When professor David Ripley’s son was 3‚ the child fell asleep upon the couch in a timber-frame house his father was building for the family. As Ripley looked down upon his son that day curled up‚ he said to himself‚ "My God‚ if I could put that into a song." Later that day‚ the lyric came to him. Ripley‚ a professor of music who specializes in voice and opera‚ recorded the original composition‚ “The Sleeping of a Child‚” on his 1990 "Mustard Seed‚ Songs of Faith" recording. For many years‚ he
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Culture: Jazz Dance Jazz dance‚ is defined as any dance to jazz accompaniments‚ composed of a profusion of forms. Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the big bands of the swing era (1930s and ’40s). It radically altered the style of American and European stage and social dance in the 20th century. The term is sometimes used more narrowly to describe popular stage dance (except tap dance) and jazz-derived
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Four Seasons It is difficult to define Jazz music‚ as there are many different styles and movements. A brief definition of Jazz would be: American music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms‚ polyphonic ensemble playing‚ improvisatory‚ virtuosic solos‚ melodic freedom‚ and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. 1 But this does not tell everything about Jazz. Jazz developed from Ragtime around 1900 and
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collective goals” Huczynski and Buchanan (2007‚ P6) cited by Connor et al. (2012‚ P2). Organizations consist of many elements such as organizational design‚ strategy‚ structure‚ culture and change. This essay will take three elements of organization. Firstly‚ it will define organizational culture‚ organizational change and organizational structure. Then‚ it will discuss the relationships between the three elements. 2. Organizational change definition According to Dr Sommerfeldt (2014)‚ organizational change
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MARKET STRUCTURE Economists classify the market in different ways. In the main‚ types of markets are examined in four categories which are ‘monopoly‚ oligopoly‚ monopolistic competition and perfect competition’. There are some major features that separate these types of markets. A monopoly is a structure in which a single supplier produces and sells a given product. (E.g. IGDAS‚ ISKI‚ OPEC) If there is a single seller in a certain industry and there are not any close substitutes for the product
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Carolyn Fang Music 13 Professor Greg Stier 2011-05-01 Spring Jazz Band Concert Report On Friday‚ April 29‚ 2011‚ I went to see Spring Jazz Concert at Sophia B. Clarke Theater. Most of performers have great instrument skill and show us a wonderful music. Each movement highlights the character‚ range‚ and technical abilities of an individual instrument‚ all of pieces stand on their own as intricate musical gems. The show was divided for two parts‚ and they have different
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Bud Powell falls into the category of the jazz style of bebop. This style began in the 1940s and was something totally unexpected. It had really fast tempos‚ which were unusual for jazz at the time.”This was not dance music‚ and it was never really intended to be popular. It was jazz for the artists themselves and for the true jazz lovers.”(Hopkins Lesson 7). But become popular it did. Not only that but it “established the primacy of virtuosic solo improvisation” (Hopkins Lesson 7). In this sense
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Structure in 5 ’s: A Synthesis of the Research on Organization Design Author(s): Henry Mintzberg Source: Management Science‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 3 (Mar.‚ 1980)‚ pp. 322-341 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2630506 Accessed: 22/01/2010 02:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you
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From Jazz to Hip Hop New genres of music often start off with an underground following. As the music evolves it eventually loses its subversive feel. It is no longer revolutionary nor a creative art form‚ thus it becomes a product of popular culture found amongst the demographics of MTV. One popular style of music that grew by countering American culture is jazz. Today jazz is often compared to hip-hop; both art forms have grown from an underground following to counter American culture. Furthermore
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The “Sociological Imagination” is the ability to connect personal experiences to what is happening within society. Structure‚ history‚ and biography are the three characteristics of the “Sociological Imagination”. Structure can be defined as the essential components that are related and work together in society to maintain social order. Every period of time‚ whether it be years‚ decades‚ or centuries‚ that passes by plays a different role in influencing society through its characteristics‚ distinct
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