well educated musician and an activist. He studied music at the Trinity College of Music London. Upon his return from abroad‚ he was exposed to highlife and jazz and later on developed afrobeat music. He died in Some of the foreign and indigenous musical elements in afrobeat music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti are: JAZZ: This is a combination of elements of western music and characteristics traceable back to the music of west Africa. The fundamental in distinguishing features of jazz is based on simple
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look ahead to the future and see what lies ahead of me. Something that I enjoy that keeps my mind off of all the negative aspects of life is Musical Theater. I had a wonderful opportunity to audition for the Kristin Chenoweth Broadway Bootcamp back in February 2015. I felt completely unprepared as I walked into this audition with little to none musical background. I walked in the room
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Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Hyperion‚ New York‚ N.Y. Glebbeek‚ C. & Shapiro‚ H. 1990. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. St. Martin’s Press‚ New York‚ N.Y. Waksman‚ S. 1999. Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. Harvard University Press‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. London‚ England.
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True Colors Francis Tan As Carson mentions in her introduction‚ adjectives are “small imported mechanisms in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity” (Carson 4). Autobiography of Red is filled with colorful adjectives‚ but they are not simply innocent attributes to nouns. Carson literally paints Geryon’s life using colors to illustrate his emotions and give reference to the events in the original Greek myth. The colors help readers
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The clarinet is perhaps the most underrated musical instrument. It was introduced to the orchestra during the classical period1. Since then it has been a very integral part of modern music such as jazz and can produce tones rapidly and has a wide range of dynamics and tone color2. The clarinet does not have direct ancestry to any other instrument. Though the chalumeau; the earliest European single reed instrument is the closest one3. Clarinet’s roots can be traced back to ancient Egypt‚ but the
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Jersey Boys I watched this play on Thursday‚ April 18th at 8:00 PM at SHN Curran Theatre in San Francisco‚ California. Jersey Boys is about the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (Four Seasons) made extraordinary music under the genre of rock and pop. The story took place back in the 1950’s when the Four Seasons were just starting up. Location of the tale is in New Jersey. The purpose of Jersey boys is to tell a tale about the hardships that Frankie
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forest of the night‚ What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Genres of Poetry *Narrative Poetry- a narrative poem is one that tells a story.Types of narrative poetry include ballads and epics. *Lyric Poetry- a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of the speaker. Common types are sonnets‚odes‚free verse‚and elegies. *Dramatic Poetry- a dramatic poem is a verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue or dialogue. Two types of dramatic poetry
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The musical story There was once a man with a flute who could play. A number of tunes in an excellent way‚ But he said‚ there’s no use of my playing of my flute‚ for I can’t make a penny with my tootle-ootle-oot. One day‚ he chanced to meet with a quaint little man. Who played a big tuba. Thus‚ his story ran. There was once a man with a tuba who could play. A number of tunes in an excellent way‚ But he said‚ there’s no use of my playing of my tuba. For I can’t make a penny with my oompah-oompah-oompapah
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The autobiography – as a genre – conventionally and inevitably deals to some extent with the times of the autobiographer and his association with them; but mainly occupies itself with the individual who is at once its subject and its architect. Ray Pascal in his book Design and Truth in Autobiography (1960) writes that autobiography “involves the reconstruction of the moment of a life‚ in the actual circumstances in which it was lived‚ [. . .] It imposes a pattern on life‚ constructs out of it a
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Name _________________________________ Date_________________ ELA 8 Poetry Terms Musical Devices - Couplet - Satire - Allegory - Dialect - Rhyme Scheme - Allusion - Symbol - Personification - Diction - Voice - Mood - Tone - Ambiguity - Theme - ___________ a typical character‚ an action‚ or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. Also known as “universal symbol” may be a character‚ a theme‚ a symbol‚ or even a setting. __________
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