Music Technology Essays and Term Papers
929 Essays on Music Technology. Documents 376 - 400
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The Advantages Technology Has Given Us Outweigh the Disadvantages
“The advantages Technology has given us outweigh the disadvantages.” Many argue that as we venture further into the frontier of technology we proceed with a slow death of society, by losing culture and ultimately a sense of self. To a certain extent this may be true, but realistically if we cease to progress we wont be able to survive. (Robert) There are many examples of advantages and disadvantages some mentioned were “ Technology has
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Music Therapy
rynjulf Stige is the first Coordinator of the music therapy education program at Sogn og Fjordane University in Sandane, Norway, where he is an associate professor. With diverse experiences as a music therapist using a community based approach, Stige has written numerous articles and books on music therapy and music education. He is editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and co-editor (with Carolyn Kenny) of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. He
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Mathematics, Education, and Music?
Mathematics, Education, and Music? This article is very interesting in bringing up points and ideas of mathematics that I had never thought of. Dr. Heinz Gotze states that Mathematics is much like music. After Beethoven would play, he goes on, people wouldn't say "Hey, what was the use of that?". People, however, constantly are trying to determine the purpose of mathematics. The truth is there is no set purpose. Math is not a well discussed
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Information Technology and Business Alignment at the World Bank
II. Baets, W.J. (1996). Some Empirical Evidence on IS Strategy. Alignment in banking, Information & Management, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 155–177. III. Bergeron, F., Raymond, L. and Rivard, S. (2004). Ideal Patterns of Strategic Alignment and Business Performance, Information & Management 41(8): 1003–1020. IV. Chan, Y.E. and Huff, S.L. (1993). Investigating Information Systems Strategic Alignment, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems, Orlando, FL. 345–363. V. Chan, Yolande E. and Reich, Blaize
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Medical Applications for Music
When someone mentions the word ‘music’ what the first thing that pops you’re your mind? Is it the subtle relaxing classical organ that blows through your mind or the hard grunge sound of a modern double bass drum? Everyone in the world, no matter what corner of the world people reside, listens to some sort of music or another. Be it rock, classical, rap, hip-hop, country, electronic or any of the other of the hundreds
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Hip-Hop: It Is Music
Music is one’s expression of life from their point of view. It becomes unique as it is based upon individual experiences of satisfaction and failure throughout life. Popular music is often defined as it has the broadest appeal to the maximum number of people. Hip-Hop began its rise to fame and fortune during the late 1970’s. It would come to represent the youth of America as seen with this comment by Todd Elliot: "For many
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Aesthetic Music Educatin and the Influence of Bennett Reimer
An explicit concept since the late 1950s, aesthetic education first developed to provide a strong philosophical foundation for music education and continues to evolve as a solid theoretical orientation for current effective practices. Bennett Reimer has contributed much to the discussion and development of the value of aesthetic education for the teaching and learning of music. Others in music education also support and promote these ideals and focus on developing an improved understanding for music
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Bluegear by Bluetooth from Amazing Technology
BlueGear by BlueTooth From Amazing Technology is a USB wireless network device. With BlueGear you can share files and an internet connection. BlueGear Compares to 802.11b wireless network devices such as Linksys routers. Only without the high price. These come by packages of two selling for $120. Operating at a maximum distance of 120 feet. This information was callaborated from many sites but for the majority Zdnet and amazing technology website. BlueGear by BlueTooth From
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Look at What Technology Has Done
Look at What Technology has Done “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury displays family life during some point of the future. Although his interpretation of family life may seem extreme, a person may read this story and deem practices within as normal in his canonical worlds. This short story points out how depressing the human’s condition has become. Tools and machineries remove the affection that puts together the parents’ and children’s relationship. Families today are
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Technology on Human
Research efforts have been focused on the impacts of new technology on human health. One of the leading new factors is the technology of cell phones, which is predicted to have more than 1.3 billion worldwide users by the 2005. Cell phones have been of the fastest growing industries. Today most people have portable phones in their home, and/or cell phones. Theses devices are connecting people in convenient ways as their cost declines with the
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Music Is a Necessity
Andrew Vaccarezza Dr. Keith Bohm Music 129, section 2 12 June 2007 Necessity During the course of any given day most Americans come in contact with some form of entertainment which helps one detach from the tension in their lives momentarily. For some this may be a magazine, for others it may be the almighty television. What most Americans do not notice is the frequent contact with music throughout their everyday lives. Music can be
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Does Music Make You Smarter?
Does Music Make You Smarter? Rameka Sahadeo University of Missouri-Kansas City American music education is at a turning point in its history, and poised for a modern renaissance. After decades of budgetary neglect as an “elective,” music is reasserting itself thanks to a growing body of scientific data that shows how vital it is to a student’s success in all academic areas. Research is showing that music isn't only a social trend; it also
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Annie Musical
The musical Annie is based on the strip cartoon Little Orphan Annie which began in New York. It was created by Harold Gray, who came up with an idea for a comic strip called Little Orphan Andy. But the New York News didn't want one more strip about a boy so he it.So, Andy became Annie. The first strip appeared in August 1924. The cartoon strip proved to be so successful that it was almost
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The Impact of Radio Frequency Identification Technology
The Impact of Radio Frequency Identification Technology By: CIS 500 Table of Contents • What is Radio Frequency Identification Technology • History of RFID Technology • RFID in What We Use Today • RFID Tags • How RFID Works? • Automatic Identification • Is RFID Safe to Use? • How much does RFID Cost? • Will it replace the bar coding system • Advantages and Disadvantages • How different companies use the RFID system
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Rap Music
Rap Music The following is an excerpt from Black Noise, a book written by Tricia Rose, that describes the importance and background of rap music in society. "Rap music brings together a tangle of some of the most complex social, cultural, and political issues in contemporary American society. Rap's contradictory articulations are not signs of absent intellectual clarity; they are a common feature of community and popular cultural dialogues that always offer more than one
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Music - a Peacemaker in Wartime?
Music- a peacemaker in wartime? The music- wether it is Salsa or Soul- has a great impact on people. If you look into history, you will see that music was influencing peoples’ life in a certain way. From the first days of the human beings music was the one of the strongest medium to deliver messages. African tribes still uses the Congas to send messages to other tribes, who live kilometres away, by playing these
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Tristano's Music
Tristano's Music These three visionary artists offered music to the small public. Byzantine melodci lines, attenuated rhythms, acerbic harmonies. Thelonious Monk, the most admired Jazz composer ofthe postwar ear wrote only single chorus instrumental Melodies while the extended oks of such later players as john coltrane and Ornette Coleman are unrelated to the classical music tradition. Blind virtuoso focused on omplex linear improvisation that utilized polyrhythmic and poly tonal concepts. Using only a relatively few
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Punk Music
Research Paper The early 60's and 70's music industry tried its turn at the method of promoting trends over music. As most music genres, the consumers or the people who listened to the music believed whatever the music corporations told them. As more and more people began to realize what was happening, a change in the attitudes of people started to arise. Just as most movies end, a hero had to save the day. This
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Technology
No excuse not to exceed The next few paragraphs will discuss the issues that Kodak faces in a world of changing technology and innovation. The company is struggling to reinvent itself only after it’s core business has become obsolete. The company is in the process of implementing change, and change as we all know isn’t the most popular topic in American industry. At the turn of the twentieth century, many blacksmiths and buggy makers enjoyed
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Technology Revolutionizes Cheating in the Classroom
TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTIONIZES CHEATING IN THE CLASSROOM Cheating in the classroom is an unfortunate fixture in the history of our educational system. “The evidence indicates that many students cheat regularly and few students never cheat” (Kerkvliet and Sigmund, 1999, p. 331). Although the methods may have changed over the years, the basic concept remains constant. “The essence of cheating is fraud and deception” (Athanasou and Olasehinde, 2002). The majority of students indicate a belief that cheating
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Napster Vs. Music
Napster is an online trading program that allows users to look into another persons hard-drive in order to trade music. "Napster and similar software provides users with a method of searching thousands of other users computers to share thousands of high quality music, music that is stored in the compressed .mp3 format."(Internet). Music of the popular artist is traded through the Internet at no cost. In other words instead of having to pay market price
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The Effects of Internet Music Piracy
There is this artist your friend tells you about “Man you need to check out this band N’Sync, they are so rad!!” So you figure hey I will give it a shot…my friend thinks they’re cool. So you use the last $15.00 of your Best Buy gift card on their latest CD. You open the package in your car in excitement, and by the time you open up the covers your thinking to yourself. “Hmm
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Technology and Starbucks
Technology and Starbucks Starbucks uses technology in many ways, they use Information Technology, Wi-Fi, and all their business is done both internally and externally. A big part of being a great leader for a Starbucks is the employees ability to recognize when they need the right tools to do their jobs correctly and efficiently. Technology has allowed Starbucks to plan, lead, control, organize employees, costs, and supply link. Starbucks has utilized technology to its fullest
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Broadband Technologies
Broadband Technologies Broadband Technologies You are trying to connect to the internet. You keep hearing this awful noise like nails on a chalkboard. It seems as if it’s been forever since you started trying to connect. Finally at last you are connected and you begin to browse. You point your browser to your favorite webpage and you wait…and wait, and wait. A few minutes later the webpage has finally loaded. Does this sound familiar? If
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World Music
While world music is a genre, musical exoticism can be classed as a process in which musicians freely interpret attributes of the music of non-western culture and targeting specifically at foreign audience. It is the direct perception of the western audience’s view of non-western music tradition, not non-western perception of non-western exoticism, in other words not the true perception, only a concept. As exotica is only an imitation, the authencity of the music is often
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