Matt Crane 8-19-06 Music Back in the late 1960s‚ disco originated as a combination of many instruments played together. It was in 1969 when Jerry Butler released his latest song ‘Only the Strong Survive’ that we got our very first disco song. This was the birth of disco but then it was a form of music which hadn’t been named. Four years and many songs later on the 13th of September 1973‚ Vince Aletti wrote an article in the Rolling Stone Magazine which gave this music form its name “DISCO”
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Casual Listening The piece of music that really attracts my attention these days is the song named We Own It. I first heard this piece of music when I was sitting in the cinema and watching Fast and Furious 6 on Monday night. It is one of the official soundtracks of the film‚ owned by Wiz Khalifa. What really captured my attention‚ at the very beginning‚ was its rhythm. I felt really excited and I was kind of obsessed with it. Therefore‚ I did some research about this piece of soundtrack after I
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Music is an abstract form of human expression‚ and can mean different things to different people‚ but it has been a part of every culture on this planet‚ now or anytime in recorded history (Scheck & Berger‚ 2006). Whether it is individual listening‚ a concert‚ party‚ a dance‚ or a rite of passage‚ music contributes to a big part of many adolescents ’ lives across the globe. It has been estimated that from seventh to 12 th grade‚ the average adolescent spends over two hours per day listening
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"Flow My Tears" and "Lost Your Head Blues" “Lost your Head Blues” was written and performed by Bessie smith‚ known as the “Empress of the Blues.” She lived from 1894-1937. The songs Smith sang along with her performances allowed her the opportunity to become popular in the 1920’s. While the songs she sang were revolved around her life‚ and not that of the community‚ many folks said that the stories were relatable to them. “Lost Your Head Blues” in particular was a sad love song that became a popular
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Introduction to Western Classical Music Section: Mus–1000–N Term 2 Jan-March 2012‚ Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. (Jan. 8-Mar. 12) Location: Hickam Instructor: Beth Uale‚ buale@hpu.edu (808) 781-1963 Course description: An introductory exploration of the evolution of Western classical music (WCM) from the Middle Ages to the present in relation to the background of life and art. Major historical movements in WCM are covered as well as the basics of reading western music notation. In addition‚ the impact
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Music Education: A Source For Brain Power In today ’s society‚ people are constantly looking for new ways to have students produce more from their public education. Some argue that more funding is the answer‚ while others say that better learning facilities will help. Studies recently conducted show that a simple change in the curriculum will produce the outcome that people are searching for. The simple change is music education. Music education has been shown to improve general academic skills
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of my favourite musicians. ‘The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music’ is simply a music lesson‚ that also completely changed the way I look at music. In The Music Lesson‚ Wooten connects music to a lot of other things in life. After reading the book I saw that the essence of music‚ the attributes that make it what it is‚ in many ways are the same as the attributes to life itself. In the book‚ we follow Wooten as he tells us how he learned music from a very extraordinary teacher
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of grievances‚" censorship in America still exists in a big way. "Music censorship is the term used to describe the act of editing‚ altering‚ or preventing the listener from hearing the music as the artist created it in order to either deny certain information or to act as a moral gatekeeper of potentially harmful material" (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~barndollar/courses/spring98/students/fabfive/index.html). The Censorship of music in the United Stated is documented as far back as 1954‚ when "Michigan
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Music of any period reflects‚ in its own way‚ some of the same influences‚ tendencies‚ and generative impulses that are found in the other arts of that time (Donna‚ 2005). Thus the word "baroque‚" usually used despairingly by eighteenth-century art critics to describe the art and architecture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‚ came to be applied also to the music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After some years after the death of Johann
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truly examined the purpose of music or the reason for its existence. According to the Oxford dictionary‚ music is a vocal or instrumental sound combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form‚ harmony‚ and expressions of emotion. How amazing is that something so simple can be so magnificent that it can even affect us emotionally? As I reflect on the life of my own‚ I am beginning to realize that there is something special about music. What’s amazing about music is that its expressed differently
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