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    ‘Though you might say that the way you speak is a very personal thing‚ and that you have your own ‘idiolect’‚ the way you speak is actually more determined by other people than by yourself.’ How has you idiolect been affected? Everyone’s idiolect is influenced by many factors throughout their life‚ school‚ media‚ peers and many more. An idiolect is the way one speaks the vocabulary they use; the accent they have‚ the dialect they adopted. An idiolect is for one individual‚ it is unique‚ and no

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    To our love one And above all to our Almighty God This humble work is dedicated The Researcher Abstract The Status of Drum and Glockenspiel Corps in municipality of Boac was documented in this study. Social‚ Case and Field of Method were employed as data gathering instrument. In the municipality of Boac‚ there are six (6) Drum and Glockenspiel Corps (DGC) in different High Schools. One (1) from Ilaya National High School‚ (1) from Marinduque National High School‚ (1) from

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    Agbekor : History and Contemporary Performance Legends of Origin : Agbekor is a style of dance by the West African peoples of Ewe and Foh. It is an ancient dance once known as Atamga‚ Ga meaning ’great’‚ Atam meaning ’oath’. The word agbekor is a compound of two short words: agbe (“life”) and kor (“clear”). The professional performer Midao Gideon foli alorwoyie translets agbekor as “clear life”. Agbekor were inspired by the hunters’ observations of monkeys in the forest.

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    Joseph‚ Jay‚ Reese‚ and Stewie‚ I don’t think I would be anywhere near prepared enough to be a drum major. Today‚ however‚ I am ready‚ and now I just have to prove it to you. To explain where my inspiration for being drum major came from‚ I have to tell a story. I told this story in short during my section leader audition‚ but it is an honest reason (amongst multiple) I am so interested in being a drum major today. It goes back to my sixth grade‚ when I met Joshua Parmley. Josh was immediately friendly

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    African Talking Drum

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    The African Talking drum A celebration of an identity In my essay I want to emphasize on the importance of the African Talking drum to the people who were brought to the land of the Americas in chains‚ and that in those trying and horrible times‚a feeling of trying to establish a level of order and dignity amongst themselves helped them establish a strong connection between the African people and their musical instruments most specifically their drums. Deep in the African continent in Sub-Saharan

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    In the American culture‚ there are non- African songs that have been influenced by the African culture. This influence can occur either in the instrumentation or the way it is composed. Those songs that are influence by the African culture have elements similar to that of African music. There are many musicians that have composed their music similar to African music. Some of these musicians are Shakira‚ Juan Luis Guerra‚ and Paul Simon to name a few. The purpose of this paper is to present songs

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    history of African musical instruments is rich and diverse as the people that populate the African continent. Because music is so deeply rooted in African culture‚ knowing about African instruments helps you understand the continent as well as the people. Apart from Africans themselves‚ this knowledge is usually restricted to ethnomusicologists and historians. The roots of African-American instruments are buried deep within the music of the African continent. The history and evolution of African-Americans’

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    Central European Film Allegory‚ metaphor and surreal aspects in the film The Tin Drum In almost all of the studies about The Tin Drum‚ the fact that it is a filmical adaptation of Günter Grass novel is very much present to the extent that most of the theorical works aim to establish comparisons between the book and the movie. Developing a paper about The Tin Drum film without having read the book may seem like a big mistake‚ but the huge advantage of this approach is to conceive the movie as

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    "Piano and Drums" is a poem that accurately explores the trying conflict of merging a traditional culture with a new‚ modern civilisation. The author Gabriel Okara‚ who also doubles as the narrator in the poem‚ responds to the drums as his tribal heritage and the simplicity of youth‚ while he sees the piano as the foreign customs irrelevant to the black society‚ with the complexity of experience. Throughout "Piano and Drums"‚ Okara’s choice of diction is used to show his response to the two kinds

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    University of York Department of Electronics Third year Beng Preliminary Report 2012/13 The Development of Intelligent Drum Machines using Cartesian Genetic Programming Student ID (Y6385813) Work For: Julian Miller Due Monday 11th February 2013 Abstract Modern day electronic instruments often produce and perform unrealistic music lacking the subtleties introduced by a real life musician. Other than recording a musician or meticulously editing

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