Music Essays and Term Papers
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My Musical Experience and Me in a Nutshell
My Musical Experience and Me in a Nutshell My name is ______, and I live in a small community called ______, which is located near _______. I have just completed my first year of college at _____, and I am studying to become a high school English teacher. I have chosen to take summer classes in hopes of graduating early, and I am taking four internet classes because I want to stay at home with
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Music Is My Life
Music is my life. Especially rap. I listen to it all day and fall asleep with is playing by my side. And explicit or not I still love it. I even like to write my own music every now and then and if I couldn’t have explicit lyrics I really wouldn’t have a practical way of expressing myself. Explicit lyrics get the point through to the listeners most of the time. And it could be
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Rap Music’s History
Rap’s History Rap music began among the youth of South Bronx, New York in the mid 1970’s. Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash were some of the early artists of this art form. Through their performances at clubs, rap gained in popularity throughout the rest of the 1970’s. The first commercial success of rap was the song �Rapper's Delight’ by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979. It helped bring rap music into the spotlight. The 1980’s
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Reggae Music
Reggae is the most internationally famous style of Caribbean music. Reggae, which is one of the world’s most influential music, was originated in Jamaica around the mid 1960’s. At first reggae was first performed by and for poor Jamaican’s, but quickly became popular throughout the Caribbean and around the world. Most reggae songs deal with social concerns and religious beliefs of the Afro-Caribbean awareness of the Rastafarian religion. The term reggae is also applied today
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Don Giovanni: The Characters and Their Music
Don Giovanni: The Characters and Their Music Giving Character’s character is one of the most interesting challenges in operatic composition; another is composing for all the specific characters. A composer has to distinguish between characters through his music. Jan can’t sound like Fran, and Dan can’t sound like Stan. Each character must have his/her own traits. Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni, provides us with many different characters to compare and contrast. One scene in particular lends
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Modern Music
Modern Music In an age of error the most influential thing in a child and or a teenagers life is music. Whether it be Reggae, Hip Hop, Gangster Rap, R&B, Oldies Rock, Latin, or Heavy Metal it still has a way to overpower a persons mind no matter how old they are. Right now pretty much everybody that I talk to when I am on the Internet like Rap. I don’t understand how people could
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Censorship in Musice Videos
Candice Fenton Music videos sometimes communicate distorted and dangerous messages. Do you think censorship is the answer? I do not. Music videos may portray messages parents do not want their children to see, but censoring the music video industry does not solve the problem. There are many different problems with censorship in the music video industry; I will discuss a number of different ways to address the problem. Censorship is a violation of the artists’
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When the Music Saved Me
When the Music Save Me Life is never easy and the obstacles you must face daily can either break you or make you stronger. As a child, you are full of pure innocence and the reality of how challenging and hard life can be is unknown territory. You follow and live what you are taught and believe that things in life are perfect and you’ll live happily ever after with your parents and siblings (if
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Musical Development as a Cognitive Ability
Musical Development as a Cognitive Ability Cognitive Psychology Abstract This paper discusses theories of cognitive development and its relationship to musical development. Cognitive development is closely related to musical development and learning. Jean Piaget developed theories of the cognitive development in children. Musicologists have developed theories on how musical development has cognitive components. Cognitive development is acquired through interaction with an environment, just as musical development is acquired through interaction with a musical environment.
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Music Censorship
AllFreeEssays.com Controversial Music Music Censorship By: twiztid_cali 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
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Appoggiatura in 18th Century Music
APPOGGIATURA IN EIGHTEEN CENTURY MUSIC Appoggiatura, from the Italian word appoggiare which means “to lean upon” is one of the most complicated ornaments especially in eighteen century music. It is usually called a grace note and it is a note of embellishment usually one step above the main note. As Michel Debost says on his book “The Simple Flute”, the appoggiatura got his name because the note is outside the harmony, is part of a
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Musical Theatre
Girl Crazy (#14) The musical “Girl Crazy” was about a boy named Danny Churchill who lived in New York. His dad was worried about his way with women so he sent him to Custerville, AZ to get him away from them. Danny was to live on the family dude ranch called “The Buzzards.” On his way to AZ, Danny rode in a taxi. The driver’s name was Gieber Goldfarb. He was known for his very
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A Great Contributor of Music
A Great Contributor Of Music Throughout the history of music, many great composers, theorists, and instrumentalists have left indelible marks and influences that people today look back on to admire and aspire to. No exception to this idiom is Johann Sebastian Bach, whose impact on music was unforgettable to say the least. People today look back to his writings and works to both learn and admire. He truly can be considered a music history great.
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How Shawn Fanning and Napster Almost Defeated the Music Industry
How Shawn Fanning and Napster almost defeated the music industry. In the late 1990s, the greedy, wealthy music industry received a blow they never saw coming. As long as albums had been commercially produced, the industry had been free to charge as much as they wanted for their product, and believe me they had. Albums, eight track cartridges, cassettes, and compact discs have been overpriced for a long, long time, with the only alternative being
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Music Piracy
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Alan Freed - History of Rock Music
Alan Freed Alan Freed was born December 16, 1922 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He was considered the most the most famous Disc Jockey(DJ) in rock 'n roll history, however, controversy encircled the man and he received lots of criticism especially from white adults during his career. I think that Alan Freed greatly helped shape the sound of music today and further advanced the progression of rock music. He is the person who coined the term
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Traditional Pop or Classic Pop or Standards Music Denotes
Traditional pop or Classic pop or Standards music denotes, in general, Western (and particularly American) popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll, and its offshoots, as the dominant commercial music of the United States and Western culture. (For a definition of "Traditional pop"
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Music That Makes You Dance
Shango, which means “ Chant to the God of Thunder” is one of the many musical rituals that’s main purpose is to be danced to. This particular piece is derived from the West African culture. The musician Babatunde Olatunji was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1950. He created an album in 1958 called “drums of Passion” which included SHh ango as the final track. The Tribesmen who worshiped the god
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Lyrical Violence Music
Lyrical Violence Music is a prominent force in adolescent lives; according to the American Medical Association, American adolescents spend a total of four and a half hours a day listening to music and watching music videos. Parents are increasingly weary of suggestive, violent, lyrical content in popular music. A University of California study recently showed that 48% of Americans, including the younger generation, say that violence in popular music should be regulated. In Paducah,
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Music Education - Ursula K. Le Guin Quote
“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking….” --Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin makes an excellent point in her quote; music and thinking are so much alike that it is almost as if they are one and the same. Music has a huge impact on the brain. It has been proven that it makes
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Music Video Analysis
Media manipulates the opinions, views and ideas of many people. Media can change ones perspective on their culture. Gender plays a major role on how the media tries to manipulate ones opinion. This music video gives a stereotypical view of the male gender and how males react to the end of a relationship. In the music video “It Ends Tonight” by the All American Rejects, a relationship is coming to an end. It is about
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Music
On November 13th I went to Tramps in New York to see one of my favorite bands, MxPx. MxPx is a Christian pop-punk band. Pop punk basically means happy punk. The band members, are Mike Herrera who plays bass and sings, Tom Wisniewski who plays guitar and Yuri Ruley plays drums. They played about 10 songs, all of which I knew. Some of their songs have to do with society problems through the eyes of
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Sharing - Music Downloading
Sharing Music downloading is rapidly becoming one of the most popular online activities. Americans downloaded more than 200 million music tracks in 2004 alone. Nowadays, it is extremely easy to download free music from the Internet. All someone has to do is download some peer to peer file-sharing application such as Kazaa, Edonkey, Blubster, or Bearshare, and you have unlimited access to download just about anything that you please. But is downloading free music from
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Bob Marley: His Music, His Words, His Legacy
“Bob Marley: His Music, His Words, His Legacy.” The 70's - musically, culturally, and politically - was a transitional phase, and a emotional link between two very infamous periods. This decade was also the recess from reality, in which people used music to escape from the real world leaving behind all their worries. People were consumed by appetites, addicted to their guilty pleasures, and soon there would be a price to pay. During the late
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Last 50 Years of Uk Musical Theatre
Introduction The Musical theatre within its existence developed variety of forms and genres, becoming as a result an important segment of performing arts industry. The aim of the following report is to underline key historical movements, and significant events that occurred within last 50 years of its history. It will also be analyzing the environmental forces impacting the sector within a fifty-year timeline. Further, the paper will demonstrate examples of how musical theatre can impact
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