several kinds of intelligence people possess. Particularly, this finding poses significant implications in classroom instructions. More often than not, children and even adults (who are grown up children) are labeled negatively if and when they manifest either a very fast, slow or no understanding at the entire subject matter. Identifying childrens various strengths among these intelligences will direct the teachers toward more successfu...
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7 Th Century Middle East
1,188 wordsWhen I think about music and what I enjoy about it I think about my home country and the music that I have known all my life. Arabic music is my favorite musical styling. Although I have come to enjoy classical and contemporary styling as well, Arabic music has almost an innate quality of enjoyment for me. I am from the Middle-East and I have known Arabic music for the majority of my life. Its songs speak of the life and culture of Arabic countries and its melody is not commonly heard on America...
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Period Of Time Baroque Era
1,503 wordsThroughout its history, music has developed into cycle. This cycle is a return of fundamental and traditional ideas of an earlier time transposed into the present. It represents a style revolution in which a simple structure further develops to become a more complex system. At this point a revolution begins and a return to the simple, the more traditional form flourishes again. As a chain of events, the cycle is extremely prominent during the change of time periods between the Renaissance and Ba...
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End Of Time Prisoner Of War
1,223 wordsan account of the technical and interpretative challenges presented to performers in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992) played a significant part in the evolution of twentieth-century music, influencing a number of other composers with his innovative compositional techniques. The Quartet for the End of Time, is not one of Messiaen's typical works due to the circumstances in which it was composed (his main outputs were organ, orchestral and choral works), but i...
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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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Double And Multiple Stopping Passages In Double And Multiple Violin
1,079 words... Paganini's artistry in composition and performance were tinted by "rose-colored memories." There is nothing "rose-colored" in the genius of such contemporaries of Paganini as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Berlioz and others, whose reports claim his total mastery as a composer and genius as a performer in absolute terms. It is important to understand Paganini's music in the context of his cultural heritage and his enthusiastic adherence to traditional compositional values. H...
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Swing Era Jazz Musicians
1,432 wordsJazz Jazz is a type of music developed by black Americans about 1900 and possessing an identifiable history and describable stylistic evolution. It is rooted in the mingled musical traditions of American blacks. More black musicians saw jazz for the first time a profession. Since its beginnings jazz has branched out into so many styles that no single description fits all of them with total accuracy. Performers of jazz improvise within the conventions of their chosen style. Improvisation gave jaz...
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Words And Phrases Toni Morrison
2,080 wordsJazz by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison, a brilliant author of Jazz, has been immersed into a wonderful world of music since her very early childhood, which she spent in Lorain, Ohio. Morrisons mother, Ramah Willis, was a true musician, who was a jazz and opera singer and also played piano for a silent movie theatre. Toni was growing up listening to her mothers singing from Ella Fitzgerald and the blues to sentimental Victorian songs and arias from Carmen (Fuel 284). Who knows, may be the years that...
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2,079 words... reminds the Morrisons style of switching from fragmented phrases to run-on, standard and complete sentences. In the same manner, jazz music can be different in its moods, structure, and sounding. Moreover, it seems that the most important idea of jazz is to surprise listeners, to exceed their expectations, to be experimental, rhythmic and harmonic. Morrison, having a very good feeling for the requirements jazz poses on all its imitators, tries to reach the same effect by unusual, non-standar...
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Helpful Book For Music Practicing
763 wordsHelpful Book for Music Practicing I like to listen to music of Schumann and I was wondering how to perform it better. I had found the book that I needed for this purpose. It is Harald Krebs new book, Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann, where the author has put his finger on the pulse of Schumann's rhythm, sensitizing us to a world of rhythmic sensations that theorists normally ignore. And what brings his ideas even more to life is the extraordinary style of prese...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Music
681 wordsWhat is Jazz? According to the dictionary, jazz is defined as, ? A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19 th century? (? Jazz? 232). But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating in the United States (? History 101? 2). America was home to immigrants from all over Europe and beyond who wished to build a new life, or just needed to escape from the old. These people, ofte...
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Pentatonic Scale Child Learns
1,672 wordsCarl Orff's philosophies in Music Education While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20 th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10 th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His fathers regiment band would often play through some of the young Orffsfirst att...
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Pentatonic Scale Child Learns
1,692 wordsWhile Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20 th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10 th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His fathers regiment band would often play through some of the young Orff's first attempts at composing. Although Orff was adam...
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Ginger Williams Dancing Dancing Dancing Dance
340 wordsBy: Ginger Williams Dancing Dancing Dancing By: Ginger Williams Dancing is an act of moving the body in rhythm, usually in time to music. People seem to express their feelings through rhythmic movement. In dancing, people organize the expressive movements of their bodies into rhythmic patterns. Dancing is both an art and a form of recreation. As an art, dance may tell a story, set a mood, or express an emotion. A ballet dancer s movements, for example, can effectively describe the fluttering of ...
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American Culture Art Form
796 wordsJazz Dance Jazz dance is a form of personal expression created and sustained though improvisation has certain defining characteristics, including improvisation, isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that radiates outward from the hips, and a propulsive rhythm that gives a swinging quality to the movement. -Bob Books Jazz is a crossbreed of north American cultures, a music and dance of the slaves of Africa, and old European Jigs and lit's, Minstrel shows and presumably, Jazz music. Jazz is...
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Rhythm And Blues Rock And Roll
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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Belle Dame Sans Merci La Belle
3,583 words? La Belle Dame Sans Merci, ? An? La Belle Dame Sans Merci, ? An Advancement Of Learning? And? Roe-Deer? , The spiritual correspondence between man and nature can be illustrated as being a? spiritual communication? between the two, which is the affect of how they interact with each other. The use of nature in a way that is both beneficial to man and nature can be described as a harmonious spiritual correspondence. The poems I have analysed, ? La Belle Dame Sans Merci? , ? An Advancement of Learn...
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Publishers New York String Quartets
1,577 wordsLuigi Boccherini was a prolific composer, particularly of chamber music with a distinctive and highly wrought style, and he is the chief representative of Latin instrumental music during the Viennese Classical period. Boccherini was also an exceptional cellist. Luigi Boccherini (his baptismal first name Rudalfo was never used) was the son of a cello or double bass player, Leopoldo Boccherini. Luigi was born in Lucca, Italy in February 19, 1743. The Boccherini family had considerable artistic gif...
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Quot Quot Poetry Quot
2,275 wordsKenneth C. Mason " Buteo Regalis" is a brief but startlingly vivid insight... an epiphanic moment... [I]ts object is to give a potent sense of the raw wild strength in nature. It is just its accuracy in description which is so impressive in this poem. Lines two and three " What sense first warns? / The winging is unheard, / Unseen but as distant motion made whole... " are remarkable for their realism and their apparent ease in handling a very difficult perception. Lines five ...
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1,094 wordsTitle: The origin and growth of Jazz music The Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was the sound of a new revolution. It was something that America had never heard before. The time came to be known the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald named the era, Louis Armstrong dominated it, and the 1929 crash of the stock market ended it. This new music created a style filled with strong rhythms and syncopation, a sound that was a memory of the slav...
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