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Romantic Music: The Ideals Of Instrumental Music
<view this essay>.... Brahams, and Wolf attained a new union
between music and poetry. Furthermore, a large number of leading composers in
the 19th century were extremely interested and articulate in literary expression,
and leading Romantic novelists and poets wrote about music with deep love and
insight.
The conflict between the ideal of pure instrumental music (absolute
music) as the ultimate Romantic mode of expression, and the strong literary
orientation of the 19th century, was resolved in the conception of program music.
Program music, as Liszt and others in the 19th century used the term, is music
associated with poetic, descriptive, and even narrative subje .....
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Pearl Jam, Everclear, And No Doubt
<view this essay>.... is
Eddie Vedder, he does the lead vocals and plays the guitar. The rest of the band
includes, Jeff Ament, (bass) Stone Gossard, (guitar and vocals) Jack Irons,
(drums) and Mike McCready, (guitar). A couple of the songs that Pearl Jam does
are Jeremy, Daughter, Smile, Spin the Black Circle and Tremor Christ. Pearl Jam
has a knack for writing catchy lyrics that become very popular.
Everclear is a band from Portland. They are not as popular as Pearl Jam,
but they do have a large following of fans. The three band members of Everclear
are Art Alexis, (lead vocals, and guitar) Greg Eklund, (drums and vocals) and
Craig Montoya, (bass, and vocals). Their album toget .....
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Neil Young In Halifax
<view this essay>.... ago. I on the other hand see him differently.
He is man who doesn't care about his appearance, doesn't care about what
other people think about him. He is an entertainer. He is a healer. He is a
Canadian. He is a man. When I picture myself at fifty I picture myself like
him.
We left for the concert on Tuesday morning and we arrived in the city at
about noon. My uncle drove me and my cousin Edward up. We bummed around the
city for a while and then we went to Jen's place where we were staying. There
were a few other people from Inverness staying there as well.
My uncle, Edward and I left for the concert at around quarter to seven. We
k .....
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The Beatles
<view this essay>.... were a group of
young men who wanted to go a new direction in music. John Lennon, one of lead
vocalists, basically started with the intention of moving away from the
"Skiffle Boom Era" which was dominating the time. In his doing so, he began to
lay the foundation for what would later be the most famous rock band ever. The
original band members were as follows : John Lennon, vocals and guitar ; Paul
McCartney, vocals ; George Harrison, guitar ; Pete Best, drums ; Stuart
Sutcliffe, bass guitar.
In March of 1961, the Beatles began to play at the club that would
later be nicknamed "The Home of the Beatles". The Cavern Club, which's premises
comprised a small .....
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Paul Simon: I Am A Rock
<view this essay>.... from my window to the street below" he feels left out, and now
wants to be left alone, like an island, or a rock. Like in the second poem,
where he says that he "has no need of friendship."
The person in the poem wants to be left alone, like an island, or a rock.
In the second stanza, he says "I've built a wall, a fortress deep and mighty."
He has built a mental block to all outsiders, and he compares this to an
inpenetrable wall. Inpenetrable walls keep unwanted things out: bad feelings,
love, etc. Then, in the third line of this stanza, he says "I have no need of
friendship - friendship causes pain, It's laughter and loving I disdain." He
said that he .....
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Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
<view this essay>.... he usually
played his own music and came out wearing decorations hanging on chains,
which was unusual for his time. For two years Liszt was hospitalized for a
nervous breakdown. In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead
singer of the rock band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967,
in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed on to several relatives after his
parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived
under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not
entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a
coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and tranquilizers .....
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How To Listen To Music, Not Just Hear It
<view this essay>.... will not be able to bounce off the walls and give the effect
as if the sound is coming from behind you, as well as in front of you (the
surround effect). A good room to listen in, is a typical family room with sheet
rock walls and four ninety degree corners.
The second consideration is placement of speakers. The corners of a
room are the perfect spot for your speakers. You shouldn't position them flush
against the wall, but put the back of the speaker into the corner, so each side
of the speaker is against each wall. For this reason, the bass is extended
(louder), and the tweeters, mid-range, and woofers give you their undivided
attention.
Where to sit .....
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Positive Rap
<view this essay>.... influence on our society, they use their assumptions to say that rap is offensive to women. Many rappers do use the term “bitch” when referring to a female. However, it is not always in a derogatory context. It is similar to the way rappers often speak of their male friends using the term “nigga." Both terms have negative meanings in mainstream America, but in the rap culture, they are both positive terms. Bitch is used to refer to a woman who is capable of taking care of herself (Krohn and Suazo 141). It is widely accepted in word in the rap culture. It is even used by such female rap artists as Lil’ Kim, the self proclaimed “Queen Bitch” and DaB .....
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