Percy Aldridge Grainger was a passionate artist. He was an expressive musician who pioneered the use of folksongs in modern music along with his peers Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams. However‚ it is his compositions and arrangements for wind band that championed and set the foundation for the wind ensemble concept that is employed today. In order to gain a better appreciation for the composer‚ one must understand his background as a budding composer and musician‚ his compositional style and
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milky juice of the roots‚ stems and leaves contains euphorbol and other diterpene esters which are irritants and cocarcinogens. A lectin and proteolytic enzymes are experimentally indicated. Uses Folkloric Used for venereal disease. In other folk systems‚ leaf tea used for laryngitis‚ mouth ulcers‚ venereal disease‚ asthma‚ cough. Root tea has been used as abortifacient and as purgative substitute for ipecacuanha. Latex has been used to treat cancer and umbilical hernia; also‚ dripped
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Bartók and Folk Music Béla Bartók (1881-1945)‚ one of the best-known Hungarian composers is also one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century. He shared a strong passion for ethnomusicology‚ which is the scientific study of music‚ especially traditional music‚ as an aspect of culture. Bartok synthesized the Hungarian pattern of music and other folk music that he studied to make his own distinctive style. As composers continued to seek originality in the twentieth century‚ many
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emergence in the late 19th century of African American blues and the growth of gospel music in the 1920s. The African American basis for popular music used elements derived from European and indigenous music. The United States has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of the Ukrainian‚ Irish‚ Scottish‚ Polish‚ Hispanic and Jewish communities‚ among others. Many American cities and towns have vibrant music scenes which‚ in turn‚ support a number
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Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of‚ and evolution of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of the sixties and seventies. The origin of the blues can be traced to the emancipation of the slaves in the rural black areas of the
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patterns such as a mating dance. Folk Dance * Folk dance is a form of dance developed by a group of people that reflects the traditional life of the people of a certain country or region. Folk dancing originated in the 18th century to distinguish dance forms of common people from those of the upper classes. * Folk dances‚ unlike most other dance forms‚ tend to have no stringent rules‚ and are sometimes formed spontaneously among groups of people. The steps of folk dances are passed through generations
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reveal my truth.’ ‘How do you speak so coldly‚ my dear? What have you done to my Edward‚ my dear?’ ‘Our son no longer breathes our air‚ my love‚ I warned you‚ and now your worry has revealed my truth.’ This poem is written in the form of a folk ballad in which a husband and wife engage in dialogue with a conversational tone‚ where it is revealed that the wife has killed their only son Edward. It is written in direct speech with two speakers. The effect I have aimed to create with this form
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The music of Turkey‚ dating back to the Silk Road Era‚ contains dissonantly dramatic chords unlike what many Westerners are accustomed to (Sheehan 86). Although the musical foundation of Turkey was created by the blending of customs from outside influences‚ stylistic choices vary throughout the country because individual provinces developed without a sense of national unity (“Turkish”). Turkish music theory practices have been influenced by the history of the Ottoman Empire‚ the Islamic faith‚ and
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Note key points mentioned in the article. “A few years ago‚ singer Wesley Schultz said‚ hearing The Lumineers’ brand of allacoustic folk rock on a Top 40 countdown would have been pretty unthinkable.” “It’s been two years since producer Ken Ehrlich and the Grammy Awards reintroduced the world to folk rock‚“ “Flash forward and the Londonbased Mumford & Sons are platinumselling artists who draw 10‚000 at a pop” “Call it folk. Call it roots rock or Americana. Almost anywhere you go these days you can hear the lonesome sound of the banjo”
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Washington D.C. is a city with a rich and intricate history‚ but not every aspect of that history is given the attention it needs‚ such as the D.C. music scene. D.C. has a strangely diverse field of music scenes such as folk‚ gogo‚ hardcore and house‚ each with a rich backstory about how they came to influence the D.C. area‚ and even the United States as a whole. One of the best examples of this is the story of Woody Guthrie and Alan Lomax. In the early 40s‚ Alan Lomax went to see Woody Guthrie
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