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Musical Instruments Essays and Term Papers
Origin Of Musical InstrumentsJUBAL, THE PIONEER MUSICIAN. Concerning him Scripture says: "He was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe" (Gen. 4:21, A. R. V.). Doubtless this means he was the inventor of these musical instruments, and as he was not many generations removed from Adam, we may infer that music has ...
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The History Of Electronic Musical InstrumentsElectronic instruments and digital audio have changed the world’s musical paradigm forever. The advent of consumer electronics in the 1920’s gave musicians and composers alike, the ability to both create new sounds and the devices to manipulate them by electrical means.
The 20th century has seen ...
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History Of Percussion InstrumentsThere are few certainties about the percussion family. No one can
say how many instruments it contains; few have agreed on playing
techniques; and few could name one orchestral piece specifically written
with percussion in mind. However, one thing is certain, percussion has been
shown over time ...
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Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Instrume"Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification
of disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements...
Music is the basis of agreement among things in nature and of the
best government in the universe. As a rule it assumes the guise
of harmony in the universe, of lawful ...
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A Brief History of African Music through The Colonial PeriodMusic before the 20th century was very different when compared to the music of the 21st Century. There were distinctive occasions for each type of African music. West African music, the African Diaspora, and the music of the Colonies each had different musical instruments.
West African music ...
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History Of MusicIt can be argued that the vanguard of development has always been reflected in the arts of a culture. It is the poets, the dreamers and artists who are the architects of the future; the ones who ‘build the world they want to live in, the ones who dream out loud’1. Music is an elaborate art form, ...
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The FluteFor any music-lover familiar with the sound of , it seem to posses a magical power that comes from inner most part of the soul. It’s speak of its own way, it moves, it holds and presents a strong sense of passion as if it has been there since creation. With a symphony or opera orchestra, makes ...
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African MusicBesides using the voice, which has been developed to use various techniques such as complex hard melisma and yodel, a wide array of musical instruments are used. African musical instruments include a wide range of drums, slit gongs, rattles, double bells as well as melodic instruments like string ...
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The Conversion Of Eugene Onegin From A Novel In Verse Into An OperaEugene Onegin is a novel in verse written and published between 1825 and 1832 by Alexander Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian writers at all times. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completed Eugene Onegin, the opera, in 1879, based on Pushkin’s classic Russian literature. His work is the version that ...
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History Of Western MusicMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no ...
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Musician 2There are many different types of musicians. Mainly, musicians are people who play musical instruments for the enjoyment of others. In addition to playing music, many of them write their own. Some musicians sing or conduct groups. They can also play alone or as part of a group. Musicians often ...
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Chinese Arts And Craftshave been admired by many countries for centuries. Painting has been an honored art in China for more than two thousand years. The paintings are usually made with simple lines, but much thought and skill are put into each line. According to Swann, "Much of the vitality of Chinese ...
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What is EthnomusicologyWhat is ethnomusicology ?
It's in human nature to be curious and to ask questions about the world around us, that is how the sciences emerge. Ethnomusicology is a study that asks questions about the music of the world and because music is one of the things that make us human being, it could be ...
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The ClarinetIt is not common knowledge how old music - instrumental music - really is. What we learnt at school is probably outdated at best, but mostly really wrong. We use to think that instruments came up not long before Sumeria. But flutes from bones have already been well known and used in the Stone Age. ...
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The History Of The DrumsetDrums are among the most ancient and diverse of all musical instruments (Jaffe 2). The power of the rhythm and drums has long been respected (2). The drumset however, in its current configuration, is a relatively recent addition to the percussionist's repertoire. It has only been in existence ...
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The Psychology of SingingMusic has been around for thousands of years. There are historical traces left of the music of ancient cultures from the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, and more. Since this is so, it is safe to say that they must have all had a conscious or unconscious knowing of the ...
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Minstrels, or traveling thespians, thrived throughout Europe in medieval
times. The term minstrel referred to a professional entertainer of any kind
from the 12th century to the 17th century. were instrumentalist, but
were also often jugglers, acrobats, and storytellers. Although no
longer exist, they ...
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Resonance: " The property whereby any vibratory system responds with maximum
amplitude to an applied force having the a frequency equal to its own."
In english, this means that any solid object that is struck with a sound
wave of equal sound wave vibrations will amplitude the given tone. This ...
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