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Woodstock
<view this essay>.... 1). had become a rock center when musician Bob Dylan and a rock group called The Band settled there. To promote the idea of the studio the four partners of the music festival (Michael Lang; Artie Kornfield; John Roberts; and Joel Rosenman) decided to stage a concert, which they officially called the Festival and Art Fair. The Monterey Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in 1967 inspired the festival (Sandow, 1). The partners eventually rented a field from a prominent local dairy farmer, Max Yasgur, who owned land about 48 miles from .
Early in the week before the festival, it became clear that the event was going to draw a much larg .....
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
<view this essay>.... at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9. His father took him on a series of concert tours together with his sister, Maria Anna, born four and one-half years before Wolfgang; she, too, was a child prodigy. Both played the keyboard, but Wolfgang became a violin virtuoso as well.
In 1762 the Mozart children played at court in Vienna; the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, received the Mozarts cordially. During a large European concert tour (1763- 66) the Mozart children displayed their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Ch .....
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Review Of A Concert Of Sacred Music From The Moores Opera
<view this essay>.... each playing a different
instrument. The two parts were balanced and helped emphasize one another.
The Coronation Mass, K. 317, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
was considered to have been written for the anniversary of the coronation
of an image of the Virgin. Mozart wrote this composition in 1797 at the
age of twenty-three. The six works of the Coronation Mass are: Kyrie,
Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.
My favorite piece was Gloria. It was louder and more powerful then
the rest. The parts were sung by women then men in a beautiful combination.
The music was soft and intimate then quickly getting louder and more
powerful. “Gl .....
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Music In Therapy
<view this essay>.... to bring about desirable change of behavior. Music helps the individual in developing his or her full potential and to achieve a more appropriate adjustment to society."
There are several steps involved in becoming a music therapist. First, a minimum of four years of academic course-work plus a six-month internship at an approved facility is required before receiving a Bachelor of Music Therapy degree.
Academic course-work may include a thorough study of music, psychology of music, music in therapy, influence of music on behavior, psychology, and anatomy and physiology. Clinical fieldwork may include patient assessment, designing treatment goals and objecti .....
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Metallica
<view this essay>.... guitarist and singer. Lars is a very great drummer.
McGovney was the original bass player. And Dave Mustain was the original lead
guitarist. Lars first began playing at the age of 13 when his grandmother
brought him home a cheap set of drums which he pounded in. He was inspiried and
began to like music after his father took him to a Deep Purple concert. His
family migrated from Denmark to Newport Beach, California in 1980 to find the
sunny climate to play tennis. After that he met the band as friends and then
began to play.
Hetfeild went to Downey East Middle School where he started playing in the
auditorium on the stage with friends. Three y .....
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The Tupac Conspiracy
<view this essay>.... own funeral. The driver of the car in which Tupac was riding, Suge Knight (the executive producer of Death Row Records), didn't show up for questioning about the shooting. The video "I ain't Mad at Cha" was released only a few days after his death. "I ain't Mad at Cha" is track 13 on the album All Eyes On Me. The video shows Tupac as an angel in heaven. In the video, Tupac was shot after leaving a theater with a friend, which is very similar to how he was shot in real life. Interestingly, Tupac dies in his last video released under the name "Tupac". His new video "Toss It Up" from the new album was released under the name "Makaveli . second video to be release .....
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The Misconception Of Classical Music
<view this essay>.... because it was old, I truly believed that it was boring. Growing up in my generation, who would want to hear music from one or two hundred years ago? In addition, the music from that time was long and mainly instrumental. Some pieces would be fifteen to forty-five minutes long! Today, songs are mostly three to four minutes. They are short and to the point. In many aspects, this “classical music” would take some time to get used to.
My Music Appreciation class gave me knowledge I needed to understand music that I was not already familiar with. The first couple of weeks in the class, we learned the basic elements of not just “classical” music, but all mu .....
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Rock Music
<view this essay>.... that represents and speaks for the teenage society. This music is
characterized by using a heavy beat. In this essay, I'm going to divide
Rock music into four sections: Rock of the 50's, of the 60's, of the 70's
and of the 80's. Within these sections I'm also going to discuss several
sub-topics such as famous composers and groups, and characteristics of the
music.
The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when
Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to
jazz played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white
teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and
later .....
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