...the double bass is a member of the string orchestra. Towering at 75 inches, a full-size double bass is capable of producing a dark, heavy and weighted tone. Its sound capability along with its sheer size beg the question—how did the bass get to its current status? Through what trial and error did it develop its tone and shape? By examining the correct nomenclature, the role of the bass in early baroque orchestras, two inventions that radicalized bass playing, attempts at varying the number of strings, and its role in jazz, it is clear that the bass has filled a critical role in the string orchestra. Classifying the double bass as a part of the violin or viola families has been tricky....
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...As we walked down Darlinghurst Road looking for our first club to make our way into, one club with the name The White Room caught Josh’s eye and he convinced us to follow him in. We walk into the colour filled room with white lasers and strobe lights flashing to the deep techno beat the DJ had just dropped, with bass so low it almost made you feel as if your chest was going to concave. Being able to smoke in the club made it almost possible to see the emphysema floating around the room as you breathed in some random blokes second hand smoke. A few more drinks later and we head into the bathroom for our first nostril full of cocaine, we were now ready to party. Not long into the trip we had convinced the taxi driver to make a stop off at a drive-through bottle shop to get our night underway with a couple of gold tinnies. Then a quick changeover with the seedy cocaine dealer sitting out the front of the bottle shop in his white paedophile-like van who gave us the vibe that he was most likely on a little bit more than ‘just cocaine? Before long we see the bright flashing lights of ‘The Cross’ up ahead, quickly tipping what beer we had left down our throats, we tried to comprehend what the taxi driver is trying to tell us we owed him for the ride. The Australian Motocross Championship has just come to an end. After a long season of racing Josh Cachia, Lawson Bopping, Luke Arbon, the two Smith brothers, Jacob & Todd and I have all decided we are in need to celebrate. After a few...
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...Ocean - Loop 29 long bass swoops in delay petal with sax ocean breaths. = (end) 2 rolls touch / 2 rolls back / 1/2 roll touch / 1/2 roll touch Parakeet - Start with flute high D hit as a cue to start. Add layers of loop 24. Don’t play during hand blow (1st x only) and don’t play during Patrick’s jump just low flute. = (end) Patrick jumps and knocks Brenton over leading into the “Frantic Handshake”. Frantic Handshake - Straight 4/4 with pulse on 1 & 3. Two voices, 1: straight laced handshake, 1: retreating away from uncomfortable handshake. Vigil - no music = (end) 1 at a time people get up and shake Patricks hand before exiting Duet (Erin {mama?} /Patrick) - 2 electric basses through effects and delay. = (end) He kicks her to roll / up / jolted slow walk step by step / Patrick walks off Mama Died - Live mic delays of text. (end) everyone backing up to the wall Breathes - No music Duet (Pat Lisa) – Maybe. Music? Press Trio - No music at first for texts then add loop 26 menacing with nasty sax. = (end) Up against the wall (stop) /“have you been here a while?” Jump on Patrick - Maybe. Loop 33 with keyboard playing white noise, static, in waves coming in and out. = (end) lift Patrick up / go back 3 Ramones - Whistling calls? Piro’s Stranger 1. Repeated bass loop 35 ||: 2 eighth notes, rest 2, 3, 4 :|| w/ angular flute line and vibes. = (end) clapping walking back / jumps / kick back / Matrix - Absurd song. Music starts with...
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...-Cover version phenomena – 1952-56. A black record would cross over from R&B charts, and a major record label would do a cover to eliminate the original version. Major record labels trying to control the popular music. -Was this practice racist? -Allan Freid white disc jockey played black music on white radio in 1951 – white kids listening to black music, transculturation Arc – 1948 black radio - Music becomes increasingly more popular over the next 10 years, Allan Freid (read the text) starts to help with the popularity. - Big enough in 1952 that record companies start to notice and the cover phenomena starts. - White covers sanitized lyrics to remove any sexual connotation. - By 58 the cross overs were no longer working “Sh- boom” 1954 * details on Moodle - B side of a record by The Chords who were doing an R&B cover of a Patty Page song. - Crew Cuts #1 for 9 weeks total 20 wks - The Chords – 1st R&B record to make Pop Top 10 in the 1950’s hit #5 charts 16 wks - Both versions played on the radio at the same time. Put out in direct competition with each other. Rock and Roll is a sociological term originally referring to white interest in black pop music, not a musicological term Only 20 spots on the R&B charts at the time Crew Cuts - No base voice in the chorus - Sax removed, replaced ya dadadadada - Slightly higher, softer, a little faster ...
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...butterflies in my stomach awoke and began fluttering about, and I felt the urge to turn and run off. In a dreamlike trance, I picked up my bass guitar and strapped it around my neck. A spotlight cut through the darkness and focused upon the stage, blinding me momentarily. I heard the drummer begin a four count. Suddenly the club came alive, and resounding music filled the Whisky-A-Go-Go, where twenty-five years earlier, The Doors had begun their musical career. An exhilarating sense of humility and wonder came over me as I thought, "How did I get here?" My career as a bass guitarist in a rock and roll band has had the greatest impact on my life. Playing in a band was important to me because it represented a challenge: transcending the familiar confines of my life and entering completely unknown territory. I wanted to meet people from different backgrounds and go to places that I might never have gone otherwise. The dark, mysterious atmosphere of a Hollywood night club was a far cry from the neat and tidy math and engineering classrooms I had been accustomed to. A year and a half before our appearance at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, bass guitar was about as familiar to me as Swahili. When I started playing, it was hard for me to believe that I would ever play for anyone outside of a garage, much less at a world-famous Hollywood club. I began playing bass at the age of twenty, with only a rudimentary knowledge of music theory. My only experience playing any kind of musical instrument was...
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...Glossary of musical terminology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of musical terms that are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes. Most of the terms are Italian (see also Italian musical terms used in English), in accordance with the Italian origins of many European musical conventions. Sometimes, the special musical meanings of these phrases differ from the original or current Italian meanings. Most of the other terms are taken from French and German, indicated by "(Fr)" and "(Ger)", respectively. Others are from languages such as Portuguese, Latin, and Spanish. Unless specified, the terms are Italian or English. The list can never be complete: some terms are common, and others are used only occasionally, and new ones are coined from time to time. Some composers prefer terms from their own language rather than the standard terms here. Contents A· B· C· D· E· F· G· H· I· J· K· L· M· N· O· P· Q· R· S· T· U· V· W· Z See also· References· External links See also: Glossary of jazz and popular music A[edit] a, à (Fr): at, to, by, for, in, in the style of... a 2: see a due in this list a battuta: return to normal tempo after a deviation. Not recommended in string parts, due to possible confusion with battuto (qv.); use a tempo, which means the same thing. ab (Ger): Off, organ stops...
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...The Most Useful Knowledge You Will Ever Need So you want to learn more about playing bass? I’m about to tell you everything you need to know on 1 sheet of paper. “I didn’t follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.” -Billy Sheehan One of my biggest sayings is that “There are no rules.” In music there are only theories. Hence the term “music theory.” The way you play an instrument is the way you interpret that instrument. Yes there are better ways, and better techniques than others. What I hope to do with just a few minutes of your life is to help you find them. So who am I? I discovered the bass in 2006. I played for youth groups, local bands, anywhere that would let me. Crowds of 5 to 5,000. The outdoor playground to the arena, and have also played and worked with Grammy & Dove award-winning artists. Oh! I also love building relationships & creating art. Now go ahead and get to it! There are 7 notes; C D E F G A B Between each note are sharps (#) and flats (b). Most commonly this is all referred to as C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, Bb, B, and then you start back over at C. To explain it more- C# could also be called Db just as F# could be called Gb. However, F could never be called Fb because there is no Fb or E#. In the case of E to F and B to C, there is only 1 half step; there are no sharps/flats there. ...
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...canton pop gradually cannot reflect Hong Kong culture as they all are very similar in terms of themes. Nevertheless, I can still recognize some canton pops can reflect Hong Kong culture. Today I would like to introduce one to you. It is called “I love cha chann teng” sang by Kay Tse. “I love cha chann teng” reflected how people in Hong Kong viewed cha chann teng. The lyrics explains why cha chann teng is popular among Hong Kongers. It points out that cha chann teng offer a variety of food in reasonable price and meet Hong Kongers’ demand for convenience and flexibility. Besides, there is usually a cha chann teng within a walking distance. The above all give listeners a sense of resonance. In this song, polyphonic texture is used as there is more than one melody at a time and they are competing with each other. The melody is mainly played by electric bass guitar and drum set and sung by vocalist, Kay Tse. Drum set is used in order to keep the beat and rhythm and present this song vividly. By doing so, listener can feel the fast paced living style in Hong Kong. The form of this song is simple, AA’BA’B’B’’B’’’, which B part, as the chorus, is repeated for 4 times throughout the song. This aims at reminding people that how good cha chann teng is. In conclusion, we can still find out Hong Kong culture in some canton pop songs and hope that canton pop songs will flourish...
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...JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Oxford University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Early Music. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 159.242.187.205 on Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:47:06 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions matters Performing StephenStubbs L'armonia in sonora: continuo orchestration Monteverdi's Orfeo n performing Italian music of the early 17th century, the modern interpretermust often answer the question, 'Which instrument or combination of instruments should realizethe bass?'Severalpublications from the first decade of the 17thcentury shed light on the norms and expectations of execution and instrumentation of the basso continuo in various kinds of music, but only the score of Monteverdi's Orfeo gives us a series of indications for the changing orchestration of the bass in a specific musical context. To understand fully the meaning of these indications we should first review the most important information from other sources. Lodovico Viadana, in his Centoconcertiecclesiastici(Venice, 1602), claims to...
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...With the increasingly rapid economic globalization and urbanization,more problems are brought to our attention.One of them is traffic jams. The reasons can be listed as follows .For one thing,it’s cheaper to buy a car than a few years ago.In previous years,a car was a luxury that Chinese families cannot afford,but cars are now becoming more accessible to the common people because of the reduction of the price.Therefore we can see so many cars driving on the road.For another reason,with the people’s needs for transport facilities increasing substantially , the road network is far from rational.Stimulated by high demand , the number of private cars has increased at an average annual rate of over 30 percent . Therefore , restricted road can’t meet the requirement of the increasing cars. Although traffic jams has brought inconvenience to us,it seems that people are not prepared to give up their cars and use other forms of transport. Here are a variety of reasons for it.First,owning a car is a metaphor of one’s status.Generally, a man who have a car may be richer than a man who goes by bus.Second,car is more express compared with bus or bicycle.In a survey conducted by a well-known magazine,it takes us one hour to go to your destination by bus.While you may save half an hour if you have a car. Then,how should we solve this problem?Here are some suggestions,which may be of some help.One way is to call upon common people to use bicycle in place of car,which can not only reduce...
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...Farah Khan COM 101-580 Descriptive Essay The Beautiful Object Has it ever occurred to you that a car can resemble beauty like a person in many ways? Well I have, the day I first saw my friend’s car. I was leaving school early one day and as I walked closer to the path leading to the street a huge gleam shot across my face. When I turned and looked, there it was, one of the most beautiful objects I’d ever seen parked across the street. It was my friend in his new white Monte Carlo. The paint job on the car reminded me of that cup of milk before I dunk my cookies in it. The car sat high, and on it were the beautiful 22 inch chrome rims. Upon entering the car I noticed that it was elegant and detailed. The car was white like a full moon at night, just as smooth and glossy. The windows were tinted black like the hair of a goddess. The way the car looked at me with a grin, and the front looked mean just like how my little brother looks when I do something he doesn’t like. The curves on the car reminded me of the muscles of a body builder except this muscle had four wheels. Monte Carlo is a well known car maker and all their cars are breath taking but what made this car so different was the accessories that my friend had put on it. The rims were the right size and the chrome color complemented the car just the right way. When I entered the car, the smell of a new car took over me. It was the smell of the leather inside the car mixed with the jasmine scented air freshener...
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...average rainfall for 2011 till april location JAN FEB MAR APR MUMBAI 110 65 11.9 32 NEW YORK 33 98 44 555 CAIRO 16 678 56 89.09 MADRID 79 11 77 32 TOKYO 444 98 123 123 TORONTO 22 232 445 45 DALLAS 40.98 54 66.01 77.8 AMSTERDAM 43 55 35 65 DELHI 45 122 64.03 132 CHILE 24 66.9 21 33.8 If there are images in this attachment, they will not be displayed. Download the original attachment Prepositions Exercises on Prepositions Prepositions are short words (on, in, to) that usually stand in front of nouns (sometimes also in front of gerund verbs). Even advanced learners of English find prepositions difficult, as a 1:1 translation is usually not possible. One preposition in your native language might have several translations depending on the situation. There are hardly any rules as to when to use which preposition. The only way to learn prepositions is looking them up in a dictionary, reading a lot in English (literature) and learning useful phrases off by heart (study tips). The following table contains rules for some of the most frequently used prepositions in English: Prepositions - Time English Usage Example on days of the week on Monday in months / seasons time of day year after a certain period of time (when?) in August / in winter in the morning in 2006 in an hour at for night for weekend a certain point of time (when?) at night at the weekend at half past nine since from a certain point of time (past till now) since 1980 ...
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...I think it is imperative to become innovative and creative with new ways to attract donors for organization fundraising. Using the Halloween season is the best reason to give after Christmas (Waters, 2012). In the media, zombie popularity has surged. With The Walking Dead being the most top rated show in the country, there seems to be zombies everywhere. The zombie fad is displayed in books, movies, games, music, and even in the streets-zombie walks. Lately, nonprofit organizations have started using this popular trend to host their fundraising events appealing to different crowds. Especially during autumn and Halloween season, a zombie event is appropriate. A great example of how an organization has tied the zombie theme into their organization is the slogan, “Feed the Hungry”. America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia located in Savannah is a volunteer-driven nonprofit food bank. They serve twenty one counties in Georgia with the mission of feeding hungry people and supporting communities. On November 10, their organization will hold their 5th Zombie Walk on River Street. Donors will dress up themselves, their children, and pets for FREE with a donation of canned goods. There is free makeup, entertainment, games, and vendors ("Savannah zombie walk ," 2011). This is great idea to me because it is a wonderful family/friend idea to do together and gives back a fun opportunity to donors. Another appropriate time for a blood drive is Halloween. No explanation for blood or...
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...The first and most important thing to know about disposing your vehicle is to find someone who will respect you, your vehicle, and your time. There are many buyers out there that will offer you a very generous number, but most if not all of these guys will charge you hidden fees which will bring your in hand number lower and lower. Beware these buyers will charge/deduct from you : by the mile for disposal, descrepencies in description, hassle for hookup of your vehicle, flat or missing wheels and/or tires, or simply even just the time of pickup. The things to look for are: Does this place actually have a physical location?(You'll need this in the event you ever need to know where your car was last). Do these people own their own tow trucks? (If someone else is towing for them, they might pass on additional fees to you). How long has this place been in business? (This will help you see what kind of feedback these guys may have from other people like you). What do they plan to do with my car? (Many junk buyers will resell your car, which means someone can come knocking at your doors if the paperwork isn't filled out correclty, and leaves you still liable as the owner of the vehicle). How honest and serious do these people really seem? (Sometimes by stringing you along for sometime, you will loose credability with other buyer indirectly limiting your buyers). When to Junk a vehicle: 1. If the cost of repairs to your vehicle sum to atleast half the value of your repaired vehicle...
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...Liw Panichakornkul Professor Crowe LANG 120.013 30 November 2011 I think the purpose of this essay is to show? How she was scared about leaving, not knowing anyone. But at the same time she loved it and missed her home town. Good Things Fall Apart, So Better Things Can Come Together When I regularly came home from school and hanging out with friends around 7 in the evening, my mother surprised me with some news. She grinded and said that she had something to tell me. When I saw a smile on her face, I was excited to hear it. “You are going to America.” she said. I stopped smiling and turned my face into a frown. I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to leave my house, school, families, and best friends that I have for my entire life. “But mom, everything is expensive over there. ” I tried to give her as many excuses as I could think. I added, “I’m not going to have any friends. I don’t know how to speak English. It is impossible for me to study over there. I don’t want to go. Please, let me stay here.” “You will be fine. You have your brother and your dad there. What are you afraid of? Your dad has been there for many years. All he wants is to see his kids succeed with good education. Look at your brother; he is fine over there. So you will be ok.” she said. I was sitting on a mountain of wet tissues. I would miss my friends a lot. I wouldn’t be able to hang out with them after school every day until 7 o’ clock anymore. Since I had no other choice, I had to come...
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