considered to be the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. He composed over 2000 works and performed numerous concerts during his musical career. A compilation of some of his most popular music is collected on a CD called‚ “The Popular Duke Ellington.” Duke Ellington can be considered important for numerous things. To choose a few reasons‚ Duke Ellington is important for his music‚ influence on people‚ and being a superfluous composer in his century
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Western Influence on Chinese Music China has long been the cultural hub of Asia‚ and has had the longest amount of contact of any Asian country with other Western countries. Ever since the Silk Road was established‚ China has been trading with other Western countries and exchanging aspects of their cultures with one another. One of these aspects is music. But how exactly has Western music influenced Chinese music? In order to understand this‚ we must look at the history of Western encounters
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Whether Dante’s Divine Comedy has made a lasting impression on society is not an interesting debate. Dante’s work continues to inspire new generations studying the words almost 700 years after they were written. But how Dante’s work is used today has changed from his purpose for the Comedy. Dante wrote that the purpose of the Divine Comedy is “to remove those living in this life from the state of misery and to lead them to the state of bliss” in his letter to Cangrande‚ his patron. However‚ the
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The Influence of music on worker productivity Convenience Sampling will be used for my research paper to focus on studying whether participants who are randomly available and open to contribute to the study. This study will generalize the population because every person is effected by music in one way or the other. I would focus on having an open age group because I am interested to test the effects of music as well as binaural beats to children all the way up to the elder population. I
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Music has been around for centuries. Governments have also been around for centuries. People probably would not expect that the two would ever be linked together. But after the 1985 PMRC hearings‚ the term “government” would forever be linked to its influence on music and the sale of music in stores. Now some people might not know what the PMRC is or what their impact was on music. According to the article “PMRC Events”‚ The PMRC or Parents Music Resource Center was formed in 1985 by Tipper Gore
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MTV was so important to how rock music changed during the 1980s. The first reason being the fact that MTV provided a change in “the way that the industry operated.” (Schloss‚ et al.‚ 250) MTV allowed for artists to promote themselves and their work on television‚ which allowed them to reach a more widespread audience. In addition‚ at this time the Baby Boomers were now older‚ around their thirties‚ and thus it was easier for them to sit at home watching rock music on television‚ instead of going to
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Beatles to N’ Sync teenyboppers have had an iron grip on the music industry that as far as any can one tell won’t be released for many years. There are three main reasons that come directly to mind; age‚ money‚ and psychological aspects. These three motives will be embellished on later in the essay. Before we start I would like to propose a question that will clarify this essay a little better. Why does such a small portion of the America society indirectly control such a major part of our culture? The
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genre in music; Rock’n’roll! Rock’n’roll originated from a combination of southern blues and gospel music‚ stemming around the time of World War II. Jazz bands mostly dominated “white music” during this period but rock’n’roll was mainly African-American influenced. This was the first time music had developed amount different social and ethnic groups. Some of the notable artists of this time include Ray Charles‚ Bill Haley‚ and of course Elvis Presley. These artists had a major influence on many artists
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how much influence they had over the music industry‚ as they basically pushed forward the technology in order to improve their music and to perform on bigger and bigger concerts. Even though they were very talented individually‚ they didn’t let it get over their heads and explored their talents all together. In this work‚ I will explain how they helped to improve the technology and how their music still inspires people‚ conquering new fans everyday. When the Beatles started making music‚ the technology
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destructive with people’s properties being destroyed‚ belongings being stolen‚ villagers being captured and even some killed. But it also saw the exploration of trade‚ new skills‚ farming and craft as well new language‚ traditions‚ beliefs and cultural influences. Raid The Vikings were well known for raiding villages and monasteries. During these raids the Vikings would often enslave and sometimes even kill people. There is evidence of this in Source 14 which says “They killed some monks and took others
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