Name: _____________________________ Jacob the Great Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. As a result‚ he had gotten into a million hobbies and activities‚ but he never stuck with any of them long enough to get any good. He begged his mother for months for a guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie‚ a girl he liked‚ but after he finally got one for Christmas‚ he found out that guitars don’t play themselves. He took a few lessons‚ but strumming
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It is 4 p.m. on Tuesday. What will you do next? Write about your extracurricular pursuits. Why and how do you choose the activities you are involved in? How do your activities reflect your values and affect your school‚ community or the world? (500 words or less) As a young teen I have many hobbies and interests. Sadly‚ only a few of them are practiced after school on weekdays. I am involved in many things so most of my day is always busy. After school I head home and change to attend my ballet
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Papa Samba Diouf Arts 1301 Mr Kaminski Art Critique Every opening sequence in any fictional work is responsible for setting the general mood of the narrative. Our current pattern of videoclips--the type we like the most these days--tends to offer plots as a way of captivating more of the audience. That’s because we love fiction and stories and storytelling. A song is more interesting when it accompanies a story we can
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blues‚ jazz‚ funk‚ reggae and countless other genres of popular music 4-STRINGS So‚ basically‚ the tuning is the same with those two. It’s (from low to high) E - A - D - G (the highest open string-G‚ is an eleventh‚ an octave and a fourth‚ below middle C). This is also a tuning of a ’regular’ 6 stringed guitar‚ only Bass is one octave lower. Keep in mind that there are also different tunings for 4-strings‚ that give totally different workplace for you.
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the world’s most famous and memorable composers‚ Michael Jackson. His musical career will be looked into from start to finish. Along with mentioning his background/history‚ we will identify his musical influences as a composer. It is important to know what the trend was and what was popular around the time of Michael’s musical journey. These factors may have impacted his composing. Of course taking a deeper look into his musical pieces would give us insight on how he truly was as a writer. I will
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The coming of film sound also had a prominent effect on genre and film characterisation‚ aside from the aforementioned stylistic film changes. The creation of musicals was formed through the coming of film sound in 1927‚ when Warner Bros cemented the demise of silent films‚ by releasing The Jazz Singer. A film considered to be one of the first feature-length motion pictures with synchronised sound. Despite many previous attempts to convert sound into filmmaking‚ such as the Kinetophone‚ which produced
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Musical Style and Innovations Beethoven is viewed as a transitional figure between the Classical and Romantic eras of musical history. Above all‚ his works distinguish themselves from those of any prior composer through his creation of large‚ extended architectonic structures characterized by the extensive development of musical material‚ themes‚ and motifs‚ usually by means of "modulation"‚ that is‚ a change in the feeling of the home key‚ through a variety of keys or harmonic regions. Although
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Bowed instruments have been around since the ninth century AD‚ according to Werner Bachmann‚ author of The Origins of Bowing. They originated in Central Asia‚ where they produced very fine hunting bows‚ which eventually developed into the first musical bows. In the tenth century‚ bowed instruments had traveled to the lands of the Islamic and Byzantine Empires. (Remnant‚ 1989) In the eleventh century‚ the vielle was depicted in Byzantine manuscripts. The instrument then traveled up through Italy
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does socioeconomics and geographic exposure have on musical preference? Music is derived from person’s roots and their history of said parties. Music evolves at the same fast paced rate as society and is typically influenced from previous genres. Music in specific geographical locations and socioeconomic environments are mostly created based on surrounding issues and hardships that face the parties involved. Many factors effect what musical preferences people enjoy such as ethnicity‚ background
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Jeff Marx‚ who wrote the music and lyrics‚ Avenue Q is a comedic American musical that opened in March 2003 at the Eugene O’Neill Theater in Waterford‚ Connecticut‚ before being transferred to Broadway in July of that same year. The book was written by Jeff Whitty and the show directed by Jason Moore. The show won Three Tony Awards‚ including Best Musical‚ Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical. It ran in Broadway till September 13‚ 2009‚ for a total of 2534 performances
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