World Music Day Essays and Term Papers

Mrs Dalloway

While writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E.M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: ``A letter from Morgan [Forster] this morning. He seems as critical of the East as of Bloomsbury, & sits dressed in a ...

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The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments

Electronic 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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Robert Johnson

King of the Delta Blues Singers: The life of , one of the most influential early blues artists, in shrouded by vague details and encompassed in mystery. His emotion filled playing and singing blends to form some of the most moving, original blues music ever produced. Ironically, despite being one ...

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Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band Around

Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, LeRoi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter ...

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Robert Johnson

King of the Delta Blues Singers: The life of , one of the most influential early blues artists, in shrouded by vague details and encompassed in mystery. His emotion filled playing and singing blends to form some of the most moving, original blues music ever produced. Ironically, despite ...

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Stan Kenton & His Orchestra

Born December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, Stanley Newcomb Kenton grew up in Los Angeles, California. Sometime around the age of 8, his mother, Stella, a traditionally-trained musician noticed her son's irrepressible aptitude for the piano and became his first teacher. It wasn't long, however, ...

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Perhaps Less is More

Over the past ten to fifteen years, the music industry has been suffering tremendously. Physical record sales have plummeted, albums have become less important, and concerts have become overpriced. Not to mention the theft of music through digital downloads has become an issue. Because of this, it ...

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The Role Of Entertainers As Educators

Both entertainment and education have been integrals parts of the human experience since the beginnings of time. Many scholars insist that the two institutions often serve jointly, with entertainers and entertainment serving as a main source of education. There is little argument, then, that in ...

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The Role Of Entertainers As Educators

Both entertainment and education have been integrals parts of the human experience since the beginnings of time. Many scholars insist that the two institutions often serve jointly, with entertainers and entertainment serving as a main source of education. There is little argument, then, that in ...

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Beethoven

“...to the cast majority of people suffering is still one of the fundamental characteristics of life, and it is their realization that an experience of suffering, pure and profound, enters as an integral part into ’s greatest work, that helps to give that work its unique place in the ...

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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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Origin Of Musical Instruments

JUBAL, 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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Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Instrumentation And Composition

Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrumentation and "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 ...

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Todays Hip Hop

What is hip hop and is it influnceing listeners to condone violence and drugs. First off to set the record straight, this is the truth nothing outside of this is true and if you agree great if you dont agree thats your bad. But I am tired of people saying "I listen to hip hop", stupid you cant ...

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Duke Ellington: An American Legacy

Where would music be had it not been for the men that stepped before him. The Motzarts and Beethovens, who wrote the music that today is known as the classics. These men were naturals in their own right, but these people wrote their music in the 17th and 18th century. Many people don't realize ...

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Lyrics

In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or ...

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Jim Morrison: The Lizard King

Jim Morrison said once, “A Doors concert is a public meeting called by us for a special dramatic discussion. When we perform, we’re participating in the creation of a world and we celebrate that with the crowd.”(Hopkins, XI). As in the previous the Doors were a great band who performed and ...

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Leonard Bernstein

was born in Lawrenceville, Massachusettes on August 25, 1918. He was the first born child of Samuel and Jennie Bernstein, who lived in Boston, but had gone to Lawrenceville to visit some relatives. Bernstein's parents had little knowledge of, or interest in classical music. The only records ...

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The Psychology of Singing

Music 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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Mp3 Argument

The Next Revolution in Music Technology: Make or Break? Throughout life I have encountered several different mediums of music including eight-track recordings, vinyl records, cassette tapes, mini-discs, digital audio tapes (DAT), and compact discs. I have always considered the CD to be the ...

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