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How The Beatles Changed Rock Music
<view this essay>.... Even so, the Beatles admired his music and
were greatly influenced by him. The Beatles were pace setters. Their ensemble
were supplemented with solo guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, drums, sitar,
and violins. They took advantage of the creative possibilities afforded by the
multiple track tape recording. They made rock music into music that were
produceable in studios but were not possible to produce in live performances.
They were the "Greatest show on Earth." They were the biggest concert
draws on Earth. Their music and lyrics changed the lives of a generation and
the generation that followed. Rock ‘n' roll was a mixture of blues and country .....
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The Blues
<view this essay>.... thirties in Chicago. There are also rarer forms of Blues such as sixteen-bar forms with four lines of verse, eight bar forms with two lines of verse, and other variations. Which form is the earlier, more basic one remains unknown but the Fast and Slow Blues are probable because of their African origins.
To add to the musical form used to create , musicians innovated three main practices that all have origins in West African musical traditions. Cross-rhythms are multitudinously used in and are the foundation of West African drumming. The most common way of creating this beat was by separating the melodic line from the groundbeat, putting the two in rhythmic c .....
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The Existentialism Of Dave Matthews Band: Rhyme And Reason
<view this essay>.... lyrics, “Oh well so here we stand but we stand for nothing.” show that the world is meaningless and that everyone is searching for the meaning of their life. In this instance Matthews feels he is lost in the world and anything he does not matter. This theme of not mattering in the world is continued throughout the song. “ Well I know these voices must be my soul I’ve had enough of being alone I got no place to go.”
The theme of dying is also a big part of this song. Dave talks about dying through his own devices and “ ending up 6 feet underground” because “ he needs to kill his pain”. In addition to showing that death is the ultimate end, this also shows t .....
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The Verve Pipe: The Freshman - Analysis
<view this essay>.... valium and slept
now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his
head on the floor
thinks about her now and how he never really
wept he says
We've tried to wash our hands of all of this
we never talk of our lacking relationships
and how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our
heads on the floor
we fell through the ice when we tried not to
slip, we'd say
When you are young you always think, well that would never happen to me …. Or
even almost have a view that you were indestructible. You could never die, I am
too young. We have everything worked out, everything planned. This was kind of
the story between this gi .....
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Death Of The Superstars
<view this essay>.... lost but wouldn't admit it. I'm told guys do that often. As the
road continued to narrow and the brush continued to close in on them. They
suddenly found a sign that had the name of a town that neither one of them heard
of. They decided to go down and see if someone could give them directions. They
soon were out of they're car and looking for someone to help them. They both
noticed at the same time that the man behind the counter of the local pub that
they were in looked a lot like John Lennon. They also noted the young lady
singing in the corner looked and sounded incredibly like Janice Joplin. The book
or should I say short story continued on as only K .....
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Adam De La Halle And Ars Antiqua Time Period
<view this essay>.... of his early music was monophonic which shortly after became homophonic and
then transformed into polyphonic. Much of his polyphonic work was set for 3
voices or instruments. If a piece of music is monophonic, then it has only a
melody line and no harmony. Much of the medieval music was monophonic. If the
music is homophonic then there is only one melody line, but it may be played by
two or more instruments. Many of the songs that were originally monophonic were
easily transformed into homophonic by add extra voices or instruments.
Polyphonic is the type of music we hear today. Polyphonic is when there is a
melody line accompanied by harmony. A considerable .....
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Music And Stress
<view this essay>.... be felt in several different forms, included here are the
following ways I experienced stress. This step was found to be particularly
important in past studies to learn specific Śstress styles' and most
importantly, what music reduced what symptoms of stress. There are six separate
forms of stress that can be experienced. These are symptomatic in physical,
behavioral, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and relational aspects.
Physical symptoms I personally experienced were: headaches
(specifically tension headaches), nausea, dizziness, sleep difficulties, tight
neck and shoulders, racing heart, trembling hands, and restlessness.
Behavioral symptoms I felt .....
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Audio Format Wars
<view this essay>.... such as a digital display for song titles. There are
currently two formats competing to be the consumers next choice for sound on the
go. They are Philips' Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and Sony's Mini Disc (MD).
What exactly is digital recording? The definition is, "An electronic
format that is designed to duplicate sound, while affording extremely accurate
control over any changes you might wish to make in the recording" (Mclan &
Wichman,1988). In simple terms it means that the digital circuitry samples the
signal and then reproduces what it has seen. The quality of the recording
depends on the sampling rate of the machine. The sampled signal is .....
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