Merriam Webster defines music as sounds that are sung by voices or played on musical instruments‚ written or printed symbols showing how music should be played or sung‚ and the art or skill of creating or performing music. Merriam Webster also defines Therapy as the treatment of physical or mental illnesses. When these two activities are brought together we create music therapy. This is defined as therapy based on engagement in musical activities: the therapeutic use of music (as to reduce anxiety
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My name is Eric Valencia and I began playing piano three and a half years ago. I never had any interest in playing piano‚ although I loved hearing it. My grandmother passed away december of 2008 and I was deeply saddened by this event. My music history teacher in high school played a few pieces for us from the classical period. I remember hearing the Marriage of figaro‚ Moonlight sonata‚ Don Giovanni‚ and a few others‚ but Moonlight sonata grabbed my attention the most. I began
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Introduction Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become
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June 21‚ 2013 Music Appreciation Writing Assignment #3 Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell offered us sadness with minor keys and happiness with major keys. I really do not have much experience nor really understand keys but‚ I think Purcell’s uses of the minor and major keys makes since because minor means low and unimportant and that is how you feel when ever you are sad. While‚ major stands for important and significant and when the feeling of happiness domains your spirit‚ you
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even in their jammies. Their music is really catchy and great.Cool me down I’m feeling so exotic Yaa right now.. I’m hotter than the tropics Take me down (Mr. Worldwide) Mumbai Cuba baby let’s go (Priyanka) La-love me all the way o Rio (Desi girl) I’m feeling so exotic Tumko jo dekha maine Toh maine ye jaan liya hai Pardesi babu ne Iss desi dil ko maan liya hai (x2) I’m like Bon Jovi I’m wanted Dead or alive‚ and ya better get with it And in music game i’m more of a dead than alive
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of England (1558–1603). This period saw a remarkable growth of the arts in England‚ and the literature of the time is characterized by a new energy‚ originality‚ and confidence. It was the most splendid age in the history of English literature‚ during which such writers as Sir Philip Sidney‚ Edmund Spenser‚ Roger Ascham‚ Richard Hooker‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ and William Shakespeare flourished. Drama was the dominant form of the age‚ and the plays of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were
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The word music comes from the Greek mousikê (tekhnê) by way of the Latin musica. It is ultimately derived from mousa‚ the Greek word for muse. In ancient Greece‚ the word mousike was used to mean any of the arts or sciences governed by the Muses. Later‚ in Rome‚ ars musica embraced poetry as well as instrument-oriented music. In the European Middle Ages‚ musica was part of the mathematical quadrivium: arithmetics‚ geometry‚ astronomy and musica. The concept of musica was split into four major kinds
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Music in different cultures English from this country has changed a lot over the years‚ mainly due to changes in technology. Starting with cave men making instruments from sticks and rocks‚ having people playing harpsichord to nowadays where people are able to either play music on an instrument themselves or create it on a computer. Due to a slow advance of technology in some places in Africa‚ the tribes over their have kept pretty traditional sticking to music on drums‚ harp like instruments‚ rattles
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MUSI4813 5/20/09 Music History Synopsis Ancient Greece Major Political events- Much of the written compositions made in this time were destroyed or went missing as the Christian church got rid of pagan influences. Rome was overthrown and Europe went into turmoil and people focused less on music and more on survival. Historical perspective- Aristotle and Plato wrote about music which they believed to have moral and ethical properties essential to the complete education of young students.
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Discobolus (113) Kore from Chios (121) Value Terms arete- a particular ability or skill; originally the display of martial prowess on the battlefield (Homer); ability displayed in athletic competition (Myron); skill as a citizen displayed through active participation in the activities of the state (Pericles‚ Parthenon); virtue in a general sense‚ such as in Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean kalokagathia- the quality of being both beautiful and good (kalos and agathos) klea- fame‚ good report
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