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  • European Music Influence

    European Music Influence

    European Music Influence European music influenced American music tremendously by immigrants arriving over the centuries. Many of the great classical pieces came from Europe and influenced popular composers like Aaron Copeland. Also Irving Berlin a composer who wrote many American songs from the early part of the twentieth century until the latter part of the century was born of European immigrant parents. He and many first generation Americans as well as those European immigrants, including

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Victor
  • Editing and Cencorship of Music: What’s the Point?

    Editing and Cencorship of Music: What’s the Point?

    Editing and Censorship of Music: What’s the Point? Wayne Wood Axia College of University of Phoenix (2008) Utilizing Information in College Writing Instructor: Necole Floyd-Turner Editing and Censorship in Music: What’s the Point? In a valiant attempt to safeguard impressionable youth and society in general from music content deemed offensive by some, “Parental Advisory” labels and content editing were created; to counter-act this, artists have found and/or created ways to say the same thing without

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    Essay Length: 2,074 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Top
  • Punk Music

    Punk Music

    Punk music in the 1990's and 1970's has many different similarities and differences. Punk music is a hard thing to define. Different people have different opinions is what is punk music and what is not. Regardless, one agreed idea is that punk music is evolving and changing everyday. One major difference is 70's and 90's punk is where it originated. 70's punk emerged from the East Coast of the United States. Some examples of major

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    Essay Length: 374 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Artur
  • 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 28, 2010 By: Top
  • The Sound of Music

    The Sound of Music

    The Sound of Music The Sound of Music relied on orchestral background and multiple solo opera parts. I slightly remember watching The Sound of Music years ago, and dreaded watching it again. Watching it this time was different as I remember. As I’m beginning to have a basic appreciation for music I really enjoyed it much more. When I really paid attention to the music and the words being sung it told the whole movie.

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Janna
  • Carl Orff’s Philosophies in Music Education

    Carl Orff’s Philosophies in Music Education

    While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His father's regiment band would

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Edward
  • With Careful Textual Analysis of Any one Media Text (for Example Television Advertising, Fashion on Film, Music Videos Etcetera...) Explore the Relationship Between Fashion and Mass Media

    With Careful Textual Analysis of Any one Media Text (for Example Television Advertising, Fashion on Film, Music Videos Etcetera...) Explore the Relationship Between Fashion and Mass Media

    “With careful textual analysis of any one media text (for example television advertising, fashion on film, music videos etcetera…) explore the relationship between fashion and mass media” The mass media can be described as a form of communication designed to reach a vast audience without any personal contact between the senders and receivers. This includes several institutions, including books, magazines, adverts, newspapers, radio, television, cinema, and videos that occupy a central and essential role in

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Rock Music’s Influence on Society

    Rock Music’s Influence on Society

    Rock Music's Influence On Society Music has been around for thousands of years, it appeals to everyone. When was the last time you have heard someone say, "I hate all music."? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teen's minds. Metal is being blamed for giving teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds. Although the media and public criticize metal and rock music and blame the music for influencing teens negatively, they

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Top
  • Wedding Belles & Jail Cells

    Wedding Belles & Jail Cells

    April 7-14: Wedding Belles & Jail Cells Posted Thu. Apr 10, 6:51 PM ET by Lyndsey Parker in That's Really Week Man, Beyonce can't get a break these days. First she gets upstaged by an American Idol RUNNER-UP in what was supposed to be her big movie, Dreamgirls, and then Tina Turner steals her thunder at the Grammys. And now Beyonce's rumored wedding to her boo, Jay-Z, has been overshadowed too. Hmmm...is she not so

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: regina
  • Milan Music

    Milan Music

    Objective description: The music is so abstract, it’s almost as if some people just got together randomly and decided to make some noise. It’s sometimes calming and sometimes stressful. It’s like a call and response music, one section makes a noise and the other sections respond accordingly with a similar sounding rhythm, very interesting to listen to. Steel drums, chimes, drums, drones, flutes, and some other instruments, not even sure what the names are. I

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Edward
  • Jazz Music

    Jazz Music

    Jazz Jazz has been an influence in many artist's work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920's and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were influenced by jazz were Jean-Michel Basquiat and Stuart Davis. The influence is quite evident in many of their works, such as

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Mike
  • Music - Ethos and Pathos

    Music - Ethos and Pathos

    Ethos: The credibility of Anti-Flag, as of right now, is growing enormously. All the other punk bands look to these guys and marvel at how much they are defending their beliefs. For example, a person is watching his or her favorite band play and he or she begins to talk of how great Anti-Flag is. Immediately one could pick up on that and want to get to know more about Anti-Flag. It is a

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Steve
  • Polyphonic Hmi: Mixing Math and Music

    Polyphonic Hmi: Mixing Math and Music

    Executive Cover Memo Subject: Polyphonic HMI: Mixing Math and Music This is to recommend that Hit Song Science should market its product and services to record labels attempting to catch a larger share of the market. BACKGROUND Polyphonic HMI is preparing to launch Hit Song Science, which analyzes the mathematical characteristics of music compared to past music hits, making it possible to determine a song’s hit potential. Music characteristics can be analyzed by math such

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Top
  • What Are Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Music Censorship?

    What Are Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Music Censorship?

    What are some advantages and disadvantages of music censorship? Many bills have been passed to stop explicit messages in music from getting out. Censorship limits the amount of lyrics that get out to the community about violence. (History of Music Censorship) It may also limit anything in music that a community might find offensive to its values or beliefs. The lyrics presented in some songs are not appropriate for young adults. Some say music censorship

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Yan
  • Music Is Cool!!!

    Music Is Cool!!!

    I love music my TWO greatest type of genries are Rap and Alternative. I was really surprised how great that DR. Dre did! I think that Eminem and dre are great. Eminem is definetlt a new era of a rap star he is puttin out some mad skillz. Papa Roach has just came out with a super great song that is called last resort.I play basketball and i am a very emotional person i like

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Edward
  • Music Copyright

    Music Copyright

    Copyright The best way to protect work from people using it without permission is to take steps to show you are the copyright owner. Copyright is a form of intellectual property law. There are two types of intellectual property, industrial property and Copyright. Where Industrial property refers to inventions and industrial designs, copyright applies to artistic creations. Copyright gives the owner/artist rights on any copying, distribution, performance or transmission of their work. However copyright law

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Artur
  • Music

    Music

    Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky was born in Karevo on March 21, 1839. His mother gave him piano lessons, and at nine he played a Field concerto before an audience in his parents' house. In 1852 he entered the Guards' cadet school in St Petersburg. Eventually in 1874 Modest Mussorgsky composed his famous Pictures at an Exhibition, based on ten drawings and watercolors produced by his recently deceased friend, the architect and artist Victor

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Bred
  • Influence of Rap Music

    Influence of Rap Music

    Influence of Rap Music Today, Rap has become the most popular type of music in the US. Many people listen to music while they drive their cars, are at work, do housework, and study, etc. 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 serve a

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Rap - the Music of the Tough Guys

    Rap - the Music of the Tough Guys

    Essay Sample on "Rap - The Music of the Tough Guys" The music rap only a decade and a haft old , finally notice by the world in 1990 as real music had has its real downfall with violence and corruption that surrounds this new kind of music. Its gotten so bad 1/20 people that listen to rap has run into the law that been influence by listening to music.That in order to stop all

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    Essay Length: 1,309 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Rap Music

    Rap Music

    Rap History Rap music as a musical form began among the youth of South Bronx, New York in the mid 1970’s. Individuals such Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash were some of the early pioneers of this art form. Through their performances at clubs and promotion of the music, rap consistently gained in popularity throughout the rest of the 1970’s. The first commercial success of the rap song “Rapper's Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang in

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • Music

    Music

    Over the years the music industry has grown from a fairly profitable industry with a few major stars into a billion dollar industry with many major stars. The music industry has evolved in many different ways through such inventions as the television and music videos. In order to become a star in the industry today it is almost essential that you have a good music video and a great marketing campaign. With these pressures on

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: July
  • The Bell Jar

    The Bell Jar

    It is 1953, and Esther Greenwood has just finished college for the year, and she has a won a one month internship at the Ladies Day magazine. She is one of twelve winners. All twelve girls are staying at the Amazon Hotel, while they deal with their hectic work schedule and social lives, as well. Esther’s boss for the month is Jay Cee, and Esther’s best friend for the month is Doreen. One night, Esther

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Top
  • The Power of Music Therapy

    The Power of Music Therapy

    Ever wonder why a song may bring tears to your eyes? Or how music allows you to recall a specific memory of your past? Well others have thought of the same questions and actually have been able to harness the power of music and direct it toward healthcare. This practice is known today as Music Therapy. Music Therapy is the prescribed use of music and music related techniques to assist and motivate a person towards

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • How Society Likes to Blame Music

    How Society Likes to Blame Music

    How Society Likes to Blame Music Universally, music has always been a unifying way of bringing people together. Since pre-historic times when cavemen made animal-skin drums to presently when we have tons of different musical genres of whatever you can imagine, we always operate to some sort of a rhythmic beat. But as of recently, certain types of music have come under scrutiny, predominantly gangsta rap and heavy metal. Now you’d think that these two

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Janna
  • Music Influences

    Music Influences

    Music is a prominent force in adolescent lives; according to the American Medical Association, American adolescents spend a total of four and a half hours a day listening to music and watching music videos. Parents are increasingly weary of suggestive, violent, lyrical content in popular music. A University of California study recently showed that 48% of Americans, including the younger generation, say that violence in popular music should be regulated. In Paducah, the affect of

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Top

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