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  • Punk Music in the 70’s and 90’s

    Punk Music in the 70’s and 90’s

    Punk music has gone through an evolution ever since the punk explosion in the late seventies. Although today’s punk music retains most of the ideology and sound that defines the punk genre, there are some distinct differences between Nineties and Seventies punk. Most of the punk bands to emerge and gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day, the Offspring, etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Against Illegal Music Downloading

    Against Illegal Music Downloading

    Flash back to October, 1997. The punk rockers who call themselves Green Day prepare to release the much anticipated follow-up album to Dookie, Nimrod. Every kid between the ages of 10 and 20 is ready to pounce on the album when it hits stores. Every one of my friends begs their parents to take them to the store on that cold Tuesday morning. The older kids ditch class to get in line at the local

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Artur
  • Australian Music Industry

    Australian Music Industry

    Question 1 Australian music industry has not been substantially impacted by the digital music trend yet. But the symptoms of perceived impact can be felt by looking at the mass digital music adoption rate. Digital music has shown tremendous growth of about 250% of value $ 27.8 million and 320 % in volume till end of 2006. This growth has increased the share of digital distribution from 1.5 % in 2005 to 5.5 % in

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Liberty Bell

    Liberty Bell

    One of the most unique events in American history is the Liberty Bell's travels by train around the United States to be placed on exhibit at many World's Fairs. From 1885 to 1915, the Liberty Bell traveled by rail on seven separate trips to eight different World's Fair exhibitions visiting nearly 400 cities and towns on those trips coast to coast. The Liberty Bell's trips were widely publicized so that each town where the Liberty

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • Music and Connie

    Music and Connie

    Throughout the ages, music has been an important part of life. From the chants set to drums in prehistoric times, to the gyrating beats of modern day rock, music has influenced people in countless ways. In Joyce Carol Oates's short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” we see many references to music. From the beginning, the story is written in a way to suggest musical lyrics. Also, Connie, the main character, uses

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Music Is an Art Form

    Music Is an Art Form

    TERM PAPER “Music is generally perceived as the most universal of all art forms.” The literal meaning of the word 'music' according to any dictionary is: 'art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds in a harmonious or expressive way.' But music has a meaning which is far broader than this. Music is life. Music means Self-expansion and oneness. It is an art by itself. Art, in any of its forms, is generated by a person,

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Top
  • Baroque Music

    Baroque Music

    Baroque music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia •Jump to: navigation, search History of European art music Early Medieval (500 – 1400) Renaissance (1400 – 1600) Common practice Baroque (1600 – 1760) Classical (1730 – 1820) Romantic (1815 – 1910) Modern and contemporary 20th century classical (1900 – 2000) Contemporary classical (19 – present) Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Liberty Bell

    Liberty Bell

    Among the more obscure events in American history involves the Liberty Bell's travels by rail car around the United States to be placed on exhibit at numerous World's Fairs. From 1885 to 1915, the Liberty Bell traveled by rail on seven separate trips to eight different World's Fair exhibitions visiting nearly 400 cities and towns on those trips coast to coast. At the time, the Liberty Bell's trips were widely publicized so that each town

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    Essay Length: 3,388 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Anna
  • Music Concert Report

    Music Concert Report

    Music History Concer Report On December 5th I attended a concert hosted by La Maison des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada in Montreal. The musicians were all students from La Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal. The compositions presented were three pieces by Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F major for �Cello and Piano, Op. 99, Sonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1, and Trio in A minor for Clarinet, �Cello and Piano,

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Music Therapy

    Music Therapy

    rynjulf Stige is the first Coordinator of the music therapy education program at Sogn og Fjordane University in Sandane, Norway, where he is an associate professor. With diverse experiences as a music therapist using a community based approach, Stige has written numerous articles and books on music therapy and music education. He is editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and co-editor (with Carolyn Kenny) of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. He

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Mathematics, Education, and Music?

    Mathematics, Education, and Music?

    Mathematics, Education, and Music? This article is very interesting in bringing up points and ideas of mathematics that I had never thought of. Dr. Heinz Gotze states that Mathematics is much like music. After Beethoven would play, he goes on, people wouldn't say "Hey, what was the use of that?". People, however, constantly are trying to determine the purpose of mathematics. The truth is there is no set purpose. Math is not a well discussed

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    Essay Length: 314 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Edward
  • Medical Applications for Music

    Medical Applications for Music

    When someone mentions the word ‘music’ what the first thing that pops you’re your mind? Is it the subtle relaxing classical organ that blows through your mind or the hard grunge sound of a modern double bass drum? Everyone in the world, no matter what corner of the world people reside, listens to some sort of music or another. Be it rock, classical, rap, hip-hop, country, electronic or any of the other of the hundreds

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Bred
  • Hip-Hop: It Is Music

    Hip-Hop: It Is Music

    Music is one’s expression of life from their point of view. It becomes unique as it is based upon individual experiences of satisfaction and failure throughout life. Popular music is often defined as it has the broadest appeal to the maximum number of people. Hip-Hop began its rise to fame and fortune during the late 1970’s. It would come to represent the youth of America as seen with this comment by Todd Elliot: "For many

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Aesthetic Music Educatin and the Influence of Bennett Reimer

    Aesthetic Music Educatin and the Influence of Bennett Reimer

    An explicit concept since the late 1950s, aesthetic education first developed to provide a strong philosophical foundation for music education and continues to evolve as a solid theoretical orientation for current effective practices. Bennett Reimer has contributed much to the discussion and development of the value of aesthetic education for the teaching and learning of music. Others in music education also support and promote these ideals and focus on developing an improved understanding for music

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Music Is a Necessity

    Music Is a Necessity

    Andrew Vaccarezza Dr. Keith Bohm Music 129, section 2 12 June 2007 Necessity During the course of any given day most Americans come in contact with some form of entertainment which helps one detach from the tension in their lives momentarily. For some this may be a magazine, for others it may be the almighty television. What most Americans do not notice is the frequent contact with music throughout their everyday lives. Music can be

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Does Music Make You Smarter?

    Does Music Make You Smarter?

    Does Music Make You Smarter? Rameka Sahadeo University of Missouri-Kansas City American music education is at a turning point in its history, and poised for a modern renaissance. After decades of budgetary neglect as an “elective,” music is reasserting itself thanks to a growing body of scientific data that shows how vital it is to a student’s success in all academic areas. Research is showing that music isn't only a social trend; it also

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Annie Musical

    Annie Musical

    The musical Annie is based on the strip cartoon Little Orphan Annie which began in New York. It was created by Harold Gray, who came up with an idea for a comic strip called Little Orphan Andy. But the New York News didn't want one more strip about a boy so he it.So, Andy became Annie. The first strip appeared in August 1924. The cartoon strip proved to be so successful that it was almost

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: July
  • Rap Music

    Rap Music

    Rap Music The following is an excerpt from Black Noise, a book written by Tricia Rose, that describes the importance and background of rap music in society. "Rap music brings together a tangle of some of the most complex social, cultural, and political issues in contemporary American society. Rap's contradictory articulations are not signs of absent intellectual clarity; they are a common feature of community and popular cultural dialogues that always offer more than one

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Mike
  • Music - a Peacemaker in Wartime?

    Music - a Peacemaker in Wartime?

    Music- a peacemaker in wartime? The music- wether it is Salsa or Soul- has a great impact on people. If you look into history, you will see that music was influencing peoples’ life in a certain way. From the first days of the human beings music was the one of the strongest medium to deliver messages. African tribes still uses the Congas to send messages to other tribes, who live kilometres away, by playing these

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Janna
  • Tristano's Music

    Tristano's Music

    Tristano's Music These three visionary artists offered music to the small public. Byzantine melodci lines, attenuated rhythms, acerbic harmonies. Thelonious Monk, the most admired Jazz composer ofthe postwar ear wrote only single chorus instrumental Melodies while the extended oks of such later players as john coltrane and Ornette Coleman are unrelated to the classical music tradition. Blind virtuoso focused on omplex linear improvisation that utilized polyrhythmic and poly tonal concepts. Using only a relatively few

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Punk Music

    Punk Music

    Research Paper The early 60's and 70's music industry tried its turn at the method of promoting trends over music. As most music genres, the consumers or the people who listened to the music believed whatever the music corporations told them. As more and more people began to realize what was happening, a change in the attitudes of people started to arise. Just as most movies end, a hero had to save the day. This

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Napster Vs. Music

    Napster Vs. Music

    Napster is an online trading program that allows users to look into another persons hard-drive in order to trade music. "Napster and similar software provides users with a method of searching thousands of other users computers to share thousands of high quality music, music that is stored in the compressed .mp3 format."(Internet). Music of the popular artist is traded through the Internet at no cost. In other words instead of having to pay market price

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Effects of Internet Music Piracy

    The Effects of Internet Music Piracy

    There is this artist your friend tells you about “Man you need to check out this band N’Sync, they are so rad!!” So you figure hey I will give it a shot…my friend thinks they’re cool. So you use the last $15.00 of your Best Buy gift card on their latest CD. You open the package in your car in excitement, and by the time you open up the covers your thinking to yourself. “Hmm

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • World Music

    World Music

    While world music is a genre, musical exoticism can be classed as a process in which musicians freely interpret attributes of the music of non-western culture and targeting specifically at foreign audience. It is the direct perception of the western audience’s view of non-western music tradition, not non-western perception of non-western exoticism, in other words not the true perception, only a concept. As exotica is only an imitation, the authencity of the music is often

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Negative Impact of Rap Music on Today's Youth

    The Negative Impact of Rap Music on Today's Youth

    The Negative Impact of Rap Music on Today’s Youth Today’s rap music has changed dramatically since the 1970’s. Rap music has become the most popular type of music in the U.S. Rap music can give people entertainment and can also tell a story in someone’s life. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, rap music is defined as, “a style of music associated with urban street gangs and characterized by violent, tough talking, often misogynistic lyrics”

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Monika

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