Music is one of the most powerful forces on this earth. Not only does it greatly impact our lives in ways we may not always be aware of‚ it can instantly change ones emotion or mood and can also heal ones spirit‚ along with making memory more real than ever. Music is a very positive experience‚ it brings joy to many in times of sadness. It can be a way to get away from everything‚ a way to “escape”. Humans are made and wired to respond to music‚ to be impacted by it. We listen to music with our muscles
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In the post WWI years of the United States‚ the artistic world witnessed a phenomenon where by America ’s "best and brightest" writers‚ musicians‚ and artists flocked to Europe in record numbers. "In one of his earliest dispatches from Paris in 1922‚ Ernest Hemingway declared: The scum of Greenwich Village‚ New York‚ has been skimmed off and deposited in large ladlesful on that section of Paris adjacent to the Café Rotonde ’" ("Expatriates (1920s)"). In Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises‚ he credits
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tough times in my life‚ but my favorite song has to be Till I Collapse by Eminem. The beat‚ lyrics‚ and the emotional voice of Eminem are all what makes this song my favorite. This song has a meaning to it that I could connect with. According to Aaron Copland‚ people listen to different types of music and he divided the types into three planes. Reading all three types I found that I belonged in the expressive plane‚ just by reading this quote "all music has an expressive power‚ some more and some less
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MUL1010 Study Guide for Final Exam Please look up answers from Section IV of the course--the Historical Periods-- and listen to excerpts from the course for the listening questions below to be well-prepared for the Proctored Final Exam. Give yourself plenty of time to listen and to study. 1. Who was Anicius Boethius? 2. Who is the “Father of the Symphony?” 3. What musical technique replaced tonality in the 20th Century? 4. What is tonality? 5. What is secular music? 6. What is sacred music
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The Gershwin biographer Isaac Goldberg wrote in 1931 that with the Rhapsody in Blue‚ George Gershwin "fired the jazz shot heard round the world." This symphonic jazz concerto may be the most famous piece of American classical music. Undoubtedly the most famous classical work of its own time‚ it was a serious concert work that contained elements of popular music in the 1920s including the style of jazz. Gershwin’s Rhapsody even remains a part of American popular culture today; its famous themes are
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The bitter struggle for representation and control of black images has been almost as consistent as the profit driven system in Hollywood. From 1915 to 1950‚ the American film industry produced only a small number of films that transcended clichés and stereotypes about African American life. Race films such as The Scar of Shame (1926) and Within Our Gates (1920) highlighted recurring themes of black self-improvement and black literacy (Guerrero 147). Similar to Oscar Micheaux and many other black
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Equine Rescue Center Annual Fundraiser Theme: The theme of this year’s fundraiser will be Barnyard Hoedown! There will be plenty of activities for adults and children. There will be a live band‚ and line dancing throughout the evening. From 5:00 pm until the sun goes down there will be pony rides‚ and a petting zoo. After the sun sets‚ the evening will start to heat up with karaoke‚ and mechanical bull riding! For the kiddo’s there will be a “Life on the Farm” tent where they can learn how to
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Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple’s Classic Mac OS operating system. Introduced on October 23‚ 1999‚ Apple positioned it as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever‚"[1] highlighting Sherlock 2’s Internet search capabilities‚ integration with Apple’s free online services known as iTools and improved Open Transport networking. While Mac OS 9 lacks protected memory and full pre-emptive multitasking‚[2] lasting improvements include the introduction of an automated Software Update engine and
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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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between world wars (WWI 1914-1918‚ WWII 1939-1945) music was heavily regulated- some wanted to reconnect with audience while other had little concern and began experimenting. France - Les Six- neoclassicism‚ drawing on French baroque "fully French‚ anti-Romantic in clarity‚ accessibility‚ emotional restraint" to establish French patriotism after the war. French music as intrinsically classical while German was romantic. Messiaen: lack of traditional harmony resolutions; chords are repeated
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