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Boise State University Director Of Bands Emeritus Piece
317 wordsThis year five students were accepted to be a part of the Boise State University Honor Band. Boise State Universit students conducted chair auditions for Dawson Howard, Leah Campbell, Ember Campbell, Mae Haines, and David Larson, on Feb. 4 at BSU. Practices were scheduled on the evenings of Feb. 4, and 11, with a full day of rehearsal before the concert on Feb 12. A guest conductor, Dr. Kenneth Bloomquist, Director of Bands Emeritus at Michigan State University presided over practices on Feb 11 ...
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Female Personnel Conducting Style Choir
768 wordsEnsemble size: Approximately 20 members Division of parts: The music structure sounded like it was in four or five parts. There were 7 sopranos, 6 altos, 1 tenor and 4 basses singing on this occasion. Layout: To the left of the conductor were the sopranos, infront of the conductor was the tenor and behind the tenor were the basses, that just leaves the altos who were to the right. (see fig 1) Sopranos (7), Tenor (1) Altos (6) Repertoire: All Creatures Now J. Bennet, Of All The Birds That I Do Kn...
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Tobacco Companies Target Market
579 wordsI will be selling my knowledge of event planing and promotions, to advertisers and marketers that may have interests in reaching and surveying specific target audiences. My ability as an event planner and concert promoter has allowed me to provide advertisers various effective ways of courting and testing pre-selected target audiences. The normal types of advertisers for this kind of event are alcohol companies, tobacco companies, record companies, and clothing companies. Fortunately, the Intern...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Seria
1,351 wordsA remarkable musician and composer, whose legend continues to grow more than two centuries after his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right) decided to sign young Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. Almost from day one, the boy's reputation as an unexampled musical prodigy gr...
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2 Live Crew Rage Against The Machine
1,466 wordsCensorship in music has been a major problem plaguing America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were getting the brunt of the censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the major focus of censorship is rap; primarily gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in general that cause legal ramifications are sexual content, suggestiv...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical Style
568 wordsThe remarkable musician and composer by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. At the early ages of three and four, Wolfgang exhibited extraordinary powers of music memory and ear-sophistication. Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang's father, realized that his son was a true musical prodigy. He also realized that his best work wouldnt be his own, but in his sons future as a musician and composer. At about the age of three, Wolfgang spent hours at the piano discovering con...
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Leopold Mozart
1,755 wordsthe son of Leopold Mozart, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and much the reason behind's Wolfgang's education. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich. Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour, including two weeks at...
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Put Into Music Ninth Symphony Beethoven
970 wordsKeep your eyes on him; some day he will give the world something to talk about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Orga 27). Beethoven was considered the greatest composer who ever lived, but all the truths lie deep inside his music. Beethoven's symphonies were extraordinary. His innovative style was unheard of throughout the world during his time. There are three major symphonies that take beyond the Immortal Beloved referring to Beethoven, to his grave. Well-written and magnificent in the ears of every p...
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Beverly Hills Parking Lots
619 wordsThese days the Walt Disney concert hall designed by Frank Gehry stands triumphant. At mid-completion, it already claims the sky and taunts its neighbors, the ugly parking lots and mundane office towers of downtown Los Angeles. Because we know its sister- building, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, we can anticipate how these fingers of steel will be clothed. In coming months, the jackhammers will fall silent to Mozart, and millions will come to listen, but also to look at this building tha...
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The Similarities Between Classical Music And Ellington Jazz
1,217 words... have to be used to describe this, the Jazz age. Since I think Jazz is serious thing, I must be serious in my choice of song titles. 9 Thus one can see the purpose of Ellington's music is to describe the era in which he lives in, very similar to the Classical era composers and the Romantic era composers. In response to the enjoyably of Ellington's music, I admit that Ellington's music has melody in which patrons danced to, but the dance-ability of the music is not inherent but rather an inter...
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U S Department Department Of State
699 wordsA man with brown eyes, and black hair, weighing 162 pounds, at five feet nine inches tall, and winner for the best trumpeter of 1956 in the Down Beat poll must be Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy was born on October 21, 1917 as John Birks Gillespie from Cheraw north Carolina. He was the ninth and last child of John and Lottie Gillespie. Dizzy was given early instrumental training by his father, who was the teacher and director of a local band. This in turn meant there was many instruments in their home. D...
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Mother Post Modern
1,435 wordsPost Modern Indigo Amber Hutchison Post Modern Fiction Indigo February 23, 2000 People are born with passion. The irony is that most people spend all their lives searching for that passion without looking inside that soul to the heart of the passion. The trick to discovering that passion is to find what makes us happy. For Indigo the main character of Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by her passion lies in the music she creates from her soul while using her violin as her tool. From a modern literar...
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African Americans Black Americans
646 wordsElizabeth Taylor Greenfield Typically, Black Americans have reached their most noted fame through their talents in music and sports; although, we have been taught the impact of individuals like Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the history of America. Movies have been produced that reinforce our knowledge of the history of blacks: Roots gave us an in-depth look into slavery; Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored People gave us a deeper understanding of t...
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Paul Case Reading The Book
631 wordsIt is said that books are better then the movies created from books. I feel that the story and the film complement each other for Willa Cather? s short story, ? Pauls Case, ? is about a young, Calvinist man who did not feel that he belonged in his life. He lived on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh, PA. Cordelia Street was littered with cookie cutter houses, suburbanite-like city-dwellers, and a general aura of despair. Pauls room was no different. Paul felt that his abusive father, uncaring teacher...
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Mary Livingstone Benny Joan Benny Jack
1,114 wordsThe late Jack Benny wrote an autobiography that was known to almost no one. So few, in fact, that his only daughter Joan was surprised to find the finished manuscript among her mothers files after her death in 1983. Joan Benny has augmented her fathers words with her own memories and some interviews accomplished expressly for the book. It is very good. As one might expect from the most popular comedian of the age of radio, Jack Benny's memoirs are fast-paced, lively, and entertaining. His recoll...
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Credited With Inventing Numbers In Parentheses Refer Strings
1,113 wordsINTRODUCTION Piano, stringed keyboard musical instrument, derived from the harpsichord and the clavichord. Also called the pianoforte, it differs from its predecessors principally in the introduction of a hammer-and-lever action that allows the player to modify the intensity of sound by the stronger or weaker touch of the fingers. For this reason the earliest known model (1709) was called a gravicembalo col piano e forte (Italian for harpsichord with soft and loud). It was built by Bartolomeo Cr...
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Met The Band Jason Newstead Metallica
597 wordsMetallica was a Metallica Introduction Metallica was a band that that started out in the garage of one of the members when they were in high school. The band went through many changes and tragedies and found solutions for them and somehow remained playing. They started in 1980 as one of the first, if not the first Black/Metal band. Their popularity decreased in 1987 and form there they went on to become really popular later on. Summary Metallica started playing in 1980 and are still a band to th...
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Mozart Composed
556 words(1756 Mozart WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 1791) EARLY YEARS Mozart was an Austrian composer of the Classical Era. He was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart s whole name is Johannes Chrysostmus Wolfgang us Theophilus Mozart. His father taught schooling and music. Mozart s dad was a Concertmaster in the court orchestra for the archbishop. When Mozart was six he performed on the clavier, violin, and organ. He was good at sight-reading and improvisation. Mozart composed five shor...
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Beach Boys Wilson
826 wordsThe Beach Boys The Beach Boys formed in 1961. The band members are; Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson who are all brothers, Al Jardine and Mike Love. All but Al Jardine lived in Los Angela's. They were first called the Pendletones which was a shirt brand, but a record label executive named them the Beach Boys. One of their first big hits was? Surfin? that was credited for starting the? surfing craze. ? 1962 they released the album Surfin Safari with the song? Surfin Safari? hitting the U. S Top 40....
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Clara Schumann Life Account Of Clara Schumann Life One
838 wordsMusic and silence Clara by Janice Galloway 425 pp, Cape Pianos are not pleasant objects not if youve ever tried playing one. Pianos are infuriating brutes, heavy as thunderclouds: torture mechanisms designed to measure your inadequacy against some unattainable idea of perfection. Clara Schumann's life was a perpetual torment of pianos. She was born into a family which dealt, taught and traded in pianos. She married a man who was one of the greatest composers for the instrument. And she herself w...
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