...When you look at the titles Why I Like Country Music and Elbow Room you would not expect any likeness between the two stories other than the fact that they have come out of the same book by James A. McPherson, however, there are many similarities along with many dissimilarities. The characters in both stories are identified as having their own struggles and paths. The first similar feature between McPherson’s nameless main character from Why I Like Country Music and the character Virginia Valentine from Elbow Room is that both grew up in a different small southern town in the southern United States. In these southern states, they were sheltered and “imprisoned” by their small town societies. This is also where their first dissimilarly comes...
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...important things in my life are my family, church, and music. Four years ago, my family and I moved to from Arizona to Oklahoma. There are six of us, including me. My mom is Scotti and my dad is Roman. I have two older sisters, Mercedes and Mikayla. Right after we moved here, Mercedes met a boy named Josh. They just got married last May in Skiatook at a beautiful, breath-taking venue. We like spending quality time together. Whether that means going swimming, going on a road trip, or even watching Netflix all day we like to do it together. One of our favorite things to do as a family is to play board games. And when we do we get very competitive, especially when we play Spoons. In Spoons, the objective is to get a spoon but the catch is is that there aren’t enough spoons for everyone. Let’s just say I’ve gotten a carpet burn from playing. We may get mad at each other from time to time, but we are still family and we still love...
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...African American had been in slavery for centuries. It was finally time for a cultural celebration. In 1890 hundreds or thousands African American moved north.This movement was called the Great Migration. The Great Migration was when African Americans moved from the south to the north. Many African American discovered that they went through the same problems. Instead of them being upset and depressed they made it a culture pride. African American did come from the Harlem Renaissance. How It Started During the World War 1, factories had some problems with workers. African Americans in the south took this as a chance to start over. Harlem, New York became a fond place for African Americans. After a while Harlem became a places for African...
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...Baroque Period The Baroque period began 1600-1750 at the end of the Renaissance period and brought us into the Classical period. This era is known for its progress in knowledge. During this centu-ry the European culture came up with a musical language that is still known to us today. Com-posers of this era had their own personal styles of music. The baroque period brought us differ-ent styles and techniques along with great composers from the early, mid, and late baroque peri-ods. The baroque period saw many styles of music from Italy, France, England, and Germany. Composers from this era were thought of as craftsmen instead of artists. They wrote their music for certain events during this period. Composers of this era had their own personal styles of music. Music contrast is very important to the drama of baroque music. The different instruments, solos and ensembles, and the difference of soft and loud music all played major roles in baroque music. The baroque music period is described in three sections, early, mid, and late....
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...bandleader, clarinetist, composer, and writer. He was born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky on May 23, 1910, in New York, New York. Sometimes referred to as the King of the Clarinet, Artie Shaw was one of the leading jazz performers and bandleaders of the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Born on New York’s Lower East Side, he was the only child of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Austria. The family eventually moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where Shaw spent many of his formative years. A shy child, he was deeply hurt by the anti-Semitic taunts from his schoolmates. Shaw was further wounded when his father abandoned the family. While he learned the ukulele early on, Shaw first started getting serious about playing music when he took up the saxophone. He later moved on to the clarinet. Around the age of 15, he quit school to learn to become a better musician. Shaw listened to such jazz greats as Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong in an effort to improve his own playing. Moving to Cleveland, he eventually found work with Austin Wylie, a well-known bandleader. In addition to his music, Shaw was an avid reader and maintained literary aspirations. In 1927 Artie heard several "race" records, the kind then being made solely for distribution in black (or "colored," as they were then known) districts. After listening entranced to Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five playing Savoy Blues, West End Blues, and other now-classic Louis Armstrong records from the late 1920's, Artie made a pilgrimage...
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...many different ways. From their costume choices to scenery and styles of music and dance, a lot of differences emerge, but they both remain popular among the dance community. While the two choreographers approached dances with different genres of style, the two collaborated with each other for they both had a love for classical ballet, cinema, and Broadway. In short, while they do share similar interests, both use a different style in their pieces, George using classical ballet, and Jerome using a jazz style. Our first dancer, George Balachine, real name Georgi Balanchivadze, was born In St.Petersburg...
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...Amadeus Mozart In January of 1756, a musical genius was born in the city of Salzburg. From the earliest of ages, it was clear that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was going to be special. He showed signs of one day being a music prodigy. He was one of the most influential composers of the Classical era. He was dedicated to his music and before he passed away, he had composed over 600 pieces of work. About the time that Mozart came into the world of music, the world was experiencing a time of transition. Before the Classical era, the Renaissance and Baroque periods ruled the music, art and way of thinking. This time of transition also resembled the transition in government. The Roman Empire was beginning to divide into small, self run governments that were headed by groups of rich aristocrats. The Classical era was a time in which the compositions of music were rich with complex instrumentation. Mozart's works reflected the Classical era, highlighting difficult and well thought out works of art. Music was always a part of Mozart's life. His father was a well known musician in the Salzburg court. His father, Leopold, was a composer, esteemed violinist and assistant concert master. He encouraged Mozart and his lone sister, Maria Anna, to explore the world of music and instruments. After observing his sister, at the age of three, Mozart began to play keyboard. His father tutored him, instilling the importance of fundamentals and the functions of chords. Leopold tried to make lessons...
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...Music in western civilization in 20th century Music is defined as sounds that are arranged in a particular pattern in which when played are exciting to hear or listen to. Music is commonly used as a form or relaxation and entertainment. The chronology of music started way back in the period of the medieval times when the chanting was introduced into most of the catholic churches. Music then had moved through the following stages up to until the modern day music (Burkholder, Grout & Palisca 2010, p. 276). It originated in the medieval era then moved to the renaissance, baroque, classical music which ushered in the romantic music which in turn paved way to the modern music and hence the contemporary music of the 20th century. Medieval music traces back to times when music was only done to kings and queens or generally the royal people. It later found its way to liturgical platforms where the music was introduced to the Roman Catholic churches as this time Christianity was real emerging. During this time many musical artists were priests or members of the clergy. As the music entered the renaissance era the printing media had already been established. There emerged a class of composers from the western nations of for instance France Belgium Netherlands etc. Music in this era had become strong with especially the use of instruments. This included the a cappella. As the music moved on to the baroque era it had started to be used to bring a certain mood. The music composers used...
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... 1. Advantage / Disadvantage of each robot: * Roboquad: It was a little bit slower than the other two robots in basic move and complex movements. It was not too hard to use, but not interesting. Roboquad moved backward and toward faster than going left or right or turning around. * Robosapien: It was a huge robot and had a lot of functions. It did not move fast as the Tribot in basic move such as turning around, left or right or moving forward or backward. It was not too hard to use. This robot had memorizing memory, but it just could remember about 2,3 moves. * Tribot: This robot was fastest one and the simplest one, because it did not have many buttons. It moved right, left, toward and backward really fast. However, it could not turn around. I think because of its decoration, its down part was formed with circle wheel. 2. The robosapien was my favourite robot. Although it was slower and had many functions than others, it was still fun and fascinating to play with it. Especially using it along with the music and controlled the right buttons, robosapien could dance very beautifully. Appendix B: 1. Choose one course (square, circle or moving as a map) and program the robots. Our group chose the square course and the robosapien. We used the music “Oppa...
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...Seeing that Wynton Marsalis was born and raised in the birth place of Jazz music; it is no surprise that he was inspired by some of the greats of the Jazz genre and himself turned out to be a great musician in the world of Jazz. Wynton was born October 18, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born into a musical family. Although his mother Deloris was not a musician, his father Ellis was a pianist and also a teacher of music. His older brother Bradford was a musician as well. As a child he would always hang around at different gigs his father would play at or listen in at rehearsals. He was not really into the type of music they were playing but he liked the players as people and what music meant for them. At that time in history, it took a great deal of character and integrity for southern musicians. Playing music was like a stab and segregation and he really admired all of them for that. (Wyntonmarsalis.org, December2012) At the age of six, Wynton received his first instrument; a trumpet from his father’s member Al Hirt. He was amazing from the moment he played his trumpet. He practiced every single day. By the time he was eight years old he played classical jazz in his church band with Danny Barker the banjo player. Jazz came very natural to Wynton; living in New Orleans which was oozing with jazz had a lot to do with that. From that point on Wynton played in every youth orchestra and community band that he could find to fit into his schedule. He had a passion...
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...Jazz, taking its roots in African American folk music, has evolved, metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last century to become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music, it places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of relying on a written score, the musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years, there is almost always a single person who can be credited with the evolution of that sound. From Thelonius Monk, and his bebop, to Miles Davis' cool jazz, from Dizzy Gillespie's big band to John Coltrane's free jazz; America's music has been developed, and refined countless times through individual experimentation and innovation. One of the most influential musicians in the development of modern jazz is John Coltrane. In this paper, I examine the way in which Coltrane's musical innovations were related to the music of the jazz greats of his era and to the tribulations and tragedies of his life.John William Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, on September 23, 1926. Two months later, his family moved to High Point, North Carolina, where he lived in a fairly well-to-do part of town. He grew up in a typical southern black family, deeply religious, and steeped in tradition. Both of his parents were musicians, his father played the violin and ukulele, and his mother was a member of the church choir. For several years, young Coltrane played the clarinet...
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...Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi, also known as the Red Priest, was a Baroque music composer. Not only was he a composer, he was expert violinist. Being born on March 4th, 1678 in Venice, Italy, he grew up being a priest in mind. He was then ordained in 1703 obtaining the name “Red Priest” because he had red hair. After his priesting days, he became a violin teacher at an orphanage for girls named Pio Ospedale della Pieta. After writing a little while teaching, he began to see his true potential and so did the people around him. In 1713 he decided to take leave off of the orphanage and play at his first opera in Vicenza named Ottone in villa. Up-starting his career he traveled around composing operas, cantatas and concert music. After countless operas, cantatas and concerts, Vivaldi has reached a magnificent goal of becoming a famous composer. Before Vivaldi decided to become a composer, he was studying to become a priest. He began at the age of 15. In 1703 he was ordained as a priest, also obtaining the name “Red Priest”. It was said that Vivaldi had an asthma condition. Wearing the priest uniform squeezed his chest making it very hard for him to breathe. About a year into being a priest, he had to quit because of his asthma condition. Moving on, Vivaldi picked up a violin and practiced that. He played at the orphanage for girls named Pio Ospedale della Pieta. Constantly playing there, he was appointed to be a violin teacher. He taught the young girls there from 1703...
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...is the study of human beings and their behavior in a social atmosphere. The term culture is defined as a way of learning through customs and traditions. African-American culture is rooted from Africa; this paper will include a synopsis of similarities and differences between the norms of my cultural background and those of the dominant American culture. As an African-American Female, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I am the fifth of eight siblings. I lived on the Westside of Chicago until I was ten years old with both my mother and father in the household. At the age of ten we move to the Southside of Chicago. I did not understand why we moved away from our friends and the house I thought we all loved. My parents did not explain anything to me. I was really lost in thought of why we moved. The new house my family moved to was...
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...Florence Beatrice Price was the first African-American to have music presented by a major orchestra. Florence Price was born Florence B. Smith April 9, 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to music teacher Florence Gulliver and James Smith. Taught by her mother, Florence learned to play the piano and performed her first recital at age four. She attended elementary school with William Grant Still, published her first composition at age eleven, and proceeded to graduate Capitol High School with the title valedictorian at age fourteen. Florence then attended the New England Conservatory of Music and majored in organ and piano while posing as Mexican. After graduating in 1906 she then worked as a college professor, a church organist, and a theatre accompanist. She moved to Atlanta, Georgia and became Chair of the Music Department for Clark University in 1910. After returning to Arkansas, Florence married lawyer Thomas J. Price in 1912 and moved back to Little Rock, where they had a stillborn son and two daughters. The child would later have the piece To My Little Son dedicated to him....
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...The Brand Change of “The Beatles” Summary This topic is written on the brand change of The Beatles. A brand encompasses the bands genre, image, music, public perception and many other aspects which will be explored in this paper. It begins with the early days of The Beatles starting out as a new pop/rock band and the promising career of four young musicians. It then moves on to their more serious music approach and international branding. The band then transfers to their drug and hallucinogens brand. Shortly after it focuses on the public perception of the brand as they broke up and started their separate careers. Finally it will explain how the brand is known in the present age. Then the paper will move into some of the concepts discussed in the readings which include the genres and subgenres the band created. The end of the paper will move into a critical argument about how the brand of The Beatles has drastically changed over the years. Throughout The Beatles life their image, public persona and genre have all changed from their early pop/rock brand to one of the most influential rock bands in the world. Introduction The Beatles were an English rock band that consisted of four musicians. The first musician John Lennon was the main singer/song writer of the band. The second musician Paul McCartney was also a singer/song writer and played many different instruments. The next musician, George Harrison was the lead guitarist. The final musician Ringo Starr was the drummer...
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