Music Technology Essays and Term Papers
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Music Today: Entertainment or Influence to Murder?
Music Today: Entertainment or Influence to Murder? Teen violence, murder, suicide; they seem to be becoming more and more rampant everyday. The media, as well as concerned, angry parents, look everywhere to find someone to blame for these tragedies. Their fingers are pointed in the direction of many music entertainers. Artists and performers are being badgered everyday for their lyrics and image they create for their fans. Can music really influence someone to acts of
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Music Censorship
Albums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (http://www.riaa.org/Parents-Advisory-4.cfm). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens -- however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor
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Popular Music Under Siege
POPULAR MUSIC UNDER SIEGE Beginning in the 1980s, religious fundamentalists and some parents' groups have waged a persistent campaign to limit the variety of cultural messages available to American youth by attacking the content of some of the music industry's creative products. These attacks have taken numerous forms, including a call by the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC) for the labeling of recordings whose themes or imagery relate to sexuality, violence, drug or alcohol use,
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Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Information Technology
Some advantages and disadvantages of information technology Before we can know about all the advantages and disadvantages of information technology, it is essential that we know what information technology is exactly, and why it has it come to play such a important role in our daily lives. Today information technology involves more than just computer literacy; it also takes into account how computers work and how these computers can further be used not just for
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Why I Want to Be a Music Teacher
It was a cold average day in mid January as I walked to my piano lesson. As we started the lesson, my piano teacher leaned over and began to tell me about a piano competition and the winners perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. I said sure, not believing I would make the cut in a hundred years. Three months later the time for the competition had come, I was told that there
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The Tradition Audit Without Technology
• The tradition audit without technology: The major characters of the tradition audit are all information what is needed by auditors are on the paper and the manual calculators and without high communication technology. Auditors usually were limited by the place in the paper time. When a several people are working on the same auditing project for a client with offices in cities across the country, even worldwide, it takes a lots all time those
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Bluetooth Technology
Last week I sprained my ankle due to circumstances beyond human control, or were they? As I got out of my car I was balancing my bag in one hand, my groceries in the other, all while holding the phone up to my ear using my shoulder. I then proceeded in the house where I walked into my room. This is where the disaster took place. I own a stereo, a computer, and a house
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Caribbean Calypso Music
“Cent, five cents, ten cents, dollar.” are the words of a famous calypso song. The Oxford dictionary defines calypso as a “West Indian song with improvised, usually up to date words.” Calypso rhythms can be traced back to the arrival of the first African slaves brought to work in the sugar plantations of Trinidad. Forbidden to talk to each other, and robbed of all links to family and home, the slaves began to sing songs.
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Organizational Technology Plan
Organizational Technology Plan Toyota Corporation is leading the technological revolution among all major car companies. In order to maintain a leading position in the automobile industry, Toyota strives to maintain an edge using technologies spanning all aspects of business, because, after all, technology is used directly to improve the product being offered and indirectly to improve the process in which people work. Because technology is essential to creating a successful organization, this paper will analyze
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Music of Rhcp
Flea's bass style is an amalgamation of funk and blues, borrowing from artists such as Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The groove-heavy, low-tuned melodies, composed through either normal finger style or slapping, have contributed to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' signature style. While Flea's slap bass style was prominent in earlier albums, later albums (post "Blood Sugar Sex Magik") have more melodic basslines. The guitar styles of the guitarists
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An Assessment of File Sharing in the Music Business
An Assessment of file sharing in the music business An Assessment of file sharing in the music business and online music piracy, and its ethical implications regarding consumers, musicians, and record companies Background "In traditional ethical studies, the classic problem is the starving man - can a starving man ethically steal a loaf of bread if he has no money. The modern version is evidently, can the person who wants to listen to music steal
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Are the Measures Taken Against Illegal Music Downloading Effective?
Introduction When a commercial about the release of a new album is seen or heard, most people run to their computer to download it, instead of run to the store and buy it. According to a Belgian broadcasting company, VRT, the profits of music sales fell worldwide by 4% and this only in the first 6 months of 2006. In the opinion of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, this decline is due to
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Ethics and Technology
Ethics and Technology Why is ethics important in an organization? When employees in a company make decisions to act unethically, they affect not only the business itself, but also its shareholders, employees and customers. Employees make a myriad of choices everyday in business, if unethical; they can damage a company's productivity, profits, and reputation. Unethical decisions can come in many forms, the employee who conducts personal business on company time to the production worker who
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Punk Music in the 70’s and 90’s
Punk music has gone through an evolution ever since the punk explosion in the late seventies. Although today’s punk music retains most of the ideology and sound that defines the punk genre, there are some distinct differences between Nineties and Seventies punk. Most of the punk bands to emerge and gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day, the Offspring, etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast
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Against Illegal Music Downloading
Flash back to October, 1997. The punk rockers who call themselves Green Day prepare to release the much anticipated follow-up album to Dookie, Nimrod. Every kid between the ages of 10 and 20 is ready to pounce on the album when it hits stores. Every one of my friends begs their parents to take them to the store on that cold Tuesday morning. The older kids ditch class to get in line at the local
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Australian Music Industry
Question 1 Australian music industry has not been substantially impacted by the digital music trend yet. But the symptoms of perceived impact can be felt by looking at the mass digital music adoption rate. Digital music has shown tremendous growth of about 250% of value $ 27.8 million and 320 % in volume till end of 2006. This growth has increased the share of digital distribution from 1.5 % in 2005 to 5.5 % in
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Computer Engineering: The Fast Growing Technological Career
Computer Engineering: The Fast Growing Technological Career As I initiated the pursuit of my career, I did extensive research on the field of computer engineering. I was able to gather the necessary information and learn that computer engineering is a discipline under electrical engineering. With the combination of both electrical engineering and computer science, one must keep in mind that computer engineering approaches both the software and hardware aspects of the career choice. This type
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Music and Connie
Throughout the ages, music has been an important part of life. From the chants set to drums in prehistoric times, to the gyrating beats of modern day rock, music has influenced people in countless ways. In Joyce Carol Oates's short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” we see many references to music. From the beginning, the story is written in a way to suggest musical lyrics. Also, Connie, the main character, uses
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Copyrights: Intellectual Property and Technological Challenges
Copyrights: Intellectual Property and Technological Challenges The Government and many other agencies around the world are continuously at work to improve protections for intellectual property rights and the enforcement of intellectual property laws. In today’s age of digital madness, passing legislation and actually enforcing of those laws becomes a very daunting task. However, the protection of intellectual property has both individual and social benefits. It protects the right of the creator of something of
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Music Is an Art Form
TERM PAPER “Music is generally perceived as the most universal of all art forms.” The literal meaning of the word 'music' according to any dictionary is: 'art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in a harmonious or expressive way.' But music has a meaning which is far broader than this. Music is life. Music means Self-expansion and oneness. It is an art by itself. Art, in any of its forms, is generated by a person,
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Trends in Wireless Technology
----------------------------------- Jul 19, 2005 Wireless Technology Industry Report ----------------------------------- Wireless Technology Industry Report (2005-06) •The forecast where a technology will be on the future of wireless LAN •The current level of wireless technology •The development of wireless networking •The influence on the future of wireless LAN •The trend of the time of wireless networking Background In June, 1997 the IEEE, the body that defined the dominant 802.3 Ethernet standard, released the 802.11 standard for
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Baroque Music
Baroque music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia •Jump to: navigation, search History of European art music Early Medieval (500 – 1400) Renaissance (1400 – 1600) Common practice Baroque (1600 – 1760) Classical (1730 – 1820) Romantic (1815 – 1910) Modern and contemporary 20th century classical (1900 – 2000) Contemporary classical (19 – present) Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical
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Ups Competes Globally with Information Technology
United Parcel Service (UPS), the world?s largest air and ground package-distribution company, started out in 1907 in a closet-size basement office. Jim Casey and Claude Ryan?two teenagers from Seattle with two bicycles and one phone?promised the ?best service and lowest rates.? UPS has used this formula successfully for more than 90 years. Today UPS delivers more than 13 million parcels and documents daily throughout the United States and more than 200 other countries and territories.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology
Natural resources are the building blocks on which modern society depends. Knowledge of their physical nature and origins, and the web they weave between all aspects of human society and the physical earth can lay the foundation for a sustainable society. We agree with the above statement because natural resources are important, as human beings would not exist without them. We use natural resources in everything we do. Therefore we should use our resources with
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Music Concert Report
Music History Concer Report On December 5th I attended a concert hosted by La Maison des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada in Montreal. The musicians were all students from La Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal. The compositions presented were three pieces by Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F major for �Cello and Piano, Op. 99, Sonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1, and Trio in A minor for Clarinet, �Cello and Piano,
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