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  • 20th Century Music

    20th Century Music

    By the turn of the century and for the next few decades, artists of all nationalities were searching for exciting and different modes of expression. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg explored unusual and unorthodox harmonies and tonal schemes. French composer Claude Debussy was fascinated by Eastern music and the whole-tone scale, and created a style of music named after the movement in French painting called Impressionism. Hungarian composer Bйla Bartуk continued in the traditions of

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    Essay Length: 408 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Drexel Music Program Essay

    Drexel Music Program Essay

    Music in My Life Since my youth I have been obsessed with music, singing, listening, and playing. It wasn't until the sixth grade that I could truly begin the journey which would allow me to express myself musically. I received a saxophone for Christmas and began taking lessons at Settlement Music School, while I do not play anymore, the saxophone helped me understand and develop a learning process for music. After one year of saxophone,

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    Essay Length: 317 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Vika
  • Statement of Purpose: Explain Any Extenuating Circumstances That You Feel Could Add Value to Your Application. You May Also Want to Explain Unique Aspects of Your Academic Background or Valued Experiences You May Have Had That Relate to Your Academic Disc

    Statement of Purpose: Explain Any Extenuating Circumstances That You Feel Could Add Value to Your Application. You May Also Want to Explain Unique Aspects of Your Academic Background or Valued Experiences You May Have Had That Relate to Your Academic Disc

    To Help Them One afternoon, I drove my car in Jakarta, a city in which I live for seventeen years. In the sea of luxurious cars, I saw three year olds begging for some change, and people selling magazines and drinks. I even saw people living on the streets. Then, I pass the dumpsite. Despite the awful smell, I saw people searching in the trash for plastic bottles, cans, or anything that can be sold

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    Essay Length: 1,149 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Janna
  • Nondiegetic Music of the Doors in the Scene Waiting in Saigon

    Nondiegetic Music of the Doors in the Scene Waiting in Saigon

    Nondiegetic music of the Doors in the scene waiting in Saigon Sound plays a significant part in all movies and one of the most interesting of all the sound techniques would be the use of nondiegetic music. In the movie Apocalypse Now, there is a double disc soundtrack with thirty tracks on it. The one song on there that has the most meaning would The Doors song “The End”. This song not only set the

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    Essay Length: 1,345 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Back to Black Music Review

    Back to Black Music Review

    Back to Black happens to be the second album by the British boozer, Amy Winehouse. It is one of those albums for people who are fond of banging beat about a lovesick bad girl. Back to Black represents Winehouse as a blunt person, who is not afraid to disclose her personal mishaps like struggle with alcohol or a breakup from which it has been hard to recover. The whole album brings back the late sixties

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    Essay Length: 335 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Responses of Male and Female Undergraduates to Scenarios of Sexual Harassment in an Academic Setting

    Responses of Male and Female Undergraduates to Scenarios of Sexual Harassment in an Academic Setting

    Abstract This study sought to identify how individuals respond to sexual harassment in an academic setting depending on the alleged perpetrator’s status. In this study, 349 male and female students from a Midwestern university were issued questionnaires consisting of 4 hypothetical scenarios involving the victim: a 19 year old college sophomore and her alleged perpetrators: a professor, a T.A., a close friend, and a stranger in her class. In each scenario the victim took offense

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    Essay Length: 1,215 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Music and Death

    Music and Death

    Aspcets of Death and Dying 1/18/02 Music and Death: The Songs and Deaths of Rockstars That Have Shocked the World Music as we know it today is the voice of a generation. It gives us entertainment, and speaks out for a community of people in many ways. Most people listen to at least some sort of music, and serves a purpose in almost every facet of society. Just about any expression can be shared through

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    Essay Length: 2,212 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mike
  • Unique American Culture and Blue Ridge Folk Music

    Unique American Culture and Blue Ridge Folk Music

    The Unique American Culture and Blue Ridge Folk Music Class:Regional American Culture When we define American culture, we use “Melting pot” which describes unique characteristic of American culture. Many people from diverse countries are living in America. As they have lived together, they made distinct culture that all of culture each people have is conflated. Above all, the conflated culture makes new culture which has ever existed before so that we regard American culture as

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: July
  • Music and Culture

    Music and Culture

    In today's modern world, music encompasses almost every form of media. It is everywhere; it is played outside and inside stores, on the television, at the movies, on the computer, in elevators, and can also be heard coming from around the heads of most teenagers. This is not a bad thing per say, but it can very easily be. A growing amount of music now features many themes that are far from favorable. In times

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    Essay Length: 434 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mike
  • Music Evolution

    Music Evolution

    Music Evolution Oh, darkeys hab ye heerd it, hab ye heerd de joyful news? Uncle Abram's' gwine to free us, and he'll send us where we chuse, For de Jubilee is comin' don't ye sniff it in de air! And sixty-three is the Jubilee for de darkeys eb'ry where! (Greene) Black music throughout the past couple of centuries has changed in many ways. It started out as a basic way to communicate, and then evolved

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    Essay Length: 391 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Music Production

    Music Production

    What Is A Producer? The music producer is to a record (CD) what a director would be to a film. The producer directs the entire operation of recording and readying the song(s) for release. The producer is responsible to get the performances recorded and the technical work done on the release, within the deadline and within the budget. The job is both creative and technical. For an overview of the job, see Cornbread's tip on

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    Essay Length: 1,162 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Grime Music and Society/politics

    Grime Music and Society/politics

    Bow's message to Blair Everyone loves Dizzee Rascal but does anyone listen to a word he says? Dizzee Rascal's triumph in Tuesday's Mercury Music Prize was a momentous victory for one British teenager. But the 19-year-old MC's debut album, Boy In Da Corner, carries a sobering message, which is at risk of being drowned out by the applause. Listen to the lyrics and ask yourself this: how can a country with a welfare state produce

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Intunes in Brazil - the Itunes online Music Store Feasibility Study

    Intunes in Brazil - the Itunes online Music Store Feasibility Study

    INTUNES IN BRAZIL THE ITUNES ONLINE MUSIC STORE FEASIBILITY STUDY TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 INTRODUCTION 3 MACRO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS 7 MARKETING MIX 5 HOFSTEDE MODEL ANALYSIS 6 BEHAVIORIAL IMPLICAITONS 7 CONCLUSION 8 INTRODUCTION The landscape of music industry sales has changed within the last 5 years with the changing technology innovations of computers and the dependency on the Internet. The issue of competition has leveled out due to the

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    Essay Length: 4,873 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Artur
  • Music’s Ability to Shape People and Culture

    Music’s Ability to Shape People and Culture

    Music's Ability to Shape People and Culture The lights blind me. I shake as the sweat pours from my head while everybody stares at me, judging me, and listening to me. The monitors in front of me hiss and explode with vibrations, the rhythm section is pulling behind me, and the room is packed to the brink. There is smoke in the air along with the ecstasy that seems to electrify the room and feed

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Napster - Treble in the Music Industry

    Napster - Treble in the Music Industry

    Treble in the Music Industry Close to four months ago, when I heard the word ‘Napster’ I thought it was a new phrase for telling people they had nappy hair. I had no idea what it was, but yet I heard everyone around me talking about it, so I surfed on the internet and decided to check it out. I went ahead and downloaded it the program, not knowing four months from now Napster

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    Essay Length: 669 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Music Education in Our Public Schools

    Music Education in Our Public Schools

    Music Education in our Public Schools Music Education is no doubt a necessity to the students of today. Music plays a major role in everyone's daily life. Music is listened to while driving in the car, when eating in restaurants, relaxing at home, and even when on hold to a company's overloaded phone system. Music is everywhere you turn, and it should be one of the main subjects to be studied in our public school

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    Essay Length: 1,223 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Music Review Paper

    Music Review Paper

    C.D. Term Project 1. Me Veras Caer, Soda Stereo. 1986. The song by Soda Stereo, Me Veras Caer, represents many things about my self. First of all, one: I am Hispanic. Second: I am of argentine background. Thirdly and most important, the song lyrics are rather motivating, hence the title of it, which is translated to, “ you will watch me fall.” The reason it is motivating a song and motivating for me is because,

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    Essay Length: 908 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Can the Music Industry Change Its Tune

    Can the Music Industry Change Its Tune

    1) The value chain of the music industry includes the artist, recording company, physical product, advertising, distribution, & the retail stores. For many years the music industry has had only one main form of product: CD’s, tapes, or records. However, in the past several years peer to peer networking services such as Gnutella, Napster, & Kazza have created a new form of product: digital copies of the music files. These peer-to-peer networks allow users to

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    Essay Length: 900 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Music

    Music

    It has been years since I wrote anything at all, although people do see me writing odd pieces of music. But this time I am writing about my past, the past that seems so far away and forgotten. I know that this account is hardly going to interest anyone, but I do need to share my feelings with someone, or in this case, with something. People see me as a berserk creature talking garrulously of

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Top
  • Ever Heard of Chance Music?

    Ever Heard of Chance Music?

    aleatory music (ā'lətфr') [Lat. alea=dice game], music in which elements traditionally determined by the composer are determined either by a process of random selection chosen by the composer or by the exercise of choice by the performer(s). At the compositional stage, pitches, durations, dynamics, and so forth are made functions of playing card drawings, dice throwings, or mathematical laws of chance, the latter with the possible aid of a computer. Those elements usually left to

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    Essay Length: 587 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Jack
  • Classical Music

    Classical Music

    The classical music period coincided with a revolution in thought called the age of enlightenment, which focused on the search for intellectual freedom. Unlike the preceding Baroque music which emphasized textural intricacy, classical music is characterized by it's near obsession with structural balance and clarity, however many other elements were integral to forming the musical foundations for the Classical period. The music of this era began with a pre-classical, somewhat transitional music style called Rococo

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Bred
  • Comparison of the Use of Music in the Major Religions of India and China

    Comparison of the Use of Music in the Major Religions of India and China

    Music gives us the capacity to express the deepest feelings of the human soul.” Worldwide, music has an important and varied range of application in religious practice. In the major religions of Asia, music is an especially vital part of theology and worship. In India and China, the most prominent religions are Hinduism, Daoism and Buddhism. Hindu religious chant and music are firmly rooted in theological principles of sacred sound. Taoist music is commonly

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Strathmore Experience: A Musical Awakening

    The Strathmore Experience: A Musical Awakening

    Holding truth today and in the past, attending classical concerts is hailed as a sign of both sophistication and style. Very reminiscent of 18th Century attendances at places like the Music Center at Strathmore, my noteworthy experience broadened my musical horizon. As a newcomer to classical concert-going, I was enthralled by the aural masterpieces and the alluring atmosphere. In partaking in the National Philharmonic’s opening concert of the year at the Music Center at Strathmore,

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Jack
  • History of Jazz and Classical Music

    History of Jazz and Classical Music

    History of Jazz and Classical Music Upon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Music as an Aesthetic Experience

    Music as an Aesthetic Experience

    The introduction of Donald J. Funes’ book Musical Involvement addresses the topic of music as an aesthetic experience. The preface to the introduction is the realization that truly listening to music requires an active response, and this type of listening is not innate. All throughout the day we are bombarded with music and every day sounds, most of which remain in our periphery. It can be difficult to focus on a single event such as

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Victor

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