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Makes A Person Make A Person
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Marian Anderson Metropolitan Opera Philadelphia
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Amazing Grace Alternative Rock
1,258 words... ent melody. Its sounds like they are using the melody to the song House of the Rising Son, but with the lyrics of Amazing Grace. This helps to show how transferable this song is and its freedom. The hymn even appears in the realm of alternative rock (Selection 2), a style that is one of the most popular amongst the current generations. In this style, guitars mark the song again, but there is not the strict rock style. They are very free and upbeat with the rhythm. Also in the alternative sty...
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Underground Railroad Nova Scotia
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Defining Moment Trojan War
1,710 wordsExamine why the Iliad concludes with the funeral of Hektor. Could Hektor's death be recognised as a major defining moment in the Trojan War? In this essay I will illustrate how the burial customs of the late bronze-age Greeks facilitated the way in which the Iliad was structured; additionally in what way the belief of the Greeks in 8 th Century (BCE) may have been represented in the discussions which took place between the living and the dead. Through these points I expect to show how this has i...
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476 wordsMichael Jackson is one of my favorite singers. He is very famous, so most of all people in the world know him, at least his name. I began to listen to his songs because I was recommended them by my friend, and I was really attracted by them. I have two reasons why I like him. One of my reasons is that I like his voice and performance as well as his songs, as both "Michael Jackson" and "Jackson Five." Michael Jackson sings songs very well in his particular high-pitched tone as it can be proved by...
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Jazz Musicians Louis Armstrong
1,110 words... f music including popular music and the blues. It was has changed over the years and has many different sub-styles, such as Dixieland, swing, bebop, Afro- Cuban, cool, free, jazz, and fusion. In jazz the performers often improvises to create new or different sounds that add to the emotional expression of the song. Jazz musicians create their own version of the melody while they all know, and then they turn improvising around that tune. Sometimes jazz performers make up a complete new melody ...
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Religious Leaders Hard Rock
462 wordsThe song "hard rock Hallelujah" is a song which tries to correct injustice done in the world, especially in the religious sector. The leading point is that the religious leaders, who supposed to guide the moral worlds, led the world into a horrible atmosphere of lies. The rising question from the song is "if the religious leaders felt in their mission- who is to accomplish is?" - The answer is in the body of the texts: "Rock 'n roll angels brings the Hard Rock Hallelujah." In the Modern world, m...
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Nineteenth Century Folk Music
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Boy Girl Bands Society At Any Given Time Style
892 wordsStyle and movement has constantly reflected the society at any given time of its existence. Starting with the ancient Romans, who at around 200 BC already had a democracy meetings, senate and music that spoke how great Caesar was, while the Germans, Russian, or British still wore animal skins and killed each other on the streets, singing the songs to their pagan gods, and finishing with the modern day rave and house movements that brings hundreds of people to those cult tunes popular today. In t...
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Eric Clapton Blues Singers
641 wordsSome blues ologists claim (rather dubiously), that the first blues song that was ever written down was Dallas Blues, published in 1912 by Hart Wand, a white violinist from Oklahoma City. (Tanner 40) The blues form was first popularized about 1911 - 14 by the black composer W. C. Handy (1873 - 1958). However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's Memphis Blues (1912) and St. Louis Blues (1914). (Kamien 518)...
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Justify Giving Less Consideration Giving Less Consideration Moral
485 wordsMost of us believe that we are entitled to treat members of other species in ways which would be considered wrong if inflicted on members of our own species. We kill them for food, keep them confined, use them in painful experiments. The moral philosopher has to ask what relevant difference justifies this difference in treatment. A look at this question will lead us to re-examine the distinctions which we have assumed make a moral difference. It has been suggested by Peter Singer 1 that our curr...
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Louis Armstrong King Oliver
924 wordsKnown as the King of Jazz, Louis Stachmo Armstrong was one of the most important figures in early jazz. He was said to have defined jazz music. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on jazz as Louis Armstrong. Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 in New Orleans. He grew up singing on the streets of New Orleans at a young age and had a troubled childhood. At the age of twelve he was placed in the Waifs Home For Boys for firing a gun into the air. However, at this home for boys...
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Chelsea House Publishers Life And Times
697 wordsThe Life and Times of Frank Sinatra By Esme Hawes Chelsea House Publishers Philadelphia &# 61651; 1998 Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He later became known as Frank Sinatra and one of the greatest entertainers of his time. American singers, Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank. Sinatra then developed a vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental ja...
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Louis Armstrong George Gershwin
788 wordsGeorge Gershwin's The ultimate collection George Gershwin's The ultimate collection, is a compilation of Gershwin's greatest hits. The compilation is made out of two CDs; the first cd is Gershwin's pieces sung by different jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and more The second cd, is Gershwins famous pieces taken from musical shows such as Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban overture, Funny face and more. First Cd: The cd starts with the song Strike up the Ban...
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Makes A Person Make A Person
1,792 wordsMusic and Censorship In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are not suitable for anyone. All types of music need some kind of censorship. Censorship makes a person realize that music is good for the heart. ...
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Ecu Choral Concert Ecu Mens Ensemble Performers
858 wordsMusic Critique ECU Choral Concert I attended the ECU Choral Concert on Monday, November 6, 2000. In performance was Kantorei directed by Janna Brendell, ECU Mens Ensemble Blackbeards Ghost directed by Sean Berg, ECU Concert Choir directed by Matthew Harden, and special guests Leesville Road High School Chorus directed by Diane Covington. The whole program was entertaining and very impressive. All the choirs were very professional in both their physical appearance and their sound. In each group t...
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Fair Trial Actual Events
904 wordsDallas police officer, Robert Wood, was shot five times and murdered after pulling over a vehicle for a minor traffic violation. Randall Dale Adams was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the crime. Adams plead " not guilty" to the charges. He claimed 16 year old David Harris, whom he had spent several hours with on the day of the crime, was the true killer. In Mark Singers " Profile of Filmmaker Errol Morris, " Singer describes Randall Adams case as it was portray...
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Singer Songwriter Early 1990
1,109 wordsReading of the damage done Shakey: Neil Youngs Biography by Jimmy McDonough 797 pp, Cape The worlds greatest living singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan, recently gave vent to his feelings regarding the many self-styled biographers who make a living trying to define his life and art in book form. They live in their own universe and they try to project it outwardly and it doesnt work, he muttered disparagingly as though discussing a bad tooth-ache. Usually, these people have a touch of insanity and they ...
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Nicknamed Attic Bee Wealthy Armorer Named Sophillus Sophocles
402 wordsSophocles was born in Colonus, near Athens, c. 497 B. C. Sophocles father was a wealthy armorer named Sophillus. When he reached adulthood he was already established as a great tragic playwright, and the citizens of Athens loved him. He was nicknamed Attic-bee by the Athenians because he could take pure honey from words. Sophocles was born in Colonus, near Athens, c. 497 B. C. Sophocles father was a wealthy armorer named Sophillus. Sophocles had a good childhood. Sophocles, at age sixteen, led a...
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