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A Music Concert Essays and Term Papers
Five Against The World - Perl JamThere are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, ...
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Miles DavisBorn in Alton, Illinois, grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. has said ...
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Women in Pop CultureKevaughn Samuels
WMS 100-01
Pop Culture Paper
10/16/12
Each era within society has distinctively displayed its pop culture through its inhabitants. Pop culture generally stems from its celebrity icons, individuals like Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur and the list goes on. Also ...
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Robert Schumannwas a German composer during the Romantic era. He was born on June 8, 1810, the youngest child in his family (Slonimsky 902). Schumann was born in Zwickau, Germany (Stanley 147). His father sold books and was also a publisher and author (Sadie 831). Schumann’s father encouraged him but his ...
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A Portrait Of Duke Ellington By Tracy FrechDuke Ellington is considered to be one of the greatest figures in the history of
American music. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on
April 29, 1899. His parents were James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They
raised Duke as an only child, until his sister, Ruth, was ...
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History Of OzzyThe Life of Ozzy and His Contribution to the Recording Industry
“Retirement sucks!” These are the famous words from one of the most captivating musical artist living today. Ozzy Osbourne has taken this world by surprise with his stunning actions, energetic motivation, and of course ...
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The Life And Works Of Frederick Chopin The 1830s have been called "the decade of the piano" because during that period the piano and the music written for it played a dominant role in European musical culture. The piano had, of course, already been popular for more than half a century, but by the third decade of the nineteenth ...
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Dimitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the ...
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PhishMany phans think ’s story begins at Nectar’s but their start can be traced back to the student lounges of the University of Vermont’s Redstone campus. Here is were freshman, Ernest Anastasio III (Trey) met sophomore, Jeff Holdsworth. They discovered that they had similar music tastes which ...
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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful DeadJerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District.
His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia, had been a jazz
clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son
after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of ...
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The Way It Really Was!In the 1950's there were many problems. The Korean war and the civil
rights struggle. Back then the music was all rhythm and blues (r &b). It was
record mostly by black artists and for black audience but the white teenagers
became interested.
The music scene in the early 50's
Before 1954 ...
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Joseph Hyden Joseph Haydn is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the classical period. He is often called the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, and he founded what is known as the Viennese classical school, which consisted of himself, his friend, Wolfgang Mozart, and his pupil, ...
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Joseph Haydnis regarded as one of the greatest composers of the classical period. He is often called the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, and he founded what is known as the Viennese classical school, which consisted of himself, his friend, Wolfgang Mozart, and his pupil, Ludwig van ...
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Jimi Hendrix ReportOn November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington a later-to-be-known legend was born as James Marshall. This future guitar master went by the name of Jimi, Jimi Hendrix. His childhood was not very fortunate, however, he did indulge himself in one particular way: Jimi loved to play the guitar. Jimi ...
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Mozart: Portrait Of A GeniusWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was a centrally important composer of the Classical Era. On December 5, 1971, at the age of thirty five he died of typhoid fever, and was buried in a pauper’s grave on December 6, 1971.
Elias says that for some ...
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Ludwig van BeethovenCole Tucker
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770. He died in 1827 at the age of 56. He grew up during the classical age, which was the new style that had western ideas about arts and music. This period of time was from 1750 - 1830. This is why his music is ...
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Comparing Status and Income of Mozart, Haydn, and BeethovenExamine the status of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven during their lifetime and comment about how the income from public performances and from publishing music gradually allowed them a degree of independence. (refer to specific dealings with their publishers as part of this.)
The three composers ...
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Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" And The 1960s And 70sThe 1960's and 70's were a time of peace and rebellion. The so
called "hippies" were creating their own environment. Many people were
upset about political issues, Vietnam, equal right, and many other issues.
The music of this time period described many of these problems in America.
The song I ...
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Woodstockwas a rock music festival that took place near , New York in a town called Bethel. The festival took place over three days, August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. The original plan for was an outdoor rock festival, "three days of peace and music" in the Catskill village of . The festival was expected ...
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Woodstockwas a rock music festival that took place near , New York in a town called Bethel. The festival took place over three days, August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. The original plan for was an outdoor rock festival, "three days of peace and music" in the Catskill village of . The festival was expected ...
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