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  • There’s No Such Thing as Free Music

    There’s No Such Thing as Free Music

    “THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS FREE MUSIC” The Internet has made a significant impact on the American economy. These impacts have been both beneficial and negative for many industries. The Internet’s impact on the music recording industry has received wide-spread attention and much debate over the past eight years. The emergence of file sharing has sent shock waves throughout the industry. In 2003, one study found that 35 million Americans download pirated music on a

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    Essay Length: 357 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Music Appreciation

    Music Appreciation

    The musicians are divided into four main groups called sections: (1) the string section, (2) the woodwind section, (3) the brass section, (4) and the percussion section. The various instruments in the string, woodwind, and brass section are pitched in different ranges, like voices in a choir. In the following discussion, the instruments in each of these sections are listed in the order from those of the highest range to those of the lowest.

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    Essay Length: 854 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Artur
  • Essay on Convergance Culture and Trends of Music Sharing online

    Essay on Convergance Culture and Trends of Music Sharing online

    Using an illustrative case study from the Web (site, application, event, etc.), analyze and discuss the significance of what Henry Jenkins calls �convergence culture’. Make specific reference to two or three of the major areas of tension he identifies as shaping the contemporary media environment. Significant innovations have occurred across the business or intermediate services sectors and the domestic or consumer service sectors, across the fields of entertainment, communication, and information sharing and the website

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Stop and Listen to the Music

    Stop and Listen to the Music

    Stop and Listen to the Music When The Washington Post prepared an experiment with Joshua Bell, the results were highly unexpected. Bell, an American Grammy-Award winning violinist, was asked to perform in the Washington, D.C. Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza to see if the public would stop and listen to the music, or even recognized who he was, in an inconvenient morning time crunch. The results of the public were incredible. Each person could either

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Yan
  • Sounds of Music

    Sounds of Music

    Sounds of Music Sounds of Music In music there are a variety of instruments that display the color of harmonies, when they are played in an orchestra or a band. The ranges of their sounds spans from the lowest pitch of a contrabass to the highest pitch of a piccolo. Moreover their classification derives by the group or section to which they belong. The classification of instruments in music is divided into three broad classes

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Music

    Music

    Why do people walk down a busy city street ignoring others and not talking? Why are they ignorant to the homeless asking for change just to survive? And why do cross walk signs become life savers? I can tell you what’s wrong with these people, music. Music works wonders for anyone and everyone. There is no way around music. It is everywhere and playing at all times. From people blasting music with twelve inch subwoofers

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Music: An Eternal Melody

    Music: An Eternal Melody

    Music: An Eternal Melody There are many languages spoken throughout this world, but there is one that everybody speaks. Music is a universal language to all people and nations. Be it vocal or pure instrumental, music is used for weddings, graduations, religious events, or as a nation's anthem. It can change people's moods, feelings, or actions. It's easy to say that almost everyone enjoys listening to a tune on the radio. It's been around for

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Music Review

    Music Review

    One can’t help but feel rather suspicious of a concert program that features solely foreign composers. For one, audiences have a tendency to feel somehow cheated by music that is sung in a foreign language, as if music sung in a English is more immediately profound due to the inability to comprehend the text. Likewise it is natural for critics to feel disdainful of performers for their blatant avoidance of the difficulties of an unfamiliar

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Vika
  • Censorship in Fahrenheit 451

    Censorship in Fahrenheit 451

    Censorship in Fahrenheit 451 In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the people live in a society full of censorship. Montag, the main character of the story, is inspired by a young girl to question law around him and begins to have doubts about what good they serve. In Fahrenheit 451, censorship in the world consists of book burning, manipulative parlor families, and the intolerance of those who attempt to be an individual. Book burning in the

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    Essay Length: 584 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Explicit Music

    Explicit Music

    Music has always had the power to strike emotions good and bad, which is why it is so attractive to people. This has not changed since the days when the Beatles shocked the world. What has changed is that popular music lyrics and videos have become much more explicit. The question is to censor or not to censor? I say not to censor. Explicit music is merely a way for musicians to freely express their

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • What Is the Cause and Effects of Music, Television, and Video Game Violence on Children and Teens in America?

    What Is the Cause and Effects of Music, Television, and Video Game Violence on Children and Teens in America?

    Bradis McGriff Humanities 110 November 27, 2004 Dr. Privateer What is the cause and effects of Music, Television, and Video Game Violence on Children and Teens In America? Introduction Usually when a child or a teenager commits a crime, it is never their fault. When a child or a teenager commits a crime, the responsibility never belongs to the parents either. Instead, when a teenager or a child commits a crime, the first thing that

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Artur
  • The Master of Music

    The Master of Music

    The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often by more than one player at a time. Jazz represented a break from Western musical traditions, where the composer wrote a piece of music on paper and the musicians then tried their best to play exactly what was in

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Janna
  • Popular Music

    Popular Music

    Popular Music Popular music, or ‘pop music’, means ‘music of the populace’. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which, originally made by illiterate people, were not written down. The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation, in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations, notably Britain and USA, that we first

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Edward
  • Violence and Music

    Violence and Music

    Music and Violence Each generation of adolescents has an artist or type of music that parents vehemently disapprove. The current generation has rap and alternative rock music. Many adults make the claim that some of this music causes violence, such as "Big Man with a Gun" by Nine Inch Nails (Palumbo 2). Some music has violent and explicit content, but a violent song, itself does not cause physical harm. Other songs of rap and alternative

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Janna
  • Music on the Internet

    Music on the Internet

    Albums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (http://www.riaa.org/Parents-Advisory-4.cfm). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens -- however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Music in Shapespeare’s Palys

    Music in Shapespeare’s Palys

    Music in Shakespeare's Plays Elizabethans, during the time of the notorious William Shakespeare (1564-1616), were extremely sensitive to beauty and grace and had an undying enthusiasm for music and poetry. Music was a vital part of Elizabethan society; it was thought that a man who could not read music or understand it was poorly educated. The common entertainment and amusement was centered on music, song, and dance, people of all classes enjoyed the splendor of

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Musicals

    Musicals

    After the introduction of sound to motion pictures, the musical genre was a natural cinematic progression. According to film historian Rick Altman, “The musical is… one of the most characteristic creations of the Hollywood film industry” (294). It is a genre that is uniquely American, and encompasses more than 1,500 films (Altman 294). Surprisingly, though, there actually is evidence of silent film musicals, with the 1907 interpretation of The Merry Widow operetta, in which musical

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Max
  • Music and Our Everyday Lives

    Music and Our Everyday Lives

    “What My Pin Means to Me” As a sophomore at Mercy high school I’ve come to know many things. When you start high school you have no idea that the things you’ll learn, the decisions you’ll make and the people you meet will affect the rest of your life, but that’s what it’s about. It’s about learning and growing so that when you leave high school and you graduate you will have the skills to

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Television, Movie, and Music Violence and the Impact on Teen Behavior

    Television, Movie, and Music Violence and the Impact on Teen Behavior

    Abstract Most people in our society generally have the opinion that violence in television, movies, and music increases aggression in children and adolescents. Does it? Who is to say whether media has a positively direct effect or a positive correlation? However, the majority of the people who have researched this topic have discovered that violence in television, movies, and music is indeed one of the main factors contributing to the increase in violent and aggressive

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Censorship of the Net

    Censorship of the Net

    As a professional Internet publisher and avid user of the Internet, I have become concerned with laws like the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) that censor free speech on the Internet. By approving the CDA, Congress has established a precedent which condones censorship regulations for the Internet similar to those that exist for traditional broadcast media. Treating the Internet like broadcast media is a grave mistake because the Internet is unlike any information medium

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Vika
  • Music History

    Music History

    An orchestra is an organized body of bowed string instruments, with more than one player to a part, to which may be added wind and percussion instruments.In the Greek theater the term denoted the semi-circular space in front of the stage where the chorus sang and danced; in the Roman theater is was reserved for the Senators' seats, Throughout the years the size and strength of orchestras across the world have varied. In the mid-18th

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Early Music Instruments

    Early Music Instruments

    Early Music Instruments by Dale Taylor with Jack Blanton, Bonnie Harris-Reynolds, and Laurine Elkins-Marlow This concert took place at St. Thomas Episcopal Church off of George Bush Drive in College Station on the night of Tuesday October 25. The church is a relatively small A frame building (square) with wooden beams and simple decorations. The walls of the church are painted a light green and the pews are set up in a semi circle

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Future of the Music Industry

    Future of the Music Industry

    A terrible thing is happening to the recorded music business as we know it. It is literally going away. For years now many of us have been predicting the demise of the record labels, falling CD sales, the erosion of radio as a promotional channel, lack of barriers to entry into music making - and all the rest. Well now it seems like the worst possible future is happening right before our eyes. CD sales

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Stenly
  • 1970's Music

    1970's Music

    Through the decades, many things have changed over time. Fashions have varied, themes have changed, and music has flourished. Though all of these categories are interesting in their own unique way, in my essay, I will talk about the exciting and invigorating subject of music. Music has always been a major and important part of my life so far. Every one has something to them that they feel life just wouldn't be life without. And

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • The State of Music Appreciation

    The State of Music Appreciation

    When I first came to this lecture Mr. Woodward gave, The State of Music Appreciation: The Place of American Popular Music, I was thinking it would not be that interesting, but it turned out not that bad after all. It was said that all musics are considered equal and Duke Elliot once said, “If it sounds good it is good.” Music is a traditional art. Harmony is a Western European idea. Some examples of melody

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    Essay Length: 342 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Anna