Ray Charles‚ whose full name is Ray Charles Robinson is widely known for his inspirational life story‚ transformation of jazz and his influence on nearly every genre during his active years. With his distinct vocals and passionate piano playing skills‚ Ray Charles knew how to entertain a crowd along with bring people together. During Ray’s primary active years there was still much racism going on towards colored people. Ray’s music helped the current white and black generations come together during
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his friend would at times come home late from a night of drinking to pull young Ludwig out of bed to practice until morning. Beethoven ’s talent was recognized at a very early age‚ and by 1778 he was studying the organ and viola in addition to the piano. His most important teacher in Bonn was Christian Gottlob Neefe‚[5] who was the Court ’s Organist. Neefe helped Beethoven publish his first composition: a set of keyboard variations. A portrait of the thirteen-year-old Beethoven by an unknown Bonn
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rough‚ delicate‚ wide‚ narrow. ● Every person in the world has his or her own timbre because of overtones. Oscilloscope shows you your voiceprint. 3. Dynamics- how loud or how soft. Volume in music. ● Pianissimo- (pp) very soft ● Piano- (p) soft ● Mezzo Piano- (mp) medium soft ● Mezzo Forte- (mf) medium loud ● Forte- (f) forte ● Fortissimo- (ff) very loud ● Crescendo- becoming louder ● Decrescendo/Diminuendo- becoming softer 4. Duration- Length Elements of Music 1. Melody- Meaningful
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structure is usually two phrases of equal length‚ making the melody balanced and symmetrical. The second phrase begins like first‚ but ends conclusively. Rather than shifting dynamics abruptly‚ composers made use of crescendo and decrescendo. The piano replaced the harpsichord in order to accomplish the gradual dynamic change; a pianist could play loudly or softly by
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Among his more than two thousand melodies are such hits as "In A Nostalgic Mind-set‚" "Refined Woman‚" "I Got It Awful And That Ain’t Great‚" and "I’m Starting To See The Light." For nearly fifty years‚ he visited the world as a band pioneer and piano player. Today his recordings stay among the most prevalent jazz of the enormous band period. Duke Ellington’s commitments to jazz and American music were basically tremendous. Ellington positioned with George Gershwin‚ Cole Watchman‚ Irving Berlin
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multinational company and conglomerate located in Japan‚ which provides a range of services and products‚ electronics‚ motorcycles‚ predominantly musical instruments and power sports instruments. Yamaha Company was introduced in year 1887 with reed organ and piano manufactured by the Torakusu Yamaha as the Nippon Gakki Limited. This was a literally a Japan musical manufacturing company in Hamamatsu‚ and was later incorporated 1897. The company originated as musical instrument manufacturer and still reflected
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How significant are circle-of-fifths progressions and minor chords and minor keys‚ in the two movements that you have studied? Throughout the 1st and 3rd movement of the Symphony‚ Mozart implements a circle-of-fifths chord progression on several occasions. The first instance of this in the first movement is from Bar 31 to Bar 34‚ where on the first two beats of every bar there is a descending pattern of diminished chord‚ and on the second two beats there is the circle-of-fifths pattern: A7 / D7
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¡V1849) Was a very famous composer that lived on romantic era‚ he was a friend of Franz liszt ¡V also a composer. He composed lots of compositions‚ many of them are very famous and priceless for classical music. Almost Chopin¡¦s compositions are for piano and voices‚ but he also composed for orchestra and cello concertos. BIRTH: ³ MANY DATES HAVE BEEN GIVEN AS THE EXACT DATE‚ THAT ARE MARCH 1ST‚ MARCH 3RD MARCH 5TH (ST. FREDERIC ’S DAY)‚ AND FEBRUARY 22ND 1810 ARE POSSIBLE DATES ³BORN IN THE
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most of his pieces ended up being trashed. “From 1803-1812‚ what is known as his "middle" or "heroic" period‚ he composed an opera‚ six symphonies‚ four solo concerti‚ five string quartets‚ six string sonatas‚ seven piano sonatas‚ five sets of piano variations‚ four overtures‚ four trios‚ two sextets and 72 songs. The most famous among these were symphonies No. 3-8‚ the "Moonlight Sonata‚" the "Kreutzer" violin sonata and Fidelio‚ his only
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dancer. She is the only hispanic who have won an Oscar‚ a Grammy‚ a Tony and an Emmy. She was also the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award. She was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in Humacao‚ Puerto Rico on December 11‚ 1931. She had one husband‚ Leonard Gordon and they were married until his death in 2010‚ they had one child. Rita Moreno got her start on Broadway at the age of 13. Her most notable performance was her role of Anita in 1961 in the film version of the Broadway musical West Side Story
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